Docker Acquires Team Behind Apache Aurora
Application container leader Docker has acquired the stealthy startup behind an open source project designed to keep applications and services up and running after a system failure. San Francisco-based ...Full Article
Azure Opens Up With Expanded Linux Support
Microsoft has extended its embrace of open source tools on its cloud platform with a batch of Linux-based announcements, including deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances from its ...Full Article
Software Defined Container Orchestration Accelerates Deployment of Large Docker Container Clusters
Containers have exploded through the bulkheads of market acceptance that most new technologies must slog through, crossing the chasm in only three years and transforming the way applications are ...Full Article
Another Bullish Forecast for Cloud Adoption
New research confirms that a majority of U.S. enterprises will increase annual spending on cloud computing in 2016, with nearly half identifying increased business efficiencies as the primary benefit ...Full Article
OpenStack Service Targets Deployment Hassles
Rackspace and Red Hat are responding to complaints that the OpenStack cloud-computing platform is too complicated with a new managed service feature designed to make it easier to deploy ...Full Article
App Containers Get a Needed Security Boost
Application container rivals CoreOS and Docker each released "production ready" versions of their platforms this week as the expanding container ecosystem moves to button down secure distribution of enterprise ...Full Article
IBM Extends Spark Push With Analytics Tools
IBM is expanding its Bluemix cloud development platform with a heavy dose of data analytics tools designed to integrate data services into a growing number of hybrid cloud deployments. ...Full Article
Microsoft Eyes Hybrid Cloud Shift With Azure Stack
Microsoft is zeroing in on the steady shift to hybrid cloud deployments with an Azure cloud-based platform that would allow customers to deliver Azure services from their own datacenters. ...Full Article
Docker Acquires Cloud Pioneer Unikernel Systems
Industry consolidation around an emerging application container ecosystem gained momentum this week with Docker Inc.'s acquisition of U.K.-based Unikernel Systems, a developer of lightweight operating systems used to deliver ...Full Article
Hazelcast Platform Targets Cloud, App Container Rollouts
In-memory computing specialist Hazelcast Inc. rolled out the latest version of its "data grid" that includes support for new cloud management and application container deployments along with a higher ...Full Article
