Startup Targets Early Docker Support on Windows Server
More production support for Docker containers emerged this week in the form of a startup founded by former Microsoft engineers that is emerging from stealth mode to support the ...Full Article
OpenStack Developer Gets Another Boost from Intel
OpenStack developer Mirantis is on the receiving end of another big investment round led by Intel Corp., which headed a previous $100 million funding round last October in the ...Full Article
Dell Aims at Mid-Tier Hyperscale Enterprises with New Division
Dell Datacenter Scalable Solutions targets telecommunications service providers, hosting companies, oil and gas, and research organizations that typically have high-volume technology needs plus supply chain requirements in order to ...Full Article
Docker Containers Set to Run on Windows Server 2016
Microsoft rolled out a technical preview of its Windows Server 2016 on Wednesday (Aug. 19) that includes the first peek at Windows Server containers developed in partnership with application ...Full Article
Linus Torvalds on Containers, IoT, Security
There was a Linus Torvalds sighting this week in Seattle. The father of the Linux kernel that underpins the open source movement showed up at the annual Linux conference ...Full Article
Predixion, Wind River Partner for IoT Analytics in Cloud
During the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday, Predixion Software and Wind River unveiled a partnership designed to empower enterprises to leverage the petabytes of data created by the Internet ...Full Article
Linux Effort Targets Secure Code Development
As software bugs, vulnerabilities and other security gaps lead to a seemingly endless string of high-profile breaches, the Linux Foundation is expanding an infrastructure initiative to include a certification ...Full Article
Docker Deployment: A View From the Trenches
Deploying Linux containers in production and at scale remains problematic, particularly given ongoing security concerns. Docker container engineers demonstrated a new security feature dubbed Docker Content Trust during this ...Full Article
IBM Unveils Linux Mainframe
The Linux mainframe servers rolled out this week by IBM will target the inexorable enterprise shift to hybrid clouds and growing performance requirements as a diversity of workloads like ...Full Article
Did Analytics Answer Malaysia Flight MH370 Water-Entry Question?
The tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March 2014 generated few facts and many questions. But a team of computational math, engineering, modeling, and advanced scale computing ...Full Article