This Week I Learned - Week #36 2019
This Week I Learned -
* Azure Dedicated hosts are the same physical servers used in Azure data centers, provided as a resource to run Azure virtual machines with either Windows or Linux. You don’t get access to the host operating system or management, just exclusive use of the resources. Primarily, this is intended for those who are worried about compromises such as a breakout attack.
* Windows Virtual Desktop is a new cloud based virtualized desktop service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience which is optimized to work with Office 365 Pro Plus.
* Automated tools like Azure Advisor & Security Center, specifically Recommendations and Security Score, that tell you how to best configure things would be useful … if the recommendations were correct.
* AWS makes frequent proclamations about the number of price reductions it has made. Customers interpret these proclamations as being applicable to the company’s services broadly, but this is not the case - 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide, Gartner Report
* IBM’s Next-Generation Infrastructure (NGI) project has produced incremental improvements to the infrastructure services formerly under the SoftLayer umbrella. However, it has not delivered on its fundamental goal — to produce a new set of cloud IaaS offerings based on the principles of hyperscale architecture. Given this, it is unlikely that IBM will become a competitive public cloud IaaS provider.
* Alibaba Cloud is the current market share leader for cloud IaaS in China (42%) and performs particularly well with Chinese digital businesses and Chinese public-sector entities. Alibaba Cloud earns 90% of its revenue in China and has not appreciably grown its enterprise customer base outside of China.
* Most IT disasters are caused by operational failures not natural disasters
* DevOps is a way of saying:
We don’t know the end-state
We’re going to work on smaller scenarios
We will evolve what we create based on those scenarios
The more we create, the more we’ll learn about what the end state will be
There will be larger milestones, which will be our releases
* A fabric’s ability to filter UV rays is measured by a unit called ultraviolet protection factor (UPF). Tighter knits, thicker fabrics (such as polyester and synthetic yarns), and darker colors all reduce the skin’s exposure to UV rays, as do longer sleeves and pants. If clothing items have a UPF rating of 15 or higher — meaning one fifteenth or less of the UV rays penetrate the clothes and reach the skin — it can be labeled and marketed as sun-protective. Sunglasses (with labels that specify UV protection), hats (preferably with brims that are two to three inches wide), and some fabrics can also block out UV rays, which is why covering up is an effective protection strategy - Go Ask Alice!
* Azure Dedicated hosts are the same physical servers used in Azure data centers, provided as a resource to run Azure virtual machines with either Windows or Linux. You don’t get access to the host operating system or management, just exclusive use of the resources. Primarily, this is intended for those who are worried about compromises such as a breakout attack.
* Windows Virtual Desktop is a new cloud based virtualized desktop service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience which is optimized to work with Office 365 Pro Plus.
* Automated tools like Azure Advisor & Security Center, specifically Recommendations and Security Score, that tell you how to best configure things would be useful … if the recommendations were correct.
* AWS makes frequent proclamations about the number of price reductions it has made. Customers interpret these proclamations as being applicable to the company’s services broadly, but this is not the case - 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide, Gartner Report
* IBM’s Next-Generation Infrastructure (NGI) project has produced incremental improvements to the infrastructure services formerly under the SoftLayer umbrella. However, it has not delivered on its fundamental goal — to produce a new set of cloud IaaS offerings based on the principles of hyperscale architecture. Given this, it is unlikely that IBM will become a competitive public cloud IaaS provider.
* Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI offers both paid-by-the-hour, KVM-virtualized VMs as well as bare-metal servers (including a one-click installation and configuration of Oracle Database, Real Application Clusters [RAC] and Exadata) and a Docker- and Kubernetes-based container service (Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes).
* Most IT disasters are caused by operational failures not natural disasters
* DevOps is a way of saying:
We don’t know the end-state
We’re going to work on smaller scenarios
We will evolve what we create based on those scenarios
The more we create, the more we’ll learn about what the end state will be
There will be larger milestones, which will be our releases
* A fabric’s ability to filter UV rays is measured by a unit called ultraviolet protection factor (UPF). Tighter knits, thicker fabrics (such as polyester and synthetic yarns), and darker colors all reduce the skin’s exposure to UV rays, as do longer sleeves and pants. If clothing items have a UPF rating of 15 or higher — meaning one fifteenth or less of the UV rays penetrate the clothes and reach the skin — it can be labeled and marketed as sun-protective. Sunglasses (with labels that specify UV protection), hats (preferably with brims that are two to three inches wide), and some fabrics can also block out UV rays, which is why covering up is an effective protection strategy - Go Ask Alice!
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