New intelligence suite aims to help tackle problems with growing IT
Friday, July 12, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Snow Software announced a new suite of offerings to better empower customers to address their growing IT operations, cloud shift and digital transformation challenges. This new set of offerings is aligned to strategic business outcomes, providing customers with product choices that will better meet their unique needs now and in the future.
“The market has evolv...
Pi record now at 31.4 trillion digits in 2019 thanks to Google Compute
Thursday, March 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
It's March 14th which means it's Pi Day! 3.14 - which is a convenient equal to the first 3 digits of pi, get it?
Pi day started in 1988, but as crazy as Pi Day itself sounds, in 2009 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution that recognizes March 14th as Pi Day too.
You can celebrate Pi Day by having a slice of pie, having a debate ...
The Kubernetes list of certified providers
Thursday, November 16, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced availability of the Kubernetes Software Conformance Certification program, which ensures certified products deliver consistency and portability, and that XX Certified Kubernetes Distributions and Platforms are now available.Over the last three years, Kubernetes has been adopted by a vibrant, diverse community o...
Google Cloud expands NVIDIA GPU offerings
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
In a recent post in on the Google Cloud Platform Blog written by Chris Kleban and Ari Liberman, Product Managers for Google Compute Engine, Google has announced new updates to their Cloud GPUs, namely: the platform is now using NVIDIA P100 GPUs in beta, and that the NVIDIA K80 has now been released for general availability.In the blog post, Google had this to say about ...
SIS launches their latest Cloud Management Platform
Friday, December 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
SIS, a U.S. provider of managed cloud services that was founded in 1982, has announced the launch of its new cloud management platform, CMP, a platform for enterprise clients. CMP is built on VMware vCloud Director and OnApp's cloud management, provisioning and billing solution for VMware vCloud Air Network, a global ecosystem of VMware service providers. These sol...
Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 happening June 1315 in Santa Clara
Monday, November 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Cloud Foundry has announced Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 will take place June 13-15 in Santa Clara, California. Perennial interest from the community has created demand for an annual regional event, driving Cloud Foundry to present its Summit Silicon Valley 2017 in the hotbed of the tech industry. Early registration ends Friday, December 2, and offers e...
Create Virtual Machines with vCPU and Memory Through Google's Compute Engine
Thursday, February 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Google Cloud team has announcing the general availability of Custom Machine Types for Google Compute Engine, which lets developers create virtual machines with vCPU and memory configurations. Custom Machine Types is a feature of Google Compute Engine that lets developers create a machine type customized to their needs to form virtual machines with the optimal amount...
Aerospike NoSQL Database Adds New Functionality for WebScale Applications
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Aerospike has released the latest version of its NoSQL database offering new features that provide more personalized applications, more efficiency and greater stability across public and private clouds. The Aerospike platform is a distributed NoSQL database and key-value store architected for web-scale applications. It provides a high-performance database that can ...
Google Announces Beta Release of Google Cloud Trace and Monitoring
Saturday, January 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Last year Google announced Google Cloud Trace and Google Cloud Monitoring (through the acquisition and integration of Stackdriver) and now has released both in beta to anyone using the Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Trace Google Cloud Trace allows developers to diagnose performance issues in a production application by finding the traces for slow req...
Aerospike's Impressive New Google Benchmark
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google recently featured Aerospike in its new benchmark on its blog announcing the Aerospike In-Memory NoSQL database is now available with Click-to-Deploy on Google Compute Engine. Sunil Sayyaparaju, Director of Product & Technology at Aerospike blogged on Google about the company seeing Ivan Santa Maria Filho, Performance Engineering ...
New Click to Deploy Option for MEAN Development Stack on Google Compute Engine
Saturday, August 30, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
With the new click to deploy MEAN development stack on Google Compute Engine, developers can now launch a complete MEAN development stack ready for development with a single button click. Click to deploy for MEAN handles all software installs and setting up a sample app to get started. The Google Cloud Platform is a set of modular cloud-based services that allow de...
Pivotal Launches App Suite
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Pivotal has announced the availability of the Pivotal App Suite, which brings together Pivotal’s open source investments in Spring IO, Groovy & Grails, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat, and the Apache HTTP Server, and combines them with Pivotal tc Server, Pivotal Web Server, and Pivotal RabbitMQ into a single platform product offering. The intent of The Pivo...
Google IO Announcements Include New Developer Services to Build and Optimize
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Among other things announced today at Google I/O , is the introduction of new services to help developers build and optimize data pipelines, create mobile applications, and debug, trace, and monitor their cloud applications in production. These include:Google Cloud DataflowCloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for creating data pipelines that ingest, transform and a...
Docker Announces Docker Version 1.0 and New Docker Hub Cloud Service
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker is an open platform for developers to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be assembled from components and helps to eliminate the friction between development, QA, and...
Google Announces General Availability Release for Google APIs Client Library for .NET
Saturday, March 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has announced the general availability of the Google APIs Client Library for .NET. The library is an open-source effort, hosted at NuGet, that lets developers building on the Microsoft .NET Framework to integrate their desktop or Windows Phone applications with Google’s services. It handles OAuth 2.0 integration, streaming uploads and downloads of media...
Google Updates Compute Engine Load Balancing, Adds Backup Pool
Monday, October 14, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has updated its Google’s Compute Engine which offers a load balancing service that helps developers support periods of heavy traffic so that they don't overload their instances. With the load balancing service, developers can pick a region with multiple zones and deploy their application on instances within these zones. Then, they can configure a forwarding rule ...
