Opsmatic Simplifies DevOps with Live-State Monitoring
Using the experiences they gleaned as developers at Flickr, the founders of startup Opsmatic today debuted a real-time data platform and live-state monitoring service built specifically to support the ...Full Article
EMC Boosts Cloud Strategy With Virtustream Deal
EMC Corp. moved to flesh out its managed cloud services business with the acquisition of enterprise cloud software and services provider Virtustream in a deal valued at approximately $1.2 ...Full Article
Summer School: MOOCs for Technologists
Summer means the end of class for many youngsters, but it's an ideal time for HPC and IT professionals to take advantage of free and low-cost online educational programs ...Full Article
Google ‘Clarifies’ Position on Docker, Promotes Choice
Google moved this week to quell industry concerns that it was throwing its considerable weight behind an alternative application container format by reiterating support for Docker and noting that ...Full Article
IBM Leverages OpenStack for Hybrid Workloads
IBM said during this week's OpenStack Summit it would shift those open-source services to its SoftLayer public cloud infrastructure, allowing customers to move OpenStack workloads across hybrid clouds. IBM ...Full Article
The ‘API Economy’ is Upon Us
To hear the experts (or those with a financial stake) tell it, application programming interfaces, ubiquitous APIs, are the glue that will tie it all together when everything but ...Full Article
New Unisys ClearPath System Outperforms Mainframe Offerings
Unisys completed its decade-long transition of two product lines to an all-Intel platform with today's introduction of the ClearPath Dorado 8300 Series, its most powerful system to date and ...Full Article
Intel Looks to Secure Containers
The world's largest chipmaker is entering the application container fray this week with the introduction of Intel Clear Containers, an outgrowth of its lightweight Linux operating system development effort ...Full Article
Social Engineering Targets Weakest Security Link: Employees
Without ongoing employee training, an enterprise's expensive security infrastructure investment means little. But very few corporations protect themselves from the growing threat of social engineering. Today only 7 percent ...Full Article
OpenStack Gets Bare-Metal, Storage Support
The OpenStack Summit in Vancouver kicking off this week will showcase a host a growing list of initiatives aimed at extending cloud services capabilities based on the open-source cloud ...Full Article
