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Joyent Public Cloud to reach End-of-Life in November

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Yesterday Joyent announced its departure from the public cloud space. Beginning November 9, 2019, the Joyent Public Cloud, including Triton Compute and Triton Object...

Google is looking to acquire Looker, a data analytics startup for $2.6 billion even...

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Google has got into an agreement with data analytics startup Looker, and is planning to add it to its Google Cloud division. The acquisition...
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Google Cloud went offline taking with it YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, and a number of...

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Update: The article has been updated to include Google's response on Sunday's disruption service. Over the weekend, Google Cloud suffered a major outage taking down...
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G Suite administrators’ passwords were unhashed for 14 years, notifies Google

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Today, Google notified its G Suite administrators that some of their passwords were being stored in an encrypted internal system unhashed, i.e., in plaintext,...

Introducing DataStax Constellation: A cloud platform for rapid development of Apache Cassandra-based apps

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At the first day of Accelerate 2019, DataStax unveiled DataStax Constellation, a modern cloud platform specifically designed for Apache Cassandra. DataStax is a leading...
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GKE Sandbox : A gVisor based feature to increase security and isolation in containers

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During the Google Cloud Next ‘19, Google Cloud announced the beta version of GKE Sandbox, a new feature in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Yesterday,...
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Microsoft Build 2019: Microsoft showcases new updates to MS 365 platform with focus on...

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At the ongoing Microsoft Build 2019 conference, Microsoft has announced a ton of new features and tool releases with a focus on innovation using...
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Amazon S3 is retiring support for path-style API requests; sparks censorship fears

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Last week on Tuesday Amazon announced that Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests. Currently Amazon S3 supports two request URI styles...
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Fastly, edge cloud platform, files for IPO

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Last week, Fastly Inc., a provider of an edge cloud platform announced that it has filed its proposed initial public offering (ipo) with the...
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Platform9 open sources Klusterkit to simplify the deployment and operations of Kubernetes clusters

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Today, Platform9 open sourced Klusterkit under the Apache 2.0 license. It is a set of three open source tools that can be used separately...