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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 ...
Thales unveils container encryption tools to boost security, reduce downtime
To date, most container security efforts have focused on the isolation of individual containers from one another and through other access control approaches. Now, one data security firm is proposing an entirely new approach. Thales e-Security Inc. recently added an encryption scheme to its Vormetric Data Security Platform that extends data-at-rest security to Docker’s encryption and its access controls. Thales’ ...
Report: 20 percent of government agencies don’t encrypt cloud data
Almost 20 percent of government agencies using the public cloud do not encrypt their data, despite claiming that security is one of their biggest priorities, according to new survey by workload security firm HyTrust Inc. The survey, which looked at how government agencies and the military use and implement public clouds, comes at a time ...
Google reduces size of Android app updates by 65 percent
Google Inc. announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out a new method for application updates via its Play Store that slashes data usage. But there is a downside. The new method, called file-by-file patching, shrinks the size of app updates by 65 percent on average. However, it makes them about twice as slow to download. ...