The Firmware Stack Opens Up
A batch of new open source efforts will among other things seek to unlock and define a firmware stack that would operate across enterprise infrastructure, cloud datacenters on up ...Full Article
Docker Founder Joins Blockchain Storage Startup
Serial entrepreneur Ben Golub, co-founder and former CEO of application container pioneer Docker Inc., has landed at a blockchain-based cloud startup called Storj Labs. The Atlanta-based company launched in ...Full Article
Workload Placement: Into the Cloud and back out Again
Application migration is the process of redeploying an application, whether to newer infrastructure or to a private, public or hybrid cloud. The history of cloud migration has not always ...Full Article
Intel, Microsft Partner on Machine Vision, AI
Intel and Microsoft are reuniting to support the chip maker’s vision processing unit on the software giant’s machine learning platform. The partners said the combination would allow AI inference ...Full Article
Aqua Security Hardens Kubernetes
Seeking to bullet-proof container infrastructure from application development through runtime protection for production workloads, a security vendor has rolled out the latest version of its platform targeting Kubernetes-native application ...Full Article
The Hidden Costs of Cloud Adoption
Cloud adoption brings with it a paradox, a market analyst finds: Enterprises primarily embrace the cloud to reduce operating costs but end up spending more on inexpensive access to ...Full Article
Microsoft Expands Azure Cloud for Government
Microsoft is releasing new cloud services as part of its public-sector push that would allow military and government users to share sensitive and classified data across internal and cloud ...Full Article
Startup Seeks CAE Shake Up with Cloud HPC Solvers-as-a-Service
Coming out of stealth, a startup is out to overturn the CAE industry with a combination of AWS-based HPC capabilities and what it says is superior multi-physics design simulation ...Full Article
Cloudian Partnership Expands Its Object Storage Platform
Seeking to capitalize on the growth of object storage and the reluctance of companies to delete data that could one day prove useful, cloud object storage specialist Cloudian has ...Full Article
Start-up Aims AI at Automated Tuning of Complex Systems
There was a simpler time when system tuning consisted of adjusting a relatively few number of knobs, a manual and not overly demanding task that brought out the best ...Full Article