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In this article, the author discusses the growth of platform as a service (PaaS), a part of the cloud computing industry in 2012. A latest technology report mentions that PaaS revenue would rise about 38 percent from 512.4 million dollars in 2010 to 707.4 million dollars in 2011. Analyst Dave West informs that PaaS is a foundation for a major transformation of how people build software.

eWEEK Q&A: Stephen Leonard has a rather big job at IBM: He is responsible for the development, sales and marketing of the company's Power Systems solutions, as well as offerings for cloud computing platforms and data centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

GridGain Systems claims it is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering an in-memory computing platform built on Apache Ignite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the Open Infrastructure Summit, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announces a new commercial support program for open infrastructure and criticizes the OpenStack Foundation's efforts to look beyond its core cloud platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As more Azure users want to work with Kubernetes, Microsoft's engineers are adding new capabilities to make it easier to do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The announcement also includes several other updates to Microsoft's Azure data services offerings for enterprise customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Microsoft Azure continues to broaden its virtual machine offerings to give customers the power and features they require for all uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Password reuse remains a barrier to safer internet use, and Google is set to advance confidential computing with its Asylo project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wave Computing, which bought the architecture in mid-2018, hopes to accelerate innovation and adoption of MIPS through a new open-source initiative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information about the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and the Azure Data Factory, cloud-based storage and big data analytics platforms, from Microsoft.

The article reports that International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is focused on expanding its cloud-native capabilities that allows IBM Cloud Private platform to run on the Cloud Managed Services (CMS) offering of the company. It mentions that IBM's Cloud Private platform have the managed CMS offering to help companies adopt container-based, cloud-native application models.

The article reports on the upgrade by Tenable Network Security Inc. to its Tenable.io cloud-based cyber exposure platform. Topics include the capability of the upgrade to assess security threats, the features of the web application's scanning system, the design infrastructure of Tenable.io using Amazon Web Services as well as compatibility to the existing vulnerability management platform.

The article reports that International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has added policy recommendation engine and an updated dashboard for applications that displays applications performance and usage to its MaaS360 with Watson unified endpoint management platform.

The article offers brief information on several cloud-native technologies featured at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 including the Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring service from Google Inc., the CloudCenter from Cisco Systems Inc. and the Container Engine for Kubernetes from Oracle Corp.

The article reports that a new pricing model has been announced by technology company Google Inc. for its Stackdriver Monitoring and Logging service for monitoring cloud workloads in March 2018. It is said that the a simplified pricing model includes a pay-as-you-go pricing option, volume-based pricing discounts and no-cost availability of Google Cloud Platform performance metrics.

The article reports on the OpenStack Queens platform which was officially released on February 28, 2018, marking the 17th release of the open-source cloud platform which has originally started by National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) and Rackspace in 2010. It states that OpenStack is currently used by large organizations like Walmart and multiple cloud providers such as platforms from IBM and Oracle.

The article highlights some key security advice for the data security industry. Among the key advice mentioned include the need for businesses to realign their security operations and infrastructure, optimization of cyber security portfolios, reconsider the concept of patching to minimize the risk of security threats and the importance for security executives to enact key performance and metrics indicators.

The article reports on the deployment of the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform to expand the aging storage and server architecture and infrastructure of the County of San Mateo in California in 2018. Topics include the cost effectivity and flexibility of the platform, the benefits gained by the county from its deployment and the estimated amount of money that can be saved at the end of the fiscal year.

The article discusses adoption of serverless computing in 2018. Topics discussed include the AWS Lambda, an event-driven computing platform developed by Amazon to automatically fire or execute code, views of Kalyan Ramanathan of Sumo Logic on adoption of serverless computing and increase in users of AWS Lambda and John Martinez of Customer Solutions on issues over security with it.

The article offers information on the HYCU platform from Comtrade Software Inc. that will bring flexibility and protection for its Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.

The article discusses the launch of the updated Unified Ops Orchestration platform with machine learning algorithms from Morpheus Data.

The article offers information on several computer software including the new Access Transparency feature of Google Inc. for SAP cloud customers, the InfiniBox 4.0 core operating software from Infinidat and the Azure Storage Explorer of Microsoft Corp.

The article focuses on a report issued by information technology (IT) company group Quick Base concerning the condition of business app builders. Topics mentioned include the dependence of more women on low-code development, the contributions of no-code tools on the promotion and advancement of the employees' careers and the relevance of productivity and efficiency as major adoption drivers.

The article offers brief information on the Azure Government Secret cloud computing platform from Microsoft.

The article offers information on the Azure Stack cloud bundle which demonstrates how enterprises can distribute true hybrid clouds that are fully interoperable across on-premises and external data centers. The availability of Azure Stack, a configurable rack of hardware bundled with the same code that runs Microsoft's Azure public cloud, is stated. It adds that Azure Stack is a place where users can create cloud applications on premises and embrace cloud in space.

The article offers information on the revamped cloud monitoring product, Azure Monitor, which offers better visibility and tools that help administrators address issues more quickly. The new cloud monitoring and analytics features in the Azure Monitor toolkit unveiled by Microsoft Inc. help users decipher events in their logs with more clarity and get to the bottom of technical issues faster. According to Shiva Sivakumar, cstomers will be able to see notable issues across applications.

The article offers information on a public release made by San Francisco, California-based startup Splice Machine Inc. regarding its database-as-a-service platform on Amazon Web Services Marketplace. The announcement made by the company at Strata + Hadoop World New York is mentioned. It cites that the use of the DBMS, which allows a generation of smart applications to integrate fast data streaming and machine learning, helps improve continuous predictions and decision-making.

The article discusses the move of the supplier of hyperconverged enterprise storage software Maxta Inc. to add new functionality that allows information technology (IT) shops to migrate virtual machines from VMware ESXi to Red Hat virtualization and operate on both hypervisors on Maxta platform. It states that the functionality helps businesses reduce or eliminate VMware tax. It mentions that the functionality gives organizes advantage when negotiating with server or virtualization vendors.

The article focuses on the new Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AD) Managed Service Identity (MSI) offering which allows developers to get access to Azure cloud services. According to program manager Stuart Kwan, companies that strictly control access to their IT resources may not want their cloud credentials getting checked into a source control management solution or lingering on a developer workstation.

The article focuses on the business computing that has been transformed with the introduction of consumer electronics maker Apple Inc.'s iPhone. It is mentioned that the iPhone had a surprising amount of computing power in a handheld device and the thing that caused most impact over the long run was the iphone's computing power with an intuitive interface and a lot of applications.

The article offers information on the Azure Backup solution from Microsoft.

The article reports that technology company Rubrik Inc. scale-out a software for data protection of cloud native applications that runs in AWS, Microsoft Azure or both. Rubrik does away with all the point products that are necessarily involved in conventional backup and recovery system. It replaces them with a single-box converged backup and globally deduplicated storage.

The article reports that technology company Apple Computer Inc. patches a number of interesting flaws with its iOS 10.3 and macOS 10.12.4 security updates. The iOS 10.2.1 update is large by iOS standards, with 71 different identified vulnerabilities patched by Apple. None of the issues in the new update is identified in any way with the WikiLeaks Vault 7 CIA disclosure.

The article reports that a study by mobile data platform Ogury shows sharp differences in how mobile users access web. Ogury revealed the states where mobile users relying most on WiFi connectivity. Ogury found that just 29.8 percent of all connections in Colorado depend upon WiFi. In Georgia, 38.7 percent of connections prefer WiFi and 40.2 percent in Illinois.

The article offers information on Active Roles 7.1 platform from Quest Software identity and access management arm One Identity that connects actively with Active Directory and Azure environments in hybrid clouds.

The article discusses security features added to the Computing Cell network isolation platform of Bracket Computing.

The article discusses the Umbrella platform of Cisco that is now being positioned as a Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) technology.

The article offers information on the LogicHub Security Intelligence Automation Platform from LogicHub.

The article offers information on the Flock Fake News Detector which helps Flock platform users to stop false information from entering their messaging or collaboration environments.

The article evaluates the Kubernetes services from Platform9 as an alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda.

The article offers brief information on the CloudForms 2.1 cloud management technology, the Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and the OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) from Red Hat Inc.

The article reports that Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been working in its labs for more than two years on an interesting new project called The Machine. The Palo Alto, California-based IT provider on November 28, 2016 at its Discover London conference successfully demonstrated Memory-Driven Computing, a concept that puts memory at the center of the computing platform to realize performance and efficiency gains not possible today.

The article reports on the launch of Project Intu by computer hardware firm IBM for helping developers apply the Watson cognitive computing platform. Topics include the system-agnostic technology with artificial intelligence (AI) application to form factors in creating cognitive-enabled avatars and robots for experiences with devices in the Internet of Things (IOT), and support of operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Raspberry PI in Project Situ and the Watson Developer Advocay group.

The article reports that according to the 451 Group, OpenStack's revenues will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 35 percent from 2015 through 2020. OpenStack as a platform consists of many projects, which are all adopted at different rates. At least seventy percent of OpenStack User Survey respondents consider saving money as the main business driver for OpenStack use.

The article discusses the launch of computing platforms from Sumo Logic to Microsoft Azure including the Sumo Logic for Azure Audit and the Sumo Logic Azure Web Apps.

The article offers information on the Predictive Flash platform from Nimble Storage.

The article reports that Amazon Web Services (AWS) acquires cloud integrated development environment provider Cloud9 to improve its developer tooling as rival technology firm Microsoft is competing to become the top cloud provider. Cloud IDE provider Cloud9 announced that it has been acquired by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance the AWS cloud computing platform. Cloud9 joins AWS at a time when the cloud infrastructure provider enjoys a solid lead in the cloud computing space.

The article reports that Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is building its own version of the Android mobile operating system (OS) in order to ensure a steady stream of OS innovations and development for its products. Huawei already has its own customized user interface (UI) that it places atop Android and the company's Android variation may have a tough time competing in a crowded Android ecosystem.

The article reports that according to mobile application (app) intelligence vendor Apteligent, which analyzes actual mobile user data to help app developers, around 93 percent of Android devices are run on latest three versions of the mobile operating system. It mentions that the data which were collected from May 22 to May 28, 2016, has put Android and iOS usage on equal footing.

The article focuses on live streaming platforms on social networks like, Facebook Live and Twitter's Periscope, provide users with a way to interact and share experiences beyond short posts and static images. Facebook Live and Periscope are mobile-centric platforms and web resources Facebook and Twitter using the streaming platforms as vehicles to keep users engaged in their services.