Pivotal Software Inc., part of the privately-held tech giant that emerged from Dell Inc.’s acquisition of EMC Corp., plans to compete with Amazon Inc.’s Amazon Web Services and other major cloud providers in the next evolution of cloud computing. In this new era, physical and virtual servers that are traditionally used to run certain applications […]
Pivotal Software, whose parent company is Dell Technologies, is set to launch its own serverless cloud computing tool in 2017. Spring Cloud Function will take on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, offering a platform for "narrowly-written, single-purpose apps" required for episodic events. Instead of Pivotal controlling the code, developers can licence the Spring Cloud Function software and run their code either in the Pivotal cloud or in a rival's, paying the provider only when the code is activated. Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies said the evolution of cloud computing would provide an "attractive area of investment".