Category Archives: Computing

Cloud Foundry’s Kubernetes bet with Project Eirini hits 1.0

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Cloud Foundry, the open-source platform-as-a-service that, with the help of lots of commercial backers, is currently in use by the majority of Fortune 500 companies, launched well before containers, and especially the Kubernetes orchestrator, were a thing. Instead, the project built its own container service, but the rise of Kubernetes obviously created a lot of […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry’s Kubernetes bet with Project Eirini hits 1.0→

Google Cloud launches Bare Metal Solution

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Google Cloud today announced the launch of a new bare metal service, dubbed the Bare Metal Solution. We aren’t talking about bare metal servers offered directly by Google Cloud here, though. Instead, we’re talking about a solution that enterprises can use to run their specialized workloads on certified hardware that’s co-located in the Google Cloud […] Continue reading Google Cloud launches Bare Metal Solution→

Google makes converting VMs to containers easier with the GA of Migrate for Anthos

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At its Cloud Next event in London, Google today announced a number of product updates around its managed Anthos platform, as well as Apigee and its Cloud Code tools for building modern applications that can then be deployed to Google Cloud or any Kubernetes cluster. Anthos is one of the most important recent launches for […] Continue reading Google makes converting VMs to containers easier with the GA of Migrate for Anthos→

Eigen nabs $37M to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’

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One of the bigger trends in enterprise software has been the emergence of startups building tools to make the benefits of artificial intelligence technology more accessible to non-tech companies. Today, one that has built a platform to apply power of machine learning and natural language processing to massive documents of unstructured data has closed a […] Continue reading Eigen nabs $37M to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’→

ZenHub adds roadmapping to its GitHub project management tool

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ZenHub, the popular project management tool that integrates right into GitHub, today announced the launch of Roadmaps. As you can guess from the name, this is a roadmapping feature that allows teams to better plan their projects ahead of time and visualize their status — all from within GitHub. “We’re diving into a brand new […] Continue reading ZenHub adds roadmapping to its GitHub project management tool→

The 7 most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite

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It’s Microsoft Ignite this week, the company’s premier event for IT professionals and decision-makers. But it’s not just about new tools for role-based access. Ignite is also very much a forward-looking conference that keeps the changing role of IT in mind. And while there isn’t a lot of consumer news at the event, the company […] Continue reading The 7 most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite→

Microsoft launches the first public preview of its Fluid Framework for collaborative editing

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One of the most interesting (and confusing) news announcements of Microsoft’s Build developer conference earlier this year was the first public demo of the company’s Fluid Framework. Fluid is meant to make building collaborative real-time editing experiences easier for developers, but Microsoft is also building it into some of its own tools like Office and […] Continue reading Microsoft launches the first public preview of its Fluid Framework for collaborative editing→

Microsoft Teams gets Yammer integration, secure private channels, and more

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You’re forgiven if you thought Yammer, Microsoft’s proto-Slack, not quite realtime, chat application was dead. But it’s actually still alive (and well) — and still serves a purpose as a slower-moving social network-like channel for company- and team-wide announcements. Today, Microsoft announced that, among other updates, it will offer a Yammer integration in Teams, its […] Continue reading Microsoft Teams gets Yammer integration, secure private channels, and more→

Microsoft launches Power Virtual Agents, its no-code bot builder

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Microsoft today announced the public preview of its Power Virtual Agents tool, a new no-code tool for building chatbots that’s part of the company’s Power Platform, which also includes Microsoft Flow automation tool, which is being renamed to Power Automate today, and Power BI. Built on top of Azure’s existing AI smarts and tools for […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Power Virtual Agents, its no-code bot builder→

Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics bridges the gap between data lakes and warehouses

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At its annual Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft today announced a major new Azure service for enterprises: Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as “the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.” Like SQL Data Warehouse, it aims to bridge the gap between data warehouses and data lakes, which are often completely separate. Synapse […] Continue reading Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics bridges the gap between data lakes and warehouses→