Databricks partners with Google Cloud, enables multicloud for the enterprise

Source:-https://itbrief.co.nz/ Databricks has partnered with Google Cloud to deliver its platform to businesses around the world. Under the partnership, organisations can now use Databricks to create a lakehouse capable of data engineering, data science, machine learning, and analytics on Google Cloud’s global, scalable, secure and elastic network. Databricks on Google Cloud will integrate with Google BigQuery’s open platform and will leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), therefore enabling customers to deploy Databricks in a fully containerised cloud environment for the first

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Linbit builds Kubernetes on-ramp for WD OpenFlex

Source:-https://blocksandfiles.com Western Digital’s composable OpenFlex flash storage system now supports Kubernetes storage, courtesy of Linbit’s LINSTOR software. OpenFlex is a physical chassis, containing SSDs or disk drives, which is addressed as an NVMe target device. It’s basically an NVMe-oF JBOD (Just a bunch of drives) and needs additional software to link it to containerised environments. Manfred Berger, WD’s senior manager for business development, platforms, said in a statement: “With Linbit’s LINSTOR software added to our OpenFlex offering, the software-defined-storage solution

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Samsung and VMWare ramp up their 5G focus with new partnership

Source:-https://www.itp.net Samsung and VMWare are to collaborate on an extended 5G partnership, which will help telcos accelerate the rollout of their 5G networks across the globe. The partnership will see VMWare optimise Samsung’s portfolio of products from Core to Edge to RAN for both containerised network functions (CNFs) and virtualised network functions (VNFs), using VMware Telco Cloud Platform. “With innovative and open 5G networks beginning to transform the landscape, Samsung sees the value in delivering carrier-grade solutions with VMware that

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