Das Verbot der Darstellung bestimmter sexueller Praktiken im Vereinigten Königreich gilt für DVDs wie für Streaming-Angebote und muss durch Internet-Blockaden der ISPs umgesetzt werden. Das Verbot ist nun deutlich gelockert worden. (Politik/Recht, Internetsperren)
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So langsam kommt die 100-Millionen-Marke in Sicht: Sony meldet bei der Bekanntgabe von Geschäftszahlen eine beeindruckende Gesamtzahl von verkauften Playstation 4 – obwohl die Konsole im Vergleich mit der Nintendo Switch erstaunlich klar nur zweiter Sieger ist. (Sony, Nintendo)
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After wrapping up a successful preview with fantastic customer engagement, we are excited to officially announce the general availability of the Lsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Customers from all over the globe and across a broad range of industries participated in the Lsv2-series VMs preview during the second half of 2018.
General overview
The Lsv2-series features high throughput, low latency, and directly mapped local NVMe storage. The Lsv2 VMs run on the AMD EPYCTM 7551 processor with an all core boost of 2.55GHz. The Lsv2-series VMs offer various configurations from 8 to 80 vCPUs with simultaneous multi-threading. Each VM features 8 GiB of memory and one 1.92TB NVMe SSD M.2 device per 8 vCPUs, with up to 19.2TB (10 x 1.92TB) available on the 80vCPU L80s v2.
Target workloads
The Lsv2-series is well suited for your high throughput and high IOPS workloads including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, data warehousing, and large transactional databases. Examples include Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloudera, and Redis. In general, applications that can benefit from large in-memory databases are a good fit for these VMs.
We have worked closely with AMD to maximize potential customer value:
“Designed from the ground up for the modern IT enterprise, the AMD EPYC™ 7551 processor featured in the Microsoft Azure Lsv2 VM instance has today’s highest core count for a server processor, exceptional memory capacity and bandwidth, coupled with phenomenal I/O density. Combine this with the strength of Azure, and it creates a perfect environment for workloads such as in memory databases and big data. Microsoft Azure was the first global cloud provider to deploy AMD EPYC processors and we’re excited to continue this partnership as we target even greater performance in 2019.”
– Daniel Bounds, Senior Director, Datacenter Solutions, AMD
Performance
With learnings from our preview, we have optimized our Lsv2-series VMs to drive maximum performance from the local NVMe disks. These performance levels are possible thanks to the optimization of Windows Server 2019 on Azure and Canonical’s latest Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 releases in the Azure Marketplace. Throughout 2019 we will continue to add Lsv2-series optimized Linux distributions in the Azure Marketplace. Please check the documentation, “Storage optimized virtual machine sizes” for future updates.
Available configurations and regional availability
The Lsv2-series VMs are available in the following sizes:
Size
vCPU’s
Memory (GiB)
NVMe Disk
NVMe Disk Throughput (Read IOPS/MBps)
L8s_v2
8
64
1 x 1.92 TB
340,000 / 2,000
L16s_v2
16
128
2 x 1.92 TB
680,000 / 4,500
L32s_v2
32
256
4 x 1.92 TB
1,400,000 / 9,000
L64s_v2
64
512
8 x 1.92 TB
2,700,000 / 18,000
L80s_v2
80
640
10 x 1.92 TB
3,400,000 / 22,000
Your performance levels will vary depending on your workload, configuration, and choice of operating system. For example, on the L80s_v2 with 19.2 TB of NVMe direct to the VM, we were able to reach up to 3.7M read IOPS on WS2019 and 3.6M read IOPS on Ubuntu 18.04/16.04. To learn more watch the video, “Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich” from Ignite 2018.
We are launching the Lsv2-series in the following regions: East US, East US 2, West Europe, and SE Asia. We plan to make these new VMs available in more regions in the coming months including West US 2 in February and North Europe in April.
Next steps
You can get more information about the Lsv2-series by reading the documentation, “Storage optimized virtual machine sizes.” Lsv2-series VMs support pay-as-you-go, low priority, and 1 or 3 year reserved instance (RI) pricing for both Windows and Linux.
Quelle: Azure
Mit der NT-H2 sollen große CPUs mit hoher Verlustleistung ein paar wenige Grad niedrigere Temperaturen erreichen. Noctua legt die Wärmeleitpaste den eigenen Kühlern nicht bei, denn die Verbesserung wird teuer erkauft. (Noctua, Prozessor)
Quelle: Golem
Firefox 65 macht momentan Probleme auf Windows-Systemen in Verbindung mit einigen Antivirenprogrammen. Der Fehler: Keine Webseite kann mehr angesteuert werden. Stattdessen wird ein Fehler ausgegeben – der Grund, warum der Hersteller die Verteilung des Updates auf Windows erst einmal stoppt. (Firefox, Browser)
Quelle: Golem
Indonesia is home to the world’s fourth largest population, with 261 million people spread across more than 18,000 islands. From the bustling streets of Jakarta to the long, sandy beaches of Bali, there’s one thing all Indonesians share: the need for high-quality, affordable healthcare.
APL transports medical supplies throughout the Indonesian archipelago. This presents several challenges. Many drugs and vaccines must be kept at a certain temperature to remain effective. To reach distant communities, we need to transport supplies using ferries or planes. Since we stock more than 5,000 items from the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, we need to be well organized to ship the correct supplies to the thousands of hospitals, clinics and drug stores we serve.
For years, we have managed core business processes using SAP ERP applications. We were running an old SAP version on an outdated Oracle database, and reliability was deteriorating as the landscape began to show its age. When problems occurred, we sometimes had to restore the full SAP landscape, which includes five terabytes of data, a massive task that interrupts our operations, hindering the flow of medical supplies to people across the country.
We knew that to transport vital medical products even more reliably and cost effectively, we needed to find a better way of working.
Finding answers in the cloud
To boost our operational efficiency, we migrated our SAP landscape and some third-party satellite applications to the IBM Services for Managed SAP Applications, a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, which includes disaster recovery.
We are moving to cloud to increase flexibility, uptime and innovation. Choosing a managed cloud service unburdens our IT team from routine tasks, letting them focus on partnering with the business to pioneer digital transformation initiatives. Switching to Managed SAP Applications reduced the time our internal IT department spent on hardware and software maintenance.
As we migrated to cloud, IBM supported us every step of the way. The IBM team worked tirelessly to ensure that the project ran smoothly and remained on schedule. Even when we wanted to add SAP Process Orchestration to the scope of work after signing the contract, the team was very willing to meet our requirements.
Launching mobile capabilities
In parallel, we are upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0 and have replaced the mature Oracle database with SAP HANA 2.0. This migration is a key milestone on our roadmap to SAP S/4HANA, to which we will eventually move with the rest of the Zuellig Pharma.
Promising results
We are currently delivering 97 percent of customer orders on time, and with our new SAP environment on IBM Cloud, we hope to improve and deliver better results. The move to cloud boosts uptime and eliminates the reliability issues of the previous system.
A major advantage of cloud is escaping the long lead times associated with purchasing hardware in Indonesia. For example, ordering a server powerful enough to run SAP HANA usually takes eight weeks, but with Managed SAP Applications, we are able to have the resources ready in four. Faster allocation of compute resources cut our SAP HANA deployment time by two months compared to an on-premises installation.
What’s more, moving to the cloud enables us to shift 59 percent of cost from capital expenditures to operating expenditures. We are saving even more than we expected because we now spend less on managing SAP and satellite applications in the IBM Cloud than we previously spent managing just our SAP landscape.
Transforming the business
Moving our SAP Business Warehouse application to SAP HANA has dramatically enhanced our reporting capabilities. We are now able to offer rich, near-real-time insight to pharmaceutical companies about how their medicines are used, with breakdowns by product, category and province. These insights can help pharmaceutical companies optimize planning and production strategies to ensure that all Indonesians get the healthcare they need. By delivering these insights, we hope to retain existing customers and transition from a distributor into a value-added healthcare services provider.
In the future, we also aim to build on our strong relationship with IBM to explore new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain. There is so much potential to use blockchain to trace medicines as they pass through the supply chain, which can help ensure patient safety.
It is an exciting time for the Indonesian healthcare ecosystem, and we are proud to be at the forefront of the change.
Read the case study to find out more.
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Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Elektromagnetische Wellen sind überall um uns herum: WLANs, Mobilfunk- und Rundfunksendemasten strahlen sie aus. Forscher des MIT haben ein Gerät in Form einer dünnen, biegsamen Folie entwickelt, die Wellen in Strom wandelt. (Energy Harvesting, WLAN)
Quelle: Golem
Das Surface Pro ist eine beliebte Vorlage für diverse 2-in-1-Geräte. Das Chuwi Ubook ist keine Ausnahme. Für relativ wenig Geld erhalten Unterstützer ein Gerät, das einen recht flotten Prozessor und 8 GByte Arbeitsspeicher nutzt. Auch ein Tastaturdock gibt es bereits dazu. (Crowdfunding, Microsoft)
Quelle: Golem
Das Verhalten der Einheiten in den geplanten Neuauflagen von C&C und Alarmstufe Rot könnte vom ursprünglichen Quellcode kontrolliert werden. Gleichzeitig soll eine neue Engine für zeitgemäße Grafiken und Sounds sorgen – die Entwickler sagen jetzt, welche Laufzeitumgebung sie verwenden. (Command & Conquer, Electronic Arts)
Quelle: Golem
Die Swisscom legt Wert auf die Zusammenarbeit mit Huawei und verlässt sich auf das eigene Monitoring des Netzes. Auch der Vodafone-Chef will eine fachliche Debatte. (G.fast, DSL)
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