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Google opens second cloud region in Germany

CIO Business Intelligence

Google has opened a second cloud region in Germany as part of its plan to invest $1.85 Other Google Cloud regions in Europe include locations such as Milan, Paris, Zurich, Warsaw, Madrid, Turin, Belgium, Finland, The Netherlands, and London. AWS, too, has been expanding its global cloud footprint.

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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud

All Things Distributed

Docker), and the cloud. In our industry, four years is a long time, but I think we've only just started exploring how this combination of code packaging, well-designed workflows, and the cloud can reshape the ability of developers to quickly build applications and innovate. AWS Fargate finally makes containers cloud native.

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VMware by Broadcom: The First 100 Days

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VMware Cloud Foundation – A Platform for Agility, Innovation, and Resiliency Like Broadcom, VMware has a remarkable history of innovation. VMware Cloud Foundation , or VCF, is our platform for innovation going forward. VCF is a completely modernized platform for cloud infrastructure.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? Is calling an app "cloud-ready" just a form of cloud-washing? Cmon - arent all apps "ready for the cloud" (and for that matter, ANY cloud)? cloud these days. Thus, most cloud.

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Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading!

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

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By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. Cloudant will extend IBM’s Big Data and Analytics , Cloud Computing and Mobile offerings by further helping clients take advantage of these key growth initiatives. – bg.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. To enable this broad choice, the core of AWS is composed of building blocks which customers and partners can use to build any system or application in the way they see fit. Comments ().