Driven by user uptake of IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) services, public cloud ecosystem revenue during the first quarter of the year jumped by 26% to reach $126 billion, according to new research from Synergy Research Group. The figure takes into account revenue generated by user spending on public cloud services and infrastructure, as well […]
How the UK Department for Work and Pensions cut deployment times to 15 minutes
The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions says it has been able to reduce the deployment times for its cloud-native services from hours down to 15 minutes, by automating key deployment steps and running on a common container orchestration platform. Formed in 2001, the DWP is responsible for a variety of public services in the […]
WSO2 launches low-code, cloud-native PaaS for API development
WSO2 has made Choreo, a platform as a-service (PaaS) for quickly building APIs, services, and integrations, generally available. The production-ready version of the platform, which runs on Microsoft Azure, was released on March 30. Developers can sign up for Choreo at wso2.com. Positioned as a low-code environment for professional developers of cloud-native APIs, integrations, and […]
Red Hat OpenShift adds Nvidia, Arm, AI support
OpenShift 4.10, the latest version of Red Hat’s PaaS based on Kubernetes, introduces support for artificial intelligence workloads, additional cloud platforms including IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, and Nvidia and Arm hardware. Released March 22, OpenShift 4.10 is intended to accelerate delivery of “intelligent applications” across the hybrid cloud. OpenShift is now certified and supported […]
What is a serverless database? Elastic compute for the data tier
Serverless cloud computing services started with AWS Lambda, which lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS Lambda is an example of functions as a service, or FaaS, and other FaaS implementations quickly followed at Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Later, cloud providers started offering other services in serverless form. Serverless was a […]
Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS
Back in the mid-2000s, the software industry and the venture capitalists funding software startups became interested in the idea of platform as a service (PaaS), promising a simple, one-stop-shop platform for software developers to take their ideas from source code to production. Despite the early success of some of these platforms—most notably Heroku, which is […]
Docker really did change the world
In 2013, Docker was the “it” company. Docker made headlines for the critical role it played in bringing containers to the mainstream, and in many ways displaced PaaS as the hotness of the time (Heroku anyone?). Now, the company is back in the press with the introduction of a new model for Docker Desktop that […]
Red Hat OpenStack tightens OpenShift Kubernetes integration
Red Hat has launched Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2, an update to Red Hat’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform that offers tighter integration with the company’s OpenShift Kubernetes container system. With the new integration, users of both platforms can run VM-based and container-based applications in parallel with improved network capacity, security features, storage, and performance, Red Hat said […]
Deis Labs unveils Hippo PaaS for WebAssembly
Deis Labs, a creator of open source tools for cloud-native application development, has introduced Hippo, a self-hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that promises to make it easier to build and run WebAssembly workloads. Unveiled September 21 as a project still in development and not production-grade, Hippo is intended to make it easier to configure and deploy modules […]