Baidu cloud products, including both VMs and bare metal servers, cover 11 regions in China with over 5,000 physical machines. Today, 17 important online businesses have been migrated to the Kata Containers platform thus far.

SHANGHAI (PRWEB)
November 04, 2019

The Baidu ABC Cloud Group & Security Edge teams is the 11th organization to win the Superuser Award. The news was announced today at the Open Infrastructure Summit in Shanghai. Baidu ABC Cloud Group and Edge Security Team integrated Kata Containers into the platform for all of Baidu internal and external cloud services including edge applications. Their cloud products, including both VMs and bare metal servers, cover 11 regions in China with over 5,000 physical machines. Today, 17 important online businesses have been migrated to the Kata Containers platform thus far.

Elected by members of the OSF community, the team that wins the Superuser Award is lauded for the unique nature of its use case as well as its integration and application of open infrastructure. Four out of five nominees for the Superuser Award presented today wer from the APAC region: Baidu ABC Cloud Group and Edge Security Team, InCloud OpenStack Team of Inspur, Information Management Department of Wuxi Metro, and Rakuten Mobile Network Organization. Previous award winners from the APAC region include China Mobile, NTT Group, and the Tencent TStack Team.

Baidu Keynote at Open Infrastructure Summit

On the keynote stage in Shanghai, Baidu Cloud Senior Architect Zhang Yu explained that Kata Containers provides a virtual machine-like security mechanism at the container level, which gives their customers a great deal of confidence. When moving their business to a container environment, they have less concern. Kata Containers is compatible with the OCI standard and users can directly manage the new environment with popular management suites such as Kubernetes. Kata Containers is now an official project under the Openstack Foundation, which gives the company confidence to invest in the project.

“Baidu is an amazing example of how open infrastructure starts with OpenStack,” said Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation. “They’re running OpenStack at massive scale, combined with other open infrastructure technologies like Kata Containers and Kubernetes, and they’re doing it in production for business-critical workloads.”

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About the OpenStack® Foundation

The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure globally, across a community of over 100,000 individuals in 187 countries, by hosting open source projects and communities of practice, including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container infrastructure.

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We are proud to be the first Intel® Platinum Partner to have all four validated solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. Customers will be able to realize a faster time-to-value and reduced operational costs with these pre-validated solutions.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (PRWEB)
November 04, 2019

DataON, the industry-leading provider of hybrid cloud solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with cloud-based Azure Services, has collaborated with Intel to offer new Data Center Plus configurations for version 2 of Intel Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ DC SSDs. These solutions will be showcased at DataON booth #1645 at Microsoft Ignite 2019, from November 4-7, 2019, in Orlando, Florida.

DataON is one of the first Intel® Platinum Partners to offer all four validated configurations for Intel Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI:

• Data center model, base configuration – For enterprise environments, supports primary workloads in a hybrid storage design.
• Data center model, plus configuration – For enterprise environments, supports the most demanding critical production workloads. Ideal for healthcare environments where electronic healthcare (EHR) database software require fast responses.
• Edge model, base configuration – For small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB), remote office/branch office (ROBO), and edge environments
• Edge model, plus configuration – For SMB, ROBO, and edge environments. Leverages leveraging Intel® Optane™ technology to support more demanding workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server.

Intel Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI are performance-optimized specifically for hyper-converged compute and storage. This solution improves performance by utilizing Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory as cache storage for Storage Spaces Direct to accelerate the cache tier for storage at DDR4 speeds versus PCIe/SATA speeds.

With the Edge model Plus configuration, businesses can add three times greater memory capacity per cluster and fifty percent greater raw storage capacity per cluster using three-way mirroring over the Base configuration*. With the DataON Center model Plus configuration of Intel Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, businesses can achieve 20 percent more cores for computation and 88 percent higher throughput in IOPS over the Base configuration**.

These solutions add to DataON’s first generation of Intel® Select Solutions for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage, and second-generation Intel Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and Microsoft SQL Server.

Intel created Intel Select Solutions to reduce the time required to evaluate, select, and purchase hardware for today’s workloads and applications. They are vigorously benchmark-tested with today’s high-priority workloads, helping businesses realize smooth deployments and optimal performance. By eliminating guesswork and ensuring predictability with pre-defined configurations, businesses can take advantage of new technologies faster.

The new Intel Select Solutions are powered by 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They represent a new class of Intel® Xeon® processors designed for demanding high-performance computing (HPC) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) workloads. The processor delivers up to 28 cores per CPU and 6 DDR4 memory channels per socket. In addition, they support Intel’s breakthrough Intel Optane DC persistent memory, delivering greater than 3TB per socket. These solutions also support Intel Optane Solid State Drives (SSDs) which can accelerate applications, reduce transactions costs for latency-sensitive workloads, and improve overall data center TCO.

“DataON was an inaugural partner for Intel Selection Solution for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage, and we are proud to be the first Intel Platinum Partner to have all four validated solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI,” said Howard Lo, vice president of sales and marketing, DataON. “Having these validated solutions demonstrates our commitment to providing Intel-based solutions for Azure Stack HCI. Customers will be able to realize a faster time-to-value and reduced operational costs with these pre-validated solutions.

“Data center architects continue to face new and increasingly larger challenges due to the sheer volume of data and inevitable demand for new digital services,” said Jake Smith, Director, Data Center Technologies at Intel. “Intel Select Solutions, delivered through industry leaders like DataON, are designed to reduce the time-consuming research and testing process for architects, and accelerate their time-to-deployment.”

DATAON HYBRID CLOUD SOLUTIONS FOR AZURE STACK HCI

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is the basis for Intel Select Solutions from DataON. It is an evolution of data center computing that blends Windows Server technologies with new Azure management service integration. It features the same Hyper-V based software-defined compute, storage, and networking as Azure Stack and shares similar testing and validation criteria. It follows engineering best practices to get customers up and running without lengthy design and build times.

DataON offers customized, turnkey solutions for Azure Stack HCI, from 4-node solutions for enterprise data centers to 2-node solutions for SMB, ROBO, edge, and IoT.

DataON solutions utilize Intel technology, including:

• 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors – Offers higher performance, improved price/performance and enhanced security capabilities over previous generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Supports Intel’s breakthrough Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
• Intel Optane DC SSDs – Helps eliminate data center storage bottlenecks and allows bigger, more affordable data sets
• Intel Optane DC persistent Memory – Provides more usable memory, supports larger workloads, or helps consolidate multiple, existing workloads

ABOUT DATAON

DataON is a hybrid-cloud computing company focused on delivering Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, on-premises storage systems, intelligent edge appliances, and cloud-based Microsoft Azure Services. Our company is helping enterprises and customers who have made the “Microsoft choice” to modernize their IT with Microsoft applications, virtualizations, and data protection through a complete and turnkey experience.

With over 650 HCI clusters and 150PB of storage deployed, DataON enterprise-level solutions are designed to provide the highest level of performance, manageability, and security offered. DataON is a Microsoft Gold Partner, Microsoft Cloud Service Provider (CSP), and an Intel Platinum Partner.

For more information, go to http://www.dataonstorage.com or call +1 (714) 441-8820.

• Intel internal testing as of February 15, 2019. Intel® Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack* HCI Edge model Base configuration: 2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218 processor, Intel® Server Board S2600WFT, 256 GB total memory (8x 32 GB, 2,666 mega transfers per second [MT/s]), Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) enabled, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled, storage (boot): 1x 480 GB Intel® SSD DC 3520 U.2 SATA, storage tier: 4x 1.6 TB Intel SSD DC P4610 PCIe* NVM Express* (NVMe*), 1x 25 gigabits per second (Gbps) Chelsio* network adapter, 10 GbE, Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition* build 17763. Plus configuration: 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6230 processor, Intel Server Board S2600WFT, 512 GB Intel® OptaneTM DC persistent memory (4x 128 GB, 2,666 MT/s), 192 GB DRAM (12x 16 GB, 2,666 MT/s), Intel HT Technology enabled, Intel Turbo Boost Technology enabled, storage (boot): 1x 480 GB Intel SSD DC 3520 M.2 SATA, storage (cache): 2x 375 GB Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X, storage (capacity): 4x 4 TB Intel SSD DC P4510 PCIe NVMe, 1x 25 gigabits per second (Gbps) Chelsio network adapter, 25 GbE, Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition build 17763.

** Intel internal testing as of February 15, 2019. Intel® Select Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack* HCI Data Center model Base configuration: 2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6230 processor, Intel® Server Board S2600WFT, 512 GB Intel® OptaneTM DC persistent memory (4x 128 GB, 2,666 mega transfers per second [MT/s]), 192 GB DRAM (12x 16 GB, 2,666 MT/s), Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) enabled, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled, storage (boot): 1x 480 GB Intel® SSD DC 3520 M.2 SATA, storage (cache): 2x 375 GB Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X, storage (capacity): 4x 4 TB Intel SSD DC P4510 PCIe* NVM Express* (NVMe*), 1x 25 gigabits per second (Gbps) Chelsio* network adapter, 25 GbE, Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition* build 17763. Plus configuration: 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6252 processor, Intel Server Board S2600WFT, 1,584 GB Intel Optane DC persistent memory (12x 128 GB, 2,666 MT/s), 192 GB DRAM (12x 16 GB, 2,666 MT/s), Intel HT Technology enabled, Intel Turbo Boost Technology enabled, storage (boot): 1x 480 GB Intel SSD DC 3520 M.2 SATA, storage (cache): 2x 500 GB Intel Optane SSD DC persistent memory, storage (capacity): 4x 4 TB Intel SSD DC P4510 PCIe NVMe, 1x 25 gigabits per second (Gbps) Chelsio network adapter, 25 GbE, Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition build 17763.

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John Thies, CEO and co-founder of Email on Acid

“Over the last 10 years, we’ve heard and witnessed first-hand the challenges email marketers face. We’re thrilled to bring to market a revolutionary solution that will help alleviate these challenges and vastly improve the impact of their marketing campaigns.

DENVER (PRWEB)
November 04, 2019

Email on Acid, a leading provider of email design optimization and workflow management, has announced major enhancements to its most popular product – Campaign Precheck. These new enhancements make Email on Acid’s product the most comprehensive and customizable email QA and testingenvironment on the market.

Email marketers in every country around the world are working longer hours, with fewer resources and greater demands. Due to these stressors, email marketing campaigns are prone to deploy with mistakes. These mistakes can be avoided by using Email on Acid’s Campaign Precheck. It’s the first product of its kind to enable users to optimize every email, check their deliverability and test the rendering all in one place. This not only saves time, but also helps to boost campaign ROI by eliminating costly errors.

“Over the last 10 years, we’ve heard and witnessed first-hand the challenges email marketers face. We’re thrilled to bring to market a revolutionary solution that will help alleviate these challenges and vastly improve the impact of their marketing campaigns,” said John Thies, co-founder and CEO of Email on Acid. “Campaign Precheck helps solve embarrassing email blunders because marketers can test their emails every time. Our unrivaled QA and email previews on actual clients in a live, interactive environment effectively solves this problem.”

Campaign Precheck, Email on Acid’s end-to-end email QA and testing workflow product, launched late last year offering more robust content QA checks than any other service in the industry. The new features released today makes Email on Acid the only provider offering this breakthrough optimization tool to its clients.

About Email on Acid:

Email on Acid is a robust email QA SaaS platform that guides users through thorough content checks and previews. By upending the arduous process of manual email QA, Email on Acid helps brands achieve efficiencies in their own email QA process with its time-saving tools. The result is improved marketing ROI results by optimizing every part of every email. Co-Founded by John Thies, CEO, and Michelle Klann in 2009, Email on Acid was born out of a desire to help email marketers preview each email and understand why it looks a certain way on different clients and devices. To learn more about Email on Acid, visit https://www.emailonacid.com/.

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With Sovos, we can react quickly to shifting cryptocurrency tax reporting regulations, helping to ensure our customers are just as protected as investors of other asset classes.

BOSTON (PRWEB)
November 04, 2019

Global tax software leader Sovos today announced that Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange and custodian co-founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has selected Sovos for its tax information reporting needs. The Sovos Tax Information Reporting solution will automate Gemini’s 1099 forms and filings, reducing potential errors and delivering automatic regulatory updates in the everchanging cryptocurrency compliance landscape.

Launched in 2015, Gemini has grown into one of the most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges and custodians globally. Founded with compliance as a core organizational pillar, Gemini prioritized tax information reporting as critical to scalability in a market where regulations are still evolving. The exchange and custodian selected Sovos for its experience as the largest private filer to the IRS of 10-series tax forms, as well as for its leadership in addressing the compliance concerns of the alternative currency market.

“With Sovos, we can react quickly to shifting cryptocurrency tax reporting regulations, helping to ensure our customers are just as protected as investors of other asset classes,” said Joshua Rawlins, managing director, financial operations, Gemini. “Sovos provides services to some of the largest traditional financial services institutions and will bring that level of expertise and sophistication to address the reporting needs of our cryptocurrency customers in the upcoming 2019 tax season.”

Crypto tax guidance for exchanges and the investors they serve

Wendy Walker, solution principal at Sovos, said, “Since 2014, investors have demanded more clarification from IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig on the cryptocurrency income that should be reported to the IRS. And while many, including members of Congress, looked to the IRS to provide more guidance, investors were instead met with a threat of enforcement.”

In July 2019, the IRS sent three different letters to more than 10,000 cryptocurrency investors reminding them of their income tax obligations, indicating investors may have inaccurately reported their virtual gains or losses. The agency outlined penalties for failing to report income and pay crypto taxes. Last month, after five years of anticipation, the IRS announced an update to its cryptocurrency policy with more guidance for individuals, but the agency did not specify which forms crypto trading exchanges should use to report tax information to the IRS and to their customers.

“As cryptocurrency tax reporting continues to take shape, Sovos remains at the forefront of regulatory changes and can quickly adapt to rapid reporting requirement shifts,” said Paul Banker, general manager, Sovos. “We will help Gemini mitigate potential IRS penalty risk for its customers and proactively prepare for any upcoming changes from the IRS, staying ahead of competitors who will be trying to understand their tax compliance obligations.”

To learn more about Sovos Tax Information Reporting for cryptocurrency exchanges, visit https://sovos.com/solutions/cryptocurrency-tax-software/.

About Sovos

Sovos is a leading global provider of software that safeguards businesses from the burden and risk of modern tax. As governments and businesses go digital, businesses face increased risks, costs and complexity. The Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud combines world-class regulatory analysis with its secure, scalable and reliable S1 cloud software platform to create a global solution for tax determination, e-invoicing compliance and tax reporting. Sovos supports more than 7,000 customers, including half of the Fortune 500, and integrates with a wide variety of business applications. Headquartered in Boston, Sovos has offices throughout North America, Latin America and Europe. Sovos is owned by London-based Hg. For more information visit http://www.sovos.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Gemini Trust Company, LLC:

Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini) is a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, litecoin, and zcash. Gemini is a New York trust company that is subject to the capital reserve requirements, cybersecurity requirements, and banking compliance standards set forth by the New York State Department of Financial Services and the New York Banking Law. Gemini was founded in 2014 by twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to build a bridge to the future of money.

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