With so much to take in in only three days, I spent the trip back home decompressing and reflecting on everything I learned and experienced.
The event covered a lot of ground -- here's my disjointed overview of the conference.
Cisco said it will add new support for the open source Kubernetes container orchestration platform in its offerings for application performance monitoring and cloud systems management.
VMware Inc. announced its Virtual Cloud Network and the new NSX solutions on which it will run.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 05/01/2018
Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that aims to help developers spin up containers on Microsoft's public datacenter infrastructure, is now generally available.
Amazon Web Services recorded $5.4 billion in revenue for its fiscal first quarter, surpassing analyst estimates of $5.2 billion.
Oracle is named a Leader in Gartner's 2018 "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service."
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 04/25/2018
Blockchain is a complicated, hard-to-define technology with a lot of potential use cases, which are now easier to experiment with on the Amazon Web Services cloud.
In the second part of the series, Brien Posey shows how to manually create an Internet gateway and associate it with a VPC.
Microsoft announced new tooling enhancements to help businesses that are currently using Office 365 and Azure services.
A recent Gartner assessment of the worldwide public cloud market provides good news for hyperscale vendors like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google.
vSphere 6.7 and vSAN 6.7 include both new and enhanced features.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 04/19/2018
You can expect some incremental changes to both the VMware hypervisor (ESXi) and management console (vCenter Server) with this latest release.
Brien Posey shows how to enable Internet access as part of the Virtual Private Cloud creation process.
Performing cloud-based conversion will help offload the workload from your systems and complete them more quickly.
Open source, software-defined storage and a hybrid on-premises/cloud model have all converged in a new commercial offering announced by Nexenta.
A look at the primary use cases of Microsoft's "hybrid cloud appliance" and how it might fit into your organization’s cloud strategy.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/09/2018
As Dell now has a complete stack for the on-premises datacenter, this event should have a little something for everyone.
Microsoft on Friday announced that its Azure Availability Zones datacenter uptime assurance offering for VM workloads is now commercially available in two Azure regions.
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