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Rook v1.0 Adds Support for Ceph Nautilus, EdgeFS, and NFS Operator
Rook, a storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, has released version 1.0 for production-ready workloads that use file, block, and object storage in containers. Highlights of Rook 1.0 include support for storage providers through operators like Ceph Nautilus, EdgeFS, and NFS. For instance, when a pod requests an NFS file system, Rook can provision it without any manual intervention.
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Amazon Opens a New Region in Bahrain – AWS Middle East
Recently, Amazon announced the opening of an AWS region in the Middle East. This new region is the first for AWS in the Middle East and located in Bahrain.
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Pulumi Crosswalk: Infrastructure as Code for AWS
Pulumi Crosswalk is an open source library of components for supporting AWS infrastructure as code. Crosswalk offers best practices around provisioning and managing AWS resources, and aims to improve the developer experience when creating applications in AWS.
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Amazon Introduces Two New Features for Polly: Neural Text-to-Speech and Newscaster Style
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology in their Polly service in AWS, which turns text into lifelike speech. Furthermore, Amazon Polly now also offers a Newscaster speaking style.
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Enabling Single Tenant Workloads in the Cloud, Microsoft Introduces Azure Dedicated Host
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Dedicated Hosts, a service that allows organizations to run Linux and Windows virtual machines on single-tenant physical servers. This service was introduced to address customer compliance and regulatory requirements. Organizations can also take advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefits which allows them to leverage existing software investments.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Security Center for IoT
Initially introduced in March 2019, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Security Center for IoT, which enables end-to-end threat protection and security management of IoT environments. The solution helps in identifying threats, insecure settings, and misconfigurations, allowing to mitigate before attackers can take advantage of them.
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Microsoft Releases a Preview of the Integration of Prometheus with Azure Monitor for Containers
Recently Microsoft announced the integration of Prometheus, a popular open-source metric monitoring solution and part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation, with Azure Monitor for containers. This integration is currently available in a preview stage for testing.
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Google Cloud Memorystore Adds Import-Export and Redis 4.0
In a recent announcement, Google has unveiled two new features for Cloud Memorystore, their fully managed Redis service. These features consist of the beta of import-export, allowing to import and export data from and to other Redis instances, as well as the general availability of Redis 4.0 support.
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Google Introduces Spinnaker for GCP, Simplifying the Configuration of Continuous Delivery
Spinnaker is an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform co-developed by Google and Netflix. In a recent blog post, Google introduced the Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform solution, which allows customers to install and run Spinnaker in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Microsoft Releases PowerApps Portals Preview, a Low-Code Customer Portal Solution
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced PowerApps Portals in preview, a low-code solution for building responsive customer portals. PowerApps Portals is the successor of Dynamics 365 Portals, which generally required developers to use complex web templates. Using PowerApps Portals, people familiar with Microsoft PowerApps can transition those skills into building customer-facing portals.
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Google Adds New Integrations for the What-If Tool on Their Cloud AI Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced a new integration of the What-If tool, allowing data scientists to analyse models on their AI Platform – a code-based data science development environment. Customers can now use the What-If tool for their XGBoost and Scikit Learn models deployed on the AI Platform.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Data Share
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Data Share, which provides capabilities to share data with users in the own organization, as well as with other organizations. Essentially, Microsoft positions the recently announced service as a big data tool, though it’s also possible to share individual files.
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Google Acquires Elastifile to Expand Its Cloud File Storage Offering
Google recently acquired Elastifile, a provider of scalable, enterprise file storage in the cloud. With the acquisition, Google further extends its current file storage offering, Cloud Filestore, and third-party partner offerings.
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Accelerating Cloud Migrations, Microsoft Introduces Azure Migration and Azure Lighthouse Programs
At the recent Inspire partner conference, Microsoft announced the availability of two programs designed to enable partners to deploy and manage cloud installations. Azure Migration includes prescriptive advice, resources and tools for customers to leverage during their migration. Using Azure Lighthouse, customers can delegate governance and monitoring activities to certified partners.
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Is Generally Available, Enhancing Coding Cloud Infrastructure
Recently, Amazin announced the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), an extensible open-source software development framework allowing developers to model and provision their cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages.