3D-Sound soll auch bei Stücken erklingen, die gar nicht dafür abgemischt wurden. In Apples künftigem Betriebssystem gibt es dafür eine Option. (Airpods, Sound-Hardware)
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As Red Hat Summit continues, so does the Partner Experience. Building on the content, keynotes and sessions during Red Hat Summit in April, we’re offering even more breakout sessions, celebrity appearances and Ask the Expert sessions on June 15-16.
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In today’s IT environments, organizations are having to manage an ever-growing quantity of systems. These systems need to scale within and outside of the traditional datacenter. This requires organizations to depend ever more on automation to perform tasks. Deploying and managing an operating system like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) can be time-consuming without automation, with administration and maintenance tasks taking significantly longer to complete.
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For the past eight years, Review Signal has published its WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, and 2021’s results are in.
We’re happy to report that not only did WordPress.com earn Top Tier status once again, but we were proven to be the fastest WordPress host in any pricing tier.
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The goal of the WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks is to run unbiased, data driven performance tests to determine how well different WordPress specialized hosting companies could handle a lot of traffic.
Although testing WordPress hosting performance is complex and imperfect, Review Signal’s methodology is extensive, transparent, and as close to reliable as one could reasonably expect. The tests are designed to measure peak performance and consistency. Review Signal describes this process this way:
Peak performance is measured using load testing services (LoadStorm and K6) which emulate large numbers of users visiting a website and watching how well the hosting responds under these stressful conditions. Consistency is measured using uptime monitoring to make sure that the servers remain available for a longer duration of time.
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Businesses that operate in complex cloud environments, large fleets, or sophisticated security operations all require visibility into their cloud assets in order to keep their teams nimble and their data secure. Cloud Asset Inventory (CAI) helps these teams understand their Google Cloud and Anthos environments by providing complete visibility, real-time monitoring, and powerful asset analysis capabilities. Today, Cloud Asset Inventory gets four new capabilities that help you understand your environment more clearly and easily than ever before.New user interface eases asset and insight discovery Cloud Asset Inventory console preview is now publicly available for GCP and Anthos customers. This preview provides insights into your cloud footprint, history and details of resource usage with powerful filtering and search capabilities. For example, you can view your global distribution of resources and policies, how your GCE VM footprint has been changing over time, as well as full metadata and change history for all your assets. The CAI console can be filtered at the organization, folder, or project-level, so each user can view the resources they have permissions for down to project level granularity.Asset discovery and Datadog integrationA new asset list service in CAI provides quick and comprehensive asset discovery, including asset history, without needing to export the data to a storage destination. Datadog, a leading multi-cloud monitoring and security service provider, relies on deep integration with CAI for service and asset discovery. Datadog has been piloting and taking full advantage of the newly released asset list service. Datadog Product Manager, Steve Harrington, commented: “Google’s new Cloud Asset Inventory API provides us with an immensely valuable, single source of truth for determining the resources present in a given GCP environment. Along with its rich metadata, this enables us to enhance multiple aspects of our integration with GCP, including streamlined metric collection and ingestion of custom labels. We plan to continue building around Cloud Asset Inventory in the future to improve existing features, and are envisioning ways it could help us provide entirely new insights to our customers.”Answer “who can access what resources?”Determining authoritative answers to security-related questions like “Who can read data from my storage bucket that contains PII?” or “Does a terminated employee still have any remaining access to my system?” can be difficult and time consuming. This is why access management and identity certification is one of the top security priorities for enterprises running workloads in the cloud. To help alleviate this challenge, the new Policy Analyzer capability in CAI thoroughly analyzes the relationship between IAM policies and resources. The analysis includes powerful and efficient group expansion, service account impersonation, conditional access analysis, resource expansion, and more. You can even export the results to a BigQuery table or Cloud Storage bucket for further analysis and record keeping. CAI’s enhanced UI makes it even easier for you to build your own flexible queries and quickly get to a comprehensive answer.Create asset posture visibility Cloud Asset Inventory now provides seven types of Asset Insights through the Active Assist platform. These new asset insights help proactively detect anomalies within your organization’s IAM policies, which may be opportunities to improve your security posture. The insights can be aggregated at the Organization, Folder or Project level. The seven new Asset Insights include: External members in IAM policies. External users that impersonate your service accounts.External members as policy editors.External users who can view cloud storage buckets.Terminated users/groups that are still in IAM policiesIAM policies containing all users or all authenticated users.Projects with only terminated users as owners.As a Google Cloud customer you can get started and use all the recently released capabilities and features immediately; check out our documentation to see how. We’d love to hear your feedback; email us with any questions or concerns!Related ArticleKeep a better eye on your Google Cloud environmentThe fully managed metadata inventory service from Google Cloud — Cloud Asset Inventory — can help manage all your cloud assets.Read Article
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Kubernetes networking almost always starts with a DNS request. DNS has broad impacts on your application and cluster performance, scalability, and resilience. That is why we are excited to announce the release of container-native Cloud DNS—the native integration of Cloud DNS with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to provide in-cluster Service DNS resolution with Cloud DNS, our scalable and full-featured DNS service. Several new capabilities are introduced when using Cloud DNS as the cluster DNS provider:Managed DNS that removes the need for in-cluster DNS PodsDNS resolution local to every GKE node for high throughput, horizontally scalable DNS performanceMulti-regional, cross-cluster service discovery for GKE ServicesIntegration with Google Cloud’s operations suite for DNS monitoring and loggingContainer-native Cloud DNS lowers the operational burden on the cluster administrator by obviating the need for clusters to allocate resources for managing DNS. It also scales transparently—you no longer need to worry about bottlenecks due to increased demand for name resolutions. It provides capabilities for public and private DNS resolution for GKE applications outside of the cluster. This flexibility opens up many service discovery use-cases which reduce friction introduced by cluster boundaries.Finally, existing tooling, monitoring, and logging for Cloud DNS can be extended for all DNS resolution inside GKE as well without separate monitoring systems for containers and VMs. All in all, Cloud DNS provides a highly-available, globally distributed DNS infrastructure, managed entirely by GoogleWith Cloud DNS, every new Service creates a DNS record that can be resolved locally on the GKE node using the Cloud DNS dataplane. Cloud DNS local caching and resolution ensures that DNS requests don’t need to go across the network, improving performance dramatically.Click to enlargeCluster-scope DNSWith a new mode of operation called cluster-scope DNS, each GKE cluster gets its own private DNS zone. You can only resolve Services within the scope of this DNS zone, and VMs or Pods outside the cluster have no visibility to the DNS records of that cluster. This allows GKE clusters using kube-dns to transparently migrate to Cloud DNS without having to make application changes. The records are automatically synced between Cloud DNS with the ClusterIP or Pod IPs depending on the type of Service:Click to enlargeVPC-scope DNSThanks to its global, multi-regional scale, Cloud DNS enables a new mode of operation in GKE called VPC-scope DNS. This enables GKE DNS records to be resolvable within the entire VPC for truly global, multi-cluster service discovery.With the new ability to customize the cluster DNS domain, GKE can now provide unique domains for each cluster, allowing them to be uniquely resolved from a GKE cluster in a different region, a VM that isn’t part of GKE, or even an on-premises client that has access across a VPN.Click to enlargeVPC-scope DNS creates a single service discovery domain across all your GKE clusters and clients in the network. This seamless service discovery is completely automatic and can easily be enabled on a per-cluster basis.Between global service discovery, local DNS resolution on every node, and integration with Google Cloud’s operations suite and observability, container-native Cloud DNS vastly improves the operator experience while greatly improving application performance. Give it a try today and see for yourself how much your team can benefit!Related ArticleGKE best practices: Exposing GKE applications through Ingress and ServicesWe’ll walk through the different factors you should consider when exposing applications on GKE, explain how they impact application expos…Read Article
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We are excited to announce that as of April 1, 2021, Google Cloud VMware Engineis covered under the Google Cloud Business Associate Agreement (BAA), meaning it has achieved HIPAA compliance. Healthcare organizations can now migrate and run their HIPAA-compliant VMware workloads in a fully compatible VMware Cloud Verified stack running natively in Google Cloud with Google Cloud VMware Engine, without changes or re-architecture to tools, processes, or applications.Healthcare organizations increasingly use cloud platforms to personalize patient care, analyze large datasets more effectively, enhance research and development collaboration, and share medical knowledge. Leveraging cloud platforms can also help healthcare organizations increase the privacy and security of information systems, including protected health information (PHI), and, as a result, better comply with applicable laws and regulations while reducing the burden of compliance. For PHI, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) set standards in the United States to protect individually identifiable health information. HIPAA applies to health plans, most healthcare providers, and healthcare clearinghouses that manage PHI electronically, and to persons or entities that perform certain functions on their behalf. With Google Cloud, organizations can leverage solutions that enable secure, continuous patient care and data-driven clinical and operational decisions with ease, while being empowered with collaboration and productivity tools. Further, Google Cloud Platform supports HIPAA compliance. We offer HIPAA-regulated customers the same products at the same pricing that is available to all customers, unlike many other cloud providers. For healthcare organizations that leverage VMware on-premises, having a consistent, cloud-integrated platform that provides seamless access to native cloud services unlocks the opportunity to extend, migrate, and modernize healthcare IT infrastructure and applications in a fast, low-risk manner at their own pace. This is especially important for mission-critical healthcare provider workloads, where having a low-risk way to adopt the cloud is important. Google Cloud VMware Engine offers that solution. By achieving coverage under Google Cloud’s BAA, Google Cloud VMware Engine enables healthcare organizations to realize the benefits of cloud computing and stay on track with their HIPAA compliance efforts without additional complexity. This is very relevant in hybrid scenarios, where customers would like to leverage other native cloud services such as analytics and big data processing, without having to enter into multiple BAAs.Google Cloud VMware Engine offers dedicated, isolated software-defined datacenter environments with fully redundant and dedicated 100 Gbps networking that are suitable for healthcare organizations to run applications storing and processing PHI data. Customers have the ability to encrypt their virtual storage area network (vSAN) using an external key management server. Healthcare customers can run their workloads in a native VMware environment—vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and HCX—while benefiting from Google Cloud’s highly performant infrastructure to meet the needs of their workloads. Customers can connect their VMware applications to native Google Cloud services such as BigQuery and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive new insights from existing data and quickly make informed decisions. Protecting against and mitigating the impact of ransomware attacks is top-of-mind for Healthcare organizations. This requires building a cyber resilience program and back-up strategy to prepare for how users can restore core systems or assets affected by a security (in this case, ransomware) incident. This is a critical function for supporting recovery timelines and lessening the impact of a cyber event so organizations can get back to operating their business. Google Cloud VMware Engine in combination with Google Cloud first party solutions such as Actifio Go, or partner solutions such as NetApp CVO can provide an efficient way to recover incremental point-in-time backups along with on-demand provisioning of new compute to recover both data and infrastructure from Ransomware attacks quickly and efficiently. Healthcare customers can also use Google Cloud VMware Engine as a disaster recovery (DR) target for their on-premises VMware workloads. Healthcare organizations also need a business continuity plan for their mission critical applications. When a disaster occurs, hospitals need their data protected so they can quickly get back to treating patients. It is a HIPAA requirement that healthcare organizations must be able to recover from a natural disaster. Google Cloud VMware Engine offers a like-for-like cost-effective DR target for these customers. The DR environment can be operated without new training using the same tools as their on-premises deployment. Google Cloud VMware Engine is currently available in 12 regions across the globe including three regions in the US, which means our regional and multi-national customers can take advantage of this service for geographic diversification as well. If you are interested in understanding more and taking advantage of Google Cloud VMware Engine, contact your Google sales team now.For details, see HIPAA compliance on Google Cloud Platform.Note: This post has been contributed to by Manish Lohani, Product Management, Google Cloud and Wade Holmes, Solution Management, Google CloudRelated ArticleNew in Google Cloud VMware Engine: improved reach, networking and scaleThe latest version of Google Cloud VMware Engine is chock full of new features and integrations, including enhanced networking capabilities.Read Article
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“Building an application that needs low latency and high throughput?”—You need a database that can scale for a large number of reads and writes. Cloud Bigtable is designed to handle just that. Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed wide-column NoSQL database that scales to petabyte-scale. It’s optimized for low latency, large numbers of reads and writes, and maintaining performance at scale. It offers really low latency of the order of single-digit milliseconds. It is an ideal data source for time series and MapReduce-style operations. Bigtable supports the open-source HBase API standard to easily integrate with the Apache ecosystem including HBase, Beam, Hadoop and Spark. It also integrates with Google Cloud ecosystem including Memorystore, BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow and more. Click to enlargeSome Cloud Bigtable FeaturesData is by default encrypted with Google managed encryption keys but, for specific compliance and regulatory requirements if customers need to manage their own keys, customer managed encryption keys (CMEK) are also supported.Bigtable backups let you save a copy of a table’s schema and data, then restore from the backup to a new table at a later time. Backups can help you recover from application-level data corruption or from operator errors such as accidentally deleting a table.Scale and High Availability (HA)How BIG is Bigtable? Overall, Bigtable has nearly 10 Exabytes of data under management. It delivers highly predictable performance that is linearly scalable. Throughput can be adjusted by adding/removing nodes — each node provides up to 10,000 operations per second (read and write). You can use Bigtable as the storage engine for large-scale, low-latency applications as well as throughput-intensive data processing and analytics. It offers high availability with an SLA of 99.5% for zonal instances. It’s strongly consistent in a single cluster; replication between clusters adds eventual consistency. If you leverage Bigtable’s multi cluster routing across two clusters, the SLA increases to 99.99% and if that routing policy is utilized across clusters in 3 different regions you get a 99.999% uptime SLA.Replication for Cloud Bigtable enables you to increase the availability and durability of your data by copying it across multiple regions or multiple zones within the same region. To use replication in a Bigtable instance, just create an instance with more than 1 cluster or add clusters to an existing instance. Bigtable supports up to 4 replicated clusters located in Google Cloud zones where Bigtable is available. Placing clusters in different zones or regions enables you to access your data even if one zone or region becomes unavailable. Bigtable treats each cluster in your instance as a primary cluster, so you can perform reads and writes in each cluster. You can also set up your instance so that requests from different types of applications are routed to different clusters. The data and changes to data are synchronized automatically across clusters. How does it optimize throughputThrough separation of processing and storage, Cloud Bigtable is able to automatically configure throughput by adjusting the association of nodes and data. In the rebalancing example, if Node A is experiencing a heavy load, the routing layer can move some of the traffic to a less heavily loaded node, improving overall performance. Resizing comes into play when a node is added to again ensure a balanced load across nodes, ensuring best overall throughput.Click to enlargeChoice of app profile and traffic routing can also affect performance. An app profile with multi-cluster routing automatically routes requests to the closest cluster in an instance from the perspective of the application, and the writes are then replicated to the other clusters in the instance. This automatic choice of the shortest distance results in the lowest possible latency. An app profile that uses single-cluster routing can be optimal for certain use cases, like separating workloads or to have read-after-write semantics on a single cluster, but it will not reduce latency in the way multi-cluster routing does.Replication can improve read throughput, especially when you use multi-cluster routing. And it can reduce read latency by placing your data geographically closer to your users. Write throughput does not increase with replication because write to one cluster must be replicated to all other clusters in the instance. Resulting in each cluster spending the CPU resources to pull changes from the other clusters.ConclusionBigtable is a database of choice for use cases that require a specific amount of scale or throughput with strict latency requirements, such as IoT, AdTech, FinTech, gaming and ML based personalizations. You can ingest 100s of thousands of events per second from websites or IoT devices through Pub/Sub, process them in Dataflow and send them to Cloud Bigtable. For a more in-depth look into Cloud Bigtable check out the documentation or join the upcoming webinar with our experts Build high-throughput, low-latency apps with Cloud Bigtable.For more #GCPSketchnote, follow the GitHub repo. For similar cloud content follow me on Twitter @pvergadia and keep an eye out on thecloudgirl.dev.Related ArticleBigtable vs. BigQuery: What’s the difference?Bigtable vs BigQuery? What’s the difference? In this blog, you’ll get a side-by-side view of Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Bigtable.Read Article
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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) für SQL Server unterstützt jetzt die Microsoft Business Intelligence Suite auf SQL Server 2016, 2017 und 2019 in den AWS-Regionen GovCloud (USA). Sie können nun die SQL Server Integration, Analysis und Reporting Services von DB Instances mit den neuesten Großversionen ausführen.
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