News briefs for July 19, 2018. System76 has moved into its new manufacturing facility in Denver, Colorado. The company will begin making computers in the US, rather than just assembling them. See the System76 blog post for photos of the new digs. Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" has reached end of life today, so there will be no more security updates for that version. If you're running Ubuntu 17.10, you need to upgrade to 18.04 now. See the post on It's FOSS for more information and instructions on how to upgrade. Google has rebranded its Cloud Launcher platform, and it now will be called the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace (or GCP Marketplace). LinuxInsider reports that "it will offer production-ready commercial Kubernetes apps, promising simplified deployment, billing and third-party licensing." Single-player survival game Stranded Deep is now available for Linux, GamingOnLinux reports, although users were reporting a few issues earlier this week. Stranded Deep is available on … [Read more...] about System76’s New Manufacturing Facility, Ubuntu 17.10 Reaches End of Life, Google Cloud Platform Marketplace, Stranded Deep Now Available for Linux and Cutelyst New Release
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Twitter moving cold storage and Hadoop clusters to Google Cloud Platform
Twitter is teaming up with Google to move both cold storage and Hadoop clusters to the Google Cloud Platform, the two companies announced this Friday.In a blog post written by Twitter’s CTO, Parag Agrawal, it was said that this move will allow Twitter’s engineering team to focus on improving productivity and tackling tasks of a higher level and priority.“There is strong alignment with Twitter’s engineering strategy to meet the demands of its platform and the services Google Cloud offers at a global scale,” the blog post quotes Brian Stevens.“Google Cloud Platform’s data solutions and trusted infrastructure will provide Twitter with the technical flexibility and consistency that its platform requires, and we look forward to an ongoing technical collaboration with their team.”Once the migration is complete, Agrawal says, capacity provisioning will be faster, flexibility will be increased, and access to a broad ecosystem of tools and … [Read more...] about Twitter moving cold storage and Hadoop clusters to Google Cloud Platform
Twitter to move cold storage, Hadoop clusters to Google Cloud Platform
Twitter said it plans to move its cold storage and Hadoop clusters to Google Cloud Platform and out of its data centers.For Google Cloud Platform, the Twitter account is another key win beyond Spotify, Etsy and other enterprises.Twitter is already an Amazon Web Services customer. The Google Cloud Platform deal doesn't replace AWS, but diversifies Twitter's cloud footprint. The workloads moved to Google were previously hosted by Twitter. In a blog post, Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal said the move to Google Cloud will enable it to spend its engineering team to improve productivity and focus on higher level tasks. Also: Enterprises learning to love cloud lock-in too: Is it different this time? | While Twitter is best known for its live events and advertising model, the company has a strong enterprise data business that diversifies revenue well. That business, along with Twitter's advertising unit, is likely to benefit from the cloud flexibility of Google as well as any artificial … [Read more...] about Twitter to move cold storage, Hadoop clusters to Google Cloud Platform
GitLab Explains Move From Azure To Google Cloud Platform
April 9, 2018 - Written By Daniel Golightly The web-based Git-repository management company GitLab Inc. is reportedly moving its business to Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP). That’s according to a recent official blog post from the company, outlining the decision and its motives. For those who aren’t already aware, GitLab is a collaborative Git-repository manager that boasts a wiki, issue-tracking features, and which previously utilized Microsoft’s Azure platform. In the shortest possible terms, it’s very similar to GitHub in that it allows development groups to work together on applications and software. It features strong version control and backups before a finalized update or initial piece of software is compiled. It would be difficult to determine what, if any, significance there is in the company’s decision to switch to the GCP but, as shown by the announcement, there are some very obvious reasons.The first is that the platform falls squarely in … [Read more...] about GitLab Explains Move From Azure To Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud introduces VPC Flow Logs for more network visibility
Google on Thursday introduced VPC Flow Logs to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a new tool for tracking network operations. VPC Flow Logs is like Cisco's NetFlow, "but with more features," GCP Product Manager Ines Envid explained in a blog post. It provides network telemetry for GCP environments, creating logs in five-second intervals. Users can collect telemetry from a specific VPC (virtual private cloud) network, a subnet, or a specific VM instance or virtual interface. The tool tracks data from internal VPC traffic, flows between a VPC and on-premise deployments, flows between servers and any internet endpoint, as well as flows between servers and Google services. Once the data is collected, a user can export it to Google's BigQuery or Stackdriver Logging. With the Cloud Pub/Sub API, you can export logs into any SIEM ecosystem. VPC Flow Logs also integrates with Cisco Stealthwatch and SumoLogic two, two leading logging and analytics platforms.The logging and monitoring tool should … [Read more...] about Google Cloud introduces VPC Flow Logs for more network visibility