News ‘Bridge to Kubernetes’ Leads Container News at Ignite 2020 By David Ramel 09/24/2020 As befits one of the most popular open source projects of all time, Kubernetes received its fair share of attention during this week’s Microsoft Ignite 2020 event, led by Bridge to Kubernetes reaching general availability. Bridge to Kubernetes, which was previously […]

News Microsoft’s Low-Code Power Apps Leans on Azure Cloud By David Ramel 09/23/2020 The Azure cloud computing platform is dominating news coming out of the ongoing Microsoft Ignite 2020 developer/IT pro event, even extending to low-code application development with the company’s Power Apps offering. Power Apps, part of Microsoft’s Power Platform, is the company’s low-code […]

News What’s New for Azure at Microsoft’s Ignite Event By David Ramel 09/22/2020 At Microsoft these days, it seems to be: “The answer is Azure. What’s the question?” Microsoft’s cloud computing platform was front and center as the company’s Ignite developer/IT event kicked off this week. Azure-related announcements during the opening stages of the three-day […]

News COVID-19 Strains Small/Medium Business Security Teams, Report Says By David Ramel 09/21/2020 Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are under increasing strains caused by the huge work-from-home surge resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, says a new report. The report, 2020 SMB IT Security, comes from SMB security specialist Untangle, which in its 2019 report highlighted […]

News Google Cloud API Gateway for Serverless Computing in Public Beta By David Ramel 09/18/2020 Google Cloud announced a public beta of an API Gateway used for its serverless computing scheme in which the cloud platform takes care of infrastructure setup and management. In serverless computing, Wikipedia says, the cloud provider runs the server while […]

News Amazon Is Top Tech Employer Amid Pandemic in Q2 2020, Report Says By David Ramel 09/17/2020 Amazon, parent of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, topped a list of tech employers in the second quarter of this year amid a hiring environment hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The list comes from tech-centric […]

News Firm Ranks Multicloud Container Development Platforms By David Ramel 09/16/2020 Forrester Research published a new report on multicloud container development platforms (MCDPs), a growing enterprise approach in new-age cloud computing. “As cloud-native technologies like containers and Kubernetes mature rapidly, they are becoming the preferred way to build new software experiences and modernize existing apps […]

News VMware Adds Tanzu to vSphere for Quick Kubernetes Onramp By David Ramel 09/15/2020 Among several new product updates announced by VMware this week is VMware vSphere 7 Update 1, which further integrates its mainstay virtualization platform with Tanzu, the company’s Kubernetes offering. The company says adding the relatively new and “modern” Tanzu with the […]

News Microsoft Lauds Underwater Datacenter Test By David Ramel 09/15/2020 Sparked by an idea first floated in 2014, Microsoft’s two-year test of an underwater datacenter proof of concept has been deemed a success, providing insights about reliability, practicality and energy sustainability that may improve terrestrial datacenters. Project Natick is described as a research project to […]

News Red Hat Marketplace Opens for Hybrid, Multicloud Environments By David Ramel 09/14/2020 Aiming to provide a one-stop-shop for hybrid, multicloud and on-premises environments, Red Hat and IBM teamed up to offer the Red Hat Marketplace, now in general availability. Catering to IT pros and developers, the software ecosystem focuses on container-based enterprise applications running […]