Eigentlich soll die Digitalisierung für mehr Flexibilität sorgen und Arbeitnehmer auch entlasten. In der Realität bedeutet sie aber für Beschäftigte mehr Belastung, mehr Hetze und mehr Multitasking. Das geht aus einer repräsentativen Umfrage hervor.
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Mirantis also announces a global procurement agreement, and first deployment to deliver managed open cloud for converged cloud platform
SUNNYVALE, CA – May 4, 2017 – Mirantis, the managed open cloud company, today announced that it has been selected to deliver managed OpenStack, based on Mirantis Cloud Platform, as part of Vodafone’s network virtualisation program.
Mirantis will be part of Vodafone Ocean, a framework for developing, testing and deploying Software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies which are open, multi-vendor and managed end-to-end.
“Mirantis was selected for its technology, innovation and leadership in the OpenStack community and its ability to work with different vendors, engineers and operations teams to deliver OpenStack-based VIM. An open and multi-vendor cloud infrastructure is key for delivering better, faster and smarter services to our customers,” said David Amzallag, head of Network Virtualization, SDN and NFV, Vodafone Group. “We look forward to working closely with Mirantis as part of our Vodafone Ocean activities.”
Mirantis Managed OpenStack, which will be at the heart of Vodafone Ocean deployments, departs from the traditional software-centric method that revolves around licensing and support subscriptions. Instead, Mirantis is pioneering an operations-centric approach, where open infrastructure is continuously delivered with operations service level agreements (SLAs) owned by either Mirantis or the customer. Now, software updates no longer happen once every 6-12 months, but are introduced in minor increments on a weekly basis and with no down time.
“Vodafone has ambitious goals for its network, and our operations team is excited to support its private cloud efforts,” said Alex Freedland, Mirantis CEO. “With Mirantis Managed OpenStack, Vodafone and their customers will have access to the most recent cloud innovations, without having the downtime associated with upgrades.”
“If you’re only defining cloud computing as the big three hyperscale providers, you’re missing the big moves happening at the edge of the network,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director, OpenStack Foundation. “AT&T alone is already supporting customers with OpenStack in nearly 100 data centers, alongside carriers like Verizon, China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom. In terms of sheer footprint, OpenStack is the most widely distributed cloud infrastructure for virtualized networks, and the Vodafone deal is the most recent example.”
Mirantis also announced it has signed a global procurement agreement to deliver managed open cloud for Vodafone Cloudstore, with the first implementation already underway.
“We rigorously tested Mirantis products and skills through proof of concept and pilot projects and the excellent quality of service led us to choose Mirantis for our Milan datacentre,” said Pablo Jejcic, head of Cloud and Infrastructure, Vodafone Group.
The Mirantis cloud will be accessible through Vodafone’s cloud marketplace, CloudStore.
About Mirantis
Mirantis delivers open cloud infrastructure to top enterprises using OpenStack, Kubernetes and related open source technologies. The company is a major contributor of code to many open infrastructure projects and follows a build-operate-transfer model to deliver its Mirantis Cloud Platform and cloud management services, empowering customers to take advantage of open source innovation with no vendor lock-in. To date Mirantis has helped over 200 enterprises build and operate some of the largest open clouds in the world. Its customers include iconic brands such as AT&T, Comcast, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, eBay, Wells Fargo Bank and Volkswagen. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
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We are excited to announce the preview release of the new Azure Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise customers. This follows the release of our new Power BI content pack that addressed issues related to performance and data size limitations. Users can now have the ability to query Azure Usage details and Marketplace Charges by any desired date range or billing period. These APIs enable organizations to gain deep insights into their usage and spend for all workloads running on Azure. This is an important first step in our journey over the next few months to light up additional features to enable our customers to accurately monitor, predict, and optimize costs on Azure. Learn more by reading the detailed documentation on getting started with the APIs.
Details of the APIs:
Balance and Summary: The Balance and Summary API offers a monthly summary of information on balances, new purchases, Azure Marketplace service charges, adjustments, and overage charges.
Usage Details: The Usage Detail API offers a daily breakdown of consumed quantities and estimated charges by an enrollment. The result also includes information on instances, meters, and departments. The API can be queried by billing period or by a specified start and end date.
Marketplace Store Charge: The Marketplace Store Charge API returns the usage-based marketplace charges breakdown by day for the specified billing period or start and end dates.
Price Sheet: The Price Sheet API provides the applicable rate for each meter for the given enrollment and billing period.
Billing Periods: The Billing Periods API returns a list of billing periods that have consumption data for the specified enrollment in reverse chronological order. Each period contains a property pointing to the API route for the four sets of data, BalanceSummary, UsageDetails, Marketplace Charges, and PriceSheet.
What’s next?
We are work on providing this data in ARM as part of a consistent channel agnostic API set. As always, please reach out to us on the Azure Feedback forum and through the Azure MSDN forum.
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Today we’re wrapping up an amazing week at Red Hat Summit. We’re proud to, once again, sponsor and participate in a forum that brings together customers, partners and communities who are passionate about open source in the enterprise.
With over 40% of enterprise decision makers saying that increasing open source usage is a high or critical priority to their departments, there’s little doubt that open source plays an important role in the enterprise digital transformation. And we’re seeing this momentum in the cloud, with 1 in 3 VMs in Microsoft Azure running Linux, growing at 1.4x the rate of Windows VMs.
Yet a successful cloud strategy is not just about agility and speed, something IT knows well. In Red Hat’s Global Customer Tech Outlook survey for 2017, security, compliance, management and hybrid cloud strategy closely follow infrastructure as top funding priorities for the year, with roughly half of the CIOs naming them a top priority.
Our partnership with Red Hat, announced a year and a half ago, brings more choice to hybrid cloud deployments in a secure, manageable and well-supported way, and drives agility across capabilities such as unified development and DevOps, integrated management, common identity and a consistent data platform.
Helping our customers transform in the cloud
To me, what’s most exciting about our partnership are the thousands of customers around the globe that are transforming their businesses with Red Hat solutions in Microsoft Azure.
Whether a customer is running a scale-out Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster, using JBoss Middleware for an IoT solution or leveraging integrated support for OpenShift Container Platform, our partnership meets customers wherever they are in their cloud journey, and Microsoft is the only cloud provider that delivers consistency across on-premises and the public cloud while providing access to the rich Azure ecosystem.
This flexibility delivers unprecedented capacity and agility to organizations of all kinds and sizes. Joining me on stage today in my closing keynote, Terrance Snyder, Director of Media Platform Solutions at Catalina Marketing will share how they use open source, and where Microsoft and Red Hat fit. And there are many more great customer scenarios where Red Hat solutions in Azure are fueling digital transformation.
For example, Nielsen uses Red Hat Ansible with Azure to create and configure application resources from scratch in minutes, saving days of effort per environment. And TMB Bank uses Azure to fuel their digital transformation, choosing Microsoft for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads thanks to its world-class security and compliance standards.
At Red Hat Summit, Volvo shared how they use OpenShift Container Plaform in Azure for Java production applications, using Ansible to automate deployments across locations.
Pacifico Seguros, a Peruvian insurance company, uses Red Hat solutions in Azure such as JBoss Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to train agents, deploying a full core environment to Azure, including their P&C back-end.
In Japan, partner Visionarts helped Sony Corporation move a customer-facing function of the VAIO business to Azure. Visionarts is using Azure Log Analytics and Azure Security Center extensively for their Red Hat solutions, aggregating management tasks with no need to login and providing proactive response to vulnerabilities.
The road ahead
One of the most exciting aspects of the Red Hat / Microsoft partnership is our integrated support, including co-located resources. Richard Hum, studio head at Throwback Entertainment, told us that his team was “surprised that Red Hat open source and Azure support resided in the same office” In my keynote, I’ll share more about the individuals that make this partnership successful, and our joint learnings.
Over the last 18 months, we’ve brought innovation to both portfolios, from .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat solutions in Azure including OpenShift Container Platform and JBoss Middleware. Later today, Jim Zimmerman from Microsoft and Steve Pousty from Red Hat will demo some of the new features for developers that we’ve been working on over the last 18 months, including SQL Server, .NET Core and Windows Server plus OpenShift in Azure.
And today, as part of our enduring partnership that spans joint engineering, security and support efforts, Microsoft and Red Hat are announcing our plans to offer SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, featuring high availability, immediately upon the SQL Server GA later this year. We’ll continue working with Red Hat on high value scenarios for our joint customers in the enterprise such as hybrid and container based solutions.
Finally, I’d like to invite you to learn more about Red Hat in Azure at our Microsoft Technology Centers where we’re rolling out the latest technical demos and learnings from customers and partners. If you want to get started with OpenShift in Azure, check the newly released Test Drive experience. And if you are not attending the Red Hat Summit, you can watch the keynote online and follow our event highlights on Twitter!
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Schon in zwei Jahren will das US-Unternehmen SpaceX mit dem Aufbau seines geplanten Satelliteninternets beginnen. Innerhalb von fünf Jahren sollen dann mehr als 4000 Satelliten gestartet werden. Das wäre aber nur der Anfang.
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Auf Torrent-Trackern ist eine Kopie der Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc "Smurfs 2" aufgetaucht. Doch ob der UHD-Kopierschutz AACS 2.0 tatsächlich geknackt wurde, ist fraglich.
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As I go through the final stages of preparation for the Gartner IT Operations Strategies & Solutions Summit 2017, I wanted to write this blog post to start a conversation about service management and some of the challenges it faces.
I am looking forward to hearing from Gartner analysts and industry players about what they are seeing in the market. At this event in 2016, the primary focus was on DevOps. In 2017, speakers will focus on infrastructure and operations automation. I see these two topics as very closely related. And it’s a nice evolution of the IOSS Summit’s conversation.
If you are an IT operations professional at any level in your company, it is fair to say that you are tasked with managing an ever-growing level of complexity. It might be that different teams and units at your company are empowered to choose cloud providers and the tools that run operations. Ultimately, however, when something goes wrong, it will probably end up coming back to you, your team and your colleagues.
I’d say that in 2017, the objectives for IT operations have to be:
getting out in front of issues before they occur
guiding the teams and units in how they should implement their application
determining how to consume cloud services
It is through a partnership model that the IT operations team can insist on the right levels of automation to be put in place. While it might be OK for one team to avoid automation for just one application or service, it will not work for you when you are responsible for hundreds of applications and services. This is where IBM wants to help you, the IT operations person.
IBM can help DevOps team members to become agile, giving them the tools to monitor their apps during development and testing. IBM supports the IT operations team get structured so they can streamline the management of all the infrastructure and applications running across the company.
As infrastructure grows and number of applications grows and the IT operations team is not necessarily expanding, it means they need to find ways to get more efficient. They need to employ analytics tools that give them insight into the operations data that they are collecting, enabling them to become more proactive. Then, they can reach out to the DevOps team or line of business manager and tell them they have an issue before it impacts what matters most: their end users, the reputation of their business and bottom-line revenue.
I am really excited to be attending the IOSS Summit again in 2017. My colleague Andrew Hans and I are jointly presenting the IBM strategy for service management. IBM also has two demo booths and countless client meetings planned. So please stop by and say hello. Come see how we can help you to get agile, get structured and get efficient.
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Zu der am 1. Mai von Intel gemeldeten Sicherheitslücke in der Management Engine (ME) gibt es einige neue Informationen, aber noch keine Updates.
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We are excited to announce the public preview of the 1400 compatibility level for tabular models in Azure Analysis Services! This brings a host of new connectivity and modeling features for comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions delivering actionable insights. The 1400 compatibility level will also be available in SQL Server 2017 Analysis Services, ensuring a symmetric modeling capability across on-premises and the cloud.
Here are just some highlights of the new features available to 1400 models.
New infrastructure for data connectivity and ingestion into tabular models with support for TOM APIs and TMSL scripting. This enables:
Support for additional data sources, such as Azure Blob storage.
Data transformation and data mashup capabilities.
Support for BI tools such as Microsoft Excel enable drill-down to detailed data from an aggregated report. For example, when end-users view total sales for a region and month, they can view the associated order details.
Object-level security to secure table and column names in addition to the data within them.
Enhanced support for ragged hierarchies such as organizational charts and chart of accounts.
Various other improvements for performance, monitoring and consistency with the Power BI modeling experience.
To benefit from the new features for models at the 1400 compatibility level, you’ll need to download and install SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) 17.0.
In SSDT, you can select the new 1400 compatibility level when creating new tabular model projects. Alternatively, you can upgrade an existing tabular model by selecting the Model.bim file in Solution Explorer and setting the Compatibility Level to 1400 in the Properties window. Models at the 1400 compatibility level cannot be downgraded to lower compatibility levels.
New Infrastructure for Data Connectivity
1400 models introduce a new infrastructure for data connectivity and ingestion into tabular models with support for TOM APIs and TMSL scripting. This is based on similar functionality in Power BI Desktop and Microsoft Excel 2016. At this point, only the following cloud-based data sources are supported with the 1400 compatibility level in Azure Analysis Services. We intend to add support for more data sources soon. For more information, please refer to the Analysis Services Team blog, and watch out for future posts to the Azure blog.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Database
Azure Blog Storage
Detail Rows
A much-requested feature for tabular models is the ability to define a custom row set contributing to a measure value. Multidimensional models achieve this by using drillthrough and rowset actions. This allows end-users to view information in more detail than the aggregated level.
For example, the following PivotTable shows Internet Total Sales by year from the Adventure Works sample tabular model. Users can right-click the cell for 2010 and then select the Show Details menu option to view the detail rows.
By default, all the columns in the Internet Sales table are displayed. This behavior is often not meaningful for the user because too many columns may be shown, and the table may not have the necessary columns to show useful information such as customer name and order information.
Detail Rows Expression Property for Measures
1400 models introduce the Detail Rows Expression property for measures. It allows the modeler to customize the columns and rows returned to the end user. The following example uses the DAX Editor in SSDT to define the columns to be returned for the Internet Total Sales measure.
With the property defined and the model deployed, the custom row set is returned when the user selects Show Details. It automatically honors the filter context of the cell that was selected. In this example, only the rows for 2010 value are displayed.
Further information on Detail Rows is available in this blog post.
Object-Level Security
Roles in tabular models already support a granular list of permissions, and row-level filters to help protect sensitive data.
1400 models introduce table- and column-level security allowing sensitive table and column names to be protected in addition to the data within them. Collectively these features are referred to as object-level security (OLS).
The current version requires that OLS is set using the JSON-based metadata, Tabular Model Scripting Language (TMSL), or Tabular Object Model (TOM). We plan to deliver SSDT support soon. The following snippet of JSON-based metadata from the Model.bim file secures the Base Rate column in the Employee table of the Adventure Works sample tabular model by setting the MetadataPermission property of the ColumnPermission class to None.
"roles": [
{
"name": "General Users",
"description": "All allowed users to query the model",
"modelPermission": "read",
"tablePermissions": [
{
"name": "Employee",
"columnPermissions": [
{
"name": "Base Rate",
"metadataPermission": "none"
}
]
}
]
}
Unauthorized users cannot access the Base Rate column using client tools like Power BI and Excel Pivot Tables. Additionally, such users cannot query the Base Rate column using DAX or MDX, or measures that refer to it.
Further information on OLS is available in this blog post.
Ragged Hierarchies
Tabular models with previous compatibility levels can be used to model parent-child hierarchies. Hierarchies with a differing number of levels are referred to as ragged hierarchies. An example of a ragged hierarchy is an organizational chart. By default, ragged hierarchies are displayed with blanks for levels below the lowest child. This can look untidy to users, as shown by this organizational chart in Adventure Works:
1400 models introduce the Hide Members property to correct this. Simply set the Hide Members property to Hide blank members.
With the property set and the model deployed, the more presentable version of the hierarchy is displayed.
Other Features
Various other features such as the following are also introduced with the 1400 compatibility level. For more information, please refer to the Analysis Services Team blog for what's new in SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.0 and SQL Server vNext on Windows CTP 1.1 for Analysis Services.
Transaction-performance improvements for a more responsive developer experience.
Dynamic Management View improvements enabling dependency analysis and reporting.
Hierarchy and column reuse to be surfaced in more helpful locations in the Power BI field list.
Date relationships to easily create relationships to date dimensions based on date columns.
DAX enhancements to make DAX more accessible and powerful. These include the IN operator and table/row constructors.
Try it Now!
To get started, simply create a 1400 model in SSDT and deploy it to Azure Analysis Services! See this post on how to create your first model. Be sure to keep an eye on this blog to stay up to date on Azure Analysis Services.
Quelle: Azure
Bis Ende Juni will AMD die GPUs der Vega-Serie vorstellen. Nun ist ein nicht gerade konkurrenzfähiges Benchmark-Ergebnis aufgetaucht, das möglicherweise von Vega stammt.
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