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ZeroStack, Nimble Team on Cloud Storage – Channel Partners Online – Channel Partners

March 29, 2017 | Author: admin

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. March 27, 2017 ZeroStack, the leader in making self-driving private cloud affordable for all companies, today announced a joint solution with Nimble Storage that integrates ZeroStacks Intelligent Cloud Platform with Nimble Storage systems to create a pre-tested, completely automated, and fully supported converged private cloud solution. With this joint solution, enterprises can now leverage their existing investments in Nimble Storage and ZeroStack installed on servers to build a highly resilient and high performing cloud for application development, running packaged enterprise applications and hosting.

The combined ZeroStack/Nimble Storage solution offers several unique advantages:

Nimble Storage customers can now leverage their existing deployment to integrate with ZeroStack and extend the storage efficiencies in a hybrid cloud environment, said Gary ONeal, VP Alliances, Nimble Storage. Our predictive flash storage solutions give our customers the storage agility they need, and ZeroStacks cloud platform extends storage into the cloud for self-service use on a self-healing infrastructure.

Both Nimble Storage and ZeroStack will market the solution to their customers and resellers. With this combined solution, Nimble Storage and ZeroStack resellers can offer their customers strategic advice on cloud and storage options while retaining customers who might otherwise have no choice but move to a public cloud provider.

Nimble Storage is the leader in all-flash storage systems that close the application performance gap, said Kamesh Pemmaraju, vice president of product management at ZeroStack. By combining our products into a single converged solution, we extend our customers existing investments and deliver a turnkey on-premises cloud solution.

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About ZeroStackZeroStack uses smart software and artificial intelligence to deliver a self-driving, fully integrated private cloud platform that offers the agility and simplicity of public cloud at a fraction of the cost. On premises, ZeroStacks cloud operating system converts bare-metal servers into a reliable, self-healing cloud cluster. This cluster is consumed via a self-service SaaS portal. The SaaS portal also collects telemetry data and uses artificial intelligence to create models that help customers make decisions about capacity planning, troubleshooting and optimized placement of applications. The integrated App Store enables one-click deployment of many applications that provide the platform for most modern cloud native applications. This solution is fully integrated with public clouds to offer seamless migration between clouds. Founded by senior engineers from VMware and Google, the company is funded by Formation 8 and Foundation Capital, and is based in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit http://www.zerostack.com or follow us on Twitter @ZeroStackInc.

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Cloud services compared, or why I’m all-in on Apple but not on iCloud – 9 to 5 Mac

March 29, 2017 | Author: admin

Ive been an Apple guy sinceforever. I bought the very first Macintosh back in 1984. My current mobile technology line-up is a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 11-inch MacBook Air (now just a backup Mac), 9.7-inch iPad Pro and an iPhone SE. Im all-in on Apple, and the ecosystem is a large part of that. Things may not always Just Work, but the Apple ecosystem gets closer to that than anyone else.

However, while I do make some use of iCloud, Im not all-in on Apples cloud storage. In this piece, I compare the main cloud services out there, and finallydescribe the mix-and-match approach I use to get what I consider to be the best of all worlds

There are, of course, an almost infinite number of players out there. Some of the smaller services have their benefits and their fans, but Im focusing here on the major players for one crucial reason: you dont want to entrust your data to a company that may be here today, gone tomorrow. Cloud storage is one area where I only trust the big boys because they arentgoing to disappear overnight.

You could argue that Google Drive might be an exception. The company is notorious for launching services with much fanfare and then quietly shuttering them some way down the line. ButGoogle isnt going to risk its reputation by closing a core service, and one for which migrating services would be a major hassle.

Another reason to stick to major services is we can be confident in their fallback plans. Smaller services may have super-robust backup regimes, but I wouldnt rely on this. The big companies haveextensive mirroring systems.

That doesnt mean any of them are infallible. You should never depend on any cloud service as your sole backup. But the big four will be a safer bet than a smaller company.

Im also excludingAmazon Drive,because it forces you to use its own top-level directory structure (Documents, Pictures, Videos) rather than allowing you to mirror or choose your own, and because its Mac and iOS apps suck.

Lets start withApples own offering, iCloud.

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Pros

iCloud is the obvious solution to anyone who exclusively uses Apple kit. In principle, it meets the Just Works criteria: activate it on all your devices, and you get easy access to all your data from calendar, notes and photos through to iWork documents. Your iOS devices also get automatically backed-up to iCloud at the flick of a virtual switch. It requires no setup, no effort. You also a bigger range of storage tier options than other services, from 50GB at the lower end to 2TB at the top end.

Cons

If you need the 1TB option, which is the most likely tier for those making substantial use of cloud storage, iCloud is a little more expensive than most competitors given that Apple offers no discounted annual subscription. iCloud seems to suffer more outages than competing services, and can be glitchy. At the trivial end of the scale, it can take several minutes for a new file or edit on one device to show up on others; at the more serious end, it can cause chaos if you have more than one Mac with different sized drives. Finally, iCloud is clunky to use from non-Apple devices.

In my view, the service against which all others must be compared.

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For me, the crucial benefit of Dropbox is speed and reliability. Ive tried all the main services over the years, and Dropbox has always been 100% reliable and has consistentlysynced within seconds. Thats a killer feature right there, in my view. Its also really easy to use just create a Dropbox folder and drag-and-drop things into it. If you want your entire Mac online, just put all your document folders inside your Dropbox folder, and they will then be available locally and in the cloud. Dropbox also provides a really easy way to share both files and folders with people:simply copy them into your public folder and right-click to get a link you can share via email or IM.

Cons

There are no storage tiers between the free 2GB and the $9.99/month 1TB level though you can earn extra storage through referrals. There are no real-time collaboration tools.

A no-brainer place to store your iPhone photo backups.

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Google Drive gives you a generous 15GB free, and it also adds unlimited free storage for your Google Docs, Sheets and Slides files and supports real-time collaboration on these. It also offers a maximum storage tier of a massive 10TB though at a much stiffer price than Dropboxs $20/user/month for unlimited storage.

But the killer feature of Google Drive is that you get completely free storage of photos up to 16MP. That means that you can store absolutely all of youriPhone and iPad photosin full resolution completely free of charge! Use the Google Photosapp to automatically backup photos to Google Drive and you dont even have to think about it. You also get unlimited free storage of videos, but only at 1080p, not 4K.

Cons

The main drawback of Google Drive and the reason I rejected it as my own primary cloud storage service is that uploads are slow. It doesnt matter how fast your broadband connection, files just drag themselves onto the drive reluctantly. Single files are no problem, but as soon as you find yourself uploading a whole folder of larger files, be prepared to wait a while.

As youd expect, this is primarily aimed at Windows and Office users.

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If youre an Office user who likes to have ongoing access to the latest versions, OneDrive is a bargain offeringa free Office 365 subscription for less than competing services charge for their 1TB tier without freebies. It also offers real-time collaboration on Office documents.

Cons

Office is only licensed for a single Mac, iPad and iPhone, so youre out of luck if you use more than one of any of these. Also,although your OneDrive documents are available to multiple devices, if you accidentally delete one, you can only retrieve it from the device on which you deleted it so not idealfor those who work from one device at home and another while mobile. Neither Mac nor iOS apps are great. Really, this is a service designed for Windows users and it feels like it.

I have a 50GB iCloud account, and use iCloud for my core services. My calendar and notes are on iCloud, and I greatly value having (mostly) seamless access to these between devices.I use Messages and FaceTime as my primary chat and audio/video call apps. I also use iCloud as the primary backup for my iPhone and iPad, though I also do occasional encrypted backups to iTunes, especially before upgrading devices.

I use Google Photos to automatically backup my photos. I have the Google Photos app running on all my devices iPhone, iPad and Mac and find it fantastic to have unlimited storage free of charge. To me, this is an absolute n0-brainer.

But my primary cloud storage service is a 1TB Dropbox account. On my Mac, my Dropbox sits at the top-level in my account folder, and everything else is stored in sub-folders within this. This means that all of my documents and media are available to me on any device, including on the web.Ive used it for several years now, and as I said earlier, have found it 100% reliable and super-fast to sync.

Finally, Im a huge believer in belt-and-braces. When Im working on something important, like a novel, I copy it to multiple places. It already sits on Dropbox automatically, but I also make manual copies toiCloud and to my (free) Google Drive account.

What about you? Do share your own approach to cloud services in the comments.

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The 4 Best Dividend Stocks in Cloud Computing – Motley Fool

March 29, 2017 | Author: admin

Cloud companies often generate high sales growth with thin margins. They aren't usually associated with dividends, which generally indicate that a tech company's high growth days are over.

Yet there are still a handful of stocks that expose investors to the growing cloud market while paying dependable dividends. Let's take a closer look at four such companies -- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE).

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Microsoft's commercial cloud business hit an annual runrate of over $14 billion last quarter -- a 49% jump from a year earlier. CEO Satya Nadella expects that figure to hit $20 billion, or nearly a fifth of Microsoft's revenue, in fiscal 2018.That business generates most of its revenue from three cloud services -- Office 365, Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management), and the Azure cloud platform. Azure -- the second largest cloud platform after Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) AWS (Amazon Web Services) -- hosts applications, analyzes data, and loans out computing power.

Microsoft pays a forward dividend yield of 2.4%, which is supported by a payout ratio of 69%. The company has raised that payout annually for 13 straight years. Analysts expect Microsoft's revenue and earnings to respectively rise 5% and 7% this year, but its valuation looks a bit rich at 31 times earnings.

IBM's cloud business achieved an annual runrate of $13.7 billion last quarter, growing 35% from a year earlier and accounting for 17% of its top line. Within that total, its cloud services had an annual run rate of $8.6 billion -- a 61% jump from 2015.Big Blue bundles all its public, private, and hybrid cloud services into a platform called the IBM Cloud. Notable products in that suite include its AI platform Watson, Blockchain for digital transactions, and the Bluemix platform, which competes against AWS and Azure.

Big Blue pays a forward dividend yield of 3.2% with a payout ratio of 44%. It's raised that dividend annually for 17 straight years. Its P/E of 14 is much lower than its industry average of 21, but analysts expect its revenue to fall 2% this year and for its earnings to rise just 2%.

Over the past few years, Oracle has grown its cloud businesses to offset sluggish demand for its aging database and hardware products. These products include a mix of SaaS, PaaS (platform as a service), and IaaS (infrastructure as a service) products -- whichachieved a non-GAAP annual run rate of $5 billion last quarter. Last quarter, Oracle's total cloud revenues rose 62% annually to $1.2 billion and accounted for 13% of the tech giant's top line.

Oracle's forward dividend yield of 1.4% is supported by a payout ratio of just 28% -- indicating that the tech giant could easily double its dividend if it wanted to. Nonetheless, Oracle's five straight years of dividend hikes have kept the yield well below 2%. Analysts expect Oracle's revenue and earnings to both rise just 1% this year, but its multiple of 21 is well below the industry average of 54 for application software makers.

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise retained HP's enterprise hardware and software businesses after splitting with the PC, printing, and imaging businesses in late 2015. Shortly after the split, HPE shut downits Helion public cloud platform, which couldn't compete against larger rivals like AWS. But HPE continued providing support for private and hybrid cloud deployments, and tethered those systems to AWS, Azure, and other leading public cloud platforms. HPE's adjusted software revenue fell 1% annually last quarter, but within that business, its cloud software as a service (SaaS) revenue rose6%.

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HPE's forward yield of 1.1% looks paltry, but its payout ratio of 13% suggests that there's plenty of room for growth. Wall Street expects HPE's revenue and earnings to remain nearly flat this year, due to sluggish enterprise spending, but its trailing P/E of 12 makes it one of the cheapest large cap tech plays on the market today.

Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and HPE often showcase their cloud growth, but none of these mature companies are generating massive growth. That's because they're relying heavily on cloud growth to offset weakness as their older businesses -- like Microsoft's Windows, IBM's hardware and IT services, Oracle's database systems, and HPE's aging enterprise hardware and software.Investors should weigh the pros and cons of these companies before investing in them as cloud or income plays.

Teresa Kersten is an employee of LinkedIn and is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. Leo Sun owns shares of Amazon. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Amazon. The Motley Fool owns shares of Oracle. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing Keys To Climate Change Challenges – CleanTechnica

March 29, 2017 | Author: admin

Published on March 29th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley

March 29th, 2017 by Steve Hanley

If the human race has any hope of meeting the challenge of climate change, it will need to think its way out of the conundrum it has wrought. People need meaningful work to do. Business owners need profits to stay in business. Commerce takes energy lots of it to keep chugging ahead. But work and commerce generate effluent that poisons the land, the air, and the seas. The more successful mankind gets at lifting itself out of ignorance and poverty, the more it sows the seeds of its own destruction.

A few lucky souls can decamp to new colonies on Mars to escape the ravages of climate change, but that wont help the billions left behind. And whats to say our species wont pollute neighboring planets the way it did the earth? Maybe what is needed is more collaboration and more innovation. Fortunately there is a way that can happen, thanks to computational tools that werent available just a few short years ago.

Elon Musk, the foremost creative force of our time, says,

Were already a cyborg, I mean you have a digital or partial version of yourself in the form of your emails and your social media and all the things that you do and you have basically superpowers with your computer and your phone and the applications that are there.You have more power than the president of the United States had 20 years ago. You can answer any question, you can video conference with anyone anywhere, you can send a message to anyone instantly. You can just do incredible things.

One company that makes access to some of those incredible things possible is Autodesk,a company that offers cloud-based software packages for multiple industries ranging from architecture, engineering, and construction, to product design, to media and entertainment. All are offered on a subscription basis starting as low as $300 a year.

Recently, Jason Pohl, head designer for Orange County Choppers, used Autodesks Fusion 360 suite to create an all new electric motorcycle. I wanted it to stand alone, completely, he says. Using an electric motor allowed Pohl to eliminate the exhaust system and V-twin engine of other OCC designs, which opened up a whole new world of possibilities. With a slimmer drivetrain, he explains, You have room to express yourself with more creative elements that take up the whole bike.

Felix Holst and Mouse McCoy are co-founders of Hack Rod, a start up that wants to provide an end to end resource for those who want to build a custom car but dont know where to begin. They worked with Autodesk to create a unique platform that anyone, even someone without an engineering degree, can use to design a custom vehicle. Just plug in the dimensions, weight, and motive power desired and the program, which is cloud based, will spit out the best possible design.

The process takes just a few minutes as the computer runs through thousands of permutations a second. It would take a normal backyard tinker several lifetimes to explore all the possibilities. Below is a gif that shows how the process works in near real time. Prepare to be amazed!

The best part is that Holst and McCoy have programmed their software package to find suppliers who will fabricate the needed pieces often using 3-D additive printers and drop ship them directly to the customers home. No muss, no fuss. Your own personal customized car is just a few mouse clicks away.

After the program was up and running, Holst and McCoy realized that it works equally well for almost any manufactured product. With 3-D printing, the cost of one part is virtually the same on a unit basis as the cost of a component that is part of a 10,000 piece manufacturing run. So they have expanded their platform to take on manufacturing projects other than making vehicles.

Elon Musks name is never far from this kind of conversation. In conjunction with Y Combinator founder Sam Altman, he established OpenAI last year to fund and encourage research into artificial intelligence. This week, OpenAI has accomplished something truly revolutionary. It has taught AI bots to talk to each other using a machine language they have created themselves. The implications of bots that can write their own code are simply staggering.

Yes, the tasks they can accomplish are quite simple. Two of the bots are asked to find a third bot or move it to another location. And the exercise occurs in only two dimensions. But this is like the first day of school for mankind. Today, one bot can program itself to find another bot. Tomorrow it might be able to design a new solar panel or wind turbine blade or battery cell that will help power earths energy needs with clean renewable power to mitigate the effects of climate change. It might even think of a whole new way to harvest energy from nature.

Musk this week has created yet another startup called Neuralink. Listed as a medical technology company in its home state of California, its purpose is to study how to create interfaces between computers and the human brain that will boost the output speed of the human thought process. Implanting chips in our brains may be one way of accomplishing that.Musk points out that a computer can perform millions of calculations in the time it takes a person to send a text message. The human brain is just too slow for Elons liking. If we could boost that output speed, maybe we could find answers to lifes important issues faster.

The internet has always held out the possibility of connecting billions of human minds together in a way that would promote advanced solutions to mankinds most pressing problems like climate change. But it has also become a force for separating us into disparate groups who loathe each other Christians vs. Muslims, blacks vs. whites, those who urinate standing up vs. those who do it sitting down, those on that side of the Mexican border vs. those on this side of it, those with one kind of ID vs. those without the magic talisman.Technology is excellent at slicing and dicing us into smaller and smaller groups so marketers and politicians can leverage that information to get us to do what they want.

What is really needed, though, is new ideas that prevent the digital universe from turning us all into two legged protoplasmic containers of hate, ready to battle each other to the death at the drop of a slogan or presidential Tweet. So far, no one has figured out the answer to the most important question of all how to train our digital assistants not to exacerbate humanitys baser instincts.

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Tags: AI bots, Autodesk, Elon Musk, Hack Rod, Neuralink, OpenAI

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MSPAlliance, Ingram Micro Roll Out Cloud Certification for MSPs – MSPmentor

March 29, 2017 | Author: admin

MSPAlliance, the International Association of Cloud & Managed Service Providers, today announced a partnership with Ingram Micro Cloud to provide cloud certifications for MSPs.

The MSP/Cloud Verify Program culminates with an exam administered by MSPAlliance to measure proficiency toward 10 objectives set forth by the Unified Certification Standards (USC).

USC is a set of global standards and best practices for MSPs and cloud services providers.

Measuring against these 10 objectives quantifies the overall health, competency and service delivery capability of an MSP or cloud practice, a statement from MSPAlliance said.

The MSP/Cloud Verify Program aims to promote best practices and improve service delivery, the statement said.

Partnering with MSPAlliance on this initiative can help MSPs of all sizes, improve their service delivery, regardless of location, Peter Stridh, head of global cloud strategy at Ingram Micro, said in a statement.

The MSP/Cloud Verify Certification Program will be promoted among the Ingram Micro global partner community so our customers can be assured of consistent, high quality service delivery from our participating channel partners, the statement continued.

The program was rolled out during the final day of MSPAlliances MSPWorld 2017 Conference in New Orleans, which began Sunday and wrapped up today.

MSP/Cloud Verify will be further promoted at Ingram Micro Cloud Summit 2017, set for April 19-21 in Phoenix.

We are excited about this relationship with Ingram Micro and the opportunity to advance the cause of managed services throughout the world, said Celia Weaver, president of MSPAlliance. This program will help MSPs improve their service capabilities, while simultaneously providing their customers with transparency and assurance as to the professionalism of their managed service provider.

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Cloud Developer Research: AWS Crushes the High End, Challenged in the Low – ADT Magazine

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A new developer survey published by VisionMobile Ltd. examines the cloud computing space, finding that while Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) is the preferred public cloud platform across all customer and industry segments, it's somewhat challenged by competitors in certain areas.

The new "The State of the Developer Nation Q1 2017" report, based on VisionMobile's 12th Developer Economics survey, presents insights based on polling more than 21,200 developers in 162 nations around the globe.

One section of the report examines "challengers chasing the cloud prize" and reiterates the dominance of AWS in the cloud space, helped by Amazon's policy of re-investing profits from existing businesses in order to expand operations and create new businesses. While that policy paid off in growing segments like AWS, it resulted in small profits until recently.

"Their creation of the public cloud market is now paying off to such a degree they can't spend the profits fast enough," the report said of Amazon. "For several years now others have recognized the size of the prize that Amazon is chasing and raced to catch up so they could compete for a share of it."

Remarkably, AWS's growth and profitability have occurred in the midst of price wars among cloud providers. Among those competitors, the report said, only the Microsoft Azure cloud and the Google Cloud Platform can be considered as serious challengers, and then only in certain areas.

"Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular primary cloud hosting at every company size," the report said. "For the smallest companies (1-5 employees) where Amazon has just a 15 percent share, they face very credible competition from Microsoft (12 percent), Google (11 percent), and Digital Ocean (10 percent). However, when we look at larger companies, Amazon's share grows to 26-27 percent at every size, Microsoft stays in the 11-13 percent range, while Google fades along with Digital Ocean. Google has just a 5 percent share of companies with more than 5,000 employees, and Digital Ocean just 4 percent at the same size."

Similar dominance is exhibited in the all-important race for developer mindshare.

"AWS is also the most popular primary cloud host with developers regardless of targeted audience, although strongest with backend developers who target large enterprises, of whom 29 percent are primarily using AWS," the report said.

"Microsoft shows greater strength equally with developers who target large enterprises, and those who target small to medium businesses (14 percent each)," it continued. "They are weaker with those targeting consumers (11 percent) or professionals (9 percent). Google shows the opposite pattern being strongest with developers who target consumers (10 percent) but only half as popular with those who target large enterprises or internal employees."

Both Microsoft and Google are helped in their challenge to AWS by their sheer size, generating profits that enable them to compete in the extremely expensive process of setting up global networks of datacenters and fiber to support operations, the report indicated.

Company size on the other end is also important, as the report noted public cloud providers don't care much about attracting individual developers, with enterprise customers being the prized plum.

"Taking the share of primary cloud host across both company sizes and target audiences into account, we predict that AWS will continue to outpace both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, growing faster in absolute terms than both of them put together," the cloud section of the report concluded.

"We also expect Microsoft's cloud business to grow faster (again in absolute terms) than Google's in the short term, as building trust with large enterprises and a reputation for serving them well is going to take several years, however good their technology," it continued. "That said, Google is increasingly well positioned to win business from the startups that target enterprises. As companies rush to enable mobile workflows some of these startups could grow spectacularly fast, giving Google a decent shot at second place in the cloud hosting market in the longer term."

The emphasis on public cloud computing in the new VisionMobile survey -- warranting its own section -- shows how the space has grown in influence in a short period of time among developers. Take, for example, this quote from VisionMobile's Q3 2015 report: "Don't expect to see the clouds out in public. The most popular cloud development platform is decidedly private (targeted by 44 percent of developers), ahead of AWS (16 percent) and Microsoft Azure (13 percent)."

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation grows with new projects and … – TechCrunch

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF), the open source home of the increasingly popular Kubernetes container orchestration service and related projects, is hosting its annual developer conference today and the group used the event to announce that it has accepted projects from Docker (containerd) and CoreOS (rkt) into its fold.

Dockers containerdis the companys container runtime and a core part of Dockers portfolio of container management and orchestration services that was born out of Dockers need to move many of the standard container life-cycle management features out of the Docker Engine (think container execution and supervision, local storage, etc.). Through Docker, containerd is already being widely used by a large number of companies today. As Dockers Patrick Chanezon noted during his CloudNativeCon keynote in Berlin today, the company decided to donate the project to the CNCF because it was looking for a neutral organization that could provide the right kind of stewardship for it.

CoreOS rkt(pronounced rocket), on the other hand, is that companys container engine for Linux clusters. Unlike containerd, its not a daemon but a single executable that is meant to integrate with other container projects, including Kubernetes itself. While CoreOS originally launched rktas a competitor to the Docker Engine, and with a focus on its own container format, it has now become a standards-compliant container engine.

Kubernetes and other container orchestrators benefit from reliable, community-driven container runtimes, like rkt, said CNCF director Dan Kohn today. Having a container runtime engine such as rkt, along with container cluster managing system Kubernetes under a single foundation umbrella will bring huge benefits for providing solid end-user solutions to the industry.

In addition, the organization also announced a number of new members (like all Linux Foundation-managed projects, its those members that provide the financial support for the CNCFs activities).Dell is making a pretty major commitment by joining up as a Platinum member (a $370,000/year commitment ), where it joins the likes of Cisco, CoreOS, Docker, Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and others. SUSE is a new Gold-level member ($120,000/year), while HarmonyCloud, QAware, Solinea and TenxCloud arejoining as Silver members (which pay between $7,000 and $50,000, depending on the number of employees).

Open source is the key to agility in todays environment, where environments must be able to handle rapid change and evolution driven by software, said Josh Bernstein, VP of Technology for Dell EMC, in todays announcement. By joining CNCF, we are furthering our commitment to enabling transformation, while making software open, accessible and consumable as the heart of enterprise IT strategy.

As a final piece of news, the CNCFis also making the curriculum for its Kubernetes Certified Administrator Exam freely available under an open source license. While this is a not necessarily a new trend, weve seen the number of open source certification programs increase over the last few years. Other large open source projects like OpenStack and Cloud Foundry (which announced its program today) face the same talent crunch as the CNCF. They, too, are looking at these certification programs to not just certify that a potential employee knows these projects inside-out, but also to help develop a new talent pool by offering a clear curriculum for getting started with them.

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Use of Bitcoin illegal, can attract anti-money laundering law – Economic Times

March 28, 2017 | Author: admin

NEW DELHI: The government today said use of virtual currencies like Bitcoins is not authorised by RBI and could result in breach of anti-money laundering provisions.

The RBI has already cautioned users, holders and traders of virtual currency, including Bitcoin, about the potential financial, legal and security risks arising from the usage.

"The absence of counter parties in usage of virtual currencies including Bitcoins, for illicit and illegal activities in anonymous/pseudonymous systems could subject the users to unintentional breaches of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism laws," Minister of State for Finance, Arjun Ram Meghwal, said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

He further said that the creation of virtual currencies like Bitcoins as a medium of payments is not authorised by any central bank or monetary authority.

"No regulatory approval, registration or authorisation is stated to have been obtained by the entities concerned for carrying on such activities," Meghwal said.

The RBI had earlier warned that any user, holder, investor and trader dealing with virtual currencies would be doing so at his/her own risk.

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Bitcoin Casinos Are Not a Bubble, Why? – newsBTC

March 28, 2017 | Author: admin

Bitcoin is good, Bitcoin is bad. Well, which is it? If Bitcoin is bad, is money bad? Bitcoin is simply a digital form of money, so what is wrong with that?

There are talks of bubbles in both the United States political and economic power bases. Stocks are at record highs and some fear a bubble. Are Bitcoin Casinos in a bubble too? Here is why they arent.

Nowadays, there are people throwing mud everywhere. Celebrity A does not like Celebrity B, so she spreads a false rumor about her.

The same has been true for Bitcoin. Those who do not own Bitcoins are jealous, so they spread false rumors about this crypto currency. One day, they will have to admit that Bitcoin is simply a convenient way for you to make electronic transactions.

Some fear technology. Some fear progress. Some fear Bitcoin. But, if you are wise that is why you should like Bitcoin. Bitcoin is power.

Why would anyone be afraid of Bitcoin? The people who are against progress are afraid of Bitcoin. Why is Bitcoin here to stay?

The most effective money reflects the needs of the society at large. With more online financial transactions occurring every day, electronic money is a necessity. The old paper and plastic forms of money are old hat; they are grossly inefficient.

Bitcoin is an electronic currency created online and ideal for usage online. It grows as the Web grows. It is very efficient and does not require you to own a credit card.

There is no Credit Score with Bitcoin. There is no Credit Check with Bitcoin. There is no Credit Card application with Bitcoin. There is no annual percentage rate (APR) or late fees with Bitcoin. You can be free with Bitcoin.

The world is facing a revolution where the young tech-savvy masses are trying to outrun the slow, lazy government bureaucrats. The fast-moving World Wide Web and Bitcoin Casinos are new and cannot be controlled by lazy government bureaucrats.

Bitcoin gambling continues to grow in real numbers that is not true for bubbles. Bubbles involve fake speculation.

There have been some governmental actions shutting down online betting in various countries, such as Slovenia. The behind-the-times, brick-and-mortar governments are battling against the fast-moving, cutting-edge online gamblers. Some people have been forced to leave their home countries, in order to gamble.

People will turn to black markets to get what they want. That happened as the Soviet Union collapsed. Presently, the United States is collapsing.

Senior citizens dont understand Bitcoin Casinos. Because of this reality, Bitcoin Casinos can remain one step ahead of the posse.

People want to have some fun. Bitcoin Casinos provide them with this much-needed entertainment. Bitcoin Casinos can also be used to raise supplemental income.

Bitcoin continues to grow in importance with more global brands allowing payment therein. Lamborghini has added Bitcoin payment for its luxury automobiles. All around the world, the top brands are realizing that taking digital currencies for payment, only makes good common sense.

Who doesnt want more customers?

Bitcoin is not a bubble because there are still Bitcoins being mined. A bubble occurs after an asset has peaked. Experts see that Bitcoin has a bright future. In fact, Bitcoin has just passed the value of gold in 2017. The Bitcoin community is amped! Get on board before the train leaves the station!

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