The cloud computing wars have forgotten the enterprise At this week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison announced his company’s new autonomous database product. However, Larry being Larry, he took several minutes to disparage Amazon Web Services, especially its Redshift database technology. AWS dominates the cloud market. Now that Oracle is fully committed to […]
Awless tutorial: Try a smarter CLI for AWS When the cloud was just about virtual machines, tools like Chef or Puppet helped us easily prepare our VMs. The only thing that mattered was to provision instances that contained all of the code and data required. But now that Amazon Web Services has ballooned to more […]
Azure Functions serverless computing to finally get Java Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless computing platform now has beta support for Java programming, a feature developers have demanded since Azure Functions’ 2016 debut. The beta inclusion of Java joins Azure Functions’ existing support of JavaScript, C#, F#, Python, PHP, Bash, Batch, and PowerShell. The Java runtime will share […]
11 open source tools to make the most of machine learning Venerable Shogun was created in 1999 and written in C++, but can be used with Java, Python, C#, Ruby, R, Lua, Octave, and Matlab. The latest version, 6.0.0, adds native support for Microsoft Windows and the Scala language. Though popular and wide-ranging, Shogun has competition. Another […]
Oracle joins the serverless fray with Fn With its open source Fn project, Oracle is looking to make a splash in serverless computing. Fn is a container native serverless platform that can be run on-premises or in the cloud. It requires the use of Docker containers. Fn developers will be able to write functions in […]
How to transfer your datacenter’s data to Azure At the heart of Microsoft’s Azure adoption strategy is the idea of the hybrid cloud, bridging on-premises datacenters and cloud computing. You don’t need to get rid of your old servers; instead, you connect them to the public cloud to take advantage of its scale and services, […]
Azure Stack: Good private cloud technology that you don’t need Last week, the hybrid cloud landscape changed significantly. At the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft and several hardware partners announced availability of the long-awaited Azure Stack. Think of it as a configurable rack of hardware that has a version of the Azure public cloud on it. […]
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