The prolific developers at Red Hat have been relatively quiet in the New Year. Now, the open source leader is picking up the pace with the introduction of the latest version of its enterprise virtualization tool. The company announced general availability this week of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 aiming to offer tighter integration with ...Full article
The latest release of Rocket application container software by hyperscale Linux operating system specialist CoreOS includes new user features and tweaks designed to improve application security and supply a more composable system design. San Francisco-based CoreOS also highlighted an independent application container runtime called "Nose Cone" along with a handful of new tools for building ...Full article
Cisco Systems said it is extending its Nexus 9000 series network switch platform to support a standard network overlay protocol. The move also complements Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative. The networking giant said Friday (Feb. 6) it is extending its software defined networking technology to support the industry standard BGP EVPN protocol (Border Gateway ...Full article
Add VMware and well-connected partner Carpathia, the hybrid cloud services specialist with extensive government hosting contracts, to the growing list of vendors authorized to provide cloud services to federal agencies. The partners said they have received provisional authority to offer cloud services to U.S. government agencies under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or ...Full article
If the market watchers are correct, there are plenty of opportunities for cloud vendors in Asia generally and the booming Chinese market in particular. Companies like Cisco Systems have made major inroads in the Chinese market, essentially helping state-owned networking companies build out high-end communications networks along with Beijing's highly restricted Internet services. Business and ...Full article
Investments and acquisitions are coalescing around the thing called the Internet of Things, but those betting on the emerging domain as the next big thing have a long way to go in terms of forging technical roadmaps or viable business cases, according to the latest survey on attitudes toward the IoT. Gartner found that more ...Full article
An enterprise data storage startup has announced a second funding round along with the addition of industry veterans to its board. Seattle-based Qumulo Inc. bills itself as the next big thing in scale-out intelligent storage. The startup announced Wednesday (Feb. 4) it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Silicon ...Full article
With enterprise spending on cloud deployments expected to surpass all other IT expenditures by as early as 2016, industry standards are emerging in areas like data protection and guidelines for selecting cloud service providers. Among them is a proposed international standard released this week focusing on data privacy in public clouds that would, among other ...Full article
In the wake of VMware's launch this week of a new generation of enterprise products aimed at promoting adoption of software-defined storage, third-party storage vendors are lining up to support the VMware vSphere components. Flash array startup NexGen Storage Inc. announced storage support on Tuesday (February 3) for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes based on its ...Full article
SAP, the enterprise application software and database leader, unveiled its next generation HANA business suite built on a new in-memory platform with real-time capabilities that target on-premise, cloud and hybrid deployments. The first major overhaul of SAP platform in over a decade signals the database company's shift to the cloud. The fourth generation of the ...Full article
As the federal bureaucracy stumbles toward datacenter modernization primarily via consolidation and a shift to the cloud, more than two-thirds of U.S. IT operators said in a survey they are most concerned about securing their cloud infrastructure. Moreover, the study underwritten by vendor Palo Alto Networks found that nearly half of respondents consider data security ...Full article
The hype around Docker containers has been offset recently by the reality that the application delivery software has yet to make a significant move from development and testing to production workloads. While 2015 is increasingly seen as a make-or-break year for emerging container technology, Docker adoption by cloud providers continues to gain momentum. For instance, ...Full article
The Open Data Center Alliance has issued a "usage model" that approaches cloud infrastructure from the demand rather than the supply side. The initial version of the cloud infrastructure usage model is intended to "help guide enterprise IT consumers in their cloud service acquisition decisions and increase the standardization of cloud service consumption," the group ...Full article
Quite a few years ago, as a distinguished engineer, I was giving a talk to my network-security peers about algorithms and new trends in technology. I presented a number of slides comparing the current brute force mechanisms to new algorithmic thinking like MapReduce. It was a tough crowd. While people showed genuine interest in, and ...Full article
The perception that the cloud may be inherently insecure is prompting next-generation platform developers to attempt to bake security and privacy features into their offerings as more devices are connected and more personal information ends up stored in the cloud. With that at least partially in mind, IBM Research rolled out a cloud-based technology it ...Full article
Canonical, the company behind the open source cross-platform operating system Ubuntu, released its annual cloud and server survey this week that seeks to cast more light on the makeup of cloud infrastructure, how it is managed, and what is driving cloud adoption. Canonical said it surveyed 3,100 customers, most of whom are Ubuntu server and ...Full article
As recent outages at Verizon Cloud and Facebook illustrate, datacenter operators can catch plenty of flack when their infrastructure goes off-line—for a few hours or a weekend. A cottage industry actually tracks outages and ranks cloud service providers. Hence, a lot of thought is being given to better ways of monitoring datacenter operations to avoid ...Full article
Hyperscale Linux operating system specialist CoreOS said it is releasing its latest open source component for sharing and managing configuration data and other functions used in distributed systems. San Francisco-based CoreOS announced its first stable release of etcd, or "etc distributed," an open-source distributed key value store that provides the backbone of CoreOS clusters and ...Full article
Cisco Systems fleshed out its cloud strategy this week with the launch of a software-licensing framework and a cloud-managed IT approach centered on leveraging its 2012 acquisition of cloud networking specialist Meraki. Cisco executives stressed that the software strategy, which also seeks to build on the networking giant's installed base of hardware, aims to "empower ...Full article
Look for technology merger and acquisition activity that surged last year to continue in 2015 as potential suitors in sectors like software, cloud computing and storage seek to acquire new services and consolidation quickens in crowded markets. According to a forecast released by market watcher 451 Research, deal-making momentum that hit record levels in 2014 ...Full article
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