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| Google Cloud Anthos now available for AWS, with Azure to follow - InfoWorld Posted: 22 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT  Google Cloud has announced that Anthos — the company's software for deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads across multiple on-prem and cloud environments — now supports running workloads on rival cloud platform Amazon Web Services (AWS), with Microsoft Azure support still in preview for now. Speaking to InfoWorld, Jennifer Lin, vice president of product management at Google Cloud, said the delay in Azure support was simply down to internal engineering resources and "market demand" making AWS a higher priority for customers than Microsoft's cloud. Google Cloud was planning on announcing the news during its big Cloud Next conference earlier this month, but pushed it back after the event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Made generally available last year, Anthos promises customers a single platform from which to run container-based applications on-premises, in the Google Cloud, and crucially, in other major public clouds like Microsoft Azure and AWS, but it has been somewhat slow to bring support for those rival cloud options online. The race to multicloudAzure has long provided customers with the ability to extend their on-premises workloads into the cloud with its Azure Stack products, and AWS belatedly entered the hybrid market with AWS Outposts in 2019, but neither of these offer a single pane of glass across rival clouds. Underpinned by Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), GKE on-prem, and the Anthos Config Management console, Google's Anthos platform promises unified administration, policies, and security across hybrid Kubernetes deployments. A companion product, Migrate for Anthos, allows workloads to be converted into containers for Kubernetes directly from physical servers and virtual machines (VMs). Google Cloud is already testing Anthos on Microsoft Azure with customers and Anthos support for virtual machines is in early preview. Support for VMs would allow engineers to store key policy and automation in Anthos for both containerized and VM-based workloads, further enabling a gradual journey to the cloud for large enterprise customers. "The main delta is being in production with these customers and modernization involves us working collaboratively with them to do more automation and move from that human middleware layer to more automated control planes with Anthos Config Manager," Lin said. "That is the return on investment they are looking for." Policy and config management for VMsAnthos now supports the same configuration management for VMs on Google Cloud as you would use for containers, through the Config Management console. Google Cloud is also working on bringing support for applications running on VMs into the Anthos Service Mesh in the coming months. This would allow for consistent security and policy management across workloads in Google Cloud, on-premises, and in other clouds. The central idea around these developments is to allow operators to set dynamic configurations and automated security and identity policies that are linked to certain workloads and namespaces, regardless of where they are running. Using Kubernetes also allows Google Cloud to try and combat what Lin calls "config drift" by automatically checking the operational state of configurations against the desired state. "Policy doesn't care if it is in a container or VM," Lin explained, adding that this capability was particularly important to Google's financial services customers, such as HSBC and KeyBank, who want to bring the best of cloud into their data centers rather than adding a Kubernetes orchestration layer to existing environments with VMware or other proprietary software vendors. "With this latest release, we are making managing diverse environments easier than ever before, with deeper support for virtual machines, letting you extend Anthos' management framework to the types of workloads that make up the vast majority of existing systems," Lin wrote in a blog post. Declaring independence from vSphereGoogle Cloud also announced that later this year it will allow users to run Anthos without the need for a third-party hypervisor, further simplifying the delivery of hybrid cloud functionality. Anthos has long run in tandem with the VMware vSphere hypervisor, which comes at an additional cost to customers as well as an additional operational consideration for the application team. The vendor is also working to simplify its Migrate for Anthos service, which promises to ease migration of workloads to Anthos without rewriting or replatforming them manually. Migrate for Anthos was launched off the back of the 2018 acquisition of Velostrata, an Israeli company specializing in cloud migration by cleverly decoupling storage and compute, allowing companies to leave storage on-premises and run a virtual machine in the cloud.  |
| Staff reports shared at Twin Valley board meeting - Register-Herald Posted: 08 May 2020 12:43 PM PDT WEST ALEXANDRIA — Twin Valley Community Local Schools K-6 Principal Patti Holly is "proud" of her staff following the school closure order. During the district's board of education meeting on Monday, April 27, she reported on some of the "cool" things they are doing to engage with students and continue teaching at an optimal level. "They are meeting with their kids, they're driving around to homes and the kids are out in their yards, waving and talking to them from a distance. Just a lot of really awesome things," she said. She added, their last homework packet goes out in early May, which is a memory book. This will be the last work they need to do, though some teachers are continuing through the summer for students who need extra help. Jeff Tully, Maintenance and Transportation Director, gave his report, noting the new marquee was delivered on Tuesday, April 17. Installation will begin soon. He also updated the board on: •Building — he replaced the hot water boilers, when the heat exchangers went bad and they were no longer under warranty. They also changed the air filters in the building, wiped down the building as a protective measure due to COVID—19, updated HVAC schedules to help with savings, and Korrect Plumbing replaced the faucets in the elementary bathrooms. He issued a thank you to the custodial staff for their hard work. •Busing — Mr. Snyder will be working on buses to get them ready for the annual inspection. Summer servicing will be starting soon. Derrick Myers, Director of Technology, directed the board to his report, noting it is a month and a half old. Myers: •Attended Cybersecurity webinar hosted by SWOCA. •Removed admin roles from Microsoft AD accounts other than single domain admin account. •Adjusted Data Loss Prevention settings in Google Admin Console to better protect any accidental sharing of personally identifiable information or financial information. •Changed all Chromebook printing configuration as a result of Google Cloud Print end of life announcement. Google Cloud Print was never fully supported and never worked well. •Planning for potential technology impact resulting from Coronavirus pandemic. Fielded phone/email with students, parents, and staff to make E—Days work. •Recommended Google Hangouts Meet for video conferencing to all staff and included instructions. •Kept website announcements up to date regarding virus closing. •Website was down for part of the day Saturday, March 14 as a result of a SWOCA software update. •Called Woodhull about a printer in ES not printing color. Kindergarten uses this to print the curriculum in color. •Setup new email addresses and phones for both St. Joseph mental health therapists located in the Elementary offices. •Met with another vendor about potential upgrades to the Commons sound system. The current system is overwhelmed by crowds during large events or even lunch time. It's not loud enough. •Requested quotes for Chromebooks and provided them to the Intervention team for a possible grant. This would provide a Chromebook for each Intervention Specialist. •Started troubleshooting random Security Camera NVR alerts reporting problems with hard drive speed. Infrequently I see that recording is affected but usually less than one minute. •Helped The Panther Den with certain video editing questions and solutions. •Ordered and received three 75" TVs for the Elementary Commons. Much like the HS Commons these will be used for announcements and/or presentations. PTO funded the majority of the TV cost. •Helped MS teachers and Mr. Flatter track down students who vandalized Chromebooks. •Installed Gimp graphics editor on all HS computer lab workstations at the request of Mr. Young. •Worked with Mrs. Cottingim to come up with a solution to fill out and save a read only PDF from ODE for students. •In conjunction with Mr. Flatter's tech committee Myers created and shared a potential 1:1 student/parent policy. We will soon be communicating our intentions with the Board of Education about going 1:1 with Chromebooks next school year 7-12. •Myers spoke with Commissioner Creech and Connect Communications about a Federal initiative for rolling out fixed wireless internet to rural homes and businesses. This is funded by the "Connect America Fund". The funds have been awarded to Connect Communications. •Monday, January 27 Myers provided technology professional development for all K—12 staff. They also had several teachers speak about how they are using technology in the classroom. •The district had its second annual movie night Jan. 31. According to Myers, there were approximately 50 attendants. Joshua Senters, Director of Pupil Services, shared that the Special Education Department received a grant for $1,500 to purchase new chrome books for the Intervention Specialists. He recognized Jandee Mowell, Christina Kiracofe, Allison Roach, and Kelly Coffman for their hard work in writing this grant for the Special Education Department at TVS. Other updates included: •The school is regularly using Google Meets to check in with Intervention Specialists and other staff. •The Title Department also received a grant of $800 to help with their Family Reading Night Program. This $800 will help purchase material that is needed for the event. He recognized Becky McCollum, Susan Montgomery, and Diane Baughman for their hard work in writing this grant for the Title Department at TVS. •All ETR/IEP meetings will still be happening by phone conference to meet deadlines. Phone conferences will be happening for ETR/IEP meetings starting on March 13 through April 3. Intervention Specialists will make sure to contact parents for these meetings to set up dates and times for the meetings. Reach Kelsey Kimbler at 937-683-4061 or on Twitter @KKimbler_RH  |
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