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Kubernetes 1.8 release beefs up container security
The developers of the Kubernetes container orchestration software have just put out another new release. The main focus of the new version, Kubernetes 1.8, is on improving the platform’s security, and it comes with a number of new features designed to bolster this. The release was announced in a blog post by Eric Chiang, a ...
SAP wants to build a blockchain-based ecosystem for the internet of things
Enterprise software giant SAP SE became the latest company to jump on the blockchain bandwagon Wednesday, this time focusing on bringing the technology to the “internet of things.” The company outlined its new blockchain initiative, saying it will partner with a number of information technology firms and consultancies, including NetApp Inc., Cap Gemini S.A., HCL ...
Amazon still leads cloud infrastructure market by a mile, but Alibaba edges past Google
Analyst firm Gartner Inc.’s first-ever report on the state of the infrastructure as a service cloud computing market won’t make Google LLC happy, but it surely will please Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Released today, the report ranks Google Cloud Platform below fast-rising Chinese public cloud giant Alibaba Cloud in market share. Gartner said the IaaS ...
Alation and Paxata partner to help companies navigate data lakes
Big data companies Alation Inc. and Paxata Inc. say they’re teaming up to help enterprises navigate their way through so-called “data lakes” more easily. Data lakes are storage repositories that hold vast amounts of raw data in its native format until it’s needed. Whereas a hierarchical data warehouse stores data in files or folders, a ...
Cisco sharpens its ax for more job cuts at San Jose HQ
Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is set to ax 310 more staffers from its corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. The company revealed its intentions in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filing that it provided to state government officials, The Mercury News reported Wednesday. Cisco has spent a number of years restructuring its businesses in order ...
Google launches Cloud IoT Core device management service in beta
Google LLC announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing its new Cloud IoT Core service into public beta testing following a limited launch last May. Google Cloud IoT Core is described as a fully managed service available on the Google Cloud Platform. It’s designed to securely connect and manage “internet of things” devices at scale. The ...
Google beats Amazon to the post with immediate availability of per-second billing
Barely a week after Amazon Web Services Inc. said it would introduce a per-second billing option for its cloud customers, Google has announced it’s giving its customers the same choice. Google today said the new per-second payment option is available for its Google Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc and App Engine services. But whereas ...
Google snaps up cloud identity and access management startup Bitium
Google LLC Tuesday said it’s acquiring Santa Monica-based cloud services startup Bitium Inc. as it looks for ways to increase its share of the public cloud market. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Bitium’s co-founders said they’ll be joining Google’s cloud team. Founded in 2012, Bitium offers range of identity and access ...
Yahoo open-sources Vespa, its most important software release since Hadoop
Oath, the subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. that was created when the company acquired Yahoo Inc. earlier this year, said today it’s open-sourcing some of its most important internal software for executing web searches and generating recommendations and targeted advertisements. The software is called Vespa, and Oath said it’s used to tackle the tricky problem ...
Cloudera adds new tools for building data-hungry apps
Big data pioneer Cloudera Inc. is trying to ease the burden for companies building complex applications that leverage new technologies such as machine learning. To do so, today it added a new service called the Shared Data Experience to its Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub platform. SDX, as the service is called, is a suite of ...