Cloud View: Weekly Digest – Dec 09, 2019

Welcome to Cloud View!

With the new year 2020 coming closer, the industry is firmly looking towards the future. Cloud news is full of predictions for the year ahead and here’s a quick selection we picked for this week’s reading.

Predictions

Forrester’s cloud computing predictions for 2020

Forrester has an excellent track record of predicting the right cloud trends. And that makes their 2020 cloud computing predictions a MUST-READ. Here is a breakdown from TechRepublic.

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Gartner’s top strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond

Last week we put the spotlight on Granter’s strategic trends, this week we delve further into these to understand how they would affect the people and their lives and work. Unsurprisingly, AI takes center-stage again.

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Industry Insights

Telcos embrace containers

Gartner predicts that over 75% of global companies will run containerized applications by 2022. Kubernetes is the leading container orchestration platform for managing these containers. Here is a look at how Telcos are planning to use it to deploy cloud-native 5G networks.

AWS IoT Day – Eight Powerful New Features

AWS regularly puts out bundled themed announcements, which make it easy for us to find relevant information in one place. Here is the one related to AWS IoT Day. Check out 8 powerful AWS features, from secret tunneling to Alexa voice service integration and more.

Interesting announcements from KubeCon

Over 100 announcements were made at KubeCon, here’s a quick read of the 10 most important ones.

This week at CloudIQ

Kubernetes on Azure: A 2-day workshop for AKS developers

Container technology has revolutionized the DevOps landscape and offers organizations the chance to develop and test applications faster and more cost-effectively. CloudIQ’s 2-day hands-on workshop is designed to give DevOps team members the opportunity to skill-up and learn Kubernetes design, deployment, and management.

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Configuring Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) – A Detailed Guide

Today organizations require an enterprise cyber-security platform, which provides network security, cloud security, endpoint protection, & various related cloud-delivered security services. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) fits the bill and here is a detailed guide on configuring it.

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