Learn about the big improvements to the overall experience in the OpenShift 3.6 release. These changes address every aspect of end-user productivity from the initial user experience to working with deployed applications.
Quelle: OpenShift
Find out about some of the new features delivered by the Developer Experience team for OpenShift 3.6, including Service Catalog/Broker support, build pipeline (Jenkins) improvements, and a number of enhancements to various build capabilities.
Quelle: OpenShift
Take a look at the PCI Product Applicability Guide for OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 and go over it with your Qualified Security Assessor to learn how OpenShift could be configured and deployed to satisfy the PCI DSS.
Quelle: OpenShift
Announcing the OpenShift Container Platform 3.6. Learn about the enterprise-grade security and compliance enhancements, increased consistency for hybrid and multi-cloud footprints, and advances to container-level and Kubernetes innovation in this release.
Quelle: OpenShift
Easily deploy Red Hat Gluster Storage that’s ready for use by containerized applications with the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 as either Container-Native Storage (CNS) or Container-Ready Storage (CRS) alongside the rest of your OpenShift installation.
Quelle: OpenShift
It started with a simple theory. We, along with a handful of partners, were bold enough to believe that we could bring together all of the major cloud vendors to support a single community. That community would be dedicated to innovating around a set of leading-edge technologies which would enable the next generation of cloud native development.
The community grew into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). With today’s news that Amazon would join the fold, our theory has proven out.
This is a critical step forward for portable, interoperable, container-based applications and microservices. Just last month, CNCF reached 100 member organizations, and it’s easy to see why. This is the state of the art, and we are truly building the future.
From CNCF’s inception, IBM has been a guiding force in welcoming some of the most influential projects in cloud native development under its banner: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Open Tracing, fluentd, linkerd, GRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt and CNI. Just last month, the Open Container Initiative took a huge step forward when it released the first versions of its container runtime and image format specifications.
Today’s announcement shows other organizations now see the value that we’ve understood all along in these technologies
IBM has a long history of partnering with open communities across the technical landscape, and for the past three years, it’s been our mission to make containers more open. We were among the first major cloud providers to partner with Docker in 2014 to move toward open governance. In June 2015, we put our full support behind the Open Container Initiative, the serialized format of containers, when it launched as part of the Linux Foundation, because we knew it was what our clients wanted. Finally, that same month, I took the stage with partners from Google and the Linux Foundation at OSCON to announce the launch of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
In between these milestones, we’ve led countless initiatives that have helped build a more open ecosystem and more effective tools.
I have to say that the big winner in this news is the developer who is building the next great mobile application. That developer can do their work with much more confidence because they understand that they’ll be able to develop container-based applications that they can port between multiple clouds and different technologies. This benefit here cannot be understated.
Alexis Richardson, co-founder and CEO of WeaveWorks and chairperson of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, agrees.
“Today’s news marks an important step forward for the development of portable, interoperable, container-based applications and microservices,” Richardson says. “We’re thrilled to welcome Amazon into the community, and we’re ecstatic that developers can now build applications on a base that is supported by all the major cloud vendors.”
When the foundation began, we recognized that developers loved developing in the cloud, but lacked a set of tools to take advantage of it in a meaningful way. While organizations from the startup to enterprise levels have only begun to realize the inherent potential of containers and microservices, we believe the work that’s happening under the CNCF banner has the potential to exponentially accelerate adoption.
As proud Platinum members of CNCF, we welcome Amazon (and the rest of the 100 member organizations we work with). We also want to encourage other organizations and individuals who might be intrigued by this news to join us. Start contributing, get involved and be a part of one of the most incredible communities in all of tech.
For more on how to do that (and why), take a look at this post from my colleague, Todd Moore, on the CNCF website.
The post CNCF welcomes Amazon, and so does IBM appeared first on Cloud computing news.
Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Codify Academy, a San Francisco-based startup focused on developer education, has tapped a cognitive chatbot named Bobbot, which uses IBM Cloud with Watson technology, to increase enrollment and improve student experiences.
Bobbot uses IBM Watson Conversation Service to answer prospective and current students’ questions in natural language. According to Codify Academy, the cognitive chatbot’s interactions with website visitors has led to a 10 percent increase in enrollment.
In particular, Bobbot can answer common questions such as “What kind of job will I be able to find after I complete the program” or “How do I apply, and what are tuition rates?” enabling Codify Academy staffers to focus on more involved queries.
“IBM Cloud gave us the infrastructure and access to cognitive services, including Watson, that we needed to quickly build and deploy an intelligent and intuitive bot – in turn helping us to field all inquiries and significantly increase enrolment,” said Codify Academy’s Matt Brody.
Learn more about how Codify Academy’s cognitive chatbot uses IBM Cloud with Watson at Innovators Magazine or by checking out the press release.
The post Codify Academy ups enrollment with Watson-powered cognitive chatbot appeared first on Cloud computing news.
Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
We live in an idea economy.
The ability to take an idea and deliver it to market and drive value faster than the competition is key to success across industries. But in financial services, many organizations have legacy infrastructure, which often means that when they implement a new technology or user experience, by the time they launch, consumers have moved on and want something else.
Dream Payments enables merchants of all sizes to sell anywhere using mobile devices. The fintech company offers a cloud-based payment platform coupled with a mobile point of sale device. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Dream Payments has the only solution in North America with which a seller can walk into a retail location, purchase the chip-and-PIN device off the shelf, and actually start taking any type of payments within 20 minutes.
During the past year, the company has begun onboarding financial services customers. Dream Payments provides its mobile payment cloud platform as a white label solution that can be customized with features that financial enterprises want. It’s highly configurable and helps enterprises compete by turning up or down, off or on, different features, then adding certain modifications to it. The platform now powers some of the largest banks in North America.
Watch the video to see how IBM Cloud for VMWare solutions allows Dream Payments to evolve from a mobile point-of-sale solution provider to a mobile payment cloud provider.
A platform for success
As Dream Payments transformed into a mobile payment cloud provider, its leaders realized that it was going to have to deploy environments over and over. To facilitate that, it needed a method to do it faster and cost effectively. Also, the payments industry is a highly regulated environment and limits how it can do things.
Dream Payments executives looked at several cloud data center providers. The company needed a provider that would allow low-level segmentation and administrative access to all hardware to maintain PCI compliance. It also wanted a cloud provider that was VMware-based so that it wouldn’t have to rebuild its entire virtual solution. Lastly, it was looking for a cloud provider that had data centers located all around the world.
Because Dream Payments has other IBM software and hardware in place, leaders decided to grow the partnership with IBM. The fintech company can now quickly provision an IBM Bluemix bare metal server in its choice of IBM data center.
The ability to innovate faster
Dream Payments executives no longer have to worry about the physical configuration that goes along with creating a data center. Before moving to the IBM Cloud, deployments used to take weeks to procure the hardware, then six to eight weeks to deliver it. Then Dream Payments IT would have to rack it, cable it and install all the firmware. The whole process would take about three months.
Now with IBM, the company avoids long procurement and delivery times. It can simply procure servers, switches, firewalls and storage, and have it all delivered in its IBM cloud portal in days. Moving from a capital expense business model to an operating expense model helps Dream Payments take on projects that it couldn’t previously because of the large investment required. It’s cost prohibitive to run a $500 million dollar pilot project that may or may not work and hard to decide whether or not to test an idea.
What’s next for mobile payment cloud platform
Dream Payments won the inaugural VentureClash sponsored by Connecticut Innovations and received a $1.5 million investment commitment. The company has opened an office in Connecticut and is planning to enter the U.S. market in a bigger way later this year and throughout 2018.
Read the case study to learn more about this solution.
Get started with IBM Cloud for VMware.
The post Mobile payment cloud provider powers some of North America’s largest banks appeared first on Cloud computing news.
Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Despite the prevailing wisdom that cloud is disrupting established business — and it is — many business leaders are uncertain about how to take advantage of cloud computing’s benefits.
An analysis of more than 100 cloud projects of varying sizes shows that successful projects use one or more of the following five actions:
1. Offer your services as an application program interface (API)
The first and easiest way cloud can help you innovate is to use cloud as a route to market. APIs are the digital services you provide. Partners and customers can pay for these services as they use the APIs. PayPal is an ideal example, as a wide range of mobile apps and web-based businesses use its API.
The minimum viable product for a born-in-the-cloud company is a set of APIs. Established businesses should consider what partner and client interactions could be offered as an API to improve process efficiency, increase speed, and amplify value.
2. Capture new data
The cloud allows you to capture data easily that would be otherwise hidden or ignored. The Internet of things and pervasive connectivity let an organization reach beyond its walls to see how the product or service is used and provide additional services at the right moment to the customer.
We can learn from many inspiring examples. Creative cloud use and social media allowed ASB Bank to create the “Like a Loan” campaign. Customers were offered zero cost loans for the “best liked” story regarding a loan. These stories provided a rich set of insights on customer needs, which the bank then used to tune its product offerings.
3. Sell your data
Every large enterprise builds vast lakes of data to support their business and allow its leaders to make smart decisions. However, not all of this data is confidential to the business and could be valuable to others. In many cases, organizations would be willing to pay for certain data. Cloud allows you to provide data as a service in a manageable way, which helps organizations capture value. There are risks to consider when sharing data, foremost, privacy and ethical use.
Born-in-the-cloud organizations start by considering the value of data and then develop a strategy to capture it. Established businesses start by uncovering novel use. Hackathons offer a fresh approach to finding new value in data and open up innovation. Essentially, leaders should bring together a broad team with diverse experience to envision how your enterprise’s data could be valuable to others.
4. Combine information sources
Cloud also allows organizations to integrate data from multiple sources. Social media is often used as an example, but more interesting opportunities are in optimizing interactions that span multiple organizations. The IBM Intelligent Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro combines data from weather providers, city administrations, traffic management, and emergency services to more efficiently respond to emergency situations.
Starting by understanding your value chain interactions will uncover optimization opportunities and help identify how data can be combined in the cloud to capture the new value.
5. Go digital
Digital representation creates new opportunities to create and capture value. Digital books, music and videos eliminate the distribution logistics associated with paper books, CDs or DVDs.
How does cloud help here? It provides the means to store, access or distribute these digital assets. With the advent of 3D printing, a new class of cloud-based services is emerging. For example, blueprints can be personalized to instantly print unique toys. Cloud also enables virtual learning environments, where colleagues from around the world can learn together without being in the same room. Leaders need to consider how cloud-based digital representations can enable innovation and allow new value to be captured.
Non-traditional competitors are exploring ways these five strategies can disrupt established businesses. In established enterprises, constant experimentation using combinations of these five actions allows leaders to innovate, motivate employees and wow customers.
Learn more about IBM API Connect.
The post 5 ways cloud can help you innovate appeared first on Cloud computing news.
Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Run Monocular, an open source search and discovery front-end for Helm Chart repositories, in your own OpenShift cluster with instructions from this OpenShift Commons Briefing with Adnan Abdulhussein of Bitnami.
Quelle: OpenShift
