Amazon Textract jetzt in der Region EU (London) verfügbar.

Amazon Textract ist jetzt in der Region EU (London) verfügbar. Amazon Textract ist ein Service, der automatisch Text und Daten aus gescannten Dokumenten extrahiert. Amazon Textract geht über die einfache optische Zeichenerkennung (optical character recognition, OCR) hinaus und identifiziert auch den Inhalt von Feldern in Formularen sowie Informationen in Tabellen.
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Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 43

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 94 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:

Applications

AZULINK: Get your application fully managed on Azure with a one-stop-shop partner committed to results and centralizing governance and scalability of your Azure services on IaaS and PaaS.

BI for Dynamics 365FO: Enable your organization to do more with company data. With Hillstar's standard BI connector for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, users can easily slice and dice through reports and drill down to deeper levels to see more detail.

Blender with Flamenco worker on Windows – ATLG: Blender with Flamenco on Azure provides an easy-to-deploy Flamenco manager/worker environment that can be plugged into Blender Cloud. This marketplace image serves the "render vm" role in the worker pool.

Build Agent PRO for Azure DevOps: This template offers a Linux-based build agent for Azure DevOps that can build and deploy .NET CORE, Angular, Node.JS, Java, C/C++, and Container projects by default. An emulation for ARM devices is also included.

Cisco Firepower Management Center Virtual (FMCv): Control access to your network, control application use, and defend against known attacks. Use AMP and sandboxing technologies to address unknown attacks and track malware infections throughout your network.

Cobra – Commercial Broker Assistant: Cobra includes everything brokers need for business, including Office 365 integration for easy communication with clients and intuitive storage for client data, contracts, and damages.

Data One: Data One can host, design, build, and manage existing and new reports for organizations that don’t have the capacity to manage their BI demands. The Data One platform simplifies reporting through Northern Data's dynamic BI portal.

DataRoad Reflect: DataRoad Reflect is a rapid data movement solution that lets you focus on delivering advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence instead of spending hours programming data migrations.

desknets NEO: desknets NEO reduces the burden of operation management with extensive administrative functions, such as user and organization registration information management and flexible access rights management. This application is available only in Japanese.

Docker Community Edition with Ubuntu 18.04 Lts: Docker Community Edition (CE) is ideal for individual developers and small teams looking to get started with Docker and experimenting with container-based apps.

EVE – cloud-based live captions for your event: EVE not only helps organizations comply with accessibility standards, it is also an additional medium, capturing every spoken word and sharing a transcript after a speech for further actions, including subtitles and SEO.

FM Converge on Azure: FM Converge on Azure is a highly responsive, cross-asset front-office/middle-office/operations/risk platform for pre-trade pricing, structuring, book valuation, and managing enterprise risk for a wide variety of financial instruments.

Get Azure Ops Data into Splunk – in 3 minutes: StreamWeaver offers a systematic, automated approach to distributing valuable operations data, including event, metric, topology, and log information, from all domains and clouds to the appropriate applications and teams.

Go timesheets, expense and leave software: Go is a scalable, web-based and mobile app for managing timesheets, expenses, and leave. Users can connect from anywhere – in the office or in the field – to submit time, leave, and expenses with attached receipts.

Hyper-Q Express Edition for Teradata to SQL DW: Hyper-Q takes SQL extensions and scripts written for Teradata and makes them interoperable with Azure SQL Data Warehouse while requiring little to no change to the business logic your company relies on.

Imredi Audit: The Imredi Audit solution is designed to audit stores, collect and analyze data from retail outlets, and help manage field employees. This application is available only in Russian.

iNAS: Unissoft is pleased to provide its iNAS cloud-based record-keeping solution for Azure and Office 365 users. iNAS protects records from inadvertent or unauthorized alteration, deletion, access, and retrieval while monitoring the integrity of records through an audit trail.

Indoorway InSite 4.0: Indoorway provides accurate data and useful analytics about the movement of assets in industrial sites. Locate in real time any moving resources relevant to key production and intralogistics processes.

IoT Core Services: IoT Core Services by conplement AG provides a fast and secure end-to-end solution for device/machine connections in the Internet of Things and digital value-added services. This application is available only in German.

Jenkins with CentOS 7.6: Jenkins is an open source automation server written in Java. Jenkins helps automate the non-human part of the software development process, with continuous integration and facilitating technical aspects of continuous delivery.

Lamp with CentOS 7.6: LAMP is an archetypal model of web service stacks, named as an acronym of its original components: Linux operating system, Apache HTTP server, MySQL relational database management system, and PHP programming language.

Lamp with Ubuntu Server 18.04 Lts: LAMP is an archetypal model of web service stacks, named as an acronym of its original components: Linux operating system, Apache HTTP server, MySQL relational database management system, and PHP programming language.

LANCOM vRouter: The LANCOM vRouter is a software-based router for operation in virtualized environments. With its comprehensive range of functions and numerous security features based on the operating system LCOS, it offers a leading basis for modern infrastructures.

Mediant CE Session Border Controller (SBC): AudioCodes' Mediant Session Border Controllers deliver seamless connectivity, enhanced security, and quality assurance for enterprise and service provider VoIP networks.

MinIO Helm Chart: MinIO is an object storage server mainly used for storing unstructured data such as photos, videos, and log files.

Mojro Technologies Private Limited: Mojro's proprietary algorithms are deployed to perform space and route optimization together at scale and enable your organization to automate the planning and execution of logistics.

Movie Viewer: Movie Viewer is a virtual editing tool that enables you to create clips from multiple videos and combine them into playlists. This application is available only in Japanese.

NGINX Plus Developer Edition: NGINX Plus brings enterprise-ready features such as application load balancing, monitoring, and advanced management to your Microsoft Azure application stack.

Nginx with Ubuntu Server 18.04 Lts: NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. NGINX started as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability.

Objectivity Metadata Connect: Metadata Connect allows you to define information about data from any external source and form connections within it. You can then understand how data interacts as it is changed and perform powerful navigational and pathfinding queries.

On-Net Integration Business Series: On-Net Integration Business Series on Microsoft Azure boosts operational efficiency with a wide range of functions. This application is available only in Japanese.

Opus Suite: Opus Suite gives you fast, accurate analyses, optimization, simulation, and answers throughout your system's lifecycle, helping you take control over performance and lifecycle cost.

OrangeHRM: OrangeHRM is a free, comprehensive human resource management system that captures the essential functionalities required for any enterprise.

ProScheduler WFM: ProScheduler is an enterprise-class workforce management system offering cutting-edge optimization and real-time features. ProScheduler is quick to implement, easy to learn, and typically offers a return on investment within six months.

PyTorch from NVIDIA: PyTorch is a GPU-accelerated tensor computation framework with a Python front end. This image bundles NVIDIA's container for PyTorch into the NGC base image for Microsoft Azure.

PyTorch Helm Chart: PyTorch is a deep learning platform that accelerates the transition from research prototyping to production deployment. This Bitnami image includes Torchvision for specific computer vision support.

Remote Desktop Services 2019 RDS Farm: Set up a basic remote desktop services (RDS) IaaS farm on Azure for testing or a production environment. Scale from 1 RDS host to 50 RDS hosts and allow users to connect to published desktops and applications from any device or OS.

SecureBox: SecureBox is a secure cloud file sharing platform. Access your data anywhere and back up, view, sync, and share your data on Microsoft Azure.

SFTP Gateway: Built on the base Ubuntu 18.04 image from Canonical, SFTP Gateway is a secure-by-default, pre-configured SFTP server that saves files to Azure Blob Storage. Use SFTP Gateway as a traditional SFTP server or to upload files to Azure storage.

SmartGov for Administration: Proven in over 30 government departments and SOEs, SmartGov for Administration is a tried and tested solution for the digitization of some of the most problematic processes in the South African public sector back office.

Speech to Text: Zoom Media offers its highly accurate Speech to Text service in 10 languages (Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English US, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish). All models can be used in batch or real time and are customizable upon request.

TensorFlow from NVIDIA: TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. This image bundles NVIDIA's GPU-optimized TensorFlow container along with the base NGC Image.

Theobald Software Xtract IS for Azure: With Xtract IS for Azure you can either develop new SSIS packages from scratch or use your existing SSIS packages developed with Xtract IS Ultimate/Enterprise. Develop on-premises and run in the cloud.

Tidal Migrations – Premium Insights for Database: Tidal Migrations provides your team with a simple, fast, and cost-effective cloud migration management solution. This add-on empowers your team with actionable insights on the databases you plan to migrate to Azure.

Total Access Control: Total Access Control from PortSys offers a Zero Trust approach to secure access to valuable resources wherever they may reside, locally or in the cloud. This single, scalable solution manages access across the enterprise.

Wanos WAN Optimization (SD-WAN): Reduce bandwidth and boost remote network access to Azure resources through TCP acceleration, compression, deduplication, object caching, packet loss recovery, forward error correction, QoS, and related WAN acceleration techniques.

WISE-PaaS/RMM 3.3: WISE-PaaS/RMM IoT by Advantech is a reliable, scalable, and extensible IoT device management platform that bridges layers in Advantech IoT platform architecture, including IoT device, system, and cloud layers.

WordPress with Ubuntu Server 16.04 Lts: WordPress is a free and open source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system.

Consulting Services

AI Roadmap – 1 Day Brief: This one-day briefing from StrategyWise will illustrate why you should use Azure AI tools with industry-specific case studies showing the value you can expect from digital transformation, prescriptive modeling, and AI applications built on Azure.

AI Roadmap – 3 Week Assessment: StrategyWise's three-week assessment will provide you with a comprehensive blueprint for executing successful AI projects on the Azure stack, helping you to drive organizational change and process improvements.

AI Roadmap – 5 Day Workshop: This five-day workshop from StrategyWise will help you identify prime opportunities in your organization to drive organizational change and process improvements through artificial intelligence powered by Azure.

Analytics Roadmap – 1 Day Brief: StrategyWise will illustrate why you should democratize analytics with industry-specific case studies showing the value you can expect from digital transformation, prescriptive modeling, and AI applications built on Azure.

Analytics Roadmap – 3 Week Assessment: Looking to launch an advanced analytics initiative on Azure? This three-week assessment will provide a blueprint for executing successful analytics projects on Azure, helping you to drive organizational change and process improvements.

Analytics Roadmap – 5 Day Workshop: This five-day workshop from StrategyWise will help you identify prime opportunities in your organization to drive organizational change and process improvements through analytics democratization powered by Azure.

App Modernization using App service 10 Weeks Imp.: Build, deploy, and scale modern web, mobile, and API apps using Azure App Service. This service includes architecture design, engineering, and deploying applications in the Azure environment.

Application Portfolio Assessment: 6 Weeks: Cloudreach's six-week Application Portfolio Assessment with Cloudamize provides enterprises who want to migrate to Azure with a comprehensive migration strategy and a high-level estimate of run and build costs.

Assessment for Modern Datacenter – 4 weeks: Sonata's four-week assessment service advises customers and recommends a roadmap to build a datacenter in the Azure cloud. This service includes analyzing the feasibility of moving existing datacenter infrastructure to Azure.

Azure Application Modernization Assessment – 2 weeks: Sonata's two-week assessment service advises customers on application modernization options and recommends a roadmap to modernize legacy applications in the Azure cloud.

Azure Datacenter Modernization 8 weeks Imp: Sonata's eight-week implementation will migrate and establish a modern datacenter in the Azure cloud. The service will provision datacenter resources and migrate data, databases, and applications to Azure.

Azure IoT: 3-Day Proof of Concept: This three-day engagement from Tallan will educate your team on what is possible in Azure IoT Hub and build out your POC utilizing Azure IoT services and Power BI.

Azure IoT: 3-Day Workshop: Tallan's three-day workshop includes presentations, stakeholder interviews, analysis, demos, and hands-on learning to help you create a technical strategy for your IoT solution.

Azure Managed Services: 8 Week Implementation: Cloudreach Cloud Core delivers service management of your cloud platform through monitoring, configuration, troubleshooting, security services, delivery management, and continual service improvement.

Azure Migration: 1-day Assessment: Atmosera's cloud assessment delivers a clear roadmap with options to evaluate workloads and performance data, prioritize business needs, and understand trade-offs when migrating to Azure.

Azure MSP Powered by CLIP: 6-Wk Assessment: Brillio Azure Managed Services Provider (MSP) Powered by CLIP offers 360-degree coverage to enterprises throughout their cloud journey – from assessment to managing the cloud environment.

Big Data Roadmap – 1 Day Briefing: This StrategyWise briefing will illustrate why you should leverage big data with industry-specific case studies showing the value you can expect from digital transformation, prescriptive modeling, and AI applications in the Azure environment.

Big Data Roadmap – 5 Day Workshop: Looking to ramp up on big data powered by Azure? This five-day workshop will help you identify prime opportunities in your organization to drive organizational change and process improvements through big data on Azure.

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery 2 Weeks Imp.: This two-week implementation helps customers set up business continuity planning and disaster recovery on Azure. The service includes setting up BCP/DR environments in Azure and configuring apps and databases.

Connected Factory by APEx: Cognizant APEx is an Industry 4.0 solution accelerator that enables the integration of devices, systems, and processes powered by the Azure IoT cloud platform to build a connected factory for optimized and enhanced operations.

Data and Analytics Strategy: 1-day Workshop: RevGen Partners' one-day interactive workshop introduces success with Azure for data and analytics, a review of current capabilities, and a high-level strategy and roadmap toward maturity.

Data Estate Modernisation: 1 Day Workshop: Northdoor's initial one-day workshop for technical and business leaders will assess your existing data estate and provide a roadmap to modernize your data platform (hybrid or full Azure) and licensing model.

DevOps Assessment: 1-Week Assessment: Create DevOps pipeline best practices for Azure DevOps, walk through current DevOps environments and action items needed to move to Azure DevOps, and create and use test workloads as a POC in this assessment from Tallan.

DevOps Implementation: 3-Week Implementation: Tallan will work with you to get all your applications using the same build automation mechanisms for Azure DevOps and ultimately help you build your DevOps pipeline strategy.

Discovery Free 2 hours Workshop: In this free workshop, Cloocus will investigate your current IT operation system, gather requirements, introduce methodology and references, and propose a fitting cloud roadmap.

Employee Experience @Work: Teams Jumpstart: The Cognizant Jumpstart for Microsoft Teams helps you successfully deploy and get immediate business value from this powerful platform using Azure bots, functions, and other services.

Free 1/2 Day Cloud Economic Assessment: Blue Silver Shift will deliver a half-day workshop with your leadership team to go through digital transformation and the cloud, understanding your business, and building business goals and outcomes.

Free Azure Cost Optimization: 1-day Assessment: ProArch's one-day assessment will analyze all workloads you are using and provide a recommendation report detailing how you can reduce your cloud cost by 30–60 percent or more by moving to Microsoft Azure.

Health Content: Manage & Localize – 4-hr Assessment: Lionbridge will review your content creation and localization process, content types, linguistic needs, regulatory requirements, current pain points, and volumes to develop a custom end-to-end solution.

IBM Domino Migration to MS Azure 2-Day Assessment: The Point Alliance methodology, industry-standard migration tools, unique intellectual property, onsite and remote consultants, and proven track record combine to mitigate risk and ensure a successful Azure migration.

Launch IT Lifecycle Mgmt: 10-Week Implementation: Launch is a collection of IT lifecycle management services designed to make IT organizations more efficient through a unique combination of people, processes, tools, and automation.

Legislative Management Consulting Svcs: 10-Wk Imp: This service is a great way to migrate from legacy systems to solutions on Azure. Tallan will work with IT and business users to enable disaster recovery and insightful data visualizations while reducing manual effort.

Machine Learning Discovery Study: 4-wk Assessment: The Data Analysis Bureau will guide you on your data and analytics journey through its Discovery Study, bringing industry and domain best practice and insight to your business.

Managed Services: Capgemini’s Enterprise Portfolio Modernization initiative is a suite of services that aligns application lifecycle and modernization capabilities with Microsoft Azure to offer an end-to-end approach to digital transformation with enterprise capabilities.

Microsoft Azure Cloud Migration: 1-Hour Briefing: Are you considering a cloud migration or just want a better understanding of Microsoft Azure? Utilize Plc will help you understand the capabilities of Azure, including Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and security features.

Modernization Blueprint (Small): 3 Week Assessment: The Modernization Blueprint provides expert analysis and Azure-specific recommendations across the modernization journey. Deliverables include an implementation plan, strategic vision, and a comprehensive proposal and playbook.

OneMigrate: Sogeti can reduce cloud migration efforts by 40 percent with OneMigrate, an automated platform plugged in with Azure Site Recovery for server migration and CloudBoost library for environment provisioning.

People Analytics Data Platform: 2-Wk Implementation: This People Analytics solution from Tallan offers insight into the information you likely already have about your employees so that you can identify trends in attrition, helping you retain your top talent.

Predictive Analytics, ML, AI: POC 1 week+: Quadbase Systems offers this one-week proof of concept to demonstrate use cases for predictive analytics and machine learning on Azure ML. You will learn how to apply techniques to improve your business performance.

SQL Server Migration: 3-Day Assessment: CSW offers this migration assessment to help you move your on-premises SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL Database. You will receive an assessment document, suggested cloud architecture, and migration plan.

SQL Server Migration: 4-Week Implementation: After your migration assessment, CSW can carry out the plan to move your on-premises database to Azure SQL Database. CSW engineers will ensure your SQL workload runs flawlessly in Microsoft’s cloud environment.

Telstra Cloud Sight: Telstra Cloud Sight is an automated orchestration platform that enables you to configure your cloud accounts easily and keep them compliant, secure, and optimized – all aligned to your chosen best practice blueprints and with minimal human intervention.

Telstra Managed Public Cloud: Readify will install its cloud management layer atop your cloud infrastructure, enabling its expert team to effectively perform day-to-day management, monitoring, and essential security-related activities.

Website Migration – IaaS: 4-Week Implementation: CSW will migrate your website to Microsoft Azure, allowing you to capitalize on reliable cloud hosting services and scalability. This implementation includes moving all assets, SSL certificates, domains, databases, and more.

Website Migration – PaaS: 2-Week Implementation: CSW will migrate your website to Microsoft Azure, allowing you to capitalize on reliable cloud hosting services and scalability. This implementation includes moving all assets, SSL certificates, domains, databases, and more.

Website Migration: 2-Day Assessment: This assessment from CSW will help you review your website architecture, platform, infrastructure, performance, security, backup, and recovery and then establish the necessary Microsoft Azure services for a cloud implementation.

Quelle: Azure

OpenStack vs AWS Total Cost of Ownership: Assumptions behind the TCO Calculator

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It’s easy to think that the least expensive way to spin up cloud servers is to use a service such as Amazon Web Services. After all, you don’t need to buy hardware or electricity, or even hire people to manage it, right?  Well … not so fast. It’s not as simple as that. While there are lots of situations in which AWS is the least expensive, there are times when it’s less costly to bring your workloads on-prem with an OpenStack deployment.
Here at Mirantis, we’ve created a Total Cost of Ownership calculator that compares the two.  For example, if you have 300 virtual machines, AWS can be more cost-effective, but once you get to 400, OpenStack is the way to go.  But before relying on any TCO calculator, it’s important to know the assumptions behind it so that you can understand how those determinations are made.
In this article, we’ll explain how the TCO calculator comes to its conclusions, and you can feel free to download the full spreadsheet yourself to take a look at how it all fits together.
Common assumptions
Whether you’re using AWS or OpenStack, there are certain things you need to take into consideration.  For example, just because you’re using a cloud doesn’t mean that you don’t need staff, and it doesn’t mean that VMs will always be 100% occupied — and all of that will impact your costs. 
In our case, we’re making the following general assumptions:

Average data-out from the cloud per VM is 1 TB/month, or 385,802 bytes/sec
Each compute node hosts an average of 28 VMs
Each VM needs an average of 20 GB of block storage (or 560 GB per server)
Storage is provided with a ratio of raw:usable space of 3.3, allowing for redundancy, and so on

Efficiencies
It’s important to understand that whether you run in the private cloud/on-prem or in the public cloud, there is going to be some level of inefficiency.  For example, we’re assuming that at any given time, only 60% of your OpenStack cloud hardware is in use, but because it’s private cloud/on-premise, you’re still paying for it.  
You don’t have this problem with AWS, because you can always just stop instances you’re not using, but that doesn’t mean you will always run at 100% efficiency. The TCO calculator assumes 80% efficiency for AWS instances, taking into account that there will be times instances are simply too big for the workloads running on them (but you still pay full price for the VM).
Personnel
Staffing may not seem like an issue common to both on- and off-prem clouds, but it is.
For OpenStack clouds, we’re assuming that you will need an OpenStack admin team with a minimum of two persons, because your cloud has to be up 24/7.  We’re also assuming that one admin can handle up to 50 individual servers. Once you get over 200 servers, we’re assuming that allowing for “fractional” staff is acceptable.
For AWS, you’ll still need at least one AWS internal administrator to support users who are in the cloud.
We’re assuming a full-time admin costs $140,000/year. Now let’s look at some assumptions that are specific to each platform.  
OpenStack-specific assumptions
Let’s start with OpenStack.  If you’re running an on-prem OpenStack cloud, you’ll have expenses that won’t exist for the public cloud, such as hardware and electricity.
Hardware and software:
The TCO calculator assumes that each physical server consists of:

System: Intel 2U R2312WT Wildcat-pass Server System
Dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2690v4 14 Core 2.60GHz 35MB Cache
256GB LRDIMM DDR4 2400
2.5TB SSD (5 x Micron M600 512GB SATA 2.5″ SSD)
2 x GE
3-year warranty

For storage we’re assuming each server consists of the following:

SuperStorage Server 6028R-E1CR12L
Single Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2620 v3, 6-Core 2.4G 20M 8GT/s QPI
64GB RAM
Storage: Chipset 12x 3.5″ 6TB SATA3 HDDs + 1x 800GB NVMe SSD (in rear 2.5″ Hot-swap OS drives (mirrored 80GB SSD))
Dual-port 10G SFP+ via AOC-STGN-I2S
2U w/ redundant Hot-swap 920W power supplies
3-year warranty

We’re also assuming a 30% discount off hardware list prices. We’ll depreciate the hardware over 3 years, and assume it needs to be replaced after 4 years.
We also need to take into consideration a number of other factors, including:

Bandwidth costs in and out of the datacenter
$19.00 per Mbps/year

H/W & bandwidth price degradation/decline year over year
10%

Admin cost reduction due to automation year over year
5%

Ratio of compute nodes to OpenStack Controller nodes
25

Power cost ($/kWh)
$0.10

Networking overhead (End of Row switches, WAN connectivity) as a % of server hardware acquisition cost
10%

Networking annual maintenance/support as a % of network hardware and software costs
15%

Networking admin cost as a % of total IT admin effort
8%

Rack annual maintenance/support as % of Rack costs
15%

Average power/rack
10.0 kW

2 x 10 GB Top of the Rack(ToR)  switches + 2 x power distribution unit (PDU) + Rack  chassis + 6 x fiber optic cables + 42 x Cat5 cables
(https://www.fs.com/c/10g-switches-3256 has cheaper switches)
$16,698

Monthly cost to operate a rack
$1,500

Install cost per rack
$2,000

Lab overhead per node (for testing/staging) / year
$50

Storage server raw storage
72,000 GB => (12 x 6 TB)

 
AWS-specific assumptions
Similarly, there are costs that are specific to an AWS implementation. Some, such as Enterprise Support, have corresponding costs on the OpenStack side.  Others, such as cost differentials for reserved instances, are specific to AWS. The TOC calculator assumes the following:

AWS machine selected (2 vCPU, 8 GB memory)
m4.large

AWS price  & inter-datacenter pipe costs degradation/decline year over year
3%

Number of LBaaS
1

% of AWS VMs using reserved instances
30%

% Discount on reserved instances (Typical range [31 –  60]%)
47%

Direct links to AWS
$24,000 per year

Inter-region data transfer/month in terms of the data xfer out
1

Enterprise support as a % of spend on AWS services
4%

AWS support team (internal)
1.00 Full-Time Equivalent

AWS Discount Tier
14%

 
So what’s best?
OK, so what does the TCO analysis tell us?  Which is a better choice from a financial standpoint? As with so many things, it depends on your situation.  For example, AWS is generally less expensive if you need multiple data centers — unless you have a large number of VMs, in which case OpenStack is less expensive. So do yourself a favor and plug your information into the TCO calculator and find out. Please let us know what you find!
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New homepage and improved collaboration features for AI Hub

The AI ecosystem has been expanding at a rapid pace, and shows no signs of slowing down.  Customers told us about the challenges they faced managing their growing number of ML assets and preventing silos and redundant work and it  inspired us to develop AI Hub to help foster collaboration and reuse of assets like notebooks, trained models, and ML pipelines.In April, we announced the open beta of AI Hub, and we have been constantly working to improve it. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re releasing a number of new and exciting features to make collaboration for data science and ML teams even easier, and to enable GCP users to build on each other’s work.“At Descartes Labs, we build models to predict how changes on the earth impact our customers, their supply chains, transportation, infrastructure and even the raw commodities feeding their businesses. With such a wide range of use cases and diverse customers, we have built a library of ML models, modeling pipelines and even tutorial notebooks for our team. We leverage AI Hub to make these modeling resources easily discoverable across various groups, business verticals and modeling techniques. Granular permissions allow us to lock down AI Hub assets to a small team or share publicly, as in the case of our geospatial ML platform tutorials. AI Hub provides discovery and security to meet the needs of a growing ML-focused organization.” – Tim Kelton, Co-Founder and Head of SRE, Security, and Cloud Operations at Descartes LabsNew AI Hub HomepageThe new AI Hub Homepage gives logged in users immediate access to the most popular and most recently shared private assets. It also features cutting-edge content to help you learn, build, and run ML even more quickly.Advanced sharing, permissions, and collaboration capabilitiesThis feature is no doubt near and dear to G Suite user’s hearts: AI Hub now lets you share notebooks, trained ML models, and Kubeflow pipelines in a flexible way with individual colleagues, entire groups, and even your entire company so they can learn from and build on your work.All it takes is simply adding individual collaborators or groups by their email addresses, and giving them editor or viewer permissions. ”Viewers” will still be able to fork the asset you share by downloading or opening a copy, but they won’t be able to edit or change the version shared on AI Hub.You can open this new sharing dialog by clicking on the “Share” button on the asset details page (below, first image) or the sharing icon next to your asset on the My Assets page (below, second image).Sharing public assets on AI Hub via social media Quickly copy and paste the URL of a public asset shared by Google or a Google partner so you can send it via mail or post it on social media to help others can discover the cutting edge AI you’re most interested in.New ML Taxonomy To help you find the right ML artifact for your project, you can now label and categorize assets during upload using a comprehensive list of Data Types, ML Techniques, and Use Cases.Asset favoritingAs the content on AI Hub grows and more users and organizations share their work, we want you to have more control over finding the assets that are relevant to you. You can now favorite the notebooks, models, and other assets you’re most passionate about, regardless of whether they are shared publicly by Google or privately with you by one of your peers.New contentWe also have new public content to discover and deploy, including content from partners and more than 70 new, cutting-edge assets from Google for you to build on. Here are some highlights:Partner ContentNVIDIA: Try the TensorRT-optimized BERT notebook. BERT is a popular model for natural language understanding, and this notebook demonstrates the Question Answering (QA) task. Pluto7: Try this Kubeflow Pipeline for time series forecasting for ubiquitous data using Tensorflow & conv1D. This fairly versatile asset can be used in business planning use-cases like inventory planning, revenue forecasting, and store traffic prediction. New ML assets from Google (20 Technical Guides/Solution Architectures)Energy Price Forecasting with AutoML Tables and Cloud AI Platform NotebooksTraining a XGBoost model using data from BigqueryOptical Character Recognition (OCR) data preparation using Cloud AutoML VisionThe What-If Tool Analyzing an Image ClassifierSemantic Similarity for Natural Language [AI Workshop Experiment]ConclusionSince releasing AI Hub, we’ve learned a lot about the challenges our first beta customers face bridging gaps and silos in ML projects. These new features are a direct result of these ongoing conversations and aim to make it easier to get started with any ML project by building on the great work of others.In the coming months we’ll continue this work, deepening the integration of AI Hub with existing ML development workflows, on and off GCP, to further improve collaboration within our growing field.To learn moreSign up for the AI Hub Newsletter to stay updated on the next exciting enhancements.Join the AI Hub User Community and ask any questions you have about new features, requirements and content asks.
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform