It’s one thing to build complex software applications for containers’ bundled technology programs. It’s another to get them to talk to each other. The complexities surrounding the Kubernetes container orchestration management system can be a challenge for even the most experienced developer. This is why the service mesh, a layer for managing communication and monitoring traffic across ...

The year-long embrace of the Kubernetes container orchestration management system across the enterprise culminated in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s announcement last month of its Elastic Container Service for the open-source storage platform. The announcement was not a major surprise, given the news in August that AWS would be joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, but it ...

Veeam Software Inc.’s position as a data protection and availability provider for enterprise information technology has provided it with a front-row seat to the cloud revolution. The company experienced 80 percent growth in its cloud business last year, and now Veeam executives are seeing a major movement within the healthcare industry toward cloud adoption. “More ...

It’s one thing to develop a new computer game with really cool graphics and simulated action, but it’s another to apply processing power to save human lives. So when medical research scientists at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases went looking for a computer that could handle an unfathomable amount of data from 36,000 volunteers ...

The Kubernetes bandwagon continues to roll merrily along. Less than three months after the container orchestration management system released version 1.8, the latest version (1.9) is scheduled to drop today. Following closely on the heels of this month’s KubeCon event in Austin, Texas, the container storage orchestration platform’s foundation also gained 31 new members, and a recent ...

If you can’t beat ’em, connect ’em. While brick-and-mortar retailers are by no means headed for imminent extinction, there is also no denying the significant shift in spending toward online sales. A recent survey showed that online shopping grew 14 percent versus a paltry two percent for brick-and-mortar sales in 2016. This is leading the retail ...

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. introduced its multicloud management service called OneSphere last month, the company went to great lengths to describe it as a unified approach for public and on-premises private clouds. This flexibility is central to HPE’s strategy of tailoring its information technology portfolio to meet the varied needs of a diverse customer ...

As a cloud services provider, The Sourcing Company was looking for a hybrid platform that would deliver flexibility, agility and lower costs for its clients, which include a number of law firms. The company became an early customer of Microsoft Azure Stack when it was announced nearly three years ago and has embraced the automation and ...

The process to move massive (petabytes) of data into the cloud became easier when Amazon Web Services Inc. created Snowball, a truck-sized server that’s literally on wheels (Snowmobile). Load the data into Snowball, transport it to an AWS data center, and bring it back up in the cloud. But there is one key problem: The process ...

It’s one thing to have a large customer with 100,000 employees and perhaps 2,000 data centers. It’s another to land an account with more than 2 million employees and 6,100 data centers. Yet, that is the position in which data protection solutions provider Druva Inc. finds itself as the company was granted the authority to operate under ...