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Dropbox Develops Magic Pocket, Moves Away From AWS
On March 14, 2016 Dropbox discussed their migration away from AWS on their blog. The blog post recounts all of the recent activities that have allowed them to achieve their goal of serving 90% of all user data exclusively from their own data centers. The project, named “Magic Pocket”, called for in-house developed software and hardware to be built to support their customer needs.
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AWS Launches Relational Database Migration Service
After a brief beta period that saw customers migrate more than 1,000 on-premises databases to the cloud, AWS formally released their Database Migration Service. This on-demand cloud service supports live migration scenarios, and customers who wish to switch their database platform as part of the migration can do so, thanks to a free schema conversion tool.
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Netflix Cloud Migration Complete
Netflix recently announced their journey to the cloud is finally complete after more than 7 years. Netflix initially began this journey in 2008 after a major database corruption incident occurred which impacted their ability to distribute physical DVDs to their subscribers.
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Does Running Java on Docker Containers Violate Agreements?
In a recent blog post Henn Idan raised an issue that using Oracle Java in containers could be violating the Oracle licensing agreements. Is this an issue, or is it something that developers should be concerned about? InfoQ investigates.
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New Security Capabilities Available in Azure Operations Management Suite
On February 25th, 2016 Microsoft announced updates to their Operations Management Suite (OMS). The updates, in this particular iteration of the service, are focused on the security and audit portions of the suite and target the user experience, additional capabilities and features.
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Azure Logic Apps Preview Refresh Released
The Microsoft Integration Product team recently provided their first update since the Integration Roadmap that was released back on December 24th. On February 24th, 2016 Microsoft has announced the public preview of Logic Apps Preview Refresh.
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Eclipse Foundation Releases Next-Generation IDE, Eclipse Che 4.0
Today, the Eclipse Foundation announced the first release of the Eclipse Che next-generation web-based IDE. Read on to find out what it contains.
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All Things Containers From Solaris Zones to Docker
InfoQ's Rags Srinivas caught up with Bryan Cantrill a day after the Containers Summit at New York City and discussed all things containers from Solaris Zones to Docker.
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Docker Cloud Aims to Enable Containerized Multicloud Solutions
Docker Cloud is a new service that aims to make it easier to work with Docker containers on multiple Clouds, developer Borja Burgos announced on Docker’s blog. The service aims to make it possible to build, ship, and run containers within the Docker ecosystem.
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StopLight Launches Visual API Design Tools
StopLight has launched a new visual API design tool and cloud service which aims to abstract away various API description specifications into a single interface.
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Spotify Moves Infrastructure and Data Services to Google Cloud Platform
On February 23rd, 2016 Spotify announced it is moving its technical infrastructure and data services from its existing owned and leased data centers to Google Cloud Platform.
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WalmartLabs Open-Sources OneOps PaaS
WalmartLabs open-sources OneOps, the platform behind walmart.com. OneOps is a cross-cloud deployment and orchestration platform with a visual infrastructure builder aimed at making it easier to build applications that can run on any cloud.
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IBM Pushes Swift for the Cloud with Swift Runtime, Package Catalog, and More
After introducing their Swift sandbox, IBM have recently announced their next step to support Swift in the cloud by previewing IBM Swift runtime, Swift Package Catalog, and open-sourcing Kitura, a framework for Web app development.
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RightScale Survey Highlights Cloud Trends: Multi-Cloud, Consolidated Governance, Skills Gap
RightScale just released the results of their annual “State of the Cloud” survey which identifies trends in cloud adoption and usage. The key findings? Organizations are investing in both public and private clouds, security is no longer the number one challenge to adoption, Docker and Ansible are growing in popularity, and central IT departments are taking on a greater role in decision making.
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Microsoft Launches Azure PaaS Services and DevOps Tools Preview for Azure Stack
Following their Technical Preview 1 release of Azure Stack, Microsoft has launched Azure PaaS Services and DevOps tools, in preview, for Azure Stack.