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No, the Cloud Is Not a Green Technology – InformationWeek
There is a myth surrounding the cloud regarding it as a green technology. Though we love cloud computing, people tend to think that if they bring their technology to the cloud, they're being green. Much of this misconception comes from the cloud providers themselves, but a lot is from general misunderstandings of what the cloud is.
Since the cloud is nothing more than a rented data center that someone else owns, cloud computing itself can't be much greener than any other data center technology. For example, in our own data centers, we have our own routers, switches, firewalls, storage -- everything we need. Cloud providers data centers contain that identical technology that you would have in your own data center. The only difference is, in our data center, we manage our own servers. When we use a cloud provider, they manage those servers for us.
In our own data center, we might not need to buy 5,000 servers. We may think that by going to the cloud, there's no need for 5,000 servers. However, a cloud provider needs to buy the same 5,000 servers that you would have in the data center to support you and your enterprise. Many people don't realize the cloud provider needs to buy an equal number of servers they have in the data center because they don't understand that the cloud is just somebody else's network in a data center. If you have 10,000 servers in the data center with 128 cores and six terabytes of RAM, the cloud provider will need the same number of servers. Instead of buying them yourself, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, or Dell buys the same quantity of cloud computing hardware.
Now, the next thing that leads to this misconception of the cloud being green is regarding what many people believe is in a data center, which might utilize our equipment better due to virtualization like being able to put virtual machines (VMs), storage, or whatever else we need where we want. Though VMs do allow greater utilization of cloud technology, we've been using a virtualized environment with either VMware ESXi, QEMU, or KVM in data centers for the last 20 years. For the last two decades, we've been moving around our virtualization and decoupling our storage environment with block storage technologies. Every kind of economy of scale that we get in a well-run cloud provider, we get in a well-run data center. This means that, for decades, the cloud has never truly showcased itself as a green technology.
Now, in a data center, we have to build our own networks. By doing so, we can generate extreme performance and critical security. On the cloud, we don't build as much of that network. This might equate to a little bit of electrical savings but remember -- the cloud providers need to buy bigger routers in greater quantities. These are going to generate more heat by using more electricity. Although there is a slight benefit regarding the consolidation of a network, its energy savings are minimal. Whatever you don't buy, the cloud provider has to buy, because they still need the same technology in their cloud networking.
While there could be an argument made for some of the cloud providers to use greener sources of energy, we still have the problem of heat generation. Servers, storage, graphic components -- all the technology we need to operate a working cloud -- generates heat. So, if we're really talking about green technology, we're not talking about dispersing more heat into the atmosphere, we're talking about a generation of heat that is coming from the servers. Whether that heat and energy usage comes from our own data center or that of a cloud provider, that heat and high energy use are still going to be there.
Whether you're building your own modern data center using more green technologies, or whether you're using the cloud data center with more green technologies, it's just a matter of where your equipment is located. Is it located in your data center, or is it located in the cloud? Now if we're comparing 40-year-old data centers to modern cloud computing environments, more modern technology like virtualization and containers are absolutely greener. But again, in any traditional data center throughout the last two decades, we have been using virtualization. So the cloud, which is a virtualized network and datacenter, is just a newer version of the same technology. The names change, but the technology is the same.
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The What, Why and How of DevOps The New Stack – thenewstack.io
This post is the first in a series.
Kastens Michael Cade takes you on a journey through 90 days of DevOps. Michael documented resources and lessons learned during a three-month span to provide readers a foundational understanding of the DevOps discipline and tools that align with the DevOps mindset. This blog post series summarizes his experience. In this first post, well examine the definition of DevOps and its purpose in an organization.
DevOps is a term used frequently by developers and other teams in an organization. Exactly what is it and why do we use it? Thats the question I tackled during the first few weeks of my 90 Days of DevOps adventure. In this post, Ill explore a definition of DevOps, the responsibilities of the DevOps engineer, DevOps relation to agile development and the DevOps life cycle. Well wrap up with some real-world stories from leading organizations who use DevOps to improve the speed and quality of software development.
Michael Cade
Michael is senior global technologist, Product Strategy at Kasten by Veeam. Based in the U.K. with over 16 years of industry experience, his key focus is on technologies such as cloud native, automation and data management. His role at Kasten is to engage with the community to enable influencers and customers to overcome the challenges of cloud native data management and be successful.
DevOps brings together a combination of software development and operations. Development happens when software developers program an application and test it, and operations begins once the application is deployed and maintained on a server.
DevOps encompasses a set of practices that help organizations reduce the time between product ideation and its release in production to the end user. Done correctly, DevOps helps to eliminate silos and ultimately shorten long, drawn-out software release cycles by introducing smaller, more frequent releases that keep pace with customer needs.
DevOps engineers have to possess a broad range of skills, including:
While DevOps engineers dont need to be experts in these areas, some may be specialists in one or more, which can help them succeed in the DevOps role.
One of the main tasks of a DevOps engineer is releasing a new application version into production in an efficient and automated way. Lets take a look at the DevOps application-focused life cycle and how DevOps engineers can use this model for a successful release.
For DevOps, the application life cycle consists of five main phases: development, testing, integration, deployment and monitoring. These repeat in an infinite loop once an application is released into production. Heres a summary of each stage:
During this stage, a developer will collaborate with team members and potentially customers to define requirements for an application. They will determine an IDE (integrated development environment) and the programming language to use. DevOps engineers should familiarize themselves with the IDE and language so they can make the best infrastructure decisions for the application. Version control is critical, as well as a code repository for storing and collaborating on code. The repository can be public or private, and created on GitHub or GitLab, for example.
Development consists of three main steps:
Once the requirements are set and the application is being developed, testing code in various environments is the next step. During this phase, QA tests for bugs. Containers will be used to simulate the test environment, eliminating the need for physical or cloud infrastructure. Automation in this phase will contribute to continuous integration and help DevOps avoid having tens or even thousands of engineers do the work manually.
Smack in the middle of the DevOps life cycle, integration involves committing changes to source code, usually on a daily or weekly basis. With every commit, automated testing can be employed to help detect issues or bugs prior to the next phase. Releasing the new code may be as simple as putting it into a registry or code repository where its accessible to your production servers.
Now its time to deploy the application into production for users to consume. During this stage, the code is deployed to production servers. Different applications will require different hardware and configurations, which is why application configuration management and Infrastructure as Code come into play. If your application is containerized but also available on a virtual machine, platforms like Kubernetes will be needed to orchestrate those containers and ensure you have the desired state available to end users.
Once the application is in production, continuous application performance monitoring is essential to ensure end users are getting the experience they require. Part of this process is capturing user feedback to factor into the product roadmap. Reliability is also key the application needs to be available to users when they need it. To that end, security and data management should also be continuously monitored. Some of the key parameters to monitor include CPU utilization, disk space and response time. Keeping logs enables developers to troubleshoot any issues.
The figure below illustrates the stages and shows how they operate in a continuous and infinite loop:
Do you know the difference between DevOps and agile? In short, agile development is an approach that focuses on delivering small frequent changes, rather than releasing a major update, with the goal of providing an optimal end-user experience. DevOps describes software development and delivery best practices based on cooperation between software developers and operations specialists with the goal of simplifying development and minimizing miscommunications.
The two concepts are similar, but there are important differences:
Combining agile with DevOps yields substantial benefits, including flexible management and powerful technologies, good communications, automation and better overall product quality. Best practices for merging agile and DevOps include:
DevOps is catching on among leading organizations in every industry that are realizing its many benefits. Here are three real-world examples of how a DevOps culture can be adopted successfully:
To summarize, DevOps is a combo of development and operations that allows a single team to manage the whole application development life cycle: development, testing, integration, deployment and monitoring. Its goal is to accelerate the development life cycle while delivering innovative features and fixes that delight customers and align with business objectives.
In the next blog post in this series, well discuss why its important for DevOps professionals to learn a programming language, and explore how to do it.
If youre just getting started with a DevOps function in your organization, the resources below may be useful:
The New Stack is a wholly owned subsidiary of Insight Partners, an investor in the following companies mentioned in this article: Docker.
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Flight Simulator Quietly Added on Xbox Cloud Gaming – WhatIfGaming
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Cloud industry veteran pegged to be Ridge’s Chief Sales Officer – 69News WFMZ-TV
NEW YORK, March 3, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Less than a month after securing $22 million in early-stage funding, Ridge has advanced with a significant new hire: cloud industry veteran Sean Casey as Chief Sales Officer. Casey has over 25 years of go-to-market experience, most recently as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Business Development for ECI, a premier provider of managed IT services, technology solutions, and business transformation to the financial services industry.
Casey previously held senior go-to-market positions with Turbonomic, Zerto, and Cloud Cruiser, leading numerous cloud modernization and cloud adoption initiatives across private, public, and hybrid deployments. Well known for his personal skills, Sean has excelled in creating powerful partnerships and developing long-term business alliances in addition to leading sales teams across the globe.
In his new role, Casey will expand and lead Ridge's global sales team, enabling it to reach enterprise customers and CSP partners who are looking for cloud-native solutions on any infrastructure and in any location.
Speaking on the appointment, Mati Lerner, co-CEO, Ridge, said: "I am incredibly excited that Sean is joining the Ridge team, deepening our cloud capabilities and expertise. His extensive experience will play a huge role in our growth strategy across new verticals and markets, and I know that Sean has the passion to help us unlock the full potential of cloud computing for our customers.
The news comes on the heels of our recent investment announcement, which will help us reach new markets and serve new customers looking for on-prem and flexible hybrid cloud solutions. We have ambitious plans for expansion across 2022. Sean comes with a keen knowledge of the market, and his practical experience in building sales organizations will be a major element in attaining our goals."
Ridge's massive network of points of presence closes public cloud coverage gaps and empowers businesses to deploy applications on existing infrastructure anywhere with no latency or data residency obstacles. Its cloud-native services, including its CNCF-certified managed Kubernetes, enable enterprises to easily deploy cloud-native applications as part of any multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architecture. With Ridge, developers enjoy public cloud agility together with the superior performance and data control of private servers.
Speaking on his new role as Chief Sales Officer, Sean Casey said: "I am honored to join Ridge at such an important moment for the company. From my experience, I know that the centralized cloud model, in which a few cloud hyperscalers host the majority of cloud-based deployments, is no longer able to handle the cloud-native needs of many enterprises. Ridge offers them a solution: their hybrid cloud platform unifies deployments across locations and enables application owners to meet the challenges of latency, data sovereignty, and geographic network diversity."
About Ridge
Ridge, the world's most distributed cloud, closes the public cloud's coverage gaps. With its flexible architecture, developers deploy modern, cloud-native applications anywhere in the world with no latency or data residency roadblocks. Easily accessed through a single API, Ridge Cloud is fully interoperable with any existing infrastructure, whether on-prem servers, colo deployments, local data centers, or hybrid clouds. Using Ridge's managed web services Kubernetes, containers, and object storage developers enjoy public cloud agility together with the superior performance, throughput, and data control of localized infrastructure. Ridge empowers businesses to unlock the full value of cloud computing.
Founded in 2018, Ridge is based in Boston, MA, and Tel Aviv. For more information, please visit Ridge at http://www.ridge.co or follow us on LinkedIn.
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Operating system (OS) for business: Which solution is best? – IDG Connect
Linux is one of the worlds most dominant operating systems (OS), with widespread adoption across industries and emerging technologies. However, Linux-based OS are not the only systems that businesses use, and there are multiple use cases for other options. However, selecting the right OS for business can be tricky, particularly when organisations are still figuring out what they require from their new system.
Over 540,000 professionals have used Peerspot research to inform their purchasing decisions. Its latest paper looks at the highest rated OS for business vendors, profiling each and examining what they can offer enterprise.
Heres a breakdown of the key players currently active in the market:
Average Rating: 8.2
Top Comparison: Oracle Linux
Overview: Provides a free and open-source computing platform to anyone who wishes to use it.
Average Rating: 7.0
Top Comparison: Windows 10
Overview: Combines Chrome OS and Chrome Browser to enable work in the cloud.
Average Rating: 9.5
Top Comparison: SUSE Linux Enterprise
Overview: A brand new way of building openSUSE and that is a new type of hybrid Linux distribution.
Average Rating: 8.0
Top Comparison: RHEL
Overview: A powerful open-source foundation product optimised for building both private and
public cloud infrastructure. It provides a secure, scalable, and flexible platform for running cloud native applications.
Average Rating: 8.4
Top Comparison: Oracle Linux
Overview: A complete, secure, enterprise-grade cloud platform. From built-in, near zero-overhead virtualisation and to scalable data management, it gives businesses everything they need to build enterprise clouds.
Average Rating: 8.6
Top Comparison: Oracle Linux
Overview: Combines the reliability, scalability, and performance of Linux with technologies that meet the specific requirements of SAP workloads.
Average Rating: 9.0
Top Comparison: RHEL
Overview: A modern and modular OS that helps simplify multimodal IT, makes traditional IT infrastructure efficient, and provides an engaging platform for developers.
Average Rating: 8.6
Top Comparison: Oracle Linux
Overview: Super-fast, easy to use and free, this operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks, and servers around the world.
Average Rating: 8.1
Top Comparison: Windows 10
Overview: The most cloud-ready server Microsoft has ever built. It has big improvements in security, software-defined infrastructure, and technologies to help developers build modern microservice based applications, in the cloud or on-site.
Average Rating: 8.3
Top Comparison: Windows Server
Overview: Offers powerful IT device management and security features for business.
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IT Insight: Web-based solutions for your business – Seacoastonline.com
JoAnn Hodgdon| Special to Seacoastonline
Technology. Isn't it all modern by definition? Modern applications, however, are those applications that have been designed for the new millennium, the new way of doing things, the Cloud, web-based high-mobility applications. The difference is that applications that were very much rooted in the past, the late 90s and early 200s were linked and installed somewhere on a piece of hardware within your network. The current method of applications is to usethem as a service. Today you either access applicationsvia a browseror perhaps some other type of modern authentication method.
Web-based applications do not need to be installed on a hard drive. There are no space limitations. Thisreduces costs for your business as it lowers support and maintenance via the web with its updates applied centrally. All your users can access the same up-to-date version which can be accessed anywhere with a web browser. Since Covid, witha large number of remote users outside of your network and your security controls, web-based applications are the norm.
A classic example of this modern software is within the medical industry, where legal requirements for EMR (Electronic Medical Records) really drive that industry. Many of these companies have designed their EMRs in a new way, where you can access them via a webpage or some other technology where they are less application-based on a device in your network, and more accessible from almost anywhere. With this sensitive data in the Cloud, it is centrally located so everybody needing your information can obtain it with the proper credentials.
Another three-letter designation that we use in our industry is line of business application, or LOB. It is a generic term for whatever it is when we're talking to a customer about your specific business applications.
For example, in manufacturing, an application that manages your manufacturing process from scheduling what it is you're building to its deadline, to your vendors contact information, is common. Financial industries also have their own LOB application, leaning on contact management, with many being slightly different. At PCG, we have a ticketing management software that creates a ticket to trackwhen an engineer, help desk, or anyone else is working on an issue from the beginning to completion.
If anything, the last two years have taught us that mobility is key. Before the Pandemic, many companies thought in terms of a monolithic structure: a building, employees within the building, and inside that building, servers and infrastructure that worked fine. Suddenly, the Pandemic hits and everybody is remote, home. Those organizations who had far flung sales forces, or groups who were always working remotely, were already at the forefront of this concept, where applications were as mobile as the people working.
Why do companies stick with older software? Often it is because that is what they are most familiar with, comfortable with, the version they know and understand. Maybe they dont want to invest in training on a newer version of software.It is costly to try to retrofit an older application to do newer things. Perhaps the vendor that designed it in 2005 did not imagine a VPN (Virtual Private Network) that is available in the Cloud today. Users who are used to a workflow in a comfort zone need to examine whetherit is worth learning how another vendor does it, for all the other advantages that a newer program brings with less headaches and more mobility.
Businesses should ask has the application that drives my business been innovating? Have they been updating their method of deployment and ease since development in 2005? Is there a 2020 version we need to move to? Applications for modern mobility are key as older applications sitting on your server may be impeding progress and profitability. If you need to contact your IT Department to get a new user configured on your server, you are using antiquated software. Web-based applications are more current, user-friendly, and able to be accessed from anywhere.
Have we explored the application? Where is it at? Has your current vendor been talking to you about a new version? Do they have a web faced version of it? If they don't, have you thought about maybe some other ones; other vendors in this space; their competition? Maybe they're innovating in a way that this company that you've been with for a long time just isn't anymore. It pays to investigate.
What do you want to accomplish and how is changing direction to web-based applications going to help you accomplish those goals? Your users will be happier after the initial acclimation to it, it will be cost effective to eliminate on-site servers, and your network will be designed for the environment and the future you have planned for your company.
JoAnn Hodgdon is vice president and co-founder of Portsmouth Computer Group (PCGiT) with her husband David. PCG provides comprehensive managed IT services, business continuity, security, cloud computing and Virtual CIO services to their clients. You may reach her at joann@pcgit.com or at http://www.pcgit.com
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OVHcloud Expands Its Portfolio of File Storage Solutions With Enterprise File Storage, a Service Developed in Collaboration With NetApp – Business…
ROUBAIX, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:
OVHcloud (Paris:OVH) is combining its expertise in Infrastructure-as-a-Service with Platform-as-a-Service solutions to support the digital transformation of organizations by providing them with a ready-to-use toolkit. This accelerated integration of software technology is reflected in the launch of the Enterprise File Storage service, engineered in partnership with NetApp, which combines OVHclouds know-how with NetApps cloud storage management expertise.
OVHcloud is expanding its portfolio of cloud file storage solutions with an offering developed in collaboration with NetApp, a world leader in this field. Enterprise File Storage is designed to help organizations transition to the cloud by meeting their requirements for sovereignty, high performance and resilience, while ensuring seamless integration with the OVHcloud universe at a predictable price.
Enterprise File Storage is aimed at organizations with applications that have high operational requirements and need a highly available file storage service. The service is suitable for a variety of use cases, including organizations that are already cloud-based and want to facilitate sharing of enterprise data from different applications hosted on OVHcloud services, or organizations that are already running their own NetApp on-premise infrastructure and are looking to offload their workloads or begin their migration to the cloud.
Based on NetApps ONTAP file system technology and fully managed by OVHcloud, this all-in-one platform offers great ease of implementation while optimizing cloud storage costs, increasing application performance, and ensuring data protection and compliance. With Enterprise File Storage, customers get easy access to stored data and benefit from a flexible, scalable, and high-performance platform with storage capacity from 1 to 58TB per service. The Enterprise File Storage service is appropriate for a wide range of enterprise environments and applications due to the use of the industry proven NFS protocol. It provides high performance both in terms of IOPS and throughput thanks to the combination of SSD technologies with NVMe caches.
As Hybrid Cloud is a high priority for over 77% of NetApp customers, first party cloud services based on NetApp ONTAP are instrumental to make these projects become reality. Says Peter Wst, VP CTO WW Enterprise & Commercial Business, NetApp. We are glad to see OVHCloud making the choice of NetApp as a trusted technology partner for their Enterprise File Storage service.
We are pleased to work with a recognized expert partner like NetApp to help our customers maximize and get the most out of their data by providing a unified experience across our various cloud storage solutions, said Thierry Souche, Chief Technology Officer at OVHcloud. Our customers can now access highly efficient and available storage resources, leveraging key features of ONTAP software and fully managed by OVHcloud.
With over two decades of expertise in digital infrastructure services, OVHcloud has developed an industrial model that preserves the technological and operational sovereignty of customers, while deploying environmentally friendly and resource-efficient technologies. Designed and engineered in the Groups own data centers, all OVHcloud solutions guarantee total data reversibility and immunity to extraterritorial laws. The infrastructure operated by OVHcloud meets the highest security and data protection standards, in line with ISO27001 certification, as well as GDPR compliance. Like all of the European leading cloud providers solutions, Enterprise File Storage features an outstanding price/performance ratio in the industry and allows organizations to maintain control of their cloud strategy with predictable pricing and the choice of data location. In addition, because NetApp is an industry standard, Enterprise File Storage frees organizations from any technical lock-in and provides business continuity outside an OVHcloud environment.
Enterprise File Storage is already available in data centers in Roubaix (France) and Frankfurt (Germany). The solution will be deployed in a very short term in Beauharnois (Canada), then will be rolled out in further geographies.
About NetApp
NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right peopleanytime, anywhere. Learn more at http://www.netapp.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at http://www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc.
About OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a global player and Europes leading cloud provider operating over 400,000 servers within 33 data centers across four continents. For 20 years, the Group has relied on an integrated model that provides complete control of its value chain from the design of its servers, to the construction and management of its data centers, including the orchestration of its fiber-optic network. This unique approach allows it to independently cover all the uses of its 1.6 million customers in more than 140 countries. OVHcloud now offers its customers latest-generation solutions combining performance, price predictability and total sovereignty over their data to support their growth in complete freedom.
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IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS: Which is the Right Platform for Your Business? – Security Boulevard
Each cloud model offers explicit features and functionalities, and it is essential for your organization to comprehend the differences. Regardless of whether you want cloud-based software for storage choices, a platform that permits you to make tweaked applications, or unlimited authority over your whole framework without having to actually keep up with it, there is a cloud administration specifically for you.
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Academic Cloud and the Digital Skills Boom – Yahoo Finance
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Its no surprise that high tech digital skills are in high demand. To keep up with the more-than-ever geographically distributed workforce, organizations are distributing workloads across multiple clouds. Meanwhile, the Internet of Things means more people are connected on more devices with users looking to edge-fast services to meet their needs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer and information technology job markets are expected to grow 13% in the next decade with much of that growth attributed to demand in cloud computing, big data collection and storage, and cybersecurity.1
With that growth, higher learning institutions are seeing a parallel rise in demand for better, less resource-intensive ways to teach key digital skills. Enter the Academic Cloud. The Academic Cloud offers shared tech and server resources across institutions to expand reach to students while providing lower maintenance and management costs. It provides a highly scalable, realistic, hands-on learning solutions that students and instructors can access 24/7.
The components of the Academic Cloud are simple. VMware software licenses are overlaid with a powerful software suite of lab applications by Network Development Group (NDG). The software and virtual lab environment are then united, hosted and managed by an academic institution. I virtually caught up with the two organizations behind the Academic Cloud tech and two colleges putting it into practice. Rich Weeks (NDG), Kelly Caudle (SCC), Dr. Jorge Crichigno (USC) and Jessamine Chin (VMware) sat down with me to share their take on the impact of the Academic Cloud on the current digital skills boom.
Can you share how NDG and VMware work together to create the Academic Cloud?
Rich Weeks (NDG): I would say that first and foremost, its the combination of NDG lab management software (NDG online portal and NETLAB+) with VMwares donated evaluation software licenses and multi-cloud solutions (ESXi hypervisor and vCenter) that enable academic institutions to host complex labs for information technology and cyber education. These are unique solutions that together allow academic institutions that are willing to collaborate to create their own scalable and cost-effective Academic Cloud.
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What do you see as the main advantages of the Academic Cloud?
Rich Weeks (NDG): Theres really quite a long list of things that make the Academic Cloud special. For starters, academic institutions, especially those departments with lab-heavy curriculum, often find themselves struggling with budgets. Its in those resource-intensive and resource-constrained lab environments where the Academic Cloud really comes through. It provides researchers, professors and instructors compute resources for hands-on career skills that may otherwise be cost prohibitive given limited or expiring funding. So, in an example where servers and management are set up and performed at a host location, the startup and maintenance costs are shared across multiple institutions, reaching large numbers of geographically disparate learners. Working with VMware, USC and SCC, this model is cost effectively hosting complex, expensive labs, like introduction to data center virtualization, that may otherwise not be available to learners who are economically challenged or attending institutions that do not have funds for a lab setup. Why is this important? High schools participating in the VMware IT Academy can teach important core technical skills using real world data center labs aligned to VMware courses.
As far as the students are concerned, the Academic Cloud allows for the creation of very realistic hands-on labs to challenge learners. Students work on labs where things break and they need to fix them. They get stuck and have to work through real-life scenarios to get un-stuck. Everything about the learner experience is similar to what theyll face out in the real world.
And theres always, of course, the classic case for optimal server utilization. Servers are expensive resources that often go under-utilized. With virtualization running, the shared system resources mean equipment idle time is significantly reduced.
If Stanly Community College (SCC) wasnt leveraging the Academic Cloud, how would things be different for the college? For students?
Kelly Caudle (SCC): Stanly Community College is a very small school in rural North Carolina. Without the Academic Cloud and the VMware Academic Software Licenses that support the cloud and our other NDG NETLAB+ systems, SCC students would be technological have-nots. Additionally, so would the literally hundreds of thousands who have been able to take part in labs through our academic data center in the cloud. Without the VMware Academic Software Licenses, our data center would not exist and students in partner programs like the VMware IT Academy vSphere courses requiring lots of compute resources for labs may struggle to have a real-world learning experience. Stanly Community College uses our academic data center to change the lives of local students and remote students on a daily basis. This is all made possible through our partnerships with companies like NDG and VMware. The VMware Academic Software Licenses are really the glue that holds together our entire academic hands-on virtual learning environment.
How does the Academic Cloud impact the University of South Carolina (USC) and its students?
Dr. Jorge Crichigno (USC): The technology used by the Academic Cloud has unique features that are really unmatched in the marketplace. The Academic Cloud enables our university to continue offering access to laboratory exercises to our students in a variety of courses. It turns out that the timing of the Academic Cloud deployment was key, as physical laboratories that are used for face-to-face offerings werent available anymore once the pandemic erupted. The platform and our NETLAB+ system enabled the migration of physical laboratories to virtual laboratories, without compromising any rigor or hands-on activities. The platform made the migration of physical laboratories to virtual laboratories possible, without compromising any rigor or hands-on activities.
The Academic Cloud and NETLAB+ platforms combined with the VMware software licenses serve multiple purposes and programs here at the University of South Carolina and our partner institutions. Information technology, cyber intelligence, computer science, and computer information systems all regularly use our Academic Cloud or NETLAB+. Additionally, our PhD students and collaborators at institutions like the University of South Florida and the University of Texas at San Antonio, use the platform to conduct PhD research and develop innovative solutions to significant engineering problems. Weve seen the results of this work published in top journals and shared at conferences around the world.
What do you see as the biggest impact of the Academic Cloud?
Jessamine Chin (VMware): Equity is one of the three outcomes that were focused on for VMwares 2030 agenda. We believe that technology plays a critical role in building a digital future that is equitable, accessible and inclusive. And we see the Academic Cloud as a great example of how our technology can provide more equitable access and opportunity to students, instructors and researchers around the world.
Our partnership with the University of South Carolina, Stanly Community College and NDG demonstrates how the Academic Cloud provides a platform for individuals and other academic institutions to access learning resources like labs, content and research that they may otherwise not been able to afford. For students and instructors, this provides access to additional support to gain valuable job skills like data center virtualization or cloud concepts.
Can you share why partnering with colleges and universities is so important to VMware?
Jessamine Chin (VMware): VMware has a long history of working closely with colleges and universities, beginning with our founders who pioneered virtual machines at Stanford University, to our partnerships today that help students build the capabilities to advance their careers and the field of IT overall.
Also, sustainability has long been inherent in our technology solutions. As companies virtualize their digital operations, they benefit from lower costs, increased flexibility and more resilience but also a reduced carbon footprint. In fact, VMware has helped its customers avoid more than 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions to date.
The world demands more from us, so were pushing ourselves to redefine what a sustainable digital future means. And part of that future involves realigning our business model around multi-cloud and SaaS. We know that the students coming out of these educational institutions and programs today will be the key talent to help VMware progress this vision, as well as enable VMware customers to advance zero carbon goals.
The Academic Cloud is fueling universities computer science labs and research efforts. Students at those institutions are experiencing an unmatched introduction into virtualization and multi-cloud concepts, while gaining deep skills that will fill a growing IT need in the industry.
Is your institution adapting to meet the needs of this current digital skills boom? Take the next step to learn more about creating an Academic Cloud for your institution and students. To learn more about how your institution could benefit from VMware solutions, check out the IT Academy for research, webinars, software licenses and more.
1U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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VMware IT Academy
The VMware IT Academy provides students with the skills and education needed to succeed in a softwaredefined future. IT Academy creates a collaborative relationship with academic institutions around the world and provides them with software content, labs, and course materials developed by VMware. This enables their students to become more knowledgeable on VMware technology and better equipped with technical skills to advance their careers.
Network Development Group (NDG)
NDGs mission is to help people develop technology job skills. They partner with academic programs, academic institutions, industry, government and nonprofits to help learners develop the skills necessary to be employed. NDGs remote access training solutions, NDG Online and NETLAB+, enable learners worldwide to develop IT skills and prepare for rewarding careers.
Stanly Community College
Stanly Community College is an accredited two-year public institution, located just outside of Charlotte, NC, offering a variety of seated and online college degrees. The Network Management curriculum at Stanly Community College prepares individuals for employment supporting network infrastructure environments. Students will learn how to use technologies to provide reliable transmission and delivery of data, voice, image and video communications in business, industry and education.
University of South Carolina
Founded in 1801, the university is located in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. The Department of Integrated Information Technology at the University of South Carolina is at the forefront of information technology and health informatics. They offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs led by outstanding faculty. Their research focuses on the areas of cyber infrastructure, database systems, data analytics, health information technology and human-computer interaction.
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Rakuten plays 5G cloud-native Symphony with Robin.io Blocks and Files – Blocks and Files
Robin.io, the Kubernetes storage startup with a 5G edge infrastructure operations and management software stack, has been snapped up by Rakuten Symphony.
Rakuten, regarded as Japans version of Amazon, is an online retail company that owns mobile carrier Rakuten Symphony, originally Rakuten Mobile. The Symphony business unit was spun off in August 2021 and has both 4G/5G technology and services in its portfolio.
Rakuten Symphony CEO Tareq Amin said in a statement: We plan to continue to invest into Robin.ios cloud-native portfolio of products to further advance our capabilities and offer the most advanced and highly integrated cloud platform mobile operators demand.
Edge cloud requirements are unique and critical as mobile operators transition to 5G. The next era of digital experience requires another level of performance, responsiveness and consistency that enables telecom operator and enterprise transformation to be safely accelerated while creating a platform to support the next 10 years of experiences.
Robin.io was founded in 2013 by CEO Partha Seetala and has raised $86m in venture capital funding. It has more than 70 patents for its cloud-native storage and associated technologies, and started collaborating with Rakuten in 2019 when Rakuten Mobile used Robin.io in production for the Japanese deployment of the worlds first end-to-end fully virtualised cloud-native mobile network. Robin.io has petabyte-size deployments with its software running on tens of thousands of servers in production.
Rakuten said that the addition of Robin.ios multi-cloud mobility, hyper automation and orchestration capabilities to the Rakuten Symphony portfolio allows the creation of highly efficient, consistent high performance cloud infrastructure and operations, from edge to central data centre. The new business unit wants to accelerate and strengthen the complete end-to-end automated cloud offering for customers across the globe.
Seetala, who will become president of Rakuten Symphonys Unified Cloud business unit, said: I am delighted that Robin.ios technology innovations over the last several years will now get a much bigger canvas to lead the vision for cloud-native transformation for the industry. Our vision to deliver simple to use, easy to deploy hyperscale automation is very well aligned.
The acquisition terms are confidential and the deal is subject to closing conditions. As Robin.io is apparently doing extremely well and has unique cloud-native, 5G edge automation technology, we might expect a 4x or 5x return for its investors.
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