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In a confluence of fantasy with technology, premium program provider Home Box Office Inc. described this week how it used the Kubernetes container orchestration management system to solve scaling issues when millions logged on to watch Season 7 and the latest developments in the lands of Westeros …
Microsoft engineer: Emerging Kubernetes tools are reducing the pain points
As widespread as Kubernetes has become in container orchestration for enterprise data management technology, its success is also heavily dependent on the ability to manage complexity and raise the level of innovation to meet networking needs. The community of engineers surrounding Kubernetes …
Analysts: Kubernetes’ value is still a work in progress
As the de facto standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes is expected to benefit from growing adoption by companies, with the application container market rising to a projected $2.7 billion by 2020. The open-source technology created by Google has become enormously popular, yet …
Craftsmanship and security help speed Kubernetes adoption
The world’s finest wines often take years to age. Well-made furniture is usually assembled over many months in the workshop of highly skilled artisans. Yet when it comes to running enterprise software applications, the mode is usually, “Let’s get it out by …
AWS Greengrass and vSphere spread holiday cheer for hybrid-cloud users
Among the many things that information technology customers have on their holiday wishlists this season, one likely top request is hybrid-cloud consistency. They want the same software to manage public cloud and on-premises data centers and remove infrastructure management headaches. Last month, …
AWS DeepLens and SageMaker tackle the ‘hot dog’ problem and a lot more
In an episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” this year, two of the characters build a startup company that offers image recognition technology to distinguish what is truly a hot dog and what is not. Clips of the segment spread like wildfire around …
AWS fine-tunes Marketplace with new offerings aimed at enterprise market
The launch of AWS Marketplace more than five years ago heralded a unique opportunity at the time for customers of the public cloud to find, purchase and deploy software. The online bazaar has grown significantly since 2012, with 4,200 software listings from 1,300 …
To outsmart Moore’s law, these women help build HPE’s top AI tech
For more than four decades, technology has allowed chip makers to place twice as many transistors into the same space every 24 months. This design capability, commonly known as Moore’s law (named after Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore), has enabled the rapid …
How VMware is using AWS to strengthen its cloud offerings
When VMware Cloud on AWS was officially rolled out in August, the initial availability was only in the Western part of the U.S. Last week, the companies added the Eastern region and announced several new enhancements, including features for scale and recovery. …
French startup brings App Store model to the cloud for FPGAs
Nine years ago, Apple Inc. launched the iPhone App Store, despite the misgivings of none other than co-founder Steve Jobs. The tech legend originally wanted new software applications developed inside the web browser over concerns about security and bugs. By the first …