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Cloud Computing

Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Business: How Azure Became a Serious AWS Rival

Once dismissed as a distant third in cloud, Microsoft transformed itself under Satya Nadella into the world’s second-largest cloud provider. Here’s how Azure’s growth, enterprise partnerships, and product bundling strategy reshaped the competitive landscape.

Google Cloud

Accenture Google Cloud Business Group Expands to Indonesia: Targeting a Growing Middle Class with Cloud and AI

Accenture and Google Cloud announced the expansion of their Accenture Google Cloud Business Group (AGBG) into Indonesia in September 2019, focusing on cloud modernization, AI-driven customer interactions, and enterprise data management for Indonesian businesses.

Vmware

VMware’s Carbon Black Acquisition and the Evolution Beyond ‘Endpoint’ Detection and Response

VMware’s acquisition of Carbon Black signals a broader industry shift away from traditional endpoint-centric security toward enterprise-wide detection and response—and it raises the question of whether EDR needs a new name.

AWS

DevOps Roundup: Neural Structured Learning for TensorFlow, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights GA, TeamCity 2019.1.3, and GitLab 12.2.4

A DevOps news roundup covering TensorFlow’s Neural Structured Learning framework, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights reaching general availability, TeamCity 2019.1.3’s 50-fix release, and GitLab’s 12.2.4 patch release.

Ansible

Software Configuration Management Tools: Market Overview, Key Players, and Adoption Trends (2019)

An overview of the Software Configuration Management (SCM) Tools market, covering key vendors such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, IBM, and Microsoft, along with market segments, deployment types, and industry drivers.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes Releases etcd v3.4: Better Backend Storage, Improved Raft Voting, and the New Learner Non-Voting Member

etcd v3.4 brings significant stability and performance improvements to Kubernetes clusters, including fully concurrent backend read transactions, a pre-vote mechanism for safer leader elections, the new Learner non-voting member role, and a simplified client balancer failover logic.