Container Security and the Multi-cloud Control Plane: More than Just the Image
A cynic might conclude that “image” has more than a little to do with the phenomenal interest in containers and microservices right now. But just like the security required ...Full Article
IT ‘Sprawl’ Spawning Security Gaps, Survey Finds
The steady shift toward purchasing IT "as a service" is accelerating the decentralization of infrastructure management, fostering growing security concerns as more enterprises shift operations to the cloud, according ...Full Article
Container Toolbox Grows With Azure Support
Microsoft moved this week to expand its Azure cloud container service with the release of extended native support for the Kubernetes cloud orchestrator along with upgraded support for Mesosphere ...Full Article
Microsoft Releases Cloud Hardware Specs
Microsoft Corp. launched an open source initiative aimed at forging future hyperscale cloud hardware designs and a development template for open datacenter servers. However, its power specifications differ from ...Full Article
Container Manager Targets Multi-Cloud, Legacy Apps
As application containers move steadily to production, vendors are stressing the ability to securely transfer workloads across multiple clouds while at the same time managing both cloud-native and legacy ...Full Article
OpenStack Strives For Interoperability
Based on the assumption that cloud adopters will use multiple platforms from multiple vendors, a growing number of OpenStack vendors have been targeting interoperability across different clouds to boost ...Full Article
Cloud Analytics Startup Raises $52M
As more companies are moving applications and other workloads to the cloud, the market for cloud-based data analytics appears to be gaining momentum as cloud infrastructure vendors invest in ...Full Article
OpenStack Making Pricing Gains, Index Finds
The OpenStack cloud platform has had plenty of teething problems, none the least of which are its complexity in deployments and a steep learning curve before users reap a ...Full Article
Docker, CoreOS Announce Container Deals
Docker Inc. has tapped into the emerging high-volume Chinese cloud market in a deal to provide a range of application container services to the cloud-computing arm of Chinese e-commerce ...Full Article
AWS, VMware Scale the Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud market just got far more competitive with an alliance between the leading public cloud vendor and an entrenched datacenter supplier. Along with preserving existing datacenter investments, ...Full Article