Deploying Linux containers in production and at scale remains problematic, particularly given ongoing security concerns. Docker container engineers demonstrated a new security feature dubbed Docker Content Trust during this week's LinuxCon in Seattle that makes it possible to verify the publisher of Docker images. Those efforts are aimed at addressing lingering concerns about packaging critical ...Full article
A recently formalized partnership between DreamFactory and Verizon Partner Solutions allows enterprise developers to write IoT and mobile applications that securely access legacy databases, among others, in everything up to mainframes, and ultimately move their workloads into scalable development, test and production deployments on Verizon Cloud. Developers can write apps using the REST API backend ...Full article
University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) is one of the latest healthcare organizations to have sensitive records exposed. This breach should trigger a wake-up call for healthcare organizations -- and for all companies, for that matter -- that a rogue employee at a supplier, vendor, or other third party can wreak havoc on your business. ...Full article
The Linux mainframe servers rolled out this week by IBM will target the inexorable enterprise shift to hybrid clouds and growing performance requirements as a diversity of workloads like real-time transaction monitoring and other business analytics applications the datacenter. Meanwhile, several IBM partners also announced parallel Linux initiatives aimed at developing new software distributions for ...Full article
ExaGrid this month expects to release the latest iteration of software for its disk-based backup storage solutions, an upgrade that globally supports deduplication across NAS shares and appliances in a scale-out GRID, and enhances support for Oracle RMAN Channels. By providing deduplication across all NAS shares and appliances in a grid, organizations save both money and ...Full article
The tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March 2014 generated few facts and many questions. But a team of computational math, engineering, modeling, and advanced scale computing experts believe they solved at least one of the many puzzles: How the Boeing 777-200ER entered the ocean. Just as the team of academics behind this ...Full article
IBM is launching a new set of analytics and data warehousing services on its Bluemix platform-as-a-service in a push to add more analytics capabilities to cloud-based applications. Among the Bluemix upgrades announced on Thursday (Aug. 13) are streaming analytics service and a cloud data-warehousing tool called dashDB. The latter integrates massive parallel processing. IBM said ...Full article
Here in the middle of 2015, it seems every day brings news of yet another information security breach within commercial or governmental organizations. In only two years, PwC estimates the number of security breach incidents has increased by almost 48 percent. The range of attack vectors has also significantly broadened to encompass not just obvious ...Full article
The technology forecast for Columbus, Ohio, is mostly cloudy. The capital of The Buckeye State has attracted so many datacenters from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM over the last year that the city is claiming the title of the "Big Data Capital of America." IBM joined a growing list of Columbus ...Full article
Just off the coast of Northern California, the Catalina Sea Ranch is starting to grow mussels – and an IoT-fueled bumper crop of data about aquaculture, mollusks, and the Pacific Ocean. The offshore shellfish ranch, the first to get federal authority to operate in United States' waters, intends to increase commercial shellfish aquaculture, while simultaneously ...Full article
Red Hat is emphasizing application container management, security and provisioning in the latest releases of its Satellite management suite for Red Hat Linux 7. Red Hat said Wednesday (Aug. 12) that Satellite 6.1 addresses the gradual shift toward container-based cloud deployments. The latest release therefore allows developers to integrate Satellite management software into a hybrid ...Full article
Believing flash storage is expanding to deliver specialized solutions for business applications, BitMicro this week unveiled a new strategy, logo, and family of products targeting companies that need high capacity flash storage devices. By next year, sales of enterprise flash storage are expected to reach $1.6 billion, according to Mordor Intelligence. The surge in data, ...Full article
A batch of PCI Express storage devices emerged from this week's Flash Memory Summit targeting hyperscale and enterprise datacenters that are gradually incorporating PCIe for online transaction processing and other big data workloads. PMC-Sierra was among the PCIe storage vendors introducing new switches and solid-state drive (SSD) controllers, the latter based on its second-generation Flashtec ...Full article
While every modern organization is unique, they all have one thing in common: the speed of business relies upon network performance. Communication, collaboration, and commerce can all suffer if networks, applications, and servers are not monitored to ensure optimal performance. With so much riding on network functionality, managing this infrastructure is central to IT's core mission. ...Full article
Business leaders expect and want IT departments to lead organizations' transformation into digital enterprises – but at least one study finds technologists fall short of corporate managers' expectations. Almost 70 percent of 250 global managers surveyed believe technology has become "far more important to their business," yet only 46 percent of respondents said their IT ...Full article
The potential of the Internet of Things rests with "the huge number of things that are not connected today," a universe that extends beyond connected machines to objects and eventually humans, an industry analyst asserts. "It's that delta between what's connected today and what we think will become connected tomorrow," said Bill Morelli, IoT research ...Full article
A new market survey underscores the advantages of converged IT infrastructure as a means of achieving capacity flexibility as well as a way to reduce cost while speeding the return on investment in new cloud infrastructure. The IT infrastructure study sponsored by VCE, the converged infrastructure and cloud-computing vendor formed by Cisco Systems and EMC ...Full article
Could President Barack Obama's executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) do for high performance computing what President John F. Kennedy's proclamation about landing on the moon do for the space industry? While the stakes may (literally) not be as high, many enterprises and members of the HPC community are optimistic that the order and the NSCI ...Full article
Capitalizing on momentum generated by the release of a production-ready container cluster manager, OpenStack vendor Mirantis and hyperscale Linux developer CoreOS are combining the former's OpenStack distribution with the latter's software stack designed to move application containers into production. The partnership announced on Thursday (Aug. 6) would allow a commercial version of Google's Kubernetes software ...Full article
As part of its effort to provide customers with complete Internet of Things solutions, GE enhanced its Predix IoT platform to include infrastructure-as-a-service. The new Predix Cloud will leverage GE's expertise in IT and operational technology, and allow organizations to use machine data faster and more efficiently, according to GE. The cloud will provide asset ...Full article
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