Cloud Computing News & Insights


Public Preview of Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise Now Available

Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, the fully-managed, enterprise-ready service for the Spring framework developed jointly by VMware and Microsoft, is now available in a public preview.

Canonical and CoreSpace Partner to Provide 'One-Stop Shop' for Private Clouds

Canonical CoreSpace announce a partnership aimed at making it easier for organizations to set up, customize, and manage private clouds.

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Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus Now Includes OpenShift Data Foundation

Red Hat announces the integration of its OpenShift Data Foundation storage solution with its OpenShift Platform Plus Kubernetes container platform.

Java on VS Code 2022 Roadmap Includes Wider Path to Cloud Native

Microsoft plans to emphasize cloud native development in 2022 as it adds features and expands the capabilities of its popular Visual Studio Code for Java source code editor.

Meta and AWS Deepen Their Strategic Alliance, Bump Up Support for PyTorch

AWS announces new plans with Meta to use its services and global infrastructure to scale research and development, facilitate third party collaborations, and help enterprises use the PyTorch to bring deep learning models from research into production faster and easier.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Adds Insights Services, New 'System Roles'

Red Hat, one of the world’s leading providers of open-source solutions, has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 (RHEL 8.5) the latest incarnation of its enterprise Linux platform.

Will Microsoft's Ongoing Push Draw Java Developers to Azure?

Redmond has been promoting Java to its developer community for a while now, but it recently began pumping up its Java push on several fronts, including promoting new guidance for devs using the popular programming language on its Azure cloud computing platform.

Oracle Adds Java Management Service to its Cloud Infrastructure Services Lineup

Oracle's new Java Management Service (JMS) is a cloud native infrastructure service for the management of Java runtimes and applications, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Online Tech Trainer Pluralsight to Acquire A Cloud Guru

Technology workforce development company Pluralsight has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the cloud skills development platform A Cloud Guru (ACG).

Microsoft and IBM Collaborate on WebSphere Java EE App Server Solution

IBM and Microsoft announce the availability of a jointly developed solution for running the network deployment of IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on Azure Linux-based virtual machines (VMs).

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Eclipse Jakarta EE 9.1 First Incremental Release Since 'Big Bang'

The Eclipse Foundation's Jakarta EE Working Group announced the release of the Jakarta EE 9.1 Platform and Web Profile specifications and related TCKs this week.

New Oracle Ent. Manager Adds Features for Hybrid Cloud Management, Ops Automation, Extensibility

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5, a year in the making, provides a unified management center for organizations that need a single set of tools for running IT operations on-premises or in the cloud.

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Open-Source Bare Metal Provisioning Platform, Tinkerbell, Spreads Its Wings in the CNCF Sandbox

The open-source bare metal provisioning platform known as Tinkerbell has been growing its feature set since it joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox program a year ago, belying its diminutive name with sizeable new capabilities.

Gitpod Announces Features, Forum, Funding

Gitpod announces new support for VS Code, its first community event, and some serious venture support.

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Platform9 Takes on Large-scale 5G Kubernetes Deployments

Platform9 has released the latest version of its SaaS-managed service that combines OpenStack and Kubernetes.

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CircleCI Gives its CI/CD Platform a Shot in the ARM

CI/CD platform provider CircleCI is adding new features to its namesake platform based on the Arm architecture and a collaboration with AWS).

Zoom Releases New Video SDK

Zoom, the cloud-based video conferencing platform, has released new software development kits that allow devs to leverage the platform's HD video, audio, and interactive features to build video-based apps with native user interfaces.

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Eclipse Jetty 11 Lays the Foundation for Cloud Native Java

The Eclipse Foundation announced the release of the Eclipse Jetty 11 Java web server and servlet container, which is fully compatible with the Jakarta EE 9 Servlet specifications.

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Oracle Updates Autonomous Data Warehouse

Oracle announced enhancements to its Autonomous Data Warehouse this week aimed at data analysts, data scientists, and line-of-business users.

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Sonatype Unveils NextGen Nexus Platform

Sonatype expands the latest version of its Nexus platform to offer "full-spectrum control of the cloud-native software development lifecycle."