Open Cloud Development Gaining Momentum
The open source movement coalescing around cloud computing has shifted in two years from developers trying to figure out core features and functionality to today's cloud projects generating "enterprise-ready" ...Full Article
Weekend Outage Puts Verizon Cloud on Defensive
Verizon continues to take heat this week following what was apparently a planned 40-hour cloud outage last weekend that was attributed to a massive upgrade of its enterprise-class cloud ...Full Article
Vendors Focus on Docker Security
While its unclear so far whether Docker containers will make much of a dent this year in the datacenter, vendors continue to announce support for the open platform designed ...Full Article
Lenovo Aims High For Systems Expansion
Now that Lenovo Group has completed the takeover of the X86 server business from IBM, the company can talk a little more specifically about how it hopes to expand ...Full Article
Facebook Opens Up Osquery Tool
The hyperscale datacenter operators take a lot from the open source software community to run their businesses, but they also give back. Facebook has opened up its server, storage, ...Full Article
Critical Apps In The Cloud And High Availability
Enterprise data centers have been using cloud computing for several years for their low-risk environments, such as test-dev and non-mission-critical applications. In this context, the benefits of cloud computing ...Full Article
Ubuntu Core Targets Container Deployment
Canonical, the company formed to promote commercialization of the Ubuntu OS, is targeting container deployments with a "Snappy" version of its Ubuntu Core, the latest rendition of open source ...Full Article
Federal IT Reform Bill Headed For Passage
Legislation that would speed consolidation the federal government's more than 9,600 datacenters while centralizing the authority of agency chief information officers is expected to be approved by Congress this ...Full Article
Docker Momentum Builds with IBM, VMware Deals
The application container ecosystem continues to expand as heavy hitters like IBM and VMware embrace Docker and other container deployment approaches to delivering distributed apps to the cloud. VMware ...Full Article
Storage Roadmap Sees 100 TB Drives by ’25
A technology roadmap for the storage industry is forecasting a ten-fold increase in hard drive storage capacity over the next decade as new recording technologies come online to boost ...Full Article
