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Microsoft Releases Azure Bastion, Eliminating the Jumpbox Virtual Machine
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview of a secure remote desktop solution, called Azure Bastion, which does not require organizations to expose virtual machines using public IP Addresses. The platform as a service (PaaS) extends virtual machine connectivity using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell (SSH) inside a modern web browser.
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Kubernetes Future: VMs, Containers, or Hypervisor?
In competing visions of the future of Kubernetes, Paul Czarkowski, principal technologist at Pivotal, predicts that VMs will replace containers, and Joe Fernandes, a VP at Red Hat, considers that VMs usage is evolving for Kubernetes rather than replacing containers. In addition, Chris Short, Red Hat's principal product marketing manager, said that Kubernetes is close to replacing the hypervisor.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery Enhancements
Last week, Microsoft announced several enhancements to their Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery services. The changes in the announcement include additional geographies for storing discovery and assessment metadata, along with additional supported options for migrations.
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AWS Release “Firecracker”, an Open Source Rust-Based microVM for Container and Serverless Workloads
Amazon has announced the release of Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for “creating and managing secure, multi-tenant containers and functions-based services”. Firecracker is a fork of Chromium OS's Virtual Machine Monitor (crosvm), an open source VMM written in Rust, and the technology is used behind the scenes to power Amazon’s AWS Lambda services.
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Amazon Announces Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail
Amazon has announced managed databases for Lightsail, their lightweight and simplified virtual private server offering. The addition of managed databases intends to allow the creation of these databases on the Lightsail platform with a minimal amount of work, and removes several everyday maintenance tasks from the user.
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Oracle Releases GraalVM 1.0, a Polyglot Virtual Machine and Platform
Oracle has announced the 1.0 release of GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine and platform. The initial release includes the capability to run Java and JVM languages (via bytecode) as well as full support for JavaScript and Node.JS, with beta support for Ruby, Python and R code.
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Google Introduces Low-Priced Preemptible GPUs for Their Customers
Google announces the beta release of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) attached to Preemptible Virtual Machines (VMs) in their cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers can now attach NVIDIA K80 and NVIDIA P100 GPUs to Preemptible VMs for respectively 0.22 and 0.73 dollar cent per GPU hour, 50 percent cheaper than GPUs connected to on-demand instances.
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Using Cloud Sandboxes to “Shift Left” Testing within Production-Like Environments
InfoQ recently sat down with Joan Wrabetz, CTO at Quali, and discussed the role ‘cloud sandboxes’ can take within the modern software development lifecycle (SDLC). Cloud sandboxes allow a user to create and publish replicas of infrastructure and application configurations for on-demand usage. The primary use cases for cloud sandboxes include development and quality assurance testing.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Price Cut
In a recent Microsoft Azure blog post, the company announced a price cut due in early February. This announcement follows an Amazon announcement on January 5th, 2016 which saw price cuts to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 C4, M4 and R3 virtual machine instances.
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Amazon Announces EC2 Dedicated Hosts Availability
Last month, Amazon announced EC2 Dedicated Hosts are now generally available. Amazon initially discussed EC2 Dedicated Hosts at its Re:Invent conference in October. Using this new service, customers will have the ability to map Virtual Machines (VMs) to a physical host which runs in AWS.
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Microsoft Azure Scale Sets in Public Preview
In a recent blog post, Mark Russinovich, cto of Microsoft Azure, announced a public preview feature called Azure Scale Sets. Azure Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource which allow you to deploy and manage a group of virtual machines (VMs) as a collective group, or set.
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Elixir Hits 1.1, Brings new APIs, Build-time Improvements
One year after hitting 1.0, Elixir 1.1 is out. It brings new public APIs, performance improvements, and tooling improvements. InfoQ has spoken with José Valim, Elixir’s creator.
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Google Preemptible Virtual Machines are now out of Beta
A few months after its beta launch, Google has announced the general availability of preemptible virtual machines as part of the Google Compute Engine cloud. Preemptible VMs have a lower price than other types of VMs that Google offers, but they can be shut down at any moment by Google with a 30 sec warning.
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OpenBSD to Receive Native Hypervisor
OpenBSD has long-lacked support to host virtual machines on the X86/X64 platforms. OpenBSD developer Mike Larkin seeks to change that through his new project to bring a native hypervisor to this operating system, giving it the ability to host virtual machines natively.
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Oracle Proposes G1 as the Default Garbage Collector for Java 9
Oracle is considering including JEP 248, making G1 the default garbage collector on server configurations, into the list of JEPs targeting Java 9. The decision has triggered some debate among the Java community, with many arguing that the CMS collector could have been more suitable.