Mail.ru, das Facebook-Gegenstück Vkontakte und andere Dienste aus Russland sind in der Ukraine für die nächsten drei Jahre gesperrt. Beschlossen hat das Petro Poroschenko, der Präsident des Landes. (Zensur, Soziales Netz)
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By Dominic Preuss, Product Manager
Cloud Spanner, the world’s first horizontally-scalable and strongly-consistent relational database service, is now generally available for your mission-critical OLTP applications.
We’ve carefully designed Cloud Spanner to meet customer requirements for enterprise databases — including ANSI 2011 SQL support, ACID transactions, 99.999% availability and strong consistency — without compromising latency. As a combined software/hardware solution that includes atomic clocks and GPS receivers across Google’s global network, Cloud Spanner also offers additional accuracy, reliability and performance in the form of a fully-managed cloud database service. Thanks to this unique combination of qualities, Cloud Spanner is already delivering long-term value for our customers with mission-critical applications in the cloud, including customer authentication systems, business-transaction and inventory-management systems, and high-volume media systems that require low latency and high throughput. For example, Snap uses Cloud Spanner to power part of its search infrastructure.
Looking toward migration
In preparation for general availability, we’ve been working closely with our partners to make adoption as smooth and easy as possible. Thus today, we’re also announcing our initial data integration partners: Alooma, Informatica and Xplenty.
Now that these partners are in the early stages of Cloud Spanner “lift-and-shift” migration projects for customers, we asked a couple of them to pass along some of their insights about the customer value of Cloud Spanner, as well as any advice about planning for a successful migration:
From Alooma:
“Cloud Spanner is a game-changer because it offers horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, highly available OLTP infrastructure in the cloud for the first time. To accelerate migrations, we recommend that customers replicate their data continuously between the source OLTP database and Cloud Spanner, thereby maintaining both infrastructures in the same state — this allows them to migrate their workloads gradually in a predictable manner.”
From Informatica:
“Informatica customers are stretching the limits of latency and data volumes, and need innovative enterprise-scale capabilities to help them outperform their competition. We are excited about Cloud Spanner because it provides a completely new way for our mutual customers to disrupt their markets. For integration, migration and other use cases, we are partnering with Google to help them ingest data into Cloud Spanner and integrate a variety of heterogeneous batch, real-time, and streaming data in a highly scalable, performant and secure way.”
From Xplenty:
“Cloud Spanner is one of those cloud-based technologies for which businesses have been waiting: With its horizontal scalability and ACID compliance, it’s ideal for those who seek the lower TCO of a fully managed cloud-based service without sacrificing the features of a legacy, on-premises database. In our experience with customers migrating to Cloud Spanner, important considerations include accounting for data types, embedded code and schema definitions, as well as understanding Cloud Spanner’s security model to efficiently migrate your current security and access-control implementation.”
Next steps
We encourage you to dive into a no-cost trial to experience first-hand the value of a relational database service that offers strong consistency, mission-critical availability and global scale (contact us about multi-regional instances) with no workarounds — and with no infrastructure for you to deploy, scale or manage. (Read more about Spanner’s evolution inside Google in this new paper presented at the SIGMOD ‘17 conference today.) If you like what you see, a growing partner ecosystem is standing by for migration help, and to add further value to Cloud Spanner use cases via data analytics and visualization tooling.
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform
We’re happy to introduce two enhancements to Smart Detection in Application Insights, which automatically notifies you if your live web app shows performance issues. You will now get an automatic notification if your live web app dependencies slow down – for example, a database or REST API that your app calls. And you can click through from Smart Detection details to the profiler trace of an operation where the problem has occurred.
Smart Detection of degradation in dependency duration
Smart Detection now detects degradation in duration of dependency calls. Web applications and modern services in general often rely on external services and platforms to power key scenarios. For those applications dependency calls, duration is a key factor in the overall application performance. Smart Detection will automatically notify you about changes in dependency duration compared to its historical performance. Supported for all dependency calls types. Learn more here.
We also added an analysis of dependency duration to Server Response Time Degradation detections. So in case that degradation in operation performance is correlated to degradation in related dependent service performance, this information will be included in Detection Analysis section.
Smart Detection and Profiler integration
Another new enhancement is the integration between Smart Detection and Profiler. Sometimes the fastest way to find the root cause is reviewing trace examples collected by Profiler that show where the time was spent when executing a specific operation. Now you can view the relevant profiler examples by clicking on a link on Smart Detection details blade.
Note: The link to view Profiler examples will appear only if examples were collected for this operation during detection period.
Quelle: Azure
More and more enterprise customers are realizing the benefits of moving their core business applications to the cloud. Many have moved beyond the conversation of “why cloud” to “which cloud provider.” Customers want the assurance of performance, privacy and scale for their mission critical applications. Microsoft Azure sets the bar for scale and performance, leads in compliance and trust measure, and offers the most global reach of any public cloud. Specifically for SAP workloads, our strong partnership with SAP enables us to provide our mutual customers best-in-class support for their most demanding enterprise applications.
We’ve invested deeply to ensure that Azure is the best public cloud for our customers’ SAP HANA workloads. Azure provides the most powerful and scalable infrastructure of any public cloud provider for HANA. Azure also offers customers the ability to extract more intelligence from their SAP solution environments with AI and analytics, and our broad, longstanding partnership with SAP includes integrations with Office 365 to help customer enhance productivity, too. Lastly, we have an enormous partner ecosystem ready to help enterprises succeed with SAP solution workloads.
I’m pleased to announce several new advancements to this key area of focus:
Support for running some of the largest public cloud estates of SAP HANA, across both virtual machines and Large Instance offerings.
To power SAP HANA and other high-end database workloads, we’re introducing M-Series virtual machines powered by Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 that support single node configurations up to 3.5TB memory. This will allow customers to quickly spin up a new virtual machine to test a new business process scenario and turn it off when the testing is done to avoid incurring additional costs.
Real-time, transactional business applications need scale up power within a single node. For customers using OLTP landscapes like SAP S/4HANA or SoH that go beyond the limits of today’s hypervisors, we’re announcing a range of new SAP HANA on Azure Large Instance SKUs, powered by Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v4 from 4TB to 20TB memory.
SAP business warehousing environments that harness and capture intelligence from massive volumes of data require multi-node, scale-out systems. We’re introducing support for SAP HANA Large instances up to 60TB memory for potential future use for applications like SAP BW, and SAP BW/4HANA.
SAP Cloud Platform: SAP’s platform-as-a-service offering is now available as a public preview hosted on Microsoft Azure. Customers can take advantage of the pre-built SAP Cloud Platform components to build business applications while leveraging the broader toolset of Azure services.
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud: In cooperation with SAP, we are working to make Azure available as a deployment option for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAP’s secure managed cloud offering. Customers will benefit from Azure’s enterprise-proven compliance and security, in addition to close connections between their other Azure workloads and SAP solutions running on Azure in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.
SAP and Azure Active Directory Single-Sign-On: SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication Services are now integrated with Azure Active Directory. This integration enables customers to implement friction-free, web-based, single-sign-on capabilities across all SAP solutions that integrate with SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication. In addition, SAP SaaS solutions (e.g. Concur, SAP SuccessFactors, etc.), as well as core SAP NetWeaver-based solutions or SAP HANA, are integrated with Azure Active Directory.
Last year, Satya Nadella took the stage at SAPPHIRE, announcing a new era of partnership with SAP – and at the time we shared that early adopters, Coats LLC and Rockwell Automation, were using Azure Large Instance infrastructure to run their SAP solution environments. Since then, we’ve seen tremendous momentum with customers choosing to deploy SAP on Azure. Just a few examples of the companies deciding on Azure as their cloud platform for SAP solution landscapes are:
Accenture: This is the largest business warehousing SAP HANA deployment in the public cloud, running Accenture’s own mission-critical financial reporting systems on Azure. For more about Accenture’s use of Azure, don’t miss their session at SAPPHIRE NOW’17 this week.
Pact Group: By choosing to migrate their on-premises SAP servers to Azure, this Asia-Pacific packaging company anticipates annualized savings of 20 percent with their business now running more than 90% of its applications and compute on Azure.
Mosaic: One of the world’s largest producers of phosphate and potash crop nutrients moved all its global financial, commercial, and supply-chain SAP systems to Azure, increasing speed and agility. The company anticipates a year over year cost savings of 20 percent.
IXOM: When they needed to separate from their parent company, water treatment and chemical distributor IXOM chose to move its SAP applications to Microsoft Azure, taking a cloud-first approach to the future.
Subsea7: This world-leading seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor is working with Accenture to unlock cost savings and greater efficiencies through SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA hosted on Azure. Subsea 7 aims to deliver a simpler, faster and more tightly integrated landscape to its global employees, providing more mobility, agility and an enhanced user experience.
One of the key advantages of Azure is that customers can drive intelligence and insights from their SAP solution environments by integrating with solutions like Power BI and Cortana Intelligence, powering new business opportunities and efficiencies.
Our integration partners are a critical part of SAP solutions on Azure deployments as they help ensure customer success, leveraging their skill and expertise across both the Microsoft and SAP ecosystems. At SAPPHIRE NOW’17, Microsoft will host some of our top Global System Integrator partners including Accenture, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, TCS and Wipro to showcase the value and operational improvements each of these organizations can provide to customers looking to deploy SAP on Azure.
For more information on today’s announcements, please go here. And if you’re going to be at SAPPHIRE, be sure stop by our booth #468.
Quelle: Azure
Es war nur eine Frage der Zeit: In die Kooperation von BMW mit Intel und Mobileye ist nun auch der Zulieferer Delphi eingestiegen. Damit soll eine herstelleroffene Plattform für autonome Autos vermarktet werden. (CES 2017, Google)
Quelle: Golem
Probleme auf dem Heimatmarkt durch den Brexit und milliardenschwere Abschreibungen in Indien drücken die Geschäfte von Vodafone. Die deutsche Tochter dagegen ist ein Lichtblick des Riesen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
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OpenStack Summit Boston brought its best as it played for an open world. From the latest OpenStack news, to baseballs puns, to the surprise appearance of Edward Snowden, the show was a hub of excitement. More than ever, the expansion of OpenStack was evident, across consumption models as well as use cases.
As OpenStack matures, vendors are making it easier than ever to consume OpenStack, as was evident in the OpenStack Foundation’s newest addition to their Marketplace: Remotely Managed Private Clouds. Working to solve the people and process problem that once surrounded OpenStack, this new category enables vendors to provide the many benefits of OpenStack, but “as-a-service”. Companies large and small will be able to have the benefits and simplicity of a public cloud, but delivered as a private cloud package.
The movement towards private cloud was also echoed in The Foundation’s surprise guest, Edward Snowden. Snowden touched on one of the leading concerns of public cloud – that most large enterprises should approach public clouds cautiously due to issues with compliance and security. While public cloud promotes ease of use, it does not necessarily provide the privacy and security that enterprises seek from private cloud; data that sits in the cloud doesn’t have the same requirements for, say, search warrants before it gets turned over to law enforcement or other government agencies.
Within OpenStack, there was an emphasis on interoperability, for OpenStack as a whole, as well as the individual OpenStack projects. Keynotes showcased a range of live demos, each demonstrating how OpenStack is able to quickly and easily work with different technologies across the stack. Demos showcased how OpenStack can be used with more mainstream technologies such as Docker, down to niche technologies such as an open source multi-cloud continuous deployment platform called Spinnaker. OpenStack projects themselves were also showcased, and were emphasized as standalone technologies, with their own capabilities.
Get a glimpse of OpenStack Summit Boston with our highlights, and stay tuned for more in-depth coverage of what you missed.
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Quelle: Mirantis
Mit der Plakatkampagne "Runter vom Gas" machen das Bundesverkehrsministerium und der Deutsche Verkehrssicherheitsrat auf die häufigsten Ursachen für Unfälle aufmerksam. Ablenkung, unter anderem durch die Benutzung von Handys, steht auf Platz zwei.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Vodafone zeigt Wachstum in seiner Kabelnetzsparte. Fast die Hälfte der Neukunden entscheidet sich für Datenraten von 200 oder 400 MBit/s. (Streaming, DSL)
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Nintendo hat Version 2.3 der Firmware für die Hybridkonsole Switch veröffentlicht. Erneut gibt es nur allgemeine Systemverbesserungen. Eine echte neue Funktion hat das Unternehmen vor einigen Tagen schlicht serverseitig umgesetzt. (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo)
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