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Crate.io unveils database for real-time machine data analysis
CrateDB, an open-source distributed SQL database for real-time analysis of machine data that has already been downloaded more than a million times in the past two years has finally announced its finished 1.0 release. In line with the announcement, Crate.io, the company that develops CrateDB, said it’s opening a new headquarters in San Francisco, in ...
Yahoo suffers second major hack, 1 billion+ user accounts stolen
The credentials of more than a billion Yahoo Inc. user accounts may have been stolen in a second major hack on the struggling Internet portal’s systems. The company said Wednesday that the hackers may have even figured out a way to log in to Yahoo accounts without using their victim’s passwords. The hack, which is a ...
Report: Internet of Things needs coordinated U.S. government strategy to thrive
The U.S. government needs to create a national strategy that covers data security and interoperability standards in order to coordinate private sector efforts to deploy the Internet of Things, the Center for Data Innovation said in a report published Monday. The report warns that “each federal agency is marching to the beat of its own ...
Microsoft announces public beta of Docker for Azure
Microsoft Corp. and Docker Inc. have just announced the public beta of Docker software containers for the software giant’s Azure cloud computing service. Previously, Docker for Azure was only available as a private preview, having been announced at DockerCon 2016 in June. Docker is an open-source engine that’s designed to automate application deployment. It uses containers ...
Cisco will discontinue its Intercloud Services public cloud platform next year
Cisco Systems Inc. has revealed that it’s about to kill off its OpenStack-based Intercloud Services public cloud infrastructure. The service will shut down in March 2017, the maker of networking gear and software said in an internal memo , with workloads being moved to other infrastructure such as public cloud. The Register was first to report ...
Stratoscale’s Symphony 3 lets enterprises build an on-premises AWS region
Cloud infrastructure provider Stratoscale Ltd. has revamped its hyper-converged software, with a focus on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud, hybrid clouds and developers. The new release, Stratoscale Symphony 3, adds support for object storage in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service S3 and Kubernetes-as-a-service. It also offers a new Application Catalog with more than 130 applications that ...
Bill Gates and other tech leaders form $1B cleantech fund to fight climate change
Pledging to invest at least $1 billion into cleantech startups over the next 20 years, ex-Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Bill Gates has been joined by Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Richard Branson, Vinod Khosla, John Doerr and more than a dozen other high-profile investors have created a new venture capital firm called Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Breakthrough ...
Kubernetes 1.5 release adds support for Windows Server 2016
The latest release of Kubernetes, version 1.5, will become available on Dec. 15. The update will see the popular container management system land on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server for the first time. The Kubernetes project is part of the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and is supported by multiple vendors that are building and ...
CoreOS adds automated ‘self-driving’ capabilities to Kubernetes container software
CoreOS Inc. pioneered the idea of automatic updates with its software container-focused operating system Container Linux. Now, the company is looking to do the same thing with Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration software, in a new update to CoreOS Tectonic. CoreOS Tectonic is an enterprise-grade version of Kubernetes that’s used for deploying, managing and securing ...
VMware enables integrated software containers in its flagship vSphere 6.5 platform
VMware Inc. has finally introduced its long-awaited vSphere Integrated Containers feature in vSphere 6.5, its flagship server virtualization software. VMware first pitched the idea of integrated containers at VMWorld 2015, arguing that it’s inherently more secure to run Docker containers inside a hypervisor rather than outside of one, all on its own. The company further claims ...
