Gartner faults AWS, Microsoft and Google for aggressive sales tactics, confirming the need for multi-cloud

Freedom from vendor lock-in is as urgent as ever for enterprise clouds. This is a crucial insight to glean from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services, published in July. In the report, analysts Raj Bala and Bob Gill named questionable, often overly aggressive sales tactics among the top three problems they found … Continued
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Red Hat OpenShift helps customers meet demands faster

As organizations think about IT modernization, they also have to consider the impact of new processes and technology on their partners, vendors, and customers. This month, we’ll highlight success stories from organizations in banking and telecommunications—dynamic industries that are facing rapidly changing customer demands. Let’s see how Banco Original and HKT built efficient, flexible IT foundations with Red Hat to better meet customer and market needs.
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Friday Five — August 6, 2021

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.

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COVID-19 Global Updates: Default to remote + vaccination and mask guidance

Editor’s note: Jennifer Dudeck, Red Hat’s senior vice president and chief people officer, shared the following email with all Red Hat associates around the world today.

Summary (TL;DR): Red Hat is extending its global default to remote guidance to the first business day of 2022. Beginning Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, Red Hatters working or gathering in a Red Hat office in the United States must be vaccinated. We are currently determining how this vaccination guidance will be extended across countries, including considering the availability of vaccines.
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Mirantis Achieves New FIPS 140-2 Validation for Encryption

Completes rigorous testing for deployments in U.S. Federal Government CAMPBELL, Calif., August 4, 2021 – Mirantis, the open cloud company, has received a new certificate of FIPS 140-2 validation covering the encryption modules for Mirantis Container Runtime, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and the k0s Kubernetes distribution, assuring customers high levels of security for cloud native deployments. … Continued
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How to access & install desktop GUI for Ubuntu cloud servers

One great thing about cloud computing is that it provides you an opportunity to easily run other operating systems — for example, I have a Mac laptop but often need Ubuntu — but unfortunately, getting access to the GUI for things like the browser or other non-command-line tasks often isn’t available out of the box. … Continued
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