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First cloud computing then multi-cloud. How can we get ahead of this digital transformation nightmare? These are the laments heard in conference rooms and board meeting around the world. While the goal seems simple, adopting and migrating to a cloud service provider requires much more than executive willingness and a sharp IT organization. A lot more!!<br />
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While many see the move to cloud computing as only the use of another data center, in reality, it will affect nearly every organizational process. The technical team, business team, procurement, and acquisition team, and even your legal team must be brought into the loop. Everyone needs to be informed, educated and updated throughout the process. Key to building consensus and teamwork requires a focus on outcomes that can align activities and deliverables across the organization’s infrastructure, operating model and applications.<br />
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Migrating to any cloud environment is taxing. Taking on the multi-cloud challenge, however, has been known to be career limiting. To avoid this scary fate, leaders must build and socialize a practical road map that envisions an end state that embraces an integrated infrastructure, operating model and application portfolio. Major dependencies between these areas can have a significant impact on the success of any digital transformation activity. Successful leaders leverage a shared vision for the organization’s target state to drive their multi-cloud strategy. In fact, in a recent study commissioned by Dell Technologies, <a href="https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/perspectives/digital-transformation-index.htm">Dell Digital Transformation Index</a> showed that 78% of all leaders felt that digital transformation should be more widespread throughout their organization. IT transformation doesn’t just happen, and leaders are struggling with achieving organizational top goals.<br />
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He grew up in Silicon Valley, landed his first job at Apple Computers, was introduced to Nobel Prize winners by his dad and today, he takes a self-driving car to work so that he can squeeze in a few morning conference calls with the US east coast Team. Is this George Jetson!? No. It’s just a normal day for Steve Wilson, VP of Products for Cloud at Citrix<br />
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As a Silicon Valley native, Steve grew up around hi-tech. From a job at Apple, a business degree from the University of San Diego, and joining a start-up after graduation, he seemed headed to a lucrative career with one of the technology giants. That path, however, took a detour when Mr. Wilson started working for Florida headquartered Citrix. So after getting tired of his 45-minute commute to the Citrix west coast office, he became the George Jetson, of Citrix.<br />
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Since futurism is an everyday thing for this Citrix VP, being responsible for the company’s “Workplace of the Future” strategy really makes sense. This was the topic of discussion when Steve Wilson discussed his vision with Dez Blanchfield on “Conversations with Dez”.<br />
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According to Mr. Wilson, his job involves bringing together a company’s physical workplace with their digital workspace – optimizing both for today’s mobile-first world. This means enabling them to access the multiple digital workspace assets from different places and with different classes of devices that are also secure. In his vision, Steve sees a merger of different kinds of applications on the server as well as the differing clients. The top question in this quest is,” How do organizations enable the secure use of these different computing device classes?”<br />
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“And so really, what we see is an interesting merger going on, where we're starting to see traditional computing devices, like your laptops and your desktops being supplemented, obviously, with things like phones and tablets. But the next generation is bringing in new sets of devices into the enterprise, where we're seeing people bring in things like Amazon Alexa for business and Apple TV, and making them enterprise devices and saying, “How do I bring this into my enterprise infrastructure?”<br />
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As a cloud solution architect, my passion is learning the details about how cloud computing uniquely supports specific business cases. This curiosity is what drove my excitement when Ericsson invited me to work with them during <a href="http://bit.ly/MwcKJtw">Mobile World Congress 2019</a> in Barcelona, Spain. As the largest mobile event in the world, MWC Barcelona brings together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology from more than 2,400 leading companies. With its highly-rated conference program and assemblage of telecommunications visionaries, it seemed like the perfect venue for getting details about how the cloud is driving changes across the mobile and wireless landscape.<br /><br />Cloud computing and digital transformation have rapidly redefined telecommunications. From a service provider point of view, this redefinition requires entirely new skills including:<br /><ul>
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Telecom service providers also need to efficiently manage the multitude of network types, service types, system stacks and infrastructure layers which can cause untenable complexity for many operators. Complexity is also the root cause of an inability to maintain profit margins or deliver customer desired service performance for new services (i.e., 5G and IoT). To be competitive, network operators experiencing this situation need to “digitally transform” operations through deployment of network virtualization capabilities and software-defined networking.<br /><br />As the market leader, Ericsson is delivering a powerful, cloud computing-based solution to address all of these requirements today. They actually call it their “<a href="https://www.ericsson.com/en/5g/5g-platform">5G Platform</a>.”<div>
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As part of Ericsson's 5G Platform, the <a href="http://bit.ly/DS_DO19">Ericsson Dynamic Orchestration</a> solution is a pre-integrated software suite that enables service providers to leverage both physical, virtual and cloud native network functions to design, launch and manage modern network services.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">Last week, <a href="https://www.prlog.org/12753655-packt-bestseller-cloud-computing-book-selected-by-tulane-university-sopa.html">Packt Publishing announced</a> that </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">"<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Architecting-Cloud-Computing-Solutions-effectively/dp/178847242X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions</a>" by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kjackson/">Kevin L. Jackson</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgoessling/">Scott Goessling</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">was selected for use by the <a href="https://sopa.tulane.edu/">Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, Applied Computing Systems & Technology Program</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"> as the textbook for their mandatory Enterprise Architecture - Hardware course starting Spring Semester 2019. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">I am proud and honored to be trusted by such a prestigious institution. Being an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">"Amazon Bestseller" cloud computing publications the book is doing well. This recognition from Tulane University, however, clearly supersedes that commercial success. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">According to Tulane SoPA, they pick the text based on its:</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">Specific support the institution's mission of providing high-quality degree and certificate programs that are directly relevant to the needs and interests of working adults;</span></li>
<li>The holistic approach enabled the University to quickly and effectively update their applied computer technology curriculum;</li>
<li>Effectiveness i<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">n addressing a business relevant, cost-effective and efficient approach to the adoption of cloud computing and the pursuit of digital transformation;</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"> and</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">The course labs will use <a href="https://burstorm.com/">Burstorm Cloud Infrastructure Modeling and Design</a> online software to create and modify cloud infrastructure designs in real-time. This capability uniquely supports the iterative "what if" business-driven analysis capability critical to modern information technology infrastructure design.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><a href="https://sopa.tulane.edu/content/tom-thomas">Tom Thomas</a>, of the <a href="https://sopa.tulane.edu/">Tulane University's School of Professional Advancement</a>, said, "We selected "Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions" because of the book's practical approach to important business requirements."</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgoessling/">Scott Goessling, Burstorm Vice President Cloud Services </a>adds, "Successful IT transformation requires new skill sets and real-time data delivered via automated and insightful enablement platforms. Tulane University quickly identified "Architecting Cloud Solutions" as a very innovative way to train and enable the development of next generation of technology leaders and strategists."</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><a href="https://sopa.tulane.edu/">Tulane University, School of Professional Advancement (SoPA)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">SoPA offers high quality, distinctive undergraduate and graduate professional programs to a diverse student population in New Orleans and beyond. The school dates back to 1886, when it was founded as the outreach division of Tulane with a mission to offer courses to teachers. While the school's offerings have greatly expanded and changed over time, its focus on programs relevant to working adults has remained. The Applied Computing Systems & Technology program offers flexible degree and certificate options based on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) published model. Students enrolled in this program will be prepared to pursue careers in information technology, cybersecurity, and programming. The curriculum balances advanced problem-solving techniques and business acumen with practical solutions for computer-based problems. Courses cover an in-depth range of topics in the information systems and technology fields.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/">Packt Publishing</a></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt's mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, we have published over 6,000 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done - whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools. As part of our mission, we have also awarded over $1,000,000 through our Open Source Project Royalty scheme, helping numerous projects become household names along the way.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><a href="https://www.burstorm.com/">Burstorm</a></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">Burstorm is a cloud technology platform company enabling enterprises, service providers and systems integrators to model, design, benchmark and optimize cloud infrastructure. Combining an easy-to-use drag-and-drop modeling application with a continuously updated catalog of service provider assets, the Burstorm platform helps organizations more quickly and accurately assess and select the optimal computing storage, networking and data center solutions for their digital transformation to the cloud.</span></span><br />
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Healthcare is in the middle of massive change. Called
digital transformation by many, this term describes the industry’s pursuit of
the many promises offered by connected patients, connected caregivers, and
connected hospitals. While the goals of this transformation are many and
varied, a <a href="https://www.business.att.com/learn/tech-advice/hospitals-eye-a-more-connected-caregiver-experience.html">recent
HIMAA Media survey</a> revealed the top four as:</div>
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Seeking improved quality of care (68%);</span></li>
<li>Delivering better clinical outcomes (54%);</li>
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Key obstacles preventing attainment are limited budget
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The promise of connected healthcare, however, is being
leveraged today by <a href="https://about.att.com/story/2019/att_collaboration_to_create_hospital_of_future.html">Rush
University Medical Center</a> and the Rush System for Health in Chicago. This
system, which encompasses multiple hospitals and healthcare providers across
the city, is using both AT&T's 5G network and its multi-access edge
computing (MEC) cloud-based edge IT service environment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Working with Rush, AT&T Business is helping to deliver
on the connected healthcare promise through 5G technologies by expanding
telemedicine, delivering near real-time remote healthcare monitoring and
delivering a capability to transmit large imaging files quickly. According to <a href="https://www.anthem.com/blog/living-healthy/top-4-trends-in-health-care-technology/">Anthem</a>,
86% of doctors say wearables, which are a common type of remote monitoring,
increase patient engagement with their health. Additionally, wearables are
predicted to decrease hospital costs by 16% in the next five years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With 5G, healthcare systems can enable mobile networks to
handle telemedicine appointments, which can significantly
increase the reach of the program. When healthcare systems utilize this
technology, patients can often get treated sooner and have access to
specialists otherwise not available. It can also allow doctors and other staff
members to collaborate more efficiently. According to a study by <a href="https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/telehealth/global-telemedicine-market-to-experience-16-5-annual-growth-rate-through-2023.html">Market
Research Future</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">,</span> this is a
crucial need because the telemedicine market is expected to grow at a compound
annual growth rate of 16.5% from 2017 to 2023. By using IoT devices, healthcare
providers can monitor patients and gather data that can be used to improve
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Adding a high-speed 5G network to existing architectures can
help quickly and reliably transport substantial
data files of medical imagery, which can improve both access to care and the
quality of care. An example is the <a href="https://www.business.att.com/learn/customer-stories/austin-cancer-center.html">Austin
Cancer Center</a> where the PET scanner generates huge files — up to 1 gigabyte of information per patient per study.
With 5G they can now send study results as soon as the patient leaves the
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for Health is not alone</span></a> in this move towards a connected healthcare
environment. To realize the <a href="https://www.business.att.com/learn/updates/the-prognosis-for-telehealth-and-connected-care.html">Connected
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patient digital health tools;</span></li>
<li>67% of patients surveyed are using Emails,
texts, phone reminders, scheduling, appointments, payments;</li>
<li>62% of patients surveyed are using Comprehensive
cybersecurity program; and</li>
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teleconferencing</span></li>
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To realize the <a href="https://www.business.att.com/learn/tech-advice/hospitals-eye-a-more-connected-caregiver-experience.html">Connected
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<li>82% of hospitals surveyed are using Simplified
check-in with self-service and mobile applications; and</li>
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In accomplishing digital
transformation, healthcare organizations must leverage secure
telecommunications and digital technologies. AT&T can help these
organizations transform the continuum of care—from the waiting room to the operating room, to the living
room—with edge-to-edge technologies, including networking, mobility,
cybersecurity, Internet of Things, and more. Visit <a href="https://www.business.att.com/industries/healthcare.html">https://www.business.att.com/industries/healthcare.html</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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her family traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to get cancer treatment for her sick brother. The miracle she observed, as the healthcare providers saved her brother’s life, ignited a passion for healthcare. Unfortunately, that passion didn’t apply to blood, so she went into electrical engineering and biomedical engineering, eventually falling in love with networking and data. Now <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marialensing/">Maria
Lensing, Vice President of AT&T Healthcare Solutions</a>, is in the perfect
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-maria-lensing-vp-healthcare-att">Maria’s
interview with Dez Blanchfield</a> started with this story as they talked <a href="https://www.business.att.com/industries/healthcare.html">AT&T
healthcare solutions</a> just ahead of HIMSS 2019 in Orlando Florida. HIMSS 2019
is the annual convention hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society. This American not-for-profit organization dedicates itself to improving health care quality,
safety, cost-effectiveness, and access through the best use of information
technology and management systems. Listening to Maria, her primary goal, when
working with AT&T’s healthcare industry clients is helping them:<o:p></o:p></div>
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ecosystem, that use data (i.e., Fitbit,
health sensors, medical instruments);<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Self-define the healthcare provider engagement
model (How do I engage my patients? How do I engage my doctors? How do I engage
my payers? How do we prepare for the future?); and<o:p></o:p></div>
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these connections.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During the engaging and far-ranging
discussion, the pair talked about how healthcare spending has grown
significantly in the United States, most of which from private investors. That
private investment is allowing for more innovation. While on the bright side,
this innovation is driving longer lifespans, a dichotomy also exists. As people
are living longer, we now have seniors that are suffering multiple chronic
diseases: not diabetes <b><u>or</u></b> arthritis for instance, but
diabetes <b><u>and</u></b> arthritis. Also,
while urban areas are enabling <a href="https://www.business.att.com/learn/updates/how-5g-will-transform-the-healthcare-industry.html">telemedicine
with 5G</a>, the rural community in the US doesn’t have the same high bandwidth
wireless coverage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As <a href="https://about.att.com/story/firstnet_selects_att_to_build_network_supporting_first_responders.html">AT&T
FirstNet</a> rolls out to provide high bandwidth wireless capability to first
responders, it can also improve our society’s ability to deliver telehealth
solutions to our rural community elders. Imagine a <a href="https://about.att.com/story/2018/medical_drones_softbox.html">First
Responder drone</a>, connected via high bandwidth wireless technology,
delivering a medical sensor to a distressed patient. Through that network,
healthcare providers could collect and interpret critical data as the initial
conversation is taking place. This scenario could deliver lifesaving care
almost <o:p></o:p>immediately. The intersection of technologies like 5g, IoT, smaller computer chip form </div>
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factors and better batteries coming together with
lower prices for connectivity can create the perfect environment for healthcare
innovation. Availability of these technologies pushes
our concepts around the delivery and consumption of healthcare services into
realms we've never experienced before. <o:p></o:p></div>
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AT&T Business is Delivering
The <a href="https://www.business.att.com/industries/healthcare.html">Network
Platform for Healthcare’s Future</a> today. Called Edge-to-Edge, by moving computing power closer to the edge, it delivers the data needed to support the
required action. Be that action needed by the doctor holding a phone or action
by a subcutaneous implant (an under the skin implant used to deliver a drug
over a long period). By connecting
quickly and reliably to the desired endpoint, data can be analyzed faster which
leads to faster action. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With technologies like software-defined
wide-area network (SD-WAN), AT&T
healthcare solutions team is not talking about replacement technology. They’re
talking about technology that extends and enhances existing infrastructure. SD-WAN
can also reduce the management costs and allow a business to seamlessly transition
between all of those other critical technologies (i.e., MPLS, 5G, LTE, WiFi) so that the experience becomes truly
mobile. By understanding this difference, the healthcare IT executive can focus
on how all these technologies seamlessly transition data back and forth so that
the healthcare team can deliver the best possible patient experience. According
to Ms. Lensing, that is what’s meant an <a href="https://www.business.att.com/learn/Edge-to-Edge.html">Edge-to-Edge solution</a>.
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All of this change is happening I an environment which sees
the healthcare consumer expectation changing dramatically as well. In the past, making an appointment and
showing up at the doctor’s office at the appointed time was expected. Society
has gone past going to the neighborhood health clinic for care when they feel
sick to now some expect their wearable health monitor to collect real-time
health data, use an artificial intelligence-driven
assistant to diagnose an illness, and order the correct medication over the
internet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For more, please listen to the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-maria-lensing-vp-healthcare-att">Conversations
with Dez podcast</a>. For more on this, visit the AT&T <a href="https://www.business.att.com/industries/healthcare.html">Healthcare
Solutions</a> page for more information. <o:p></o:p></div>
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there were over there were over 53,000 security incidents in 2017, with over 2,200
of those identified as confirm data breaches. A Ponemon Institute study also
showed that companies experiencing a data breach took an average of 147 days to
detect that breach. These statistics serve a key motivator of <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcirvine/">Stuart McIrvine, Director of
Product Management at Broadcom</a>. In
this role, Stuart is responsible for helping Broadcom’s customers protect data
held on mainframe systems around the world.
A rapidly broadening aspect of this job is keeping up with evolving data
protection and privacy laws. Stuart highlighted his ever relentless drive to
build and maintain customer trust in this area during his <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom">Conversations
with Dez</a> podcast. </div>
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With his extensive experience in hardware with IBM,
Software with HP and Operations Management with the newly acquired CA
Technologies, Stuart believes that all business comes down to one simple truth.
That is a business customer is not going
to buy from a company unless they have first established trust. Being a proud
husband and father of two young women, one of whom is also working at Broadcom,
Mr. McIrvine extends this customer-focused
passion towards always delivering the service that any specific customer
requests in the way that customer wants and expects. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Maintaining Customer Trust<o:p></o:p></h2>
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As the product manager of Broadcom’s computer mainframes, the
most secure platform ever built, Mr. McIrvine finds himself in an excellent
position from which to pursue his passion. In today’s era of Big Data and Big
Regulation, enterprises are increasingly focused on establishing and enhancing
their security and compliance strategy. Cross-enterprise data security and
compliance must, therefore, protect business-critical data, drive productivity
and enhance the enterprise’s overall digital profile. Those companies that
chose to take advantage of Broadcom’s leading mainframe security product
portfolio are using proven enterprise
data security solutions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During the podcast, Mr. McIrving highlighted that companies
must establish and maintain trust with their customers and that protection of
their customer’s data is foundational to that trust. To do this, he shared the results of a <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=09:48">recent
Ponemon Institute study</a> in which indicated that 65% of consumers lose trust
in a company that has suffered a customer data breach. Although it’s common
knowledge that public companies also see their stock price decline after a
breach, those that have superior security posture and quick response to a
breach recover from this equity loss over 12 times faster. More importantly,
over 30% of consumers discontinued their relationship with a breached company. Regaining
that lost customer also costs a company
seven times more money when compared to a new acquisition. This data means that a company’s success is <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=10:20">heavily
dependent on their ability to prove themselves as a trusted institution</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Protecting “Big Iron” data<o:p></o:p></h2>
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From an internal point of view, the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=18:47">most
significant security spending driver is compliance</a>. In reality, this represents the company’s ability
to demonstrate compliance to outside auditors. Since mainframe computers
represent the largest repository of customer data, they wind up being the most
attractive target for data thieves. According to
Mr. Irvine, the typical large company <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=20:52">experiences about 2.9 audits per year.</a> </div>
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To avoid data and value loss and to keep up with rapid
change in data regulations, companies must update their data management policies
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<li>Recognizing that data security compliance isn’t
something demonstrated just to auditors, but that it must be <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=28:50" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">demonstrated
to customers as well</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">. Recognition means embracing continuous compliance as
a competitive differentiator.</span></li>
<li>Augmenting the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=33:34" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">traditional
identity-centric data security model</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> that focuses on access control with a </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=34:10" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">data-centric
security model</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> that highlights understanding what </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">data the company holds </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">through the aggressive use of information
categories and a robust data classification process.: and</span></li>
<li>Leveraging these reinforcing views of data as a
means of <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=35:33" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">tightening
up data access controls</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> and gaining the ability to demonstrate knowledge of
where all an organization’s sensitive data </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">is located</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">
at all times; and</span></li>
<li>Implementing effective data governance which, in
turn, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-talking-with-stuart-mcirvine-director-product-management-broadcom#t=39:00" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">enables
proper risk management of customer data</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">.</span></li>
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Learn more about how to follow these proven steps toward
protecting your company’s customer data by talking with a <a href="https://www.ca.com/us/contact/sales.html?gbu=MF%20Security%20&%20Compliance&driver=MF%20Security">Broadcom
mainframe expert</a>. They are available
to help you find the right solution to meet your organization’s specific needs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Jul of 2018, Broadcom announced its intentions to acquire
CA Technologies. In the <a href="https://www.ca.com/us/company/newsroom/press-releases/2018/broadcom-to-acquire-ca-technologies-for-18-9-billion-in-cash.html">press
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“This transaction represents an important
building block as we create one of the world’s leading infrastructure
technology companies. With its sizeable installed base of customers, CA is
uniquely positioned across the growing and fragmented infrastructure software
market, and its mainframe and enterprise software franchises will add to our
portfolio of mission critical technology businesses. We intend to continue to
strengthen these franchises to meet the growing demand for infrastructure
software solutions.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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While those words look really nice on paper, the acquisition
is now <a href="http://investors.broadcom.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=203541&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2375294">old
news</a>. With crunch time now here, customers of both companies are now asking,<b>” What’s in it for me?”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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market opportunity. Rapid growth in the companies networking and
storage businesses was being driven by the even faster growth in the industry’s
need to securely and reliably scale data centers. This datacenter metamorphosis was, in turn,
being driven by digital transformation initiatives across literally every
industry. Always looking to improve values to their individual customers, the
merger gave existing customers of both corporations the opportunity to benefit
from the natural synergy of Broadcom’s industry-leading IT Infrastructure
offerings and CA’s industry-leading suite of mainframe solutions.<br />
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holds most of today’s enterprise data, two of CA Technology industry leading
products, Zowe and Brightside, were seen as perfect compliments to any
organization’s digital transformation efforts.
As a new open source software framework, <a href="https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/zowe">Zowe</a> provides
solutions that allow development and operations teams to securely, manage,
control, script and develop on the Mainframe like any other cloud platform.
When paired with Brightside’s automation and self-service capabilities, this
combination unlocks additional mainframe business value through cost and risk
reduction. <a href="https://www.ca.com/us/products/ca-brightside.html">Brightside</a>
empowers next-generation developers to more easily apply their experience with
modern DevOps toolchains and frameworks, helping to increase their ability to
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The value of these offerings paired with <a href="https://www.broadcom.com/">Broadcom’s IT infrastructure</a> offerings is
immense. Value of offering. Working with
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New processes that enhance business situational awareness are
also helped by this combination. Organizations can now abandon the legacy view
of customer engagement as a “point in time” event. With broader situational
awareness, business owners can now effectively manage every customer across all
of their possible touch points. <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">This
capability enables true understanding of what a customer is doing in real-time,
informing correct actions and up to the moment personalization. </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The end result is a digital transformation
that enhances the organization’s ability to be continuously active and engaged
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transformation, reach out to <a href="https://www.broadcom.com/company/about-us/executives/greg-lotko">Greg
Lotko</a> to learn more about the mainframe synergies you can gain from the
Broadcom CA Technologies merger. As the General Manager for Broadcom Mainframe
Business Unit, he can bring his more than 30 years of experience in application
development, application outsourcing services, software development and
infrastructure to your transformation initiative. His team, in fact, helped
HSBC transition to weekly release cycles, which was foundational to that
company’s ability to deliver 2000 deployments per month. This feat is even more
impressive knowing that the financial services giant manages over 6 million
artifacts through applications written by over 6,000 developers making 750,000
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-size: 16px;">Answering these, and other essential cybersecurity questions were the primary task during the “Security ‘In’ the Cloud and ‘Of’ the Cloud“ panel I participated in during the AT&T Business Summit in Dallas, Texas. </span><span style="color: #191919; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Read more about how you should address this cloud computing transition issue in my newest blog post on <a href="https://www.business.att.com/learn/secure-networking/security-in-and-of-the-cloud.html">AT&T Business Insights</a>.</span></span><br />
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Queen Latifah! </div>
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Hip Hop Icon. Movie Star. Television Star.
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Dana Elaine Owens, her given name, is co-owner of <a href="https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/smallbusiness/1105/gallery.celebrity_entrepreneurs_secret/2.html">Flavor
Unit Entertainment</a>, a firm that includes television and film production
units, a record label and an artist management company. She has been managing
herself since age 21 and within 2 years of starting her business, had signed
over 17 rap groups including the hugely
successful Naughty by Nature and Outkast. “<a href="https://blackdoctor.org/494929/ladies-first-queen-latifah-blazes-the-trail-for-women/">Her
first investment</a> was in a delicatessen and a video store on the ground
floor of the apartment she was living in at the time.” With her background, you
can now see why I was really excited to
see her on the main stage at the AT&T Business Summit with AT&T
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<i><span lang="EN-IN">Puppet 5 is released and comes with several exciting
enhancements and features that promise to make configuration management much
more streamlined. This article will take a comprehensive look at these new
features and enhancements.</span></i><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Puppet 5 was
released in 2017, and according to Eric Sorensen, director of product
management at Puppet, the goal was to standardize Puppet as a one-stop
destination for all configuration management requirements. Here are the four
primary goals of this release:</span></div>
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<li>To standardize the version
numbering of all the major Puppet components (Puppet Agent, PuppetDB, and
Puppet Server) to 5, and deliver them as part of a unified platform</li>
<li>To include Hiera 5 with eyaml
as a built-in capability</li>
<li>To provide clean UTF-8 support</li>
<li>To move network communications
to fast, interoperable JSON</li>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Customer feedback<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Customer and
community feedback played a major role in setting the goals for Puppet 5’s
release, having helped the developers with identifying and defining certain
patterns, such as:</span></div>
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<li>Different version numbers
across components were a huge source of confusion</li>
<li>There was a lot of chaos when
it came to combining components to get a working installation as well as where
each component would fit</li>
<li>Since both Facter 3 and
PuppetDB 3 seamlessly rolled into PC1, guaranteeing a new Puppet Collection for
every major release didn’t make much sense</li>
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<span lang="EN-IN">However, the
makers ensured that one critical aspect didn’t get affected: <b>Modules that worked on Puppet 4 will work
unchanged under Puppet 5</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">New features<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Puppet 5 comes
with some power-packed new features; have a look:</span></div>
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<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">The </span></b><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">call</span></code><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN"> function</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">: The </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">call (name,
args,…)</span></code><span lang="EN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">function has been
added, which allows you to directly call a function by its name</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">The </span></b><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">unique</span></code><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN"> function</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">: <b> </b>Earlier, you had to include the </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">stdlib</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> module to include the unique function. None of those hassles
anymore! The </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">unique</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> function is now directly available in
Puppet 5. What’s more, the function is also capable of handling </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hash</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> and </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Iterable</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> data types. In addition, you can
now also give a code block that determines whether the uniqueness has been
computed.</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">Puppet Server request metrics</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">: Puppet
Server 5 now comes with am http-client metric </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">puppetlabs.<localhost>.http-client.experimental.with-metric-id.puppet.report.http.full-response</localhost></span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> to enable the tracking of how long Puppet Server requests to a
configured HTTP report processor take.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Enhancements<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Time to take a
look at some exciting new enhancements that come with Puppet 5:</span></div>
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<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">Switched from PSON to JSON as default</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">:
Agents now download node information, catalogs, and file metadata, by default, in
JSON instead of PSON in Puppet 5. The move to JSON ensures enhanced
interoperability with other languages and tools, while also enabling better
performance, especially when the master is parsing JSON facts and reports from
agents. Plus, JSON-encoded facts can also be easily accepted in Puppet 5.</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">Ruby 2.4</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">: Puppet now uses Ruby 2.4,
which ships in the </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">puppet-agent</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> package. All you have ensure is to reinstall user-installed Puppet
agent gems after upgrading to Puppet agent 5.0. This is necessary because of
the differences in Ruby API in Ruby 2.1 and 2.4. Further, some gems may also
need to be upgraded to versions compatible with Ruby 2.4.</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">HOCON gem is a dependency now</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">: The HOCON
gem, which was previously shipped in </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">puppet-agent</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> package is also now a dependency of the Puppet gem.</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">Silence warnings with metadata.json</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">: You
can now turn off warnings from faulty metadata.json by setting </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">--strict=off</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">.</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">Updated Puppet Module Tool dependencies</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">:
The gem dependencies of Puppet Module Tool are updated to use </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">puppetlabs_spec_helper</span></code><span lang="EN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">1.2.0 or later, which runs </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">metadata-json-lint</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> as part of the </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">validate</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> rake task.</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">Hiera 5 default file</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">: Default Hiera
5-compliant files go into </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">confdir</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">
and </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">env-directory</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">. Puppet creates appropriate v5
hiera.yaml in </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">$confdir</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> and </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">$environment</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> Moreover, if Puppet detects a hiera.yaml in either </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">$confdir</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> or </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">$environment</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">, it won’t install a new file in
either location or remove </span><code style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN" style="background: #F9F2F4; color: #c7254e; font-family: Consolas; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">$hieradata</span></code><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Performance boosts<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-IN">All these
enhancements and new features have contributed to ushering performance boosts
in a lot of aspects. The runtimes of Puppet 5 agent have decreased by 30% at
equivalent loads (that is, from an average of 8 seconds to 5.5 seconds). In
addition CPU utilization of Puppet 5 server has reduced by at least 20% as
compared to Puppet 4 in all scenarios, while the CPU utilization for Puppet 5
PuppetDB and PostgreSQL have also significantly reduced in all scenarios. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Catalog compile
times of Puppet 5 reported by Puppet Server have reduced by 7% to 10% compared
to Puppet 4. Puppet 5 can now scale to 40 percent more agents with no deterioration
in runtime performance, whereas Puppet 4 agent runtimes were disastrously long
when scaled to the same number of agents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet’s latest and most
advanced features. </i><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/puppet-5-cookbook-fourth-edition"><i>Puppet 5 Cookbook – Fourth Edition</i></a><i> is for anyone who builds and administers
servers, especially in a web operations context.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Amidst volatile
markets, dynamic technology shifts, and ever-increasing customer demands, it is
imperative for IT organizations to develop flexible, scalable and high-quality
applications that exceed expectations and enhance productivity. A software application
has numerous moving parts, which, if not effectively maintained, will
definitely affect the final quality and end user experience.</div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">This is where
configuration management (CM) comes into play, its purpose being to maintain
the integrity of the product or system throughout its lifecycle while also
making the deployment process controllable and repeatable in order to ensure
higher quality. Robust configuration management brings the following advantages
to the table:</span></div>
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<li>Mitigates redundant tasks</li>
<li>Manages concurrent updates</li>
<li>Eliminates problems related to
configuration</li>
<li>Streamlines inter-team
coordination</li>
<li>Makes defect tracking easier</li>
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<span lang="EN-IN">There are
several effective CM tools out there like Puppet, Chef, Ansible. And CFEngine,
which provide automation for infrastructure, cloud, compliance and security
management, integration for deployment and continuous deployment (CI / CD).
However, deciding on which tool to select for an organization’s automation
requirements is the most critical task for a sysadmin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">A lot of sysadmins
will agree that the daily chores of a sysadmin keep them from being updated
about automation. When they do spend time in learning the nuances, they come
across multiple CM tools that all offer the same benefits theoretically. This
further complicates the decision about which CM tool to choose from, especially
for people who are just getting started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">So, what is the
best tool for people who have minimal idea about automation?—Ansible—and
justifiably so! You may ask why. This article will discuss the five reasons
that make Ansible one of the most reliable and efficient CM tools out there.</span></div>
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<li><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-IN">An end-to-end tool to simplify automation</span></b></li>
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Ansible is an
end-to-end tool that aids performing all kinds of automation tasks, right from
controlling and visualization to simulation and maintenance. This is because
Ansible is developed in Python, which gives Ansible access to all
general-purpose language features and thousands existing Python packages that
you can use to create your own modules. With over 1300 modules, Ansible
simplifies several aspects of IT infrastructure, including web, database,
network, cloud, cluster, monitoring, and storage.<br />
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<b><i><span lang="EN-IN">Configuration
Management</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN">: Ansible’s most attractive feature
is its playbooks, which are nothing but simple instructions/recipes meant to
guide Ansible through the task at hand. Playbooks are written in YAML and are
human-readable, which makes it all the more easier to navigate through and work
with Ansible. Playbooks enable making changes to code, while also making it
possible to manage desired states and idempotency natively. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN"><i>Orchestration</i></span></b><span lang="EN-IN">: Ansible,
though highly simplified, can’t be underestimated when it comes to its
orchestration power. It effortlessly integrates with any area of the IT
infrastructure, be it provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating firewall
rules. Moreover, Ansible comes in handy with aspects that other tools leave
gaps in, such as zero-stop and continuous updates for multitier applications
across the infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN"><i>Provisioning</i></span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><i>:</i> With several
modules for containers (Docker) and virtualization (VMWare, AWS, OpenStack,
Azure, and Ovirt), Ansible can easily integrate with several tasks to provide
robust and efficient automation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Enabling easy
initial configuration and installation, the learning curve related to Ansible
is extremely quick. Figure this—you can install, configure, and execute ad-hoc
commands for ‘n’ number of servers within 30 minutes, no matter what the issue
is, be it daylight savings, synchronization, root security, server updation,
and so on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Moreover, it
takes no time, even for a beginner, to understand the syntax and workflows,
owing to the fact that it uses YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language). YAML is
human-readable and, therefore, extremely user-friendly and easy-to-understand.
Add to it the Python libraries and modules, you have a very simple yet quite
powerful CM tool in your hands.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Unlike legacy
infrastructure models, which take too long to converge to a fully automated
environment, Ansible is highly flexible in this regards. As the tech space
becomes increasingly dynamic, it is only understandable that the environments
have to be flexible enough to imbibe any changes without affecting the output.
Otherwise, it may lead to undesired costs, inter-team conflicts, and manual
interventions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Ansible,
however, effortlessly adapts to mixed environments, peacefully coexisting with
partial and fully automated environments alike, while also enabling seamless
transition between models.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">No agents need
to be installed at the endpoints for Ansible; all you need is an
Ansible-installed server, managing access to servers through SSH (for Linux
environments) and WINRM (Windows Remote Access) protocols. Thanks to playbooks,
all the desired settings on the hosts defined in the inventory can also run
ad-hoc via the command line without any file definitions required whatsoever.
This makes it much faster than the traditional client-server models.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">Right from the
instant you can ping the hosts through Ansible, you can start automating your
environment immediately. It’s advisable to begin with smaller tasks, duly
following best practices, and prioritize tasks that contribute to achieving the
business goals. This will help identify and solve problems much swiftly, while
also gaining time and enhancing efficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">In a nutshell,
where Ansible wins over its competitors is in its simplicity—even a beginner
can master it in no time—and its powerful features that make configuration
management a cakewalk. Choosing Ansible will help heal the Achille’s Heel of
automation while also majorly enhancing productivity and efficiency. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-IN">If you found this article interesting and wish to
learn more about Ansible, you can explore </span></i><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Ansible-Automate-security-infrastructure/dp/1788998758"><i>Learn Ansible</i></a><i>, an end-to-end guide that will aid you in effectively automating
cloud, security, and network infrastructure. </i><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/learn-ansible"><i>Learn Ansible</i></a><i> follows a hands-on approach to give you practical experience in
writing playbooks and roles, and executing them. </i></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Follow me at http://Twitter.com/Kevin_Jackson</div>Kevin L. Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11780883395083217354noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864015076802946059.post-42862675677694535302018-10-01T21:27:00.001-04:002018-10-01T21:27:29.764-04:00Machine learning APIs for Google Cloud Platform<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Google Cloud
Platform (GCP) is considered to be one of the Big 3 cloud platforms among
Microsoft Azure and AWS. GCP is widely used cloud solutions supporting </span><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/tech/Artificial-Intelligence" target="_blank" title="Artificial Intelligence eBooks, Courses & Videos"><span style="color: #4db2ec; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration-line: none;">AI</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> capabilities to
design and develop smart models to turn your data into insights at a cheap,
affordable cost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the 3 most popular APIs:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A powerful API from
GCP! This enables the user to convert speech to text by using a neural network
model. This API is used to recognize over 100 languages throughout the world.
It can also support filter of unwanted noise/ content from a text, under
various types of environments. It supports context-awareness recognition,
works on any device, any platform, anywhere, including </span><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/tech/Internet-of-Things" target="_blank" title="Internet of Things eBooks, Courses & Videos"><span style="color: #4db2ec; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration-line: none;">IoT</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. It has features like </span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Automatic Speech Recognition</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ASR</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">), Global
Vocabulary, Streaming Recognition, Word Hints, Real-Time Audio support, Noise
Robustness, Inappropriate Content Filtering and supports for integration with
other APIs of GCP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this model enables speech to text conversion by ML.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the model include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is free of charge for 15 seconds per usage, up to 60 minutes
per month. More than that will be charged at $0.006 per usage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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learned about the concepts and the applications of the model, let’s learn some
use cases where we can implement the model:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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partnered with Morpho (Safran) to bring Voice ID technology into its
multimodal suite of criminal identification products.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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popular and mainstream application of biometrics, in general, is mobile
payments. Voice recognition has also made its way into this highly competitive
arena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the main focus of NLP group for many years. MT deals with translating text from
the source language to text in the target language. Cloud Translation API
provides a graphical user interface to translate an inputted string of a
language to targeted language, it’s highly responsive, scalable and dynamic in
nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This API enables
translation among 100+ languages. It also supports language detection
automatically with accuracy. It provides a feature to read a web page contents
and translate to another language, and need not be text extracted from a document.
The Translation API supports various features such as programmatic access, text
translation, language detection, continuous updates and adjustable quota, and
affordable pricing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The following image
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In other words, the
cloud translation API is an adaptive Machine Translation Algorithm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by this model are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The most important
application of the model is the conversion of a regional language to a
foreign language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cost of text translation and language detection is $20 per 1
million characters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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learned about the concepts and applications of the API, let’s learn two use
cases where it has been successfully implemented:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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each of these use cases in the following sections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Machine Translation process from the responses of a local tissue to
injuries and trauma. The human body follows a process similar to Machine
Translation when dealing with injuries. We can roughly describe the process as
follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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closed sanguineous compartment, are recognized as foreign material by the
surrounding tissue since they are not tissue-specific<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by foreign-body giant cells)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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granulation tissue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(scar) tissue by fibroblasts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enables the users to understand the content of an image. It helps in finding
various attributes or categories of an image, such as labels, web, text,
document, properties, safe search, and code of that image in JSON. In labels
field, there are many sub-categories like text, line, font, area, graphics,
screenshots, and points. How much area of graphics involved, text percentage,
what percentage of empty area and area covered by text, is there any image
partially or fully mapped in web are included web contents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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consists of blocks of the image with detailed description, properties show that
the colors used in image is visualized. If any unwanted or inappropriate
content is removed from the image through safe search. The main features of
this API are label detection, explicit content detection, logo and landmark
detection, face detection, web detection, and to extract the text the API used </span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Optical Character Reader</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OCR</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) and is supported
for many languages. It does not support face recognition system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the Cloud Vision API is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the functionalities of the API as extracting quantitative information from
images, taking the input as an image and the output as numerics and text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the API are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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API include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that, pay as you go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can be successfully implemented to detect images using your smartphone. The
steps to do this are simple:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Executes methods for detection of Face, Label, Text, Web and
Document properties<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Generate the response in the form of phrase or string<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Populate the image details as a text view<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Retinal Image Analysis – ophthalmology</span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Similarly, the API
can also be used to analyze retinal images. The steps to implement this are as
follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Input the images of an eye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Estimate the retinal biomarkers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do the process to remove the effected portion without losing
necessary information<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Identify the location of specific structures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Identify the boundaries of the object<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Find similar regions in two or more images<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quantify the image with retinal portion damage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can learn a lot
more about the machine learning capabilities of GCP on their </span><a href="https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4db2ec; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration-line: none;">official documentation
page</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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information on why GCP is a top cloud solution for machine learning and AI.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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