Red Hat announces OpenShift Container Platform 3.11-- now with multiple components integrated from the CoreOS Tectonic Kuberentes distributions, including a cluster administrator console and the CoreOS Operator concept.

A January 2018 Red Hat acquisition, CoreOS has an own Kuberenetes orchestration platform-slash-OpenShift rival called Tectonic. As one might expect, the acquisition involved the integration of the best CoreOS features into OpenShift, such as a cluster administration console providing means to manage nodes, roles-based access controls and other underlying cloud infrastructure objects.

Other features include an implementation of Prometheus monitoring and eventing technology and the integration of Operator SDK, a tool able to understand the Kubernetes API and create, configure and manage Kubernetes instances.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise uses the SpiceWorld 2018 conference to present cloud solutions aimed at SMBs-- the Gen10 ProLiant ML30 tower and DL20 rack server, both designed for use in hybrid cloud applications.

Described by the company as "Wireless Office in a Box" solutions, the two systems carry Intel processors, and run on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard with Remote Desktop Services and 5 hybrid applications with built-in applications to the Microsoft Azure cloud. The applications handle hybrid file and backup, hybrid web hosting, hybrid virtualisation, hybrid development and test, and hybrid database functionality.

Longtime rivals Hadoop development rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks decide to lay down arms and join forces with the announcement of a $5.2 billion merger promising to bring about a unified version of the big data processing platform.

“Our businesses are highly complementary and strategic. By bringing together Hortonworks’ investments in end-to-end data management with Cloudera’s investments in data warehousing and machine learning, we will deliver the industry’s first enterprise data cloud from the Edge to AI," Cloudera says. "This vision will enable our companies to advance our shared commitment to customer success in their pursuit of digital transformation.”

Workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform provider CloudJumper announces a single server version of the Cloud Workspace Management Suite-- providing MSPs a means to deploy software-defined virtual datacentres with lower server and software requirements.

The release allows MSPs to deploy the WaaS solution in single-tenant configurations for customers with as few as 20 users, if with the same features and capabilities of larger versions of the systems. As a result organisations do not need to pay for unused CPUs, RAM and cycles per virtual machine, since all service infrastructure is reduced to a single virtualised server.

The single server Cloud Workspace Management Suite solution supports easy migration, with integrated business continuity and disaster recovery for a highly secure full-featured cloud-based workspace environment. The reduced computing footprint makes it cost effective to run a single tenant environment, while still taking advantage of the benefits and economies of scale available at larger organisations.