Category: Azure

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: As of 29 May 2019, we've sunsetted Puppet Discovery and Puppet Pipelines.The journey to pervasive automation isn’t quite as daunting if you have the right tools in hand. Having a better means to discover what’s in hybrid infrastructures, and then take the management and automation actions needed to drive more business value are great first steps. It’s why we released Puppet Enterprise® 2018.1 and its expanded enterprise-class features and the new, generally available Puppet Discovery™ — and plan to launch Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise on 6 June 2018.What we launchedKey ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; In the spirit of automating the software all around us, we’re excited to announce new partnerships and programs that help our customers scale automation success broadly. We partner with leading cloud, networking and security companies to help solve more of our joint customers challenges as they move forward in their automation journey. To start, we’ve announced new offerings for Azure and Windows to help customers scale automation across their on-premises and cloud infrastructure. These latest offerings include specific modules and a new program to help accelerate migration to the cloud:Auto-generated Azure ARM module: ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: As of 29 May 2019, we've sunsetted Puppet Discovery. Check out Puppet Remediate.We’re thrilled today to announce the upcoming general availability of Puppet Discovery, our new solution to seamlessly discover and take action against a disparate set of traditional and modern resources. On 8 May, you’ll be able to download Puppet Discovery to begin automating your entire infrastructure.Today’s infrastructure is incredibly complex. You are juggling a combination of traditional infrastructure, cloud-based resources, containers, and serverless functions. IT organizations aren’t simply a collection of physical machines and VMs anymore.The movement from traditional ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; In this second part of this blog series we are going to review some implementation time details that I encounter often with new users and customers. Part 1 can be found here and I would recommend reading that prior to this post.ImplementationWhich release?Puppet Enterprise has two release trains: LTS (long-term support) and STS (short-term support). Depending on what is important to your organization, you may choose one release train over the other. The LTS is designed for ~24 month supported life cycles, and the STS release train is 6 months and “new feature” ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Siddharth Deekshit. Today’s Q&A post covers an interview between Siddharth Deekshit, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery engineering and Quentin Drion, IT Director of Infrastructure and Operations, MSC. MSC is a global shipping and logistics business, our conversation focused on their organization’s journey with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). To learn more about achieving resilience in Azure, refer to this whitepaper. I wanted to start by understanding the transformation journey that MSC is going through, including consolidating on Azure. Can you talk about how Azure is helping you run your business today? We are a shipping ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; It’s been another busy month on the Forge, with lots of updates and fixes to some of our most popular Windows modules. This month there are updates to our IIS, VSCode, SQL modules — and more! Don’t forget that you can subscribe to modules to get notified of new releases. Puppet now supports IIS 10 in the latest puppetlabs-iis moduleThis is a feature release, with IIS 10 and Server 2016 Core support. This includes the PowerShell module for the existing types:iis_siteiis_applicationiis_application_poolIis_virtual_directoryAdditional features in this release: Added support for IIS 10 (Server 2016) Added ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Siddharth Deekshit. Today’s Q&A post covers an interview between Siddharth Deekshit, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery engineering and Quentin Drion, IT Director of Infrastructure and Operations, MSC. MSC is a global shipping and logistics business, our conversation focused on their organization’s journey with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). To learn more about achieving resilience in Azure, refer to this whitepaper. I wanted to start by understanding the transformation journey that MSC is going through, including consolidating on Azure. Can you talk about how Azure is helping you run your business today? We are a shipping ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: ajit jaokar. In the previous post, ten strategies to implement ai on the cloud and edge, I discussed strategies for end to end deployment for machine learning modules. How this relates to Agile? Deployment of AI comes within the scope the normal SDLC (software development lifecycle) So, normal Agile techniques like scrum, sprints, backlog planning, release planning, test driven development and acceptance criteria also apply to deployment of machine learning models in production. However, combining DevOps with development adds an extra level of complexity to machine learning. We need end to ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Rick Negrin. There is a trend in industry which says that modern applications need to be built on top of one or more special-purpose databases. That every application benefits from using the best-of-breed technology for each requirement. And that the plethora of special-purpose options available from certain cloud providers is reasonable to manage. That’s all BUNK. The reality is that navigating the choices, figuring out how to use them effectively, and dealing with the ETL and inevitable data sprawl, is so difficult that the pain far outweighs any technical advantage you might get. In the vast ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Meenoo Rami. In October 2018, we announced the Microsoft Higher Education Accelerator, enabling ISVs and other solution providers to quickly build industry vertical solutions tailored for higher education. Since then, we have updated the accelerator with new scenarios to help institutions transform how they engage with students and their constituents and improve student outcomes.Our latest version, now generally available, extends the Common Data Model scenarios to include new entities, sample apps, and analytics for business partner management and student accomplishments. The accelerator also includes entities around internships, scholarships, grants, and more.About the industry acceleratorOne ... Read More