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Large enterprise data center exit and portfolio migration programs, their bottlenecks and delivery timelines.
GitHub missed its September 30 goal to deploy every production service in Central US, with 120 of 160 there by October 7. Primary MySQL databases are further behind: 13 of 51 had moved, according to GitHub's availability report.
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Oracle will offer NetApp's Ontap storage as a native OCI service within 12 months, NetApp's fourth hyperscaler deal after Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. A storage team planning an Oracle move this quarter gets familiar Ontap tooling, on a launch date neither company has fixed.
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Atlassian stops security patches for its Connect app framework at the end of 2026, more than two years before Data Center reaches end of life in March 2029. Teams already on Cloud reach that date first, because a large share of Marketplace apps were built on Connect and those apps will keep running without fixes.
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One ML team moved Airflow off on-prem boxes onto a single GCP VM estimated at under $150 a month, against about $350 for Cloud Composer 3. Its published repo gives other teams a working build to price against their own Composer quote.
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The August 17 postmortem describes a sidecar that hit its concurrency limit while its autoscaler measured the host, then a VS Code retry bug that kept Copilot down hours after everything else returned.
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Redis pulled four East US 2 comparisons from Azure's own retail price API and found Premium-to-Balanced moves cutting the monthly cache bill by more than two fifths. Whether that funds the migration depends on how big the bill already is.
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The expanded partnership also makes Salesforce capabilities callable from Gemini Enterprise with no connector to build, because both sides implement the open Model Context Protocol. Teams already on Agentforce get that part without new work.
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GitHub's August availability report reads as a capacity argument rather than a bug report, with the Actions fix described as containment and the harder database failovers still ahead of it.
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AWS Professional Services reports the drop across a 300-application data center exit, citing internal project tracking. It covers one of the three bottlenecks the same post names.
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