Topic: cloud

SD Times news digest: Tableau’s new cloud analytics program, CockroachDB 19.2, and ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 early access program

Tableau launched a new modern cloud analytics (MCA) program to accelerate customers’ cloud analytics journeys.  According to the company, MCA leverages analytics and cloud expertise and taps the resources and technical knowledge of their partner networks to provide a blueprint for migrating analytics to the cloud. MCA builds upon existing integrations between Tableau and AWS … continue reading

Is the Hadoop party over?

Fifteen years ago, the Hadoop data management platform was created. This kicked off a land rush of companies  looking to plant their flags in the market and open-source projects began to spring up to extend what the platform was designed to do. As often happens with technology, it ages, and newer things emerge that either … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Google open sources Cardboard, the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, and Code42’s threat detection capabilities

Google open sourced its Cardboard project that lets developers create VR experiences across Android and iOS devices.  “We think that an open source model—with additional contributions from us—is the best way for developers to continue to build experiences for Cardboard,” Google wrote in a blog post. “We’ve already seen success with this approach with our … continue reading

Red Hat’s Quarkus sets Java up for a cloud-native world

Red Hat has announced the release of Quarkus 1.0, a Kubernetes-native Java stack built for containers and cloud deployments. According to the company, as application development continues to evolve, Quarkus will work to bring Java into the future and get it ready for serverless, cloud and Kubernetes environments. “Quarkus represents a fundamental shift in modern … continue reading

Gartner’s top 10 technology trends for 2020

Gartner revealed its top 10 strategic technology trends for the next year at its IT Symposium/Xpo 2019 conference in Orlando.  According to the company, a strategic technology trend is one that has the potential to disrupt the industry and break out into broader impact and use.  Unlike last year’s trends, this year’s trend does not … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Paperspace announces free GPU cloud service for ML developers, spaCy v 2.2, and Fugue’s support for Open Policy Agent

Paperspace announced “Gradient Community Notebooks,” a free cloud GPU service that was designed for developing machine learning (ML) and deep learing solutions. It’s based on Jupyter notebooks.  The service enables developers to collaborate while using various deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras and OpenCV.  “This is precisely why we created Gradient Community: to … continue reading

Eclipse Foundation launches new working group to drive the evolution of cloud development tools

The Eclipse Foundation is trying to make it easier for developers to build cloud-native applications. It has formed the Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group to achieve this. The group is a vendor-neutral open source group “that will focus on development tools for and in the cloud.” Its founding members include Broadcom, IBM, Red Hat, … continue reading

Choosing between serverless and containers

Serverless and containers are both software architecture design choices, which causes a common misconception that it is either one or the other, according to Chris Parlette, director of cloud solutions for the cloud services company ParkMyCloud. “A lot of people put serverless against containers, but there is room for both,” he said. There are three … continue reading

Evaluating if serverless is right for you

The allure of serverless is attracting a number of businesses and development teams.   A recent report from the Cloud Foundry Foundation revealed 51 percent of respondents are either using or evaluating serverless, with 18 percent of them doing it at scale. For businesses, it is about an on-demand price model as opposed to upfront costs. … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Ballerina

The open-source programming language Ballerina hit 1.0 generally availability this week. Ballerina is designed for the cloud-era world, enabling developers to easily build for cloud native.  According to the team, Ballerina turns cloud native middleware into a programming language, opening up new opportunities for traditional centralized enterprise service buses.  RELATED CONTENT: Six steps for making … continue reading

Reactive Foundation tackles next phase of software architecture

To accelerate reactive programming and technologies for the next generation of networked applications, the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation.  “With the rise of cloud-native computing and modern application development practices, reactive programming addresses challenges with message streams and will be critical to adoption,” said Michael Dolan, VP of strategic programs at … continue reading

Atlassian heads deeper into the cloud

Atlassian has announced a major update to its cloud platform designed to open up more opportunities for users in the cloud.  According to the company, the updates are based on four pillars: editions, platform, administrators and cloud migration.  RELATED CONTENT: Moving to the cloud “The main theme here really is about the evolution of our … continue reading

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