Microsoft Smears Premium Shine on Azure Functions

The Azure Functions Premium product tackles serverless challenges like cold start, network...

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Dish Gets Deadline Reprieve in FCC Merger Approval

“The framework established by the FCC will facilitate and accelerate Dish’s entry as a new...

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Vitess Earns Vernerable CNCF’s Graduate Distinction

It was the second cloud-based storage project accepted by the CNCF in 2018 and the eighth project...

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Depend on Docker for Kubeflow

Run Kubeflow natively on Docker Desktop for Mac or Windows

This is a guest post by Alex Iankoulski, Docker Captain and full stack software and infrastructure architect at Shell New Energies. The views expressed here are his own and are neither opposed or endorsed by Shell or Docker. 

In this blog, I will show you how to use Docker Desktop for Mac or Windows to run Kubeflow. To make this easier, I used my Depend on Docker project, which you can find on Github.

Rationale

Even though we are experiencing a tectonic shift of development workflows in the cloud era towards hosted and remote environments, a substantial amount of work and experimentation still happens on developer’s local machines. The ability to scale down allows us to mimic a cloud deployment locally and enables us to play, learn quickly, and make changes in a safe, isolated environment. A good example of this rationale is provided by Kubeflow and MiniKF.

Overview

Since Kubeflow was first released by Google in 2018, adoption has increased significantly, particularly in the data science world for orchestration of machine learning pipelines. There are various ways to deploy Kubeflow both on desktops and servers as described in Continue reading

A Step Further in Making Pakistan Digitally Accessible

In a bid to improve digital accessibility in Pakistan – a country with about 30 million persons with disability (PWDs), according to the World Health Organization –  we recently partnered with the Ministry of IT (MoIT) and the National IT Board (NITB) so that more existing government websites could include accessibility features and future websites could incorporate such designs. We set out to make five websites more accessible – as a start – and are already seeing encouraging results.

According to local study and research paper, a majority of websites in Pakistan, including government, are not accessible for PWDs. PWDs face various challenges in using websites based on their impairment.

For example, persons with visual impairments can face compatibility challenges when screen reader software is used to access visual displays that are not labelled or hyperlinks that do not make sense when read out of context. Those with low vision are not able to access websites that cannot be adjusted for font type and size, contrast, and use of colors, and individuals who are deaf are not able to understand the narration in an online video if it is not properly captioned.

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Fortinet Locks SD-WAN, WAF Into Azure

The deeper integration provide a consistent operational security model for customers running...

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What’s new with Workers KV?

What’s new with Workers KV?
What’s new with Workers KV?

The Storage team here at Cloudflare shipped Workers KV, our global, low-latency, key-value store, earlier this year. As people have started using it, we’ve gotten some feature requests, and have shipped some new features in response! In this post, we’ll talk about some of these use cases and how these new features enable them.

New KV APIs

We’ve shipped some new APIs, both via api.cloudflare.com, as well as inside of a Worker. The first one provides the ability to upload and delete more than one key/value pair at once. Given that Workers KV is great for read-heavy, write-light workloads, a common pattern when getting started with KV is to write a bunch of data via the API, and then read that data from within a Worker. You can now do these bulk uploads without needing a separate API call for every key/value pair. This feature is available via api.cloudflare.com, but is not yet available from within a Worker.

For example, say we’re using KV to redirect legacy URLs to their new homes. We have a list of URLs to redirect, and where they should redirect to. We can turn this list into JSON that Continue reading

29 top cloud certifications

When it comes to the most in-demand skills, the cloud is the place to be. Our guide to top cloud certifications looks at programs designed for AWS, Google and Microsoft services -- as well as vendor-neutral certifications.

Cisco Meraki ups security with new switch, software

Cisco Meraki has introduced new hardware and software the company says will help customers more effectively support and secure a wide variety of distributed network resources.The new products, which include a raft of new security features as well a new class of switches and a cellular gateway will help Meraki address customers who perhaps don’t have the IT expertise nor staffing to support the increasing number of devices that need to be managed, said Lawrence Huang, vice president of product management at Cisco Meraki.Network pros react to new Cisco certification curriculum “Threat vectors are evolving and the way customers need to protect themselves need to evolve as well – how customers support applications and IoT devices exemplify the idea its not just one perimeter that needs protecting but a collection of micorperimenters,” Huang said.To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco Meraki ups security with new switch, software

Cisco Meraki has introduced new hardware and software the company says will help customers more effectively support and secure a wide variety of distributed network resources.The new products, which include a raft of new security features as well a new class of switches and a cellular gateway will help Meraki address customers who perhaps don’t have the IT expertise nor staffing to support the increasing number of devices that need to be managed, said Lawrence Huang, vice president of product management at Cisco Meraki.Network pros react to new Cisco certification curriculum “Threat vectors are evolving and the way customers need to protect themselves need to evolve as well – how customers support applications and IoT devices exemplify the idea its not just one perimeter that needs protecting but a collection of micorperimenters,” Huang said.To read this article in full, please click here

AMD Epyc processors continue to gain momentum

Sales of AMD's Epyc server processors grew more than 50% over the second quarter of this year, thanks in part to the second-generation “Rome” platform in August.Q3 was a bang-up quarter for the rebounding company, with third-quarter revenue of $1.8 billion, a 9.1% year-over-year increase, and net income of 18 cents per share, in line with analyst projections. This was AMD's best quarter for revenue since 2005, when AMD was super hot and Intel was spinning its wheels.More importantly, CEO Lisa Su, in reporting the company's third quarter earnings, said AMD is on track to reach double-digit server CPU share by the middle of next year. Just a few years ago, Mercury Research, which tracks semiconductor market share, estimated Opteron market share at below one percent.To read this article in full, please click here

AMD Epyc processors continue to gain momentum

Sales of AMD's Epyc server processors grew more than 50% over the second quarter of this year, thanks in part to the second-generation “Rome” platform in August.Q3 was a bang-up quarter for the rebounding company, with third-quarter revenue of $1.8 billion, a 9.1% year-over-year increase, and net income of 18 cents per share, in line with analyst projections. This was AMD's best quarter for revenue since 2005, when AMD was super hot and Intel was spinning its wheels.More importantly, CEO Lisa Su, in reporting the company's third quarter earnings, said AMD is on track to reach double-digit server CPU share by the middle of next year. Just a few years ago, Mercury Research, which tracks semiconductor market share, estimated Opteron market share at below one percent.To read this article in full, please click here