I’m not the first person to point out the issues with Andreessen Horowitz’s blog post outlining why Dropbox is repatriating from the public cloud to data centers and saving an enormous amount of money. But while others have brought up valid points about how Dropbox is not representative of most companies and that the value […]
Arrcus Expands Network Services Spanning Hybrid Clouds
Arrcus has added virtualized distributed routing (VDR) and multi-cloud networking (MCN) capabilities to ArcOS, a network operating system (NOS) that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Company CEO Devesh Garg said these additional capabilities provide the programmatic network services that IT organizations require to foster deployments of hybrid cloud computing environments. Arrcus MCN […]
Oracle Extends Managed Cloud to On-Premises
Oracle today announced it will make available as a managed service in on-premises IT environments all of the software it currently provides access to on Oracle Cloud. In addition, Oracle is making available Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, which brings a managed database service to the Exadata servers optimized to run Oracle databases. Oracle […]
Nebulon Unveils Hybrid Cloud Computing Platform
Nebulon has emerged from stealth to launch a hybrid cloud computing platform that enables workloads to be processed in the cloud while data continues to be stored on a local application server. Company COO Craig Nunes said the Cloud-Defined Storage platform employs PCIe cards embedded with a Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU) based on an […]
AWS Looks to Accelerate Windows Migrations to the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ratcheting up pressure on Microsoft by devoting more resources to enable IT organizations to migrate Windows workloads to the cloud. Fred Wurden, general manager for enterprise engineering at AWS, said a Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows, now generally available, provides IT teams with prescriptive guidance, consulting support, tools, training […]
CloudBees Brings Feature Flagging to On-Prem Environs
CloudBees this week announced an update to CloudBees Feature Flags that now makes it possible to deploy this capability in on-premises IT environments. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president and general manager for software delivery management and software delivery automation cloud at CloudBees, said CloudBees Feature Flags previously was available only as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application […]
Latest Chef Habitat Release Embraces On-Premises IT
Chef today announced that the Chef Habitat automation framework for building and deploying applications can now be used in on-premises IT environments. Mike Krasnow, a senior product manager for Chef, said version 1.5 of Habitat makes it possible to now store applications packages and their dependencies locally in addition to the cloud. In addition, pre-built […]
IBM Extends Cloud Reach to Include Integration
At the IBM Think 2019 conference this week, IBM unfurled an IBM Cloud Integration Platform that pulls together a range of tools in a single development platform that the company promises will reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy applications by making it easier to reuse integration code. Hillery Hunter, vice president and […]