Topic: google cloud
Google Cloud is acquiring no-code platform AppSheet
Google Cloud is looking to make it easier for business users to create and improve applications without needing coding knowledge. To do so, the company is acquiring no-code platform AppSheet. “The demand for faster processes and automation in today’s competitive landscape requires more business applications to be built with greater speed and efficiency. However, many … continue reading
Report: Elite DevOps performers have tripled since last year
The proportion of elite performers in DevOps utilization has almost tripled since last year, comprising 20 percent of all teams according to a newly released report. The Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2019 is the 6th annual report from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), which was acquired by Google Cloud in January of this year.The … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Google Cloud Platform database updates, TigerGraph’s PartnerGraph program, and Electron 6.0
Google announced new database options to power enterprise workloads on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The enhancements include: Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server in alpha, which enables users to bring existing SQL Server workloads to GCP. Federated queries from BigQuery to Cloud SQL Elastic Cloud on GCP is now available in Japan and coming … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Microsoft announces new VMware Solutions, Qtum releases developer tools in Google Cloud partnership, Privitar report: organizations not trusted with data privacy, Puppet upgrades infrastructure automation portfolio
Microsoft announced that it is expanding its partnership with Dell Technologies to provide customers with a native, supported and certified VMware experience on Microsoft Azure. The deal patches up a dispute the companies had over Microsoft running its own software in Azure to enable VMware virtualization. Now users can run, manage and secure applications across … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Topaz for Total Test updates, Splice Machine’s ML Manager, and Google Play Developer API updates
Compuware has announced enhancements to its Topaz for Total Test solution. The solution now offers unit, functional, integration, and regression testing capabilities. These new capabilities will enable organizations to shift their testing practices to the left. “Automated testing was the missing link to true mainframe Agility and DevOps. Without it, large enterprises found it difficult … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Talend Fall 2018 release, Atos AI lab, and Panaya’s new app integrations
Talend has announced a major update to its unified data platform, Talend Data Fabric. The Fall 2018 release adds new features such as Data Catalog and Cloud API Services. Data Catalog can be used to create a single source of trusted data, while Cloud API Services makes standardized data more accessible, allowing organizations to build … continue reading
Apigee API monitoring, extensions and hosted targets now available
API management provider Apigee is releasing a number of new capabilities to give users more control and visibility into APIs. Apigee was acquired by Google in 2016, and these new capabilities are designed to enable organizations to easily access Google Cloud services. The company announced the general availability of Apigee API monitoring, Apigee extensions and … continue reading
Report: DevOps initiatives are paying off
The idea of having developers and operations work together towards one goal to achieve velocity and high-quality software sounds like a good idea in theory, but how has it been working in practice? A newly released report revealed that DevOps practices are actually paying off for organizations in terms of performance and quality outcomes. The … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Robin Systems’ hyper-converged Kubernetes platform, Elm 0.19, and Skuid’s no-code Spark release
Robin Systems unveiled its hyper-converged Kubernetes platform for Big Data, databases and AI applications along with its announcement of a $17 million series B round of funding. The round of funding will help the company expand its platform to simplify app development and lifecycle management in DevOps and IT areas. The new platform, ROBIN, is … continue reading
Google Cloud adds Python 3.7 in its Second Generation App Engine standard runtimes
Google Cloud has announced the release of its Second Generation App Engine standard runtimes, which it says is a significant update to the platform. Google’s App Engine is a web framework and cloud computing platform for building apps on a serverless platform. This release adds Python 3.7 as one of the available Second Generation runtimes. … continue reading
Google Cloud gets new integrations and partners at Google Cloud Next 2018
IBM announced it teamed up with Google Cloud to help build the newly announced Knative solution. The companies announced the partnership at the Google Cloud Next 2018 conference happening in San Francisco this week. Knative is an open-source project designed to enable serverless platforms to run on top of Kubernetes. “Ultimately, we anticipate Knative becoming … continue reading
Google releases PostgreSQL support for Cloud SQL
Google is releasing a number of cloud database improvements this week aimed at accelerating cloud-native database innovation. Key improvements include commit timestamps for Cloud Spanner, the beta of Cloud Bigtable replication, the beta version of Cloud Memorystore for Redis, and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. “Every application has to store and access operational data, usually in … continue reading
