Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying infrastructure that customers purchase from one of Microsoft’s certified partners (initially Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo) and software that is licensed from Microsoft.The software includes basic IaaS functions that make up a cloud, such as virtual machines, storage and virtual networking. Azure Stack includes some platform-as-a-service (PaaS) application-development features including the Azure Container Service and Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless computing software, plus MySQL and SQL Server support.

Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying infrastructure that customers purchase from one of Microsoft’s certified partners (initially Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo) and software that is licensed from Microsoft.The software includes basic IaaS functions that make up a cloud, such as virtual machines, storage and virtual networking. Azure Stack includes some platform-as-a-service (PaaS) application-development features including the Azure Container Service and Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless computing software, plus MySQL and SQL Server support.

Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy continuous-delivery service in 2015. AWS introduced the Snowball storage server companies could use to copy data and then ship it to the cloud in 2015. AWS added on-premises support to its EC2 Run Command tool for running shell scripts on many machines at once in 2016. AWS unveiled the Snowmobile truck for copying even larger supplies of data and then hauling it off to Amazon in 2016.

Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy continuous-delivery service in 2015. AWS introduced the Snowball storage server companies could use to copy data and then ship it to the cloud in 2015. AWS added on-premises support to its EC2 Run Command tool for running shell scripts on many machines at once in 2016. AWS unveiled the Snowmobile truck for copying even larger supplies of data and then hauling it off to Amazon in 2016.

Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy continuous-delivery service in 2015. AWS introduced the Snowball storage server companies could use to copy data and then ship it to the cloud in 2015. AWS added on-premises support to its EC2 Run Command tool for running shell scripts on many machines at once in 2016. AWS unveiled the Snowmobile truck for copying even larger supplies of data and then hauling it off to Amazon in 2016.

Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading the same way. Folks at Pivotal are saying that operating systems don’t matter, as we’ve moved further up the stack. Cloud Native is a proxy for saying much the same thing. But then, something is being written right now that will supplant Kubernetes. If we’re not running our own environments in house, operations disposability become increasingly realistic.

Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading the same way. Folks at Pivotal are saying that operating systems don’t matter, as we’ve moved further up the stack. Cloud Native is a proxy for saying much the same thing. But then, something is being written right now that will supplant Kubernetes. If we’re not running our own environments in house, operations disposability become increasingly realistic.

www.youtube.com/watch A recent rendition of one of my standard talks at the Austin DevOps Meetup. See the slides as well.

Application types: “The first result is that the airline will migrate to the IBM Cloud some of its critical applications, including the main website, its customer-facing mobile app and its global network of check-in kiosks. Other workloads and tools, such as the company’s Cargo customer website, also will be moved to the IBM Cloud.” Managed data-centers/cloud: “The airline will be able to utilize the global footprint of IBM Cloud, which consists of more than 50 data centers in 17 countries, in addition to a wide range of application development capabilities.

[O]ne well-publicized case in that vein, they said, was Home Depot directly working with Pivotal Software to introduce Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Google Cloud Platform. The home improvement retailer wanted to continue to use the popular development environment in the public cloud, but avoid giving business to Amazon's largest profit-generating division. A Pivotal spokesperson told CRN that Home Depot, like other Fortune 500 retail customers using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for app development, prefer Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure above AWS.