Survey Finds Microservices Teething Issues
Microservices, the web-scale application architecture, is making serious headway in production, according to a vendor survey, but the tradeoff for more agile application delivery is a new set of ...Full Article
Google Expands Cloud Tools with Data Orchestrator
Google Cloud Platform’s new data orchestrator dubbed Cloud Composer is its latest managed service based on its Apache Airflow workflow management tool. Announcing the beta launch of Cloud Composer ...Full Article
Tag, You’re Not It: Why Tagging Kills Cloud Cost Management
Tagging is a major part of pretty much any cloud deployment. It’s commonly used to assign some piece of useful information to a cloud resource. Most IT teams rely ...Full Article
Google Is Latest ‘Big Three’ Cloud Provider to Offer V100 GPUs
Google announced today that Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in public beta on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through its infrastructure-as-a-service offering Compute Engine and on ...Full Article
Rackspace is Latest to Roll Bare Metal Service
Rackspace is expanding it managed private cloud services with the addition of six new bare metal instances that it collectively refers to as bare metal as a service. The ...Full Article
Google, Atos Partner on Cloud Machine Learning
Google continues to add regional cloud partners as it seeks to differentiate its public cloud offerings while distributing its machine learning building blocks. Atos, the French big data platform ...Full Article
Heptio Builds Bridge to Kubernetes
Heptio, the startup launched in 2016 by the creators of the Kubernetes container orchestrator, is launching an open source initiative along with partner Actapio aimed at bridging cloud native ...Full Article
As Object Storage Booms, Analytics Issues Emerge
With object-based storage capacity predicted to grow at double-digit annual rates over the next several years, attention is turning to shortcomings such as barriers to data visibility and difficulties ...Full Article
Serverless Computing: Big Potential – with a Few ‘If’s’
Serverless computing has become one of enterprise technology’s hottest buzzwords, even though the term is a bit of a misnomer. No, servers aren’t going away. But serverless computing, also ...Full Article
VMware Sharpens Focus on Hybrid Cloud
VMware this week takes the wraps off the latest versions of its server virtualization and software-defined storage platforms with an emphasis on hybrid cloud deployments, broader application support and—in ...Full Article