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IBM To Acquire Red Hat and Vows to Become Top Hybrid Cloud Provider

ARMONK, N.Y. and RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source cloud software, announced today that the companies ...Full Article

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Microservices Help Scale Distributed Apps, Survey Finds

The ability to scale applications and get products and services out the door faster are the primary reasons DevOps teams are embracing microservices, a new survey finds. Microservices are ...Full Article

Istio Service Mesh Advances to Production

Istio, the “service mesh” intended to connect application components and thereby boost the capabilities of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator, has advanced over the past year as a way of ...Full Article

Licensing Reform Movement Gathers Steam

An effort to promote balanced licensing rules for open source software is gaining momentum with the addition of 14 new companies adopting guidelines designed primarily to reduce compliance errors. ...Full Article

Kubernetes Services Expand as Complexity Increases

The IT industry continues to coalesce around the de facto standard cluster and container orchestrator called Kubernetes. With an upgraded version of the cloud service expected to be released ...Full Article

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App Containers Begin to Scale

Real-world assessments about the adoption of Docker application containers in production are surfacing as users deploy the technology to boost utilization of datacenter resources and accelerate delivery of a ...Full Article

Red Hat Buys Container Startup CoreOS

Red Hat is expanding its push into the nascent micro-services and container orchestration sector with the acquisition of plucky startup CoreOS. The acquisition announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) is valued ...Full Article

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Dual Role Emerges For Microservices

Microservices, the agile architecture on which applications are built as a collection of different smaller services rather than an entire application, are being used to rework existing applications along ...Full Article

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Tech Giants Adopt ‘Balanced’ Licensing Approach

Some of the largest stakeholders in the booming open-source software community have issued new licensing guidelines for developers designed to thwart aggressive or unfounded enforcement of intellectual property claims ...Full Article