Category Archives: Computing

OpenStack adds the StarlinkX edge computing stack to its top-level projects

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The OpenStack Foundation today announced that StarlingX, a container-based system for running edge deployments, is now a top-level project. With this, it joins the main OpenStack private and public cloud infrastructure project, the Airship lifecycle management system, Kata Containers and the Zuul CI/CD platform. What makes StarlingX a bit different from some of these other […] Continue reading OpenStack adds the StarlinkX edge computing stack to its top-level projects→

IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage

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The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage, and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody’s favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme. It looks like the problems started around 2:30pm PT and spread from there. Best we can tell, this is a worldwide problem and involves a […] Continue reading IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage→

Atlassian launches new DevOps features

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Atlassian today launched a slew of DevOps-centric updates to a variety of its services, ranging from Bitbucket Cloud and Pipelines to Jira and others. While it’s quite a grabbag of announcements, the overall idea behind them is to make it easier for teams to collaborate across functions as companies adopt DevOps as their development practice […] Continue reading Atlassian launches new DevOps features→

Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise

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In a surprise move, Mirantis acquired Docker’s Enterprise platform business at the end of last year and while Docker itself is refocusing on developers, Mirantis kept the Docker Enterprise name and product. Today, Mirantis is rolling out its first major update to Docker Enterprise with the release of version 3.1. For the most part, these […] Continue reading Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise→

Microsoft launches industry-specific cloud solutions, starting with healthcare

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Microsoft today announced the launch of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, an industry-specific cloud solution for healthcare providers. This is the first in what is likely going to be a set of cloud offerings that target specific verticals and extends a trend we’ve seen among large cloud providers (especially Google), who tailor specific offerings to […] Continue reading Microsoft launches industry-specific cloud solutions, starting with healthcare→

Microsoft launches Azure Synapse Link to help enterprises get faster insights from their data

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At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Azure Synapse Link, a new enterprise service that allows businesses to analyze their data faster and more efficiently, using an approach that’s generally called ‘hybrid transaction/analytical processing’ (HTAP). That’s a mouthful, it essentially enables enterprises to use the same database system for analytical and transactional workloads on […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Azure Synapse Link to help enterprises get faster insights from their data→

Google makes it easier to migrate VMware environments to its cloud

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Google Cloud today announced the next step in its partnership with VMware: the Google Cloud VMware Engine. This fully managed service provides businesses with a full VMware Cloud Foundation stack on Google Cloud to help businesses easily migrate their existing VMware-based environments to Google’s infrastructure. Cloud Foundation is VMware’s stack for hybrid and private cloud […] Continue reading Google makes it easier to migrate VMware environments to its cloud→

Microsoft partners with Redis Labs to improve its Azure Cache for Redis

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For a few years now, Microsoft has offered Azure Cache for Redis, a fully managed caching solution built on top of the open-source Redis project. Today, it is expanding this service by adding Redis Enterprise, Redis Lab’s commercial offering, to its platform. It’s doing so in partnership with Redis Labs and while Microsoft will offer […] Continue reading Microsoft partners with Redis Labs to improve its Azure Cache for Redis→

GitHub gets a built-in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more

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Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week. Like so many other events, GitHub decided to switch Satellite to a virtual event, but that isn’t stopping the Microsoft-owned company from announcing quite a bit of news this week. The highlight of GitHub’s announcement is surely the launch of GitHub […] Continue reading GitHub gets a built-in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more→

IBM and Red Hat expand their telco, edge and AI enterprise offerings

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At its Think Digital conference, IBM and Red Hat today announced a number of new services that all center around 5G edge and AI. The fact that the company is focusing on these two areas doesn’t come as a surprise, given that both edge and AI are two of the fastest-growing businesses in enterprise computing. […] Continue reading IBM and Red Hat expand their telco, edge and AI enterprise offerings→