Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Sunday, July 5, 2026
CoreOS Platform Looks to Scale Containers
CoreOS Inc., the hyperscale Linux operating system specialist, has been steadily rolling out application container and distributed system components over the last few months. Now, the San Francisco-based company is launching a new software stack designed to bring container infrastructure to the enterprise. The company also announced on Monday (April 6) a $12 million funding ... Full article
Juniper Networks Brings Computing Network Power to Wall St.
Juniper Networks today (April 6) unveiled an application acceleration switch and packet flow accelerator module designed to bring computing performance and customizable logic into the network to accelerate critical business applications for financial institutions relying on real-time data. The QFX5100-AA application acceleration switch and QFX-PFA packet flow accelerator module, to be sold through Juniper's indirect ... Full article
Big Data ‘Center of Gravity’ Shifting to Cloud
As practitioners of big data analytics seek to bring computing power closer to the data rather than the other way around, the cloud is emerging as the preferred platform for increasingly sophisticated data crunching by more industries adopting big data strategies. For now, market watcher Wikibon concluded in a big data vendor and market forecast ... Full article
Public Cloud In, Virtualization Out by 2019
Enterprises are leaving behind virtualization and rapidly advancing toward internal and hosted private clouds as organizations drive toward more innovation, more efficient infrastructures, and more business-oriented IT departments. By 2019, 42 percent of businesses will rely on on-premise plus public cloud (hybrid) or fully public cloud, compared with 12 percent in 2015, according to Saugatuck ... Full article
Taking the Pain Out of OpenStack Upgrades
The tenth release of OpenStack, "Juno," last October, added a batch of new enterprise features aimed at boosting stability and performance and extending the reach of the open source tool to telecommunications and service provider datacenters. Those features included storage policies, new data processing services for provisioning Hadoop and Spark along with foundational steps toward ... Full article
Investors Flock to Cloud Security Providers
Investors, including major cloud players, continue to pour money into cloud security and automation startups as the need grows to protect sensitive data and defend cloud infrastructure. Among the beneficiaries is Hytrust Inc., the cloud security specialist based in Mountain View, Calif., which announced its latest cash infusion this week totaling $33 million. The funding ... Full article
Puppet Tool Expands to Manage Docker, AWS
As the line between datacenter management and DevOps continues to blur, more tools like Puppet and Chef are emerging to help automate management of physical and virtual servers, network infrastructure and cloud deployments. A new generation of provisioning tools is now incorporating features like support for emerging Docker application containers, public cloud infrastructure as well ... Full article
IBM to Invest $3B to Bring IoT to the Enterprise
The money keeps pouring into the thing called the Internet of Things. IBM joined a growing list of technology giants this week in announcing plans to invest $3 billion over the next four years to "connect the Internet of Things to the enterprise." The effort announced Tuesday (March 31) includes plans to build a cloud ... Full article
Intel-Altera Deal Would Boost IoT Efforts
If, as reported over the weekend, Intel Corp. moves to acquire programmable logic and embedded processor specialist Altera Corp., industry watchers predict it would boost the world's largest chip maker's Internet of Things efforts while solidifying its hold on the x86 server market. The Wall Street Journal first reported on March 27 that Intel is ... Full article
Red Hat Reports Double-Digit Growth
The overall health and vibrancy of the enterprise technology sector and the open source community in general appears to be reflected in the financial results of one of its leading lights, Red Hat Inc. The Linux vendor reported double-digit growth this week in earnings for the year as well as quarterly sales. Red Hat said ... Full article
Software-Defined Storage is Being Redefined
If it's true that there has been very little technology innovation in the development of enterprise storage technology and that current technologies are failing to keep pace with the rise of data analytics, then this week showed that a gaggle of vendors are focused on leveraging software-defined networking technologies to address the current storage gap. ... Full article
Flash Memory Goes 3D
As traditional NAND flash storage technology approaches the end of the line, chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology jointly began investigating new approaches to cell design that could be leveraged to dramatically improve storage capacity, performance and reliability. Two-dimensional planar scaling of flash memory cells was on a Moore's Law path to obsolescence, so the ... Full article
Startup Rubik Seeks to Disrupt Data Management Market
Cloud infrastructure startups are popping up these days in Silicon Valley like spring daffodils. The latest to emerge from stealth mode is Rubrik Inc., which rolled out a converged data management platform this week that eliminates the need for backup software. Rubrik, Palo Alto, Calif., was founded by top engineers from Data Domain, Facebook, Google ... Full article
Startup Hedvig Emerges With Storage Platform
Hedvig Inc., a software-defined storage startup emerging from stealth mode this week after three years of development, is rolling out a distributed storage platform it touts as helping enterprises run virtualized infrastructure as easily as a public cloud service in their datacenters. Hedvig, Santa Clara, Calif., likens its "mature" software-defined platform to infrastructure run internally ... Full article
Shift to Hybrid Cloud Quickens, Survey Finds
A new industry survey throws some cold water on bullish forecasts that have public cloud adoption doubling by the end of 2016. Rather, the Open Data Center Alliance said it found a continuing preference among its members for internal cloud services but growing interest in hybrid clouds deployments. Enterprises seeking to keep their options open ... Full article
HP Expands Open Source Cloud Push
When Hewlett-Packard rolled out its Helion cloud infrastructure last May, it pledged to invest $1 billion over two years to deliver converged infrastructure geared toward hybrid IT platforms. Making good on that pledge, the company announced Helion Rack on Tuesday (March 24), a preconfigured private cloud based on OpenStack and Cloud Foundry technologies. The Helion ... Full article
Google Splits Difference with Nearline Storage
Google Cloud Platform's new archival storage offering called Nearline appears to target the same "cold storage" market eyed when Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a similar service called Glacier in 2012. Nearline is described as Google Cloud Storage "suitable for workloads traditionally filled by offline storage, such as cold storage and disaster recovery, but without ... Full article
U.S. Enlists Facebook Vet as IT Chief
Stung by a series of high-profile IT foul-ups related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the roll out of the healthcare.gov web site, the Obama administration has been working steadily to bring some adult supervision to its IT operations. The latest initiative is a U.S. Digital Service formed last year that has been ... Full article
Service Providers Jump on DevOps Bandwagon
The rush to fill what many see as a DevOps gap continues as the growing need for development skills shifts from the datacenter to the enterprise. A recent study released by market researcher Gartner is being widely cited as supporting the creation of new DevOps capabilities. The Gartner survey predicted that "DevOps will evolve from ... Full article
EMC Expands Open Source Collaboration
When the Cloud Foundry Foundation was launched last December, the open platform-as-a-service proponent also rolled out a new approach to open source development called "Dojo." The idea was to train developers and put their new application projects on a fast track. EMC Corp., a founding member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation along with its Pivotal ... Full article