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IBM is partnering with AWS, Azure and GCP to unleash the power of cloud

According to a recent study, 98 percent of enterprises surveyed plan to use multiple hybrid clouds within three years. This may include the use of multiple cloud providers including IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or traditional on-premises environments.
The IBM approach is to meet you wherever you are on your cloud journey and support your choice of cloud.
While every enterprise has unique business and IT requirements, we often find customers in one of these two scenarios:
Scenario 1
An organization is using a public cloud and wants to expand workloads and applications to other clouds. However, leaders need to know that there are minimal risks of building and managing on those clouds.
Each cloud provider or Kubernetes solution comes with its own tools and operations, so managing a multicloud Kubernetes environment can be overwhelming. Business leaders, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs) and IT operations can use a single, integrated dashboard to manage applications and resources across traditional and multicloud environments in ways that deliver visibility, governance and automation.
Scenario 2
An organization wants a provider that helps it modernize and innovate faster.
Developing game-changing applications still requires being able to modernize and make use of existing investments. IBM supports an open ecosystem with consistent management of a full application lifecycle. Because the IBM Cloud management framework is open and supports AWS, Azure and GCP, enterprises can modernize and innovate faster and with ease.
For example, IBM middleware investments are further extended with an application modernization strategy that can span public clouds. Application workloads on public clouds may also benefit from IBM middleware implementing data analytics services.
Organizations can continue deploying these products in their environments by using IBM Cloud Private on AWS, Azure or GCP. This approach offers the best of both worlds. 
Demand choice and drive innovation
Even if you already have an established cloud strategy that includes the use of a public cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, GCP or IBM Cloud, IBM will meet you where you are and ensure that you have a choice of cloud models: public, dedicated, private and managed. It’s vital that you can run your workloads and develop amazing applications on the model that fits your needs.
Learn about the solutions and samples in each architecture that provide a roadmap to build, extend and deploy an application.

Schedule a no-charge consultation and meet with an IBM Cloud expert to discuss your team’s unique cloud journey.
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Now generally available: Plug-in for VMware vRealize Automation

Today, we’re announcing that our plug-in for VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is now generally available for all users, providing an additional way for VMware customers to manage and consume Google Cloud resources.IT operators can use Google-provided blueprints or build their own blueprints for Google Cloud resources such as VM instances, Google Kubernetes Engine clusters, and Cloud Storage buckets to publish to the vRA service catalog. End users can select and launch resources in a predictable manner using familiar tools.In this launch, we have added a number of new features and enhancements based on customer feedback. The following are some of the key features and improvements in addition to reliability and performance updates:New featuresSupport for new services: GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Filestore (beta), and IAM Service AccountsImproved VM Instance workflows including set Windows password, execute SSH command, retrieve serial port output, and restore from snapshotEnhancementsSupport for http proxy settings when creating a connection.Workflows to simplify the import of XaaS custom resources and blueprints into vRA.Default options for the create VM Instance workflow.View estimated monthly cost in the create VM Instance workflow.Workflows to capture errors and optionally email to support.Improved connection synchronization handling on vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) clusters.First-class support for health check management.User documentation for vRO scripting objects.To download the plug-in and get started, visit the Google solutions page.To learn more about how you can adapt your existing technology to a hybrid cloud, visit our hybrid cloud solutions page. You can also find more information on vRA and the plug-in by reading VMware’s blog.
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Nasa: SLS scheitert auf Raten

Die neue Schwerlastrakete der Nasa muss per Gesetz gebaut werden. Aber Missionen sollen auf andere Raketen umgebucht und Geld für die Weiterentwicklung gestrichen werden. Es war ein lange absehbares Desaster, das die Schwächen der heutigen Raumfahrt und ihre Angst vor der Technik zeigt. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Raumfahrt, Technologie)
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Kodi mit Raspberry Pi: Pimp up your Hi-Fi-Receiver

Wer seine digitale Musiksammlung sinnvoll nutzen will, kommt an einem vernetzten Receiver kaum vorbei. Doch trotz vieler Funktionen und Anschlüsse der getesteten Geräte haben wir uns am Ende für eine Eigenbaulösung entschieden. Eine Anleitung von Friedhelm Greis (Raspberry Pi, Film)
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