Private Equity Firms Buys Cloud Vendor Apptio
Hybrid IT specialist Apptio, which went public in 2016, is being taken private by Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that has been snapping up enterprise IT vendors. ...Full Article
Docker Rolls Windows Server Migration Tool
Microsoft announced last summer it is ending support for Windows Server 2008 in January 2019, with support for Windows SQL server expiring six months later. That has prompted the ...Full Article
Rackspace Delivers Multi-Cloud via VMware on AWS
Rackspace is pointing its private cloud services toward multi-cloud deployments with the release of a VMware cloud running on Amazon Web Services. Rackspace said the managed service is intended ...Full Article
AMD Epyc Wins Another Cloud; Debuts on AWS
AMD’s mission to add market share in the super-hot data center server processor market has taken its Epyc chip into the biggest data center of them all, Amazon Web ...Full Article
VMware Buys Kubernetes Startup Heptio
There has been much talk with the rise of application containers about the microservices technology replacing virtual machines. VMware made a move this week that may make that a ...Full Article
Ignore AI Fear Factor at Your Peril: A Futurist’s Call for ‘Digital Ethics’
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a ...Full Article
Kubernetes Packager Secures Cloud-Native Apps
An open source version of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator is intended to package and deploy cloud-native applications to restricted, on-premise infrastructure such as government clouds. Gravitational, which was founded ...Full Article
Qualys Boosts Container Security with SecOps Deal
As native cloud applications expand across companies large and in between, greater attention is being paid to securing the ephemeral application containers increasingly used to deliver distributed apps. Cloud ...Full Article
Check Point, Cloud Security Vendor, Acquires Dome9
Dome9, the public cloud security specialist, has been acquired by another Israel-based cybersecurity vendor, Check Point Software. Check Point, Tel Aviv, said Wednesday (Oct. 24) its acquisition of Dome9 ...Full Article
Driverless Cars Generate Massive Amounts of Data. Are We Ready?
When future drivers tell their kids to “get in the car” they’ll be instructing them to climb into a mobile computer – that’s consuming very large, and growing, quantities ...Full Article
