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VMware Overhauls Spring 6 & Spring Boot 3 for Another Decade
At Spring One 2021, VMware described how Spring 6, planned for an October 2022 release, prepares the framework for another decade: it will require Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9, provides first-class support for Java modules and native compilation, bakes observability into Spring, and drops outdated features and third-party integrations. Spring Boot 3 will use Spring 6 but has no release date yet.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, a new managed service tier for Spring that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers. The new enterprise tier is available in preview.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of Disk Pool for Azure VMware Solution
Microsoft recently announced the preview of disk pool enabling Azure Disk Storage as a persistent storage option for Azure VMware Solution - a vSAN hyper-converged vSphere cluster. With this persistent storage option, customers have another choice for running VMware workloads on Azure.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Spring Cloud
Recently Microsoft and VMware both announced the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully-managed service for Spring Boot apps. The service allows enterprises to deploy JARs or code to it, and the service automates the process of wiring the apps to the Spring service runtime.
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VMware Tanzu Service Mesh from a Developer's Perspective
Deepa Kalani and Ramiro Salas from the VMware team spoke at SpringOne 2020 Conference last week about the service mesh product and how it helps developers with Global Namespaces to implement access control and security policies, as well as visualization tools to show application-centric metrics.
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Google Announces Its Cloud VMware Engine Is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud VMware Engine. With the release, customers can migrate their existing VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without refactoring or rewriting them.
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VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy after Pivotal Merger
After acquiring Pivotal at the end of last year, VMware has detailed in a Webinar how it will go about fulfilling its strategy aimed to help customers build their apps, run them using Kubernetes, and manage them from a single control plane.
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Instana Performance Provider Adds vSphere Support
Microservice application performance management provider, Instana, has released new capabilities for monitoring the VMware vSphere Suite, as well as applications running on vSphere infrastructure. Instana correlates infrastructure and application performance metrics and the latest release includes the ability to discover, map and monitor components running on VMware’s vSphere suite.
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VMware’s Project Pacific Integrates Kubernetes with vSphere
VMware announced Project Pacific, a re-architected version of vSphere, which embeds the Kubernetes control plane inside it. It aims to provide uniform management of containers and virtual machines in vSphere installations.
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Octant: Local and Real-Time Dashboard for Kubernetes Workloads
VMware has open-sourced Octant, a tool to help developers understand how their applications are running in a Kubernetes cluster. Developers can graphically visualize Kubernetes objects dependencies, forward local ports to a running pod, inspect pod logs, and navigate through different clusters. Moreover, users can extend Octant’s capabilities by installing or authoring a plugin.
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Google and VMware Establish Partnership, Enabling VMware Migrations to Google Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced support for running VMware vSphere-based workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This capability is enabled through a partner solution by CloudSimple and leverages VMware’s software-defined data center (SDCC) technologies. Using this approach organizations can bridge their GCP cloud computing investments with their existing VMware investments.
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Bringing VMware Environments to Azure, Microsoft and VMWare Establish Partnership
At the recent Dell Technologies World conference, Microsoft and VMware announced an expanded partnership that enables certified VMware cloud infrastructure to run in Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft first party capability is made possible through a solution provided by CloudSimple, a VMware certified partner, and officially is called Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple.
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Microsoft Releases More Azure Stack Details, Available September
At the recent Microsoft Inspire partner conference, Microsoft announced Azure Stack is now available for order and will ship as soon as September. Azure Stack is a private cloud implementation of Microsoft’s public Azure cloud. Unlike other private cloud providers, Microsoft is offering Azure Stack as a consumption-based service, similar to its public cloud counterpart.
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VMware Open Source 'Photon Controller' Infrastructure Control Plane at DockerCon EU
At DockerCon EU 2015, VMware made available their Photon Controller as an open source product via the organisation’s GitHub account. The Photon Controller is a component within VMware’s Photon platform that is designed as an infrastructure stack optimised for ‘container and cloud’ workloads. The platform offers an API-first user experience, a scalable control plane, and native container support.
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VMware Launches Integrated OpenStack Distribution
VMware’s own distribution of OpenStack, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) is launched at a press event in San Francisco.