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• Microsoft and Pivotal unveil Azure Spring Cloud managed service

  Microsoft and Pivotal have partnered to bring managed infrastructure for Spring Boot​ Java apps to Microsoft’s Azure cloud​.

• 'One big happy family': How Pivotal will fit back into VMware

  VMware recently reached an agreement to acquire fellow Dell EMC family member Pivotal, the vendor it helped spin out back in 2012.

• Why we need to merge DevOps and cyber security

  Cyber attacks are rising in frequency, complexity and impact as savvy attackers take advantage of security risks to infiltrate enterprise infrastructure.

• Telstra launches Gurrowa Innovation Lab

  Telstra yesterday cut the ribbon on the Gurrowa Innovation Lab in Melbourne.

• VMware bestows new container powers upon vSphere/vCloud

  With the unveiling of a pair of open source projects -- Project Photon and Project Lightwave -- VMware is expanding the range of its offerings for enterprises dealing with containerized apps.

• Grails Web framework finds home at Object Computing

  The Grails Web framework for Java, recently left orphaned by Pivotal along with the companion Groovy language, has a new home at Object Computing (OCI), which has hired key Grails developers.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, April 13

  Robot stuck in nuclear reactor... Microsoft demos industrial IoT play... Pivotal open-sources in-memory database... and more tech news.

• Pivotal sets the stage for open-source in-memory computing

  Following through on a promise to open-source its data analysis software, Pivotal has released the source code that powers its GemFire in-memory database.

• Indiana law is fast having 'definite negative impact' on tech

  Organizers of the upcoming Indy Big Data Conference are feeling the impact of the tech industry's anger over Indiana's new "religious freedom" law and want state lawmakers to correct the law -- quickly.

• EMC pools enterprise smarts to create data lakes

  EMC is drawing on its "federation" of companies to help customers build data lakes using EMC storage, VMware virtualisation and Pivotal Big Data smarts.

• Dumped by Pivotal, Groovy moves to Apache

  With Pivotal about to pull funding for Groovy, the dynamic language project is moving over to the Apache Software Foundation. Groovy has been formally submitted to Apache and is on a path to becoming a top-level project, Apache said on Wednesday.

• The myth about how Amazon's Web service started just won't die

  There's a rumor that goes around cloud circles about how Amazon.com created what is now the multi-billion dollar infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing industry in the early 2000s.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, February 18

  Facebook wants us all to create VR content ... Lenovo tests ARM server waters with prototype ... Big data vendors find common ground ... and more tech news

• Pivotal goes all-in with open source in Big Data Suite

  Bowing to customer pressure, enterprise software and services vendor Pivotal will release as open source the remainder of its software suite for analyzing data.

• Big data vendors to forge a common Hadoop base platform

  A number of the largest big data vendors, including IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal, have banded together to specify a unified base platform for the open source Hadoop data processing software.