Taashee Linux Services to focus upon IoT, ML/AI and HCI at OSI 2018

 

Open Source India 2018 at NIMHANS Convention Center in Bengaluru this October will try to focus upon a wide range of technology concepts in contrast. Taashee Linux Services in the capacity of Silver Sponsor invites CIOs from organizations of various domains such as Healthcare, Technology, Finance, and more.

Let me walk through you those concepts in detail for your knowledge.

The four themes that OSI 2018 will focus upon and dealt by Taashee Linux Services are:

Internet of Things (IoT)

Ever heard of Bluemix, Blockchain, IoTivity, Arduino, and ThingSpeak? You guessed it rightly. All of them are free (Internet of Things) IoT development tools and applications. The operating crux of all the software applications is a processor synced with sensors and actuators to take care of the local processing issues.

Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (ML&AI)

Mobile Application development is one of the hot areas where ML/AI is applied deeply. It has motivated Google to venture into TensorFlow, an open source framework to represent dataflows and computations with respect to machine learning as well as artificial intelligence. Realistically, all the algorithms based upon such frameworks are applied in the medical field saving many a life.

Hyperconvergence

VMware implements a concept called Hyperconvergence through its own developed Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) increasingly, which involves a combination of Storage, Computing and Networking implemented in a single system. The intent is to lessen the data center complexities and to extend scalability.

Blockchains, AI and Chatbots – The Surge of Next Gen Technologies

Deloitte LLP report suggests that finance wings of future enterprises will test and adopt Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and chatbot technologies. The obvious reason for them undergo such a sea change is speeding up the business processes while keeping the operational costs minimum.

I will now have a closer look at all the three technologies – Blockchain, AI and chatbot.

Blockchain

Blockchain is a cluster of blocks linked internally with the help of cryptography. Largely regarded to be invented by a person named Satoshi Nakamoto, it allows users to makes entries besides a group of people controlling the information made available.

Cryptocurrencies are mostly associated with blockchains. However, a blockchain is capable of handling much more than just virtual money. As technology gets more advanced, your security and privacy becomes even more important than ever.

• UPS is a shipping service company that has adopted blockchain in recent times. This observation has resulted in it joining Blockchain in Trucking Alliance (BiTA).
• NTS (National Transportation Capacity), the largest electric bus operators in China joined hands with Seven Stars Cloud Group (SSC) in order to implement blockchain.

There are several other instances in which blockchain has become the crux for many a company.

Artificial Intelligence

The intelligence displayed by machines in accordance to the usual intelligence displayed by humans is what AI is all about. John McCarthy from the University of Stanford is one of the founding fathers of AI along with Newell and Simon who designed the concept.

• Google chose DeepMind as the in-charge to implement AI for cooling its data center resulting in an increase in energy efficiency.
• Amazon seeks solace in AI for its recommendation system offering suggestions based upon what your Facebook friends like, for instance.

In  fact, the technology is not confined to Blockchain or AI alone, but extended to chatbots as well. Let us have a quick look at chatbot now.

Chatbots

A chatbot is an interactive converational agent also known as IM bot besides several other names. Joseph Weizenbaum is credited to have implemented the first successfull chatbot developed back in 1966.

• Live Chat bots are a huge rage these days with almost every website having it. In fact, you have Driftbot offering you a personal assistant for any task you perform upon the website.
• Wix has got its own Artificial Intelligence Design bot that is capable of customizing your website based upon the requirements of other people’s requirements.

However, these technologies are not confined to few implementations alone but are known to expand their horizons with features, platforms and domains that are beyond your imagination.

Nagios Plugins – Create Customized Plugins to Monitor Everything

Nagios plugins allow users in monitoring databases, operating systems, applications, network equipment, protocols, and more. They are available if you build your own Nagios Exchange in which a number of other plugins contributed by Nagios Community members too are available. It serves as a central place for various Nagios projects with the availability of thousands of plugins besides addons, enhancements and extensions.

Nagios Plugin Development Tools

Planning to write a customized Nagios plug-in on your own? By accessing Nagios plugin development tool, it is possible to create a plug-in without actually writing any code. Besides, the maintenance of GNU standards makes them platform independent and language independent. The plugins developed thus are used for a variety of reasons such as hardware configuration and system testing.

Watch YouTube Video: How to develop your own plug-in?

Nagios Monitoring Frameworks

By making use of frameworks, it is possible to write plugins capable of handling simple to complex operations. Based upon their nature of composure, some of them faster and some others flexible. Given below are some of them for your quick reference.

• Shinken – This framework is for managing large environments with flexibility
• nagios-rb – This framework is helpful for writing Nagios plugins quickly
• Kunjumon – This framework ensures robust plugins are created without any new code.

Nagios Plugin Packages

Monitoring not just Nagios systems but also the compatible ones such as Icinga is possible with plugin packages (including the official one) available. In fact, the official package consists of over 50 plugins covering all the aspects of monitoring in detail. The benefits of these packages include easy deployment and proper integration besides timely generation of warning statuses and alert messages.

 

 

Microsoft Updates: 4 Latest Ones You Should not Miss

Microsoft announced several changes and added new features in recent times that will matter technology enthusiasts a lot. Here’s having a quick go at them.

Microsoft Teams: Deriving more value from Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft’s annual Inspire event this time at Vegas proved to be a point of difference to the software teams working in collaboration for various projects. SMEs and startups focusing upon Application Development have got an easy way to coordinate with Microsoft Teams. This is because of the Slack competitor’s announcement that the FREE version is now available to them.

Microsoft Whiteboard: The Infinite Canvas is a reflection of Surface Hub display

Windows users got the surprise of the year in December with Microsoft announcing the availability of White Board. The handy drawing app allows users to draw and scribble with finger or marker. Soon, the app is made available for iOS users as well. The advanced features include imaging and tabulating, which comply to the global standards.

Microsoft Azure: New WAN Options for better business management

Azure Virtual WAN allows network admins to control and manage data among wide-area networks with a single dashboard working as a centralized hub. The second one in line is Azure Firewall, which makes businesses secure their network resources. The final offering is Azure Data Box Service to be made available in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse: New instant data movement technology

Azure SQL Data Warehouse from MS has been the crux for big data workloads since a long time. According to Microsoft CTO Raghu Ramakrishnan, the time is now ripe to embrace the new instant data movement technology. It became possible after the data movement layer was integrated into the SQL Server engine giving a thrust to the datawarehousing service.

Source: TechCrunch

Rubrik set to expand in India, releases Polaris to secure business applications

• Rubrik targets supporting NoSQL database management
• Rubrik relies upon Atlas – a cloud-scale file system with robust features
• Rubrik Datos IO focuses upon MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB and more

Rubrik, the emerging leader in data recovery and backup services, plans to implement featured support for NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Couchbase, and more. Besides being a Data Backup & Recovery specialist, Rubrik manages on-premise and cloud environments with equal ease. As part of its business strategy, it now invests into NoSQL databases with the principal aim of managing and supporting them and the result is the acquisition of Datos IO.

Modern enterprises have got their own reasons to prefer NoSQL cloud databases. Not delving into the details, the two primary ones are:

• To undergo Digital Transformation
• To implement AI strategies

Founded in 2014, the strategic level management behind Rubrik are the engineers from Google, and Oracles besides Facebook. Currently, it is at an aggressively expansion mode in India because of the importance given to cloud data management.

According to Bipul Sinha, the CEO and Co-Founder of Rubrik, the Palo Alto-based firm sees India as a destination because of the rapid trends occurring in the IT field leading to Digital Transformation. Rubrik’s recent launch is its flagship product Polaris known for the security and compliance it offers to any business application.

For all your Rubrik implementations, solutions and requirements, please email us at info@taashee.com

VMware widens its business strategies for Mobile Security, Digital Transformation and Women’s Leadership

VMware did merge with its parent company Dell Technologies already right? Now, is Dell getting reverse merged into VMware? What does that mean to their businesses, to their stakeholders, and most importantly, to their customers. Corporate lessons to be learnt from the Dell and VMware merger right from the onset.  Amidst all these business turnarounds, you need to shift your focus on the technology front with the kind of features and services VMware is focusing upon.

Mobile Security

Microsoft has been the unheralded leader in the Mobile Security zone globally. Is it possible for VMware to take it on? If so, then how? Crucial steps have already been taken in this regard as Okta comes forward to share its technology implemented for secure logins with VMware. Now, the digital workspace platform from VMware could be made best use by professionals who rely upon mobile networks using portable devices such as laptops and smartphones.

Digital Transformation

VMware has identified it rightly that the concept of Digital Transformation has to be implemented smartly. The approach is simple and it’s all about extending its expertise to overseas technology hubs such as India and APAC. VMware is capable of implementing technological infrastructure effectively considering the fact that it has been in the business for years. The company has got a lot to focus upon other aspects such as business continuity too.

Women’s Leadership

Palo Alto in California has witnessed a sea change in the attitude of corporate firms with VMware spearheading through the setup of a Women’s Leadership Innovative Lab. The chief intent behind the opening of such a unique lab is to empower women. The impending collaboration between VMware and Stanford University stands testimony to the fact of changing times ahead.

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Nagios Core – Monitor your Networks, Servers, Infrastructure and Applications

Nagios Core is a tool to reckon with when monitoring matters you the most. Whether it is

• Network Monitoring
• Server Monitoring
• Infrastructure Monitoring
• Applications Monitoring

the features provided in Nagios Core stand out with latest updates released year after year. Given below are some of the benefits streamlining its importance.

Faster Performance

Nagios uses lesser number of resources in comparison to Zabbix. Hence, it is possible to identify network outages and storage issues faster than other tools. Though there are Chef and Puppet available with respect to configuration management, the ease offered by Nagios is still unbeatable. Graphical representations and detailed stats are still a fancy with this monitoring tool.

Vast Reach

Nagios is ideal for those environments where there are a lot of requirements of monitoring. Though it might take quite a bit of effort during the initial stages such as installation, the results produced would be far more effective besides you have got nothing to spend. You might have to install plug-ins depending upon your exact monitoring needs.

Advanced Support

Network Monitoring with Nagios provides numerous benefits to you on the support front. Firstly, you can precisely determine the exact network transfer rates. It will even lets you know about outages and overloads upon your network. By installing relevant Nagios plug-in, you can assess bandwidth usage, and analyze download speed.

Plugin Directory

Nagios Core provides the largest directory of in-built plug-ins any other monitoring tool could ever offer you extending capabilities such as CPU usage. However, the biggest challenge is to install and customize them as per your needs. The use of text files to configure them individually makes a strenuous effort. Hence, the tool could be best equipped for static environments.

Consistent Updates

Focusing upon the fact that Nagios is one of the best open source monitoring tools around, it is necessary to stay in tune with the number of updates released each year. Your improving network infrastructure could be best complemented with the latest versions released each year. Also, the availability of advanced support from the growing Nagios Community is handy as well.

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Red Hat and Microsoft Azure unveils their first OpenShift in Public Cloud

Red Hat has set its sight upon Container Management with a strategic view. Stemming out of increasing competition across the globe, the open source Linux platform has come up with OpenShift launched in the public cloud for the first time after teaming up Microsoft Azure. The partnership between the two archrivals will also mean an increase in developer productivity extensively within Red Hat partner groups and other organizations. The OpenShift cloud is a result of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes run across Azure. It is now estimated that by 2020 over half of the organizations internationally would be running container applications, as per a Gartner report.

Red Hat OpenShift on Azure is a result of the increasing complexities in managing applications across containers. Additionally, there is an escalating need to manage applications over the cloud and on premises as well. It has resulted in creating a flexible environment wherein developers would be able to move their applications easily among various on-premise environments. The consideration of a hybrid cloud makes the tasks highly manageable because of the dynamic container platform leading to increased consistency.

Hybrid networking backed by Red Hat paves way for optimum security involving Azure and OpenShift clusters on premise.

Benefits of Red Hat OpenShift

• Security

There is not just one benefits aplenty with the integration of Azure and Red Hat with the increase in productivity. The biggest advantage is that the users get to access all the rest of services of Azure such as Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure SQL DB and so on.

• Support

Any user relying upon Red Hat OpenShift platform will experience benefits that are doubly advantageous to them. The support teams from Red Hat and Microsoft Azure will assist upon a wide range of features including containerized applications and operating systems.

• Flexibility

Microsoft Azure results in leveraging a dynamic container platform like Kubernetes in OpenShift. It allows customers in realizing a flexible means of managing their applications. The result will be the complete lifecycle management of applications using Microsoft infrastructure.

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