Directly addressing concerns about its readiness for production, application container leader Docker is rolling out "container-as-a-service" platform designed to ease application development and management at scale. The Docker Datacenter unveiled Tuesday (Feb. 23) seeks to combine the inherent agility of application containers with greater control and security as enterprises attempt to scale container technology. Aiming ...Full article
Silicon vendors are joining forces with appliance, software and platform specialists in the latest effort to forge Internet of Things (IoT) interoperability specifications. The Open Connectivity Foundation unveiled late last week seeks to scale the emerging IoT ecosystem by including a broader array of device and equipment manufacturers. The goal is to create an open ...Full article
IT departments are always asked to do more with less. But it is much easier to buy shiny new toys in a good economy than a bad one, which is one of the reasons why the all flash array (AFA) market has been so strong in recent years. If the economy turns south in 2016, ...Full article
Come early March, grants worth $300,000 are up for grabs for manufacturers giving year-long access to national lab supercomputing cycles and half the staff hours of computer scientists with domain expertise under a U.S. Department of Energy program called High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg). In Phase 1 of the program, manufacturers as large as ...Full article
A serious Linux vulnerability reverberated through the open source community this week, prompting major vendors like Cisco Systems to issue security alerts while experts attempted to determine the extent of the compromise and how best to fix it. Meanwhile, a key open-source stakeholder stressed that the vulnerability raises new questions about the security of emerging ...Full article
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 Azure cloud marketplace. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) expanded its cloud partnership with Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) this week with the enterprise Linux announcement that allows deployment ...Full article
In announcing its acquisition of NICE, the Italy-based software-as-a-service provider for high performance and technical computing, Amazon and AWS not only acquire technology for optimizing customers’ HPC, cloud and visualization resources and tools for distributed workforces using mobile devices, it also acquires access to NICE’s global customer “A List” in aerospace, life sciences , energy ...Full article
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 deployed in data centers and in the cloud. The vast majority of major corporations around the world have either implemented, or at least tested, containers. As ...Full article
A range of new cyber security approaches is emerging that seek to shield cloud applications from attack. Some emphasize a human intelligence approach as a way of staying ahead of threats. Others are embracing artificial intelligence techniques in order to deliver real-time detection and prevention of cyber threats. The latest AI approach comes from partners ...Full article
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 of switching from on-premises to cloud computing. Meanwhile, application delivery and development are among the emerging cloud use cases. The business-to-business research firm Clutch found that ...Full article
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 OpenStack while providing access to operational expertise. The partners this week launched an OpenStack-as-a-service model that includes a managed private cloud from Red Hat (NYSE: RHT). ...Full article
As Hadoop data lakes grow – fed by multiple data sources in multiple data formats – the task of pulling insight from the lake becomes increasingly challenging. In fact, the tedious and time consuming chore of cleansing, distilling, blending and standardizing disparate data formats – called data preparation or data wrangling – sometimes requires the ...Full article
Networking is becoming a bottleneck as enterprises store, move and sift through vast quantities of structured and unstructured data from a growing list of sources. In an effort to accelerate adoption of network virtualization, a new open source effort seeks to provide a high-performance input/output services framework for developing the next generation of virtualized network ...Full article
A growing list of cyber attacks targeting U.S. government employees has prompted the Obama administration to launch a high-profile cyber security effort that among others things will target Internet "utilities" such as open source software. The Cybersecurity National Action Plan announced by the White House on Tuesday (Feb. 9) as part of its annual budget ...Full article
The container-based service Docker is gaining massive momentum in the industry, and for many good reasons. The current appeal of Docker stems from issues associated with running VMs, namely that each one has to be provided with virtualized memory and storage resources. Containers make it far easier to run enterprise-grade services and address concerns for ...Full article
Software is defining and redefining everything from datacenters to the energy infrastructure delivering the power to run IT infrastructure. Software-defined power distribution that also incorporates predictive analytics to forecast future demand debuted late last year when the Dutch company Eneco Group rolled out what it claims is the first software-driven power plant. Teamed with AutoGrid ...Full article
An 8-socket server with in-memory of 6TB for running enterprise decision support Linux supply chain, ERP and CRP workloads in real time or near real-time: that’s the strategy behind a new partnership in which Hewlett Packard Enterprise will OEM SGI’s UV in-memory server technology. In so doing, HPE fleshes out its “mission critical” line of ...Full article
As datacenter managers seek to harmonize computing, storage and networking infrastructure, a market watcher forecasts that enterprise investments in this converged infrastructure along with servers will jump during the coming year. Nearly 80 percent of enterprises surveyed by 451 Research said they expect to increase spending on converged infrastructure in 2016. The market researcher also ...Full article
From small, hardly noticeable beginnings the biggest cloud cyber-attacks grow. Called multi-stage intrusion attacks, it’s how hackers create a virtual machine in a public cloud to penetrate the on-prem portion of companies’ hybrid cloud environments. Multi-stage intrusions are responsible for some of the most notorious cyber-attacks in the retail, banking and entertainment industries, such as ...Full article
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 applications at scale. Industry leader Docker released the latest version of its application container platform on Thursday (Feb. 4) focusing on across-the-board container orchestration and improved ...Full article
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