“Splunk Cloud analytics platform lands on Google Cloud in beta - SiliconANGLE” plus 1 more |
| Splunk Cloud analytics platform lands on Google Cloud in beta - SiliconANGLE Posted: 05 May 2020 06:00 AM PDT  Splunk Inc. is bringing its big-data analytics platform to Google Cloud and integrating it with a number of Google Cloud services to enable enterprises to get more actionable insights from their data and drive faster decision-making. Splunk Cloud is a version of Splunk's main Data-to-Everything platform, delivered as software-as-a-service. The software is used by enterprises to search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data in real time. By integrating with Google Cloud, Splunk's customers will be able to make data-driven decisions without needing to buy, manage or deploy any additional information technology architecture, the companies said. "Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud brings customers a "single-pane view for investigating, monitoring, analyzing and acting on their data" that's secured within their Google Cloud infrastructure, the companies said. In addition, Splunk Cloud customers can tap Google Cloud's technology capabilities, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, security, networking and data analytics. Meanwhile, the integrations with Google Anthos, Google Cloud Security Command Center and Stackdriver help ensure the most critical Splunk data can be shared among various applications, enabling customers to draw insights from multiple cloud platforms. Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian cited Splunk's additional data analytics capabilities for information technology, security and user behavior. "We chose to partner with Google Cloud to deliver the technology, capabilities and trusted infrastructure required to help businesses connect all forms of data," said Splunk CEO Doug Merritt. "Splunk's partnership with Google Cloud will help empower even more customers to harness nearly limitless data opportunities across IT, Security and Application Development while remaining agile and cost-effective." Constellation Research Inc. analyst Holger Mueller told SiliconANGLE that it makes tremendous sense for Splunk to get its software on infrastructure-as-a-service platforms such as Google's cloud. Splunk Cloud is already available on Amazon Web Services. "The data-intensive nature of Splunk, coupled with Google's data and AI capabilities, makes these two vendors a powerful combination to help enterprises make sense of their data and power their next-generation applications," Mueller said. "Going forward it will be interesting to see if Splunk will be able to provide a common layer for Splunk Cloud across its different IaaS partners. After all, workload and code asset portability matters to enterprises as they wish to avoid vendor lock-in." Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud is now available in beta for early access customers, with general availability of the service promised later in the year. Splunk's Merritt has been a regular guest on SiliconANGLE's mobile livestreaming studio theCUBE. His most recent appearance came during the Splunk .conf19 event in Las Vegas in October, when he talked about enterprises growing need for faster access to "clean data": Photo: SplunkSince you're here …Show your support for our mission with our one-click subscription to our YouTube channel (below). The more subscribers we have, the more YouTube will suggest relevant enterprise and emerging technology content to you. Thanks! Support our mission: >>>>>> SUBSCRIBE NOW >>>>>> to our YouTube channel. … We'd also like to tell you about our mission and how you can help us fulfill it. SiliconANGLE Media Inc.'s business model is based on the intrinsic value of the content, not advertising. Unlike many online publications, we don't have a paywall or run banner advertising, because we want to keep our journalism open, without influence or the need to chase traffic.The journalism, reporting and commentary on SiliconANGLE — along with live, unscripted video from our Silicon Valley studio and globe-trotting video teams at theCUBE — take a lot of hard work, time and money. Keeping the quality high requires the support of sponsors who are aligned with our vision of ad-free journalism content. If you like the reporting, video interviews and other ad-free content here, please take a moment to check out a sample of the video content supported by our sponsors, tweet your support, and keep coming back to SiliconANGLE.  |
| Mediakind Launches Aquila Streaming as a Service on Google Cloud - Sports Video Group Posted: 21 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT On a Zoom call press briefing Mediakind product manager for Streaming & Delivery Richard Mansfield revealed the company has extended its partnership with Google Cloud to enable Aquila Streaming to be offered As A Service on the Google Cloud Platform. This would have been the company's leading new technology announcement for the NAB 2020 show in Las Vegas. "What we're launching today is the next step in the Aquila Streaming evolution," said Mansfield, "where we take that same technology that we already have available in appliance and cloud-native solutions and offer that as an end-to-end service leveraging the Google Cloud environment – Aquila Streaming As A Service. "The As A Service offer really leverages benefits around bandwidth saving versus video quality. We have a technology called CVQ (Constant Video Quality), and this allows us to optimise picture quality against bandwidth over time. This can see up to 30% savings on the bandwidth delivered on a typical video system. It uses complexity over time to vary the bitrate within the stream to allow us to save bandwidth and optimise the cost," he said. "Another hot topic is low latency. Typically with OTT delivered by something like HLS onto Apple "We've been optimising the end to end path, not just the packaging components but all the way through the chain of delivery to bring that down to single digit seconds from end to end, so that we're able to offer a broadcast-like experience on OTT," said Mansfield. "There's also a lot of standardisation and other activities in the OTT space. One of the areas where we're very active has been within the CMAF domain, really bringing about a common chunk format to allow multiple different devices types to access the same video content. That means we can reach different types of devices using the most efficient method – without having to send multiple different types or variants to each device. "That can really help with distribution costs, caching performance and also on storage. If we only need to store things once and it doesn't matter how many devices we have, of course there's a huge potential saving there as well. "Moving into the As A Service only area, we can offer some unique and value-added solutions to customers," he continued. "We can receive, transcode, package, encrypt, manage and deliver that video, so we can offer different user-cases around everything from the high rate content coming in through to the delivery over a CDN to the end-users. A typical one is 24/7 channels; being able to offer an always-on channel with live content, with Mediakind as a service from public cloud. "And increasingly we're seeing a demand for event-based or temporary use channels. Obviously due to the challenges we're seeing now with live sporting events being delayed due to the coronavirus: once we're through that time we expect there will be catch-up required in order to broadcast additional events and catch up on sporting leagues. "That's a natural place for temporary use scenarios, where a sudden peak in demand that doesn't require a 24/7 infrastructure could leverage a public cloud environment in an As A Service way to allow us to answer the need for temporary use at the peak requirement that we will see from the market," he said. "Another area we see in the Aquila Streaming As A Service offer is around disaster recovery. For customers who already have an on-premise head-end doing transcoding and delivery of OTT content, rather than building a second site and having that sat there running 24/7, public cloud gives us the ability to spin up in the event a disaster system in the event of a disaster recovery scenario in the cloud. "Content replacement and advertising is another area where Aquila Streaming As A Service can be applied, within the live video processing and delivery domain or time-shift and start-over use-cases as well – being able to offer rolling buffer type scenarios or event potentially out to wider time-shift capabilities on top of the live content," said Mansfield. MediaKind's cloud-native Aquila Streaming solution can be deployed on bare metal, private cloud, or in any cloud service provider. Through the integration into the Google Cloud ecosystem, it now also provides access to a broader range of media applications and workloads through the cloud, in areas such as containerisation, AI, machine learning and the growing network of Android TV and Google Ad Insertion solutions, whilst offering a fully managed solution. For more information on MediaKind, please contact Dan Burnett at daniel.burnett@mediakind.com.  |
devices for example, we've seen delays where an event like a goal takes place and it can be up to 60 seconds for that to come through to being displayed on user screens. So for something socially sensitive like a sporting event, we see it as really important that we reduce that latency. You don't want to hear about a goal from a push notification on your phone before you see it happen on your screen.| You are subscribed to email updates from "google cloud event" - Google News. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
Comments
Post a Comment