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How to Sponsor @DevOpsSUMMIT | #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #APM #DataCenter #Monitoring #Kubernetes

Cloud-Native thinking and Serverless Computing are now the norm in financial services, manufacturing, telco, healthcare, transportation, energy, media, entertainment, retail and other consumer industries, as well as the public sector.

The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.

DevOpsSUMMIT at CloudEXPO expands the DevOps community, enable a wide sharing of knowledge, and educate delegates and technology providers alike.

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Mirantis to help AT&T build Network Cloud for 5G

US telecom giant AT&T will be building the next generation of its Network Cloud for 5G with the help of cloud computing firm Mirantis, as part of a three-year deal reportedly to be more than £7.7mn ($10mn).

AT&T’s Network Cloud for 5G will be built via software from an open source project known as “Project Airship”, which was initially formed by the telecom company, along with SK Telecom, the OpenStack Foundation, and Intel in May of 2018.

Amy Wheelus, AT&T’s vice president of cloud and Domain 2.0 Platform integration, said:

“Simply put, Airship lets you build a cloud easier than ever before. Whether you’re a telecom, manufacturer, healthcare provider, or an individual developer, Airship makes it easy to predictably build and manage cloud infrastructure.”

Boris Renski, co-founder and CMO of Mirantis, said that Project Airship is very crucial for AT&T because it is what makes it possible to roll out many data centres and manage them on a single life cycle.

“AT&T had the foresight to start building this in open source about one and a half years ago,” he commented.

AT&T’s Integrated Cloud (AIC), which was built using cloud infrastructure software from OpenStack, is used by more than hundred data centres. When A&T first announced the Project Airship, it said that it was changing the name of AIC to Network Cloud. And since then, the company is referring it as Network Cloud for 5G.

It has been years now that Mirantis is working with the American telecom giant. Moreover, the cloud computing firm was an early OpenStack collaborator and now provides commercial OpenStack distribution. OpenStack’s original software was built to use virtual machines (VMs) in the data centre.

AT&T’s Network Cloud for 5G is being built on OpenStack using containers as opposed to VMs. These containers are managed by a container management system, called Kubernetes.

The Network Cloud for 5G will be built based on containers and Kubernetes. However, it will still have ample of workloads running on VMs within its AIC.

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Mumsnet reports data breach to ICO after problematic cloud move


Bobby Hellard

8 Feb, 2019

Mumsnet has reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a botched upgrade resulted in users accidentally logging into the accounts of others.

The parental forum believes that the breach was caused when moving its services to the cloud on Tuesday afternoon. The problem ran from 2pm Tuesday to 9am Thursday when the changes were reversed.

The breach concerns logins where for three days users logging into their accounts at the same time as another user could have had their account info switched. A user alerted the company to the breach on Wednesday night saying that they were able to login and view another user’s account.

Mumsnet said it is investigating its logs to determine the impact of the breach. Approximately 4,000 users were logged in during the three-day window, but Mumsnet doesn’t know how many of those were actually breached. The company has only been made aware of 14 incidents so far and those individuals have been notified of the issue.

According to the site, logging into another user’s account allowed them to see email addresses, account details, posting history and personal messages, but not passwords as they are encrypted.

No further incidents have been reported suggesting that it was the move to the cloud that caused the issues. Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts posted a blog post to apologise to users and notify them that it will report the breach to the ICO.

«You’ve every right to expect your Mumsnet account to be secure and private,» she said. «We are working urgently to discover exactly how this breach happened and to learn and improve our processes. We will also keep you informed about what is happening. We will, of course, be reporting this incident to the information commissioner.»

Mumsnet is not alone in this regard, as 2018 saw an unprecedented number of companies reporting data breaches, with almost 60,000 reported across Europe since GDPR came into force.

What’s interesting about the Mumsnet incident is it’s due to a fault during an upgrade to cloud services, highlighting the dangers of rushing digital transformations. To the company’s credit, it acted swiftly and took steps to shut down the problem, notify its users and involving the regulator.

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IBM scores a major cloud win with multi-million dollar deal


Clare Hopping

8 Feb, 2019

IBM and Smart Energy Water have signed an agreement to boost the global energy and water provider’s cloud platform with the addition of IBM’s cloud infrastructure to host its mobile and web apps.

US-based Smart Energy Water will host various workloads on IBM’s cloud platform, including its customer and mobile workforce apps, online billing, energy efficiency monitoring, reward programmes and data collection tools.

SEW will offer the infrastructure for other energy businesses to build their apps upon IBM’s cloud. The utilities tech provider works with more than 150 energy and water businesses around the world, so this is a noteworthy deal for IBM.

“Consumers are open to new ways of engaging with their utility,» said Harman Sandhu, President at Smart Energy Water. «Together with IBM, we can deliver solutions at large scale that help utilities lower the cost-to-serve by moving customers from the call center to lower-cost digital channels, personalize service to increase overall customer satisfaction, and target customers for the right opportunities for value-added programs and services.»

The five-year deal will help SEW expand its offerings into analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT), helping clients develop a more diverse set of tools to benefit customers.

“Smart Energy Water is anticipating the major impact connected technologies will have on their customers business,» said Brad Gammons, global managing director, IBM Energy, Environment and Utilities. «By investing in data, their workers can do their job better than ever before and customers will have access to self-service capabilities that can help improve client service.»

IBM has sealed deals with some pretty big businesses of late, including BNP Paribas and Vodafone.

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Culture of Continuous Improvement | @DevOpsSUMMIT @GreenHouseData #Cloud #CIO #DevOps #DevSecOps #Serverless #ContinuousDelivery

Even if your IT and support staff are well versed in agility and cloud technologies, it can be an uphill battle to establish a DevOps style culture – one where continuous improvement of both products and service delivery is expected and respected and all departments work together throughout a client or service engagement. As a service-oriented provider of cloud and data center technology, Green House Data sought to create more of a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, from our helpdesk on to our product development and cloud service teams. Learn how the Chief Executive team helped guide managers and staff towards this goal with metrics to measure progress, staff hiring or realignment, and new technologies and certifications.

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WSO2 to Present at ServerlessSUMMIT at @CloudEXPO | @wso2 @lakwarus #CloudNative #Serverless #DevOps #Docker #Kubernetes #Ballerina

Docker and Kubernetes are key elements of modern cloud native deployment automations. After building your microservices, common practice is to create docker images and create YAML files to automate the deployment with Docker and Kubernetes. Writing these YAMLs, Dockerfile descriptors are really painful and error prone.Ballerina is a new cloud-native programing language which understands the architecture around it – the compiler is environment aware of microservices directly deployable into infrastructures like Docker and Kubernetes.

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Japan’s NTT Communications to Present at @CloudEXPO | @JETROUSA @NTTcom #AI #Analytics #CloudNative #Serverless #Docker #Kubernetes

Function as a Service is the popular solution of Serverless, which runs a short-lived function. In contrast, we will show a new Serverless: run long-lived function to deal with stream data. Running containers per stream, each container’s code footprint became small, and the system complexity got significantly simple. This made it easy to realize a new use case like enriching an application with AI-powered analytics using video stream in real-time.

NTT Communications has developed a new platform with Kubernetes to orchestrate this new style of media stream processing. We will throw a live demo to send voice stream from browser to this platform and run media processing functions in real-time. The functions will be open sourced, and all participants can try it out from tomorrow.

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Call for Papers Opens for @DevOpsSUMMIT Silicon Valley 2019 | #CloudNative #DevOps #APM #Serverless #Monitoring #ContinuousDelivery

DevOpsSUMMIT at CloudEXPO, to be held June 25-26, 2019 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world’s largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Among the proven benefits, DevOps is correlated with 20% faster time-to-market, 22% improvement in quality, and 18% reduction in dev and ops costs, according to research firm Vanson-Bourne. It is changing the way IT works, how businesses interact with customers, and how organizations are buying, building, and delivering software.

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Golden State Warriors use Google Cloud to up their game

American professional basketball team Golden State Warriors will use Google Cloud’s data-crunching technology to improve the performance of the players.

Apart from improving their game on court, the NBA champions will also use Google Cloud to track analytics to crunch scouting reports and better rope in athletes. According to Google Cloud, this data can easily be shared with coaches, staff and players.

It is also reported that the basketball team is planning to host a mobile app on the Google Cloud platform. This app — which will be developed by the Warriors and Accenture — will leverage Google Cloud technologies, such as App Engine and Firebase, for personalisation and Maps to support navigation. The app will also allow Warriors’ fans to find their seats.

Moreover, Google Cloud will also become a founding partner of the Chase Centre in San Francisco, California. This will become the new home venue for the team as it will be opening in September 2019.

According to Google Cloud, the Chase Centre will use the same analytics to promote sporting and entertainment events at the venue.

Kirk Lacob, assistant general manager and vice president of GSW Sports Ventures at the Warriors, said: “Today, 70% of the Golden State Warriors analytics team's time is spent collecting and shaping data and only 30% of time is spent analysing it. Partnering with Google Cloud to automate the collection of valuable data will allow us to free up resources and spend more time turning these insights into action.”

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Druva to Exhibit at @CloudEXPO Silicon Valley | @DruvaInc @WCPreston #Druva #Cloud #GDPR #Security #AWS

Druva is the global leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, delivering the industry’s first data management-as-a-service solution that aggregates data from endpoints, servers and cloud applications and leverages the public cloud to offer a single pane of glass to enable data protection, governance and intelligence-dramatically increasing the availability and visibility of business critical information, while reducing the risk, cost and complexity of managing and protecting it.

Druva’s award-winning solutions intelligently collect data, and unify backup, disaster recovery, archival and governance capabilities onto a single, optimized data set. As the industry’s fastest growing data protection provider, Druva is trusted by over 4,000 global organizations, and protects over 40 PB of data. Join the conversation at twitter.com/druvainc

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