VMware Buys Kubernetes Startup Heptio
There has been much talk with the rise of application containers about the microservices technology replacing virtual machines. VMware made a move this week that may make that a ...Full Article
Ignore AI Fear Factor at Your Peril: A Futurist’s Call for ‘Digital Ethics’
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a ...Full Article
Kubernetes Packager Secures Cloud-Native Apps
An open source version of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator is intended to package and deploy cloud-native applications to restricted, on-premise infrastructure such as government clouds. Gravitational, which was founded ...Full Article
Qualys Boosts Container Security with SecOps Deal
As native cloud applications expand across companies large and in between, greater attention is being paid to securing the ephemeral application containers increasingly used to deliver distributed apps. Cloud ...Full Article
IBM Jolts Cloud Market with Red Hat Deal
In a bold stroke that promises to shake up the hybrid cloud market, IBM is acquiring open source leader Red Hat. "The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer,” ...Full Article
Check Point, Cloud Security Vendor, Acquires Dome9
Dome9, the public cloud security specialist, has been acquired by another Israel-based cybersecurity vendor, Check Point Software. Check Point, Tel Aviv, said Wednesday (Oct. 24) its acquisition of Dome9 ...Full Article
Oracle Offers Cloud GPU Simulation Service
Oracle and high-end simulation specialist Altair are expanding their partnership to offer computational fluid dynamics (CFD) services on the Oracle cloud. The HPC simulations would tap into GPU cloud ...Full Article
Startup Pulumi Rolls Cloud-Native Tools
A new programming platform designed to accelerate cloud-native application development is jumping on the multi-cloud bandwagon to deploy code quickly to the cloud in order to deliver container and ...Full Article
Oracle Latest Public Cloud to Offer AMD EPYC Instances
Even as a press report yesterday declared that Intel has abandoned its current effort to produce a 10nm chip – a report denied by Intel – looming rival AMD ...Full Article
Xilinx Moves FPGAs Deeper into Datacenters
Three Chinese infrastructure vendors are embracing FPGA technology as a way of accelerating datacenter workloads. FPGA specialist Xilinx Inc. announced during a developer forum in Beijing this week that ...Full Article