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Google Cloud Platform for data center professionals: what you need to know

Posted by Peter-Mark Verwoerd, Solutions Architect

At Google Cloud, we love seeing customers migrate to our platform. Companies move to us for a variety of reasons, from low costs to our machine learning offerings. Some of our customers, like Spotify and Evernote, have described the various reasons that motivated them to migrate to Google Cloud.

However, we recognize that a migration of any size can be a challenging project, so today we’re happy to announce the first part of a new resource to help our customers as they migrate. Google Cloud Platform for Data Center Professionals is a guide for customers who are looking to move to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and are coming from non-cloud environments. We cover the basics of running IT — Compute, Networking, Storage, and Management. We’ve tried to write this from the point of view of someone with minimal cloud experience, so we hope you find this guide a useful starting point.

This is the first part of an ongoing series. We’ll add more content over time, to help describe the differences in various aspects of running your company’s IT infrastructure.

We hope you find this useful in learning about GCP. Please tell us what you think and what else you would like to add, and be sure to follow along with our free trial when you sign up!
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Microsoft Azure Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification

We’re excited and proud to announce that Microsoft Azure is one of the first hyper-scale #cloud computing platforms to become HITRUST CSF Certified.  The HITRUST Certification is the most widely recognized security accreditation in the healthcare industry.  It incorporates healthcare specific security, privacy and regulatory requirements from existing regulations such as HIPAA/HITECH, PCI, ISO 27001 and MARS-E as well as industry best practices.  This certification provides a single framework that is tailored to health organizations to evaluate the Azure environment.  

“HITRUST has been working with the industry to ensure the appropriate information protection requirements are met when sensitive health information is accessed or stored in a cloud environment. By taking the steps necessary to obtain HITRUST CSF Certified status, Microsoft Azure is distinguished as an organization that people can count on to keep their information safe,” said Ken Vander Wal, Chief Compliance Officer, HITRUST.

To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, we must ensure that large industries, like healthcare, are unblocked from regulatory, privacy, and security obstacles which could prevent them from being able to move their IT workloads and operations to the cloud.  Achieving HITRUST CSF Certification is an awesome example of Azure removing yet another hurdle so a large and important aspect of our global society, i.e., healthcare industries and professionals, can confidently and securely leverage the services, efficiencies, and power of Microsoft Azure.

The following is a complete list of Azure Services included in this HITRUST certification:

Identity and Access Management

Azure Active Directory
Rights Management
Multi-Factor Authentication

Compute

Virtual Machines
Cloud Services
Batch

Networking

Application Gateway
VPN Gateway
Express Route
Virtual Network
Load Balancer
Traffic Manager

Web & Mobile

Web Apps
Mobile Apps
Notification Hubs

Analytics

HDInsight

Management & Security

Azure Key Vault
Scheduler
Azure Management Portal
Azure Classic Portal

Media & CDN

Media Services

Data & Storage

Redis Cache – including Premium
SQL Database
SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Virtual Machines
Storage- Blob, Table, Queue, Files, and Disks – including Premium

Hybrid Integration

Service Bus
Workflow

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DockerCon 2017: Call For Papers FAQ

It’s a new year, and we are looking for new stories of how you are using #Docker technology to do big things. Submit your cool hack, use case or deep dive sessions before the #DockerCon 2017 CFP closes on January 14th.

To help with your submissions, we’ve answered the most frequent questions below and put together a list of tips to help get your proposal selected.
Q. How do I submit a proposal?
A. Submit your proposal here.
Q. What kind of talks are you looking for?
A. This year, we are looking for cool hacks, user stories and deep dive submissions:

Cool Hacks: Show us your cool hack and wow us with the interesting ways you can push the boundaries of the Docker stack. You do not have to have your hack ready by the submission deadline, just clearly explain your hack, what makes it cool and the technologies you will use.

Using Docker: Tell us first-hand about your Docker usage, challenges and what you learned along the way and inspire us on how to use Docker to accomplish real tasks.

Deep Dives: Propose code and demo heavy deep-dive sessions on what you have been able to transform with your use of the Docker stack. Entice your audience by going deeply technical and teach them how to do something they haven’t done.

Above all, DockerCon is a user conference and product and vendor pitches are not appropriate.
Q. What will I need to include in my submission?
A. Speaking proposals will ask for:

Title, the more catchy and descriptive, the better. But don’t be too cute.
Abstract describing the presentation. This is what gets shown in the agenda and how the audience decides if they want to attend your session.
Key Takeaways that communicate your session’s main idea and conclusion. This is your gift to the audience, what will they learn from your session and be able to apply when they get back to work the following week.
Speaker(s): expertise and summary biography
Suggested tags
Past Speaking examples
Recommendations of appropriate audience.

Q. How can I increase the odds of my proposal being selected?
A. Check out the following resources:

Read our tips to help get your proposal selected
See the list of sessions chosen for the 2016 DockerCon and DockerCon EU 2015 programs and read their descriptions
Watch videos from previous DockerCons
See speaker slides from previous DockerCons.

Q. How are submissions selected?
A. After a proposal is submitted, it will be reviewed initially for content and format. Once past the initial review, a committee will read the proposals and vote on best submissions. There are a limited number of speaking slots and we work to achieve a balance of presentations that will interest the Docker community.
Q. How will Speakers be compensated?
A. One speaker for every session will be given a full conference pass. Any additional speakers will be given a pass at the Early Bird rate.
Q. Will there be a Speaker room at the conference?
A. Yes, we will provide a Speaker Ready room for speakers to prepare for presentations, relax and mingle. Speakers should check in with the DockerCon 2017 speaker manager on the day of your talk in the Speaker Room and make sure you are all set for your talk.
Q. What are the important dates to remember?
A.

Call for Proposals Closes – January 14, 2017 at 11:59 PST
All proposers notified &8211; Late February
Program announced &8211; Late February
Submit your proposal &8211; Today!

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