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‘API Economy’ Gets a ‘Middleman’
The assertion that the "API economy" is upon us gained a measure of credence this week with a high-profile investment in a startup behind an open-source API platform designed ...Full Article
Startup Heptio Takes Kubernetes Mainstream
Heptio is the latest application container startup, but it's pedigree runs deeper than most: The startup's founders are two Google veterans who created the Kubernetes container orchestrator that is ...Full Article
GE Makes Splash With Data Deals
Add machine-learning specialist Wise.io and data ingestion platform vendor Bit Stew Systems to the list of acquisitions by GE Digital, which also this week released an operating system for ...Full Article
Container Vendors Move to Plug Production Gaps
Another batch of management tools targeting application containers emerged this week as vendors continue to plug holes in the emerging micro-services ecosystem while extending the capabilities of leading container ...Full Article
Binding Customers to Chains: 150M Restaurant Patrons in a Hadoop Fishbowl
Chain restaurants have a paradoxical mission: grow a mass customer base, but do so based on one successful customer experience at a time. Big data, analytics, interactive customer relationship ...Full Article
Another IT Security Deal Targets Docker Containers
As enterprises seek ways to nail down IT security for a growing list of open-source infrastructure distributions, the security sector is moving toward critical mass with an increasing number ...Full Article
App Development Said to Propel OpenStack
Cloud-native application development is among the drivers of OpenStack production deployments, which more than doubled over the last year, according to a new vendor survey. The survey results released ...Full Article
CoreOS Expands App Containers With Image Registry
In its drive to deliver "Google infrastructure for everyone," application container specialist CoreOS is rolling out an image registry designed to accelerate container builds on its orchestration platform. CoreOS ...Full Article
Microsoft Launches Docker on Windows Server
Container leader Docker is broadening a partnership with Microsoft to run Docker Engine and a datacenter management platform with Windows Server 2016. The partners rolled out the first technical ...Full Article
Wind Turbines and Democratized Data Analytics: Turning Chaos into Order
The energy industry was an early adopter of supercomputing; in fact, energy companies have the most powerful supercomputers in the commercial world. And although HPC in the energy sector ...Full Article
