Bis zu einem halben Jahr speichern manche Internet- und Telefonanbieter Metadaten auf Vorrat. Das ergibt eine Erhebung der Bundesnetzagentur. Der AK Vorrat hat Anzeige erstattet. (Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Mobilfunk)
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Er hat keine Funktion, sondern leuchtet einfach nur rot: Activision verkauft im Itemshop von Call of Duty Black Ops 4 für einen Euro einen Punkt, den Spieler an ihrer virtuellen Waffe anbringen können. (Call of Duty, Activision)
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2018 was a busy year for cloud technology, and December capped it off with some news and announcements from around Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Here’s what caught your attention last month.Securing the cloud is a team effortThere’s a new sheriff in town: The Cloud Security Command Center is now available for GCP users in beta. This central portal lets you track potential risks and vulnerabilities across your cloud asset inventory and get alerts on anomalies, see sensitive data in your cloud storage, and review access rights.In addition, we announced a partnership with Palo Alto Networksthat integrates their tools with Cloud Security Command Center. Palo Alto Networks will run both its Application Framework and GlobalProtect cloud service on GCP, bringing even more visibility and compliance readiness to users.In December, we released managed base images for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Historically, GKE users brought their own container images, but now with managed base images, you can point your Dockerfile’s FROM line to the Cloud Marketplace. Those images have received the latest patches from upstream and let you follow best security practices for base images.The cloud of the future takes shapeMoving to cloud is a leap for businesses, with lots of decisions to make. We laid out our open cloud vision last month, and delved into some of the tools involved to build your apps and services on containers and microservices. Using Istio as a service mesh on top of GKE, along with its new networking features, is the foundation we’re excited to share and continue building.If machine learning (ML) is something you’ve integrated into your technology stack, check out this look at faster ML model training to get better cost and performance. As you develop real-world applications powered by ML, you’ll need to scale to meet real-world challenges. We trained models using our Cloud TPU pod accelerator and measured performance and cost.Learn about GCP in person this yearRegistration opened last month for our Next ‘19 conference, scheduled for April 9-11 in San Francisco, CA. You can expect lots of great sessions and presenters, with even more technical content and learning opportunities than before. Join us!We wish you a productive, happy and successful 2019!
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform
Die technischen Probleme zwischen einem lokalen Glasfaserbetreiber und Netflix sind behoben. Ein Bericht von Golem.de beschleunigte die Lösung. Netflix hatte die Nutzer nicht vorhandener VPN oder Proxys gesperrt. (Netflix, Streaming)
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Der Bund soll seine Anteile an der Deutschen Telekom vollständig verkaufen. Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium sei sonst als Anteilseigner nicht neutral bei der 5G-Auktion. (5G, Bundesnetzagentur)
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Increasingly, as businesses seek to drive digital transformation, they are looking to outsource the lower levels of IT management to specialist providers.
At Grupo IFM, we provide corporate services, including IT services, to our member companies. This includes helping them unify their information systems to optimize costs and resources. To deliver value, we constantly need to create new, better offerings. So it’s not just our group companies who need to focus on innovation; as a service provider, we need to innovate too.
Breaking the shackles of legacy systems
Innovation is difficult when legacy technology gets in the way. Over the years, we had built a highly customized, on-premises server infrastructure which we used to run many of our member companies’ core enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. It was complex to manage and too reliant on the specialist skills of a few employees.
We wanted to find a way to spend less time managing the infrastructure so that we could free up our IT team to focus on higher-value projects instead.
Finding freedom in the cloud
On the recommendation of one of our suppliers, we engaged S&M Cloud to help us transform our infrastructure. S&M Cloud showed us how we could harness IBM Cloud technology to replace our legacy on-premises servers and storage.
The IBM Cloud offered us a level of reliability, efficiency, scalability and manageability that we just didn’t see from other vendors. Above all, we were impressed with the quality of service that the IBM team provides. They’re very professional and proactive, and they take care of everything.
We now run our systems to IBM Cloud bare metal servers, which provide the performance we need to run a virtual server environment that supports our ERP applications. We are also using IBM Cloud Object Storage System as a reliable, cost-effective solution for storing backups.
Zero disruption for business users
Working with S&M Cloud and IBM, the implementation was seamless. In fact, our users didn’t even notice that anything had changed.
We were initially nervous about connecting to a remote server in the cloud instead of having everything on our local network, but in reality, there has been no impact on performance or reliability. Everything just works.
Throughout the whole project, we only had one technical issue, and the IBM team was able to fix it in less than two hours. The environment is critical for our business, so having that level of service is extremely important.
Saving cost, reducing risk
With the new IBM Cloud solution in place, Grupo IFM has achieved its two main goals.
First, we have minimized risk by replacing a complex, hard-to-maintain infrastructure with a modern, flexible environment that is easy to manage. We are much less reliant on the specialist skills of key individuals. Instead, we can depend on the whole IBM support organization to keep our systems healthy.
Second, by outsourcing the infrastructure management to IBM, we have significantly reduced the workload of our IT team. This gives us about 10 percent more time to spend on higher-level, higher-value tasks.
Ultimately, the IBM Cloud solution helps us make better use of our resources to help our member companies innovate. That means we can become more than an IT service provider. We can be a true partner in the whole group’s digital transformation.
Read the case study for more details.
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Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Erstmals im Dezember 2018 konnte Windows 10 einen größeren Marktanteil erzielen, als das mehrere Jahre alte Windows 7 – wenn auch nur sehr knapp. Windows 8.1 und Vista spielen kaum eine Rolle mehr. Generell bleibt das Windows-Ökosystem sehr dominant. (Windows 10, Mac OS X)
Quelle: Golem
Bluetooth auf einem fremden Smartphone ausknipsen und einen Bluetooth-Lautsprecher zum Schweigen bringen? Mit einer Sicherheitslücke in Bluetooth-Chips von Broadcom ist das möglich. Von Moritz Tremmel (Bluetooth, CCC)
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Polyphony Digital ist bekannt für lange Produktionszeiten und Verschiebungen. Künftig könnte alles schneller gehen: dank einer großen neuen Niederlassung mit rund 170 Mitarbeitern. Mutmaßlich für das nächste Gran Turismo hat das Studio gerade eigene Raytracing-Technologien angekündigt. (Gran Turismo, Rennspiel)
Quelle: Golem
Mehr als 20 zum Teil gefährliche Angriffe in zwei Jahren: Manche Einwohner von Chandler im US-Bundesstaat Arizona sind gegen die Tests von autonom fahrenden Autos in ihrer Stadt. Einige haben Autos von Waymo beschädigt und Insassen tätlich angriffen. (Autonomes Fahren, Google)
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