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Containers Depart ‘Hype’ Phase in 2016
Application containers made the jump from prototype to production in 2016 as the distributed application technology began to make headway in hyper-scale IT infrastructure. Along with an expanding ecosystem, ...Full Article
Targeting HPC and AI, ARM Acquires Tools Vendor Allinea
Allinea Software, whose cross-platform development and performance analysis tools are used by 80 percent of the world’s top 25 supercomputers, has been acquired by ARM Ltd., which said the ...Full Article
Container Encryption Targets Security, Downtime
Securing the contents of application containers based on Docker and other platforms has relied heavily on isolating individual containers from one another along with other access control approaches. Now, ...Full Article
Flaws Found in Security Software, Unlicensed Code
A flurry of industry surveys have flagged open source and unlicensed software as growing security threats. Moreover, a review released by Flexera Software also found that the very security ...Full Article
Forecast: Hackers Target Software-Based Nets
Among the growing list of security threats expected to expand in the coming year are hackers probing emerging software-defined infrastructure for vulnerabilities. According to a security forecast released this ...Full Article
HPE Announces Flash Price Buster Initiative; Demos “The Machine”
Coming in at less than half the price that it says public clouds charge for flash storage, HPE today announced a new initiative that delivers all-flash HPE 3PAR StoreServ ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Embrace of Linux Draws Ire
The elevation of Microsoft Corp. to the status of "platinum" member of the Linux Foundation has angered open source advocates who worry the software giant will flex its market ...Full Article
‘API Economy’ Gets a ‘Middleman’
The assertion that the "API economy" is upon us gained a measure of credence this week with a high-profile investment in a startup behind an open-source API platform designed ...Full Article
Startup Heptio Takes Kubernetes Mainstream
Heptio is the latest application container startup, but it's pedigree runs deeper than most: The startup's founders are two Google veterans who created the Kubernetes container orchestrator that is ...Full Article
GE Makes Splash With Data Deals
Add machine-learning specialist Wise.io and data ingestion platform vendor Bit Stew Systems to the list of acquisitions by GE Digital, which also this week released an operating system for ...Full Article
