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New Kubernetes release extends its reach versus Docker
Docker might be the most popular software container technology around, but the Kubernetes project is making just as many waves thanks to its ability to group containers that make up applications into logical units for easier management and discovery. Developers of the container orchestration software announced the release on Thursday of Kubernetes 1.7, a new ...
Report: Alibaba in talks to acquire ZTEsoft to boost its cloud computing business
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is all set to acquire ZTE Corp.’s software business in an effort to boost its cloud computing arm, Alibaba Cloud. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the two companies have been involved in talks for “months,” and said a deal is close to being done. Alibaba will ...
Red Hat updates its Cloud Suite for cloud-native app deployment
Linux platform provider Red Hat Inc. is updating its Red Hat Cloud Suite offering with new capabilities designed to simplify the deployment of cloud-native applications in data centers. Cloud computing is all the rage these days, but not every company trusts public cloud providers enough to host the most critical applications and data. At the ...
Datameer enables deep learning on its business intelligence platform
Big data analytics player Datameer Inc. Wednesday unveiled a new SmartAI platform that uses Google Inc.’s TensorFlow machine learning framework to bring deep learning models to the enterprise. Deep learning is a kind of unsupervised machine learning that has emerged as one of the most useful ways to obtain information from massive sets of unstructured data. ...
Rackspace teams up with Splunk on machine learning
Managed cloud services company Rackspace Inc. has revealed how it’s using Splunk Inc.’s data analytics software to ensure its well-oiled business processes function smoothly. Rackspace, in fact, said it’s also planning to adopt Splunk’s machine learning tools in the near future. Rackspace described on Wednesday how its been using Splunk’s Enterprise and Enterprise Security tools to ...
Nearly every company in survey says the cloud needs a ‘makeover’
A large majority of enterprises said they’re not getting enough benefits from their move to the cloud, according to a new survey from cloud infrastructure management company Fugue Inc. The organizations pointed to a range of factors, including compliance and security concerns and unexpected downstream costs, adding up to their contention that the cloud is ...
Hybrid cloud company Platform9 raises $22M in late-stage round
Private cloud services company Platform9 Systems Inc. has just scored a $22 million Series C funding round as it looks to build on its recent achievements in managed services for software containers. Platform9 is an interesting company that focuses on helping organizations build so-called private clouds, which attempt to replicate the benefits of public clouds in ...
Cisco unveils two new platforms for Internet of Things operations
Cisco Systems Inc. is turning its attention to the Internet of Things with the launch Tuesday of two new platforms for connected devices. The first of these involves Cisco Jasper, which has rolled out a major update to its automated connectivity management platform. Control Center 7.0 is the first release since Cisco acquired Jasper in ...
Bonsai intros Gears, a new feature that lets users run their own AI models
Artificial intelligence development platform provider Bonsai AI Inc. has unveiled a new feature called Gears that allows data scientists run machine learning models created on alternative platforms. The idea is that Gears can transfer independently developed models onto the Bonsai platform, where they can be monitored more easily. Bonsai’s platform is popular with data scientists ...
AppOrbit touts an easier way to run legacy apps on any infrastructure
Application transformation company appOrbit exited stealth mode this week with a platform based on software containers that can repurpose pretty much any application so it can run in a modern computing environment. The San Jose, California-based startup noted that many organizations are facing a race against time to transform their information technology infrastructure and applications. ...