Welcome back to the third episode of IBM Cloud Now, a bi-weekly series bringing you the latest and greatest IBM Cloud news and announcements!

Make sure to check out the IBM Cloud Blog for a full rundown of all announcements: http://ibm.biz/cloud-blog-announcements

This week, Sai Vennam walks you through the following featured announcements:

• IBM Cloud and Gartner Peer Insights
• IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared - GA
• BYOK/KYOK for IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS

Get started on IBM Cloud for free: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free

Looking to gain hands-on experience with cloud-native capabilities like Kubernetes on an enterprise cloud at absolutely no cost?

Welcome to IBM CloudLabs, an interactive way to learn essential cloud-native concepts all entirely through your browser. Users will get access to spin up a free Kubernetes cluster for 4 hours to grow their skill with 3 free interactive Kubernetes labs on IBM Cloud. Upon completing the labs, a user will have the opportunity to take a quiz and earn a badge to show off their skills.

Start IBM Cloud for free: http://ibm.biz/free-ibm-cloud-reg

Learn more about Kubernetes: http://ibm.biz/free-guide-on-kubernetes

Earn a badge with NEW free hands-on Kubernetes labs: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/container-service/kubernetes-tutorials

Johannes Schmude, research scientist at IBM, discusses IBM PAIRS Geoscope, a unique cloud-centric information and analytics service that can accelerate the discovery of new insights from massive, complex geospatial-temporal data. Designed for developers and data scientists, PAIRS Geoscope eliminates the labor-intensive process of data acquisition, indexing, and preparation and provides search-friendly, ready access to a rich, diverse, and growing catalog of historical and continuously updated geospatio-temporal information.

The IBM Video Analytics solution is a component of the IBM Maximo Worker Insights solution, which is used by clients for Return to Work efforts associated with COVID19. This AI-based technology monitors many scenarios, such as PPE detection, social distancing, and occupancy counts, and can leverage existing on-site CCTV (closed circuit TV) camera systems, often saving customers additional expense and reducing business disruptions.

Learn more about IBM Video Analytics:https://ibm.co/3hP3mSN

Fine-grained access control is now available in IBM Cloud. See how assigning policies works from a resource group to a single resource or instance.

To learn more, visit:http://bit.ly/2fRNqEV

We're excited to bring you the second episode of IBM Cloud Now, a bi-weekly series bringing you the latest and greatest IBM Cloud news and announcements! This week, Tessa Rodes walks you through the following featured announcements: release of IBM Edge Application Manager v4.0, latest Kubernetes 1.17.2 on IBM Cloud, and Travelping and IBM Cloud drive innovation.

Make sure to check out the IBM Cloud Blog for a full rundown of all announcements: http://ibm.biz/cloud-blog-announcements

Get started on IBM Cloud for free: http://ibm.biz/cloud-account-at-no-cost

This video walks through how to use Watson Assistant and demonstrates the latest Salesforce Service Cloud integration.

Learn more about Watson Assistant:https://ibm.co/2F8mM6B

An international airport is under cyberattack. Do you have what it takes to prevent the attackers from shutting airport systems down with ransomware? Experience an intense, realistic cyber breach video game in “Cybersecurity Ops: Terminal.”

It’s the busiest travel time of the year and cybercriminals are attempting to shut down the airport with ransomware. Your job is to respond decisively to protect the airport’s systems, prevent the cybercriminals from taking control, and minimize the impact and keep the airport running. Terminal puts you in the hot seat for three different roles: an IT analyst, a manager, and an executive. Each role has different responsibilities and increasingly difficult decisions to make as the cyberattack escalates. Feel the pressure, make the tough calls. It’s all up to you.

Brought to you by IBM Security.

Play the game: https://ibm.com/terminal

Using an API doesn't cut it when trying to do machine learning in real-time. Learn how to bring your computer vision models to the browser for massive speed improvements and an increase in user privacy.

Create a real-time object detection app using Watson Machine Learning: https://ibm.biz/BdqKj3

Build Smart. Build secure. Join a global community of developers athttp://ibm.biz/IBMdeveloperYT

Using an API doesn't cut it when trying to do machine learning in real-time. Learn how to bring your computer vision models to the browser for massive speed improvements and an increase in user privacy.

Create a real-time object detection app using Watson Machine Learning: https://ibm.biz/BdqKj3

Build Smart. Build secure. Join a global community of developers athttp://ibm.biz/IBMdeveloperYT

Welcome to the very first episode of IBM Cloud Now, a bi-weekly series bringing you the latest and greatest IBM Cloud news and announcements!

Make sure to check out the IBM Cloud Blog for a full rundown of all announcements:http://ibm.biz/cloud-blog-announcements

This episode's featured announcements:

(0:14) 1: IBM Cloud Shell (Beta)

(1:08) 2: New Ansible Module for IBM Cloud

(2:11) 3: IBM Cloud Object Storage Smart Tier

Get started on IBM Cloud for free: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free

In this video from the "Introduction to Java programming" tutorial series, Java Developer Steve Perry will show you how to create a JAR file using the Eclipse IDE. A JAR file stands for Java ARchive, and it's how we share Java artifacts.

LINKS: "Introduction to Java programming" (Series): http://ibm.biz/JavaIntroIBMDev

IBM Cloud Pak for Automation is a complete and flexible set of integrated automation software that can be deployed wherever you need it, on any cloud. In this two-minute video, Sai Vennam with IBM Cloud explains the value that IBM Cloud Pak for Automation provides enterprises, as well as a few successful case studies.

Learn more about IBM Cloud Pak for Automation: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloud-pak-for-automation