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• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Why the PaaS market failed to live up to the hype

  PaaS' days as a stand-alone tech may be numbered as the cloud layer gets absorbed by IaaS platforms from AWS and others. See what went wrong for the market that once held such promise.

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Linode GPU instances offer accelerated computing power

  Linode's GPU instances are built on Nvidia's Quadro RTX 6000 GPU cards, designed to power high-performance applications and use cases for artists, scientists, engineers and more.

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Alluxio updates data orchestration platform, launches 2.0

  The latest version of the Alluxio data orchestration platform includes several new capabilities and features designed with hybrid and multi-cloud environments in mind.

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Red Hat-IBM deal closes, both promise a friendly coopetition

  IBM and Red Hat formally signed off on its $34 billion deal as the combined company sets off to make its mark in the hybrid cloud market.

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  Oracle layoffs hit Dyn team's sales, marketing staffs

  Oracle Dyn cuts sales and marketing jobs as Oracle plans to end some Dyn services in 2020. The layoffs come amid other Oracle downsizing as the vendor moves toward the cloud.

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• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  IBM Blockchain platform adds hybrid, multi-cloud support

  IBM has enhanced its blockchain platform such that it will run on other cloud platforms beyond the IBM Cloud, including the AWS and Microsoft Azure clouds.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Oracle IaaS strategy pivots to specialization

  Oracle probably won't get out of the public IaaS market entirely, but it seems clear that specialization is its goal, not head-to-head challenges to AWS, Microsoft and Google.

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  HPE hybrid cloud poised for coopetition with AWS, Microsoft

  HPE's newest offerings improve its chances in the hybrid cloud market, but may draw fire from its cloud partners, AWS and Microsoft.

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Microsoft Azure Bastion service seeks to secure VMs

  Microsoft's Azure Bastion managed service provides a means for companies to remotely access their VMs without touching the public internet.

• June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19

  HPE GreenLake composable cloud services get a boost

  HPE's latest products support hybrid cloud strategies by allowing users to tie composable and hyper-converged infrastructure technologies more tightly together.

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  Microsoft AI Builder brings machine learning to PowerApps

  Microsoft AI Builder empowers nonprogrammers to incorporate AI as they build applications using low-code/no-code platforms.

• June 07, 2019 07 Jun'19

  Salesforce moves Lightning Web Components to open source

  Salesforce contributed its low-code web development framework to the open source community to bring more developers with new ideas into its fold.

• June 05, 2019 05 Jun'19

  Oracle, Microsoft forge cloud pact

  Once bitter arch rivals, Oracle and Microsoft have formed an alliance around cloud interoperability, which is good for customers and both vendors.

• June 05, 2019 05 Jun'19

  Google Cloud price change eyes AI and machine learning workloads

  Google Cloud has expanded its committed use discount plan to include GPU, TPU and local SSD resources to spark more AI and machine learning workloads.

• June 04, 2019 04 Jun'19

  Test your cloud computing news knowledge

  The beginning of the year was filled with new and improved cloud product offerings as providers vie for the top spot. Have you stayed up to date?