Der italienische Reifenhersteller Pirelli hat zusammen mit Audi und Ericsson vernetztes Fahren demonstriert. Ein mit Sensoren ausgestatteter Reifen erfasst den Straßenzustand und kann andere Autos vor Gefahren wie Aquaplaning warnen. (Vernetztes Fahren, WLAN)
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Nachdem Asus auf der Ifa 2019 bereits sein neues ROG Phone II mit 1 TByte Speicher angekündigt hatte, kommt das Gerät jetzt auch in den Handel: Anders als zunächst angekündigt, soll es nicht 1.200 Euro, sondern 1.000 Euro kosten. Auch eine weitere, günstigere Version mit 8 GByte RAM und 128 GByte Speicher ist bestellbar. (Asus, Smartphone)
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Die Ransomware Nextcry verschlüsselt die Daten im Cloudspeicher von Nextcloud-Installationen. Auf den Server gelangt sie nicht über die Nextcloud, sondern über eine bereits gepatchte Sicherheitslücke in PHP. (Malware, PHP)
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Die vierte Staffel von The Expanse rückt immer näher. Amazon Prime Video hat einen langen Trailer mit vielen weiteren Szenen der Sci-Fi-Serie veröffentlicht. Dabei scheint nicht nur das Protomolekül eine Bedrohung zu sein. (Prime Video, Amazon)
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Die aus Half-Life 2 bekannte Widerstandskämpferin steht offenbar im Mittelpunkt von Half-Life Alyx, das Valve offiziell angekündigt hat. Allerdings sieht es so aus, also ob das Spiel nur für Virtual-Reality-Headsets erscheint. (Half-Life, Valve)
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Mit dem Update v11.20 wird Fortnite die Direct3D12-Grafikschnittstelle für eine höhere Performance unterstützen, also wahrscheinlich schon kommende Woche. Künftig will Epic Games auch dedizierte D3D12-Features in den Shooter integrierten, also vielleicht DXR-Raytracing. (Fortnite, Epic Games)
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Statt der eigenen Kryptobibliothek Zinc wird das neue Wireguard-VPN künftig die Krypto-API des Linux-Kernels verwenden. Die notwendigen Anpassungen dazu sind nun im Kernel gelandet. (Linux-Kernel, Linux)
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Many of the world’s largest enterprises run their businesses on SAP and are increasingly looking to the cloud to support their mission-critical workloads. To help more SAP customers simplify their transitions to the cloud, we’re excited today to announce the Cloud Acceleration Program. Earlier this year, we launched a program called Lighthouse, in partnership with system integrators, to streamline our customers’ SAP journeys to the cloud. The Cloud Acceleration Program is an evolution of Lighthouse. It empowers our customers with solutions from Google Cloud and our partners to simplify their cloud migrations—whether it’s shifting SAP workloads from on-premises to Google Cloud, or extending SAP solutions with Google Cloud or other leading third-party technologies. Customers who participate in our Cloud Acceleration Program will gain new architecture templates, accelerators, and SAP-focused support, in addition to partner-led assessment services, prototyping, and centers of excellence dedicated to SAP on GCP. Finally, a number of technology providers and ISVs are also participating in the program, assisting with code remediation, near-zero-downtime migrations, and other services.Today’s launch of the Cloud Acceleration Program includes support from global services partners such as Accenture, Atos, Deloitte, and HCL, which have created Google Cloud-specific business units to help customers migrate key workloads and applications to Google Cloud. These partners, along with Capgemini, DXC Technologies, Hitachi oXya, Infosys, NTT, TCS, and Wipro, will create SAP Centers of Excellence for Google Cloud and will provide new solutions designed to simplify SAP cloud migrations. These solutions include:Accenture has created a solution that allows customers to migrate older data into cost-efficient data stores like BigQuery, simultaneously reducing both their SAP HANA footprint and related infrastructure costs. The company is also creating several ML-based applications that will augment SAP on Google Cloud deployments.Atos has created a “Quick Cloud Start” program that allows them to move a customer’s SAP environment to Google Cloud in less than four weeks. The program also includes several Google Cloud-based ML offerings to accelerate automation and innovation, and SAP connectors for seamless integration of SAP data into Big Query. Deloitte’s Google Cloud business unit has launched “Reimagine Everything… Anywhere,” a portfolio of SAP end-to-end cloud services enabled by Google Cloud. It includes industry-based leading practices available on Google Cloud to accelerate SAP S/4 transformation, and a ready-to-deploy SAP-specific API library on Apigee for SAP-to-anywhere integration. As part of this Google Cloud portfolio, Deloitte expanded its Reimagine Platform to embrace TensorFlow and BigQuery to provide intelligent applications powered by Google Cloud machine learning and advanced data insight capabilities.NTT has created a Manufacturing/Automotive/Automotive Supply Industry Template, as well as a Life Sciences Platform-as-a-Service Offering that will be deployed on Google Cloud.Wipro has developed an SAP workload migration framework called “Safe Passage to GCP” that provides a low-risk, accelerated, minimally disruptive way to migrate to Google Cloud. This framework helps customers with automated discovery, assessment, migration, and maintenance of SAP landscapes on Google Cloud.Our technology provider partners are participating in the Cloud Acceleration Program as well, including Datavard, Gekkobrain, SNP Group, SpringML, and others. Their customer offerings for SAP migrations to Google Cloud include:SNP’s CrystalBridge platform allows SAP customers to select which data, workloads, and applications to migrate to the cloud with near-zero downtime. SNP’s capabilities to select both data for migrations and processes for transformation offer its customers an alternative to greenfield or brownfield S/4HANA migration options.Gekkobrain provides industry-leading code remediation capabilities, a critical part of SAP migrations, that automatically clean up more than 90% of custom code. Datavard has created solutions to help move data from SAP to BigQuery, for ML/AI, reporting, and SAP data archiving and decommissioning purposes. SpringML specializes in building smart workflows for SAP users using Google Cloud, including unique offerings on document processing, sales forecasting, and preventive maintenance to help SAP users quickly innovate on Google Cloud.By combining Google Cloud technologies with services and offerings from our partners, customers will benefit from greater innovation, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation along their cloud journey. The Cloud Acceleration Program for SAP is a simple and powerful way to reduce the complexities of migrating SAP to the cloud, as well as upgrading to SAP S/4HANA. To learn more about the Cloud Acceleration Program for SAP customers please contact us. To find out more about Google Cloud solutions for SAP customers, visit our website.
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Formed in 2002 and staffed by 3,000 employees, the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) oversees 24 separate agencies and public bodies to support the movement of people and goods. Its responsibilities range from vehicle licensing and aviation security through to supporting regulators, policing and infrastructure projects. Its digital team delivers technology across DfT’s operations and supports the department’s broader modernization goals, which often requires it to search through and consume data produced by its constituent agencies.DfT needed to modernize its core technology stack to support digital transformation. As a result, they decided on a cloud first approach, and to achieve this, turned to Google Cloud. DfT has been working with Google Cloud over the past two years to reinvent how it optimizes internal service delivery and introduces new digital capabilities for its staff. It’s anticipated that by June 2020 the department will operate as a cloud-first organization.Prior to moving to the cloud, it was resource-intensive for DfT to maintain servers, manage backups and ensure the overall health of the IT systems, and simple utilization and querying tasks often required days to complete. Their data centers also lacked the scalability to match DfT’s longer-term needs as it looked to undertake bigger and more complex data initiatives.In an effort to build the capabilities it required in the longer-term, DfT decided to work with Google Cloud to migrate a large proportion of its applications to the public cloud. The migration, which they called the DfT Data Centre Transformation, took place during the last quarter of 2018 and the first phases were completed by mid 2019.Over the course of 12 months, DfT successfully completed the migration of hundreds of virtual machines to GCP. This has allowed DfT to decommission a large chunk of its on-premises infrastructure while improving the reliability, resilience and security of its systems.Since the migration, DfT has been able to access a broad range of services designed to dramatically enhance its capabilities, as well as develop its own software products on top of Google Cloud. These services include enhanced Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities through Compute Engine, serverless capabilities through BigQuery, and serverless Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities through App Engine for application development and service deployment. This has allowed DfT developers to focus on the code rather than having to worry about underlying infrastructure.In the months since the migration to GCP, DfT has seen vast improvements in its IT operations. Benefits such as reduced friction in IT maintenance and the ability to make better use of its resources were largely anticipated; but an unexpected benefit was the ability to capitalize on innovation through the use of open source platforms, which has opened the department’s eyes to new possibilities and inspired greater business agility.This has manifested in the execution of several projects that previously wouldn’t have been possible, including:A DfT instance of LENNON, a data-intensive (100TB+) application used by the rail industry for ticket information, was migrated from an internal cluster into BigQuery. Before the migration, running searches on the DfT customized version of the database could take up to five days. Now, queries can be performed in a matter of seconds, enabling the Rail Data team to work more quickly and effectively.Journey Time Statistics, a road transportation analytics system, was re-platformed as a proof of concept to infrastructure as a service through Compute Engine to give the team more flexible and scalable compute capabilities. Through leveraging VMs with greater CPU, Memory and Disk performance, the time taken to complete analytics jobs performed by the system were reduced significantly, allowing the team to iterate and generate their statistical outputs faster. Interim CIO at DfT Mark Lyons has been extremely pleased with the progress so far. “Our work with Google Cloud is helping us to become a more digital and data-driven organization. The capabilities the platform offers are helping us to utilize data better to support decision-making, policy-making, reporting and governance, as well as provide new digital services to engage with citizens on transport related initiatives.“We’ve been excited to go on this journey with Google Cloud. When you have finite resources, having a partner that understands the process of change and can direct your focus to the things that really matter is invaluable. We’ve invested in this as a long-term partnership and are excited for Google Cloud to remain our number one cloud platform provider.”The department hopes that its work with Google Cloud can spur further transformation initiatives, including innovation around image recognition, app transformation and internal performance management systems.“The use of cloud services is key, particularly agility and scalability,” says Mark. “Google Cloud is helping us to work at the scale and speed of delivery we need.”
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As Google Cloud continues to grow, the demand for professional services from our customers is rapidly increasing. A core part of Google Cloud Professional Services’ mission is to cultivate a rich and highly specialized partner ecosystem to help us serve our customers’ growing needs. We are investing in our services partnerships and building programs and options to help partners accelerate their Google Cloud practices. Today, Google Cloud is launching Partner Success Services. This offering from Partner Advantage is designed to support Google Cloud services partners as they scale and differentiate their Professional Services practice through a partner-oriented services portfolio from Google Cloud Professional Services. Our approach aligns with Google customer priority solutions and supports partner success with two offerings.The first offering, Partner Service Kit, is a set of Google Cloud Professional Services assets, methodologies, and IP that partners can use and customize. Assets range from sales sheets and scoping templates, to delivery aids and implementation guides. By using the service kits, partners save time with our proven delivery methodology and our enterprise-ready assets for customers. These kits are available today through Partner Advantage for partners to leverage and use free of cost.We have also created a new option for partners, to allow them to tap into the depth of Google Professional Services on an as needed basis as they expand and grow their practices. The second offering, Partner Success Services, is a for-fee service designed as modular offerings aligned to specific solutions to provide partners with guidance and validation during their customer projects. The portfolio of services is reserved for Google Cloud Partner Advantage partners included in the “Partner” and “Premier” tiers. For partners, there are two main benefits: Access to Google technical specialists: Gain access to highly technical and expert Google resources when delivering a specific priority solution or new product. For example, a partner implementing Anthos for the first time can benefit greatly if Google resources are on the ground to guide and advise them.Unified methodology: Go-to-market together and leverage the best of Google to complement your methodology and expertise to increase customer success.Partner Success Services is a new engagement offering that lets partners receive support from and access to Google Professional Services professionals and methodology. By investing in our partner ecosystem with this approach, Google Cloud can scale, Partners can mature their Services practice, and most importantly, our customers will succeed.Reach out to your Partner Advisor for more details or email pso-pss@google.com.
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