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| Google Cloud’s fully managed Anthos is now generally available for AWS - TechCrunch Posted: 22 Apr 2020 09:29 AM PDT A year ago, back in the days of in-person conferences, Google officially announced the launch of its Anthos multi-cloud application modernization platform at its Cloud Next conference. The promise of Anthos was always that it would allow enterprises to write their applications once, package them into containers and then manage their multi-cloud deployments across GCP, AWS, Azure and their on-prem data centers. Until now, support for AWS and Azure was only available in preview, but today, the company is making support for AWS and on-premises generally available. Microsoft Azure support remains in preview, though. "As an AWS customer now, or a GCP customer, or a multi-cloud customer, […] you can now run Anthos on those environments in a consistent way, so you don't have to learn any proprietary APIs and be locked in," Eyal Manor, the GM and VP of engineering in charge of Anthos, told me. "And for the first time, we enable the portability between different infrastructure environments as opposed to what has happened in the past where you were locked into a set of APIs."
Looking even further ahead, Manor also noted that better support for machine learning workloads is on the way. Many businesses, after all, want to be able to update and run their models right where their data resides, no matter what cloud that may be. There, too, the promise of Anthos is that developers can write the application once and then run it anywhere. "I think a lot of the initial response and excitement was from the developer audiences," Jennifer Lin, Google Cloud's VP of product management, told me. "Eric Brewer had led a white paper that we did to say that a lot of the Anthos architecture sort of decouples the developer and the operator stakeholder concerns. There hadn't been a multi-cloud shared software architecture where we could do that and still drive emerging and existing applications with a common shared software stack." She also noted that a lot of Google Cloud's ecosystem partners endorsed the overall Anthos architecture early on because they, too, wanted to be able to write once and run anywhere — and so do their customers. Plaid is one of the launch partners for these new capabilities. "Our customers rely on us to be always available and as a result we have very high reliability requirements," said Naohiko Takemura, Plaid's head of engineering. "We pursued a multi-cloud strategy to ensure redundancy for our critical KARTE service. Google Cloud's Anthos works seamlessly across GCP and our other cloud providers preventing any business disruption. Thanks to Anthos, we prevent vendor lock-in, avoid managing cloud-specific infrastructure, and our developers are not constrained by cloud providers." With this release, Google Cloud is also bringing deeper support for virtual machines to Anthos, as well as improved policy and configuration management. Over the next few months, the Anthos Service Mesh will also add support for applications that run in traditional virtual machines. As Lin told me, "a lot of this is is about driving better agility and taking the complexity out of it so that we have abstractions that work across any environment, whether it's legacy or new or on-prem or AWS or GCP."  |
| Thales Selects Google Cloud to Expand Its eSIM Management Solution - Business Wire Posted: 04 May 2020 01:00 AM PDT PARIS LA DÉFENSE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thales has deployed the world's first GSMA-certified eSIM activation solution on Google Cloud. This solution will offer telecom operators secure and highly scalable support to manage increases in mobile subscriptions for eSIM-capable devices. It also lets them benefit from the reliability of Google Cloud's carbon neutral technology. eSIM adoption is being fueled by a new generation of smartphones, tablets, wearables and new IoT use-cases. Thales' subscription management expertise not only ensures seamless remote activation of a vast number of devices, but also provides data analytics and protection of the subscriber's data. With telecom operators facing the combined challenges of rapid digital transformation and a drastically growing eSIM ecosystem, Thales has responded by creating a public cloud-based version of its proven eSIM Remote Subscription Platform. In this initial deployment, the platform will run on Google Cloud, which is available in more than 200 countries and territories across the globe. Thales has implemented first-class security standards specifically designed to meet the requirements of GSMA certification in a public cloud environment. Telecom operators can also benefit from the Thales subscription management solution which offers unprecedented levels of operational flexibility, both in terms of auto-scaling and capacity management. As a result, enterprises will be able to take full advantage of subscription business growth in the years ahead. "The combination of Thales and Google Cloud's global technology expertise is a perfect match to address the challenges of the eSIM market in a very innovative manner. Thales' new cloud infrastructure enables the expected and significant growth in eSIM-capable devices to be tackled seamlessly. We know Google Cloud's scalability will be critical with the rise of 5G networks and the cellular network connectivity of billions of IoT devices worldwide." "By collaborating with Google Cloud teams, we have designed a global service to answer the exponential demand for new eSIM devices. This hybrid infrastructure is a springboard to innovative IoT applications in a standardized and interoperable security framework. By achieving GSMA certification our cloud-based solution provides a trusted and compliant platform for telecom operators." About Thales Thales (Euronext Paris:HO) is a global technology leader shaping the world of tomorrow today. The Group provides solutions, services and products to customers in the aeronautics, space, transport, digital identity and security, and defence markets. With 83,000 employees in 68 countries, Thales generated sales of €19 billion in 2019 (on a pro forma basis including Gemalto over 12 months). Thales is investing in particular in digital innovations — connectivity, Big Data, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity — technologies that support businesses, organisations and governments in their decisive moments. PLEASE VISIT  |
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