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GitHub Enterprise gets update with projects tool and more
GitHub has just pushed out a new version of its GitHub Enterprise platform, which comes with a bunch of new features that first appeared in GitHub.com earlier this year. The biggest change of version 2.8 is that the enterprise users of GitHub now have access to the GitHub Projects tool, which first came available to regular ...
IBM’s Project Intu brings Watson’s capabilities to any device
IBM Corp. is beefing up its cognitive computing efforts with the launch of a new system-agnostic platform called Project Intu that’s designed to enable what it calls “embodied cognition” in a range of devices. In IBM’s parlance, “cognitive computing” refers to machine learning. The idea behind Project Intu is that developers will be able to ...
Virtuozzo names former IBM exec George Karidis as new CEO
Virtuozzo has announced a new chief executive: 48-year old former SoftLayer and IBM Corp. executive George Karidis, who assumes his first CEO role. Virtuozzo came into being as a standalone company after spinning out of Parallels International GmbH last year. It offers a complete portfolio of open-source and commercial virtualization products, including an optimized KVM hypervisor, software-defined storage ...
Microsoft extends support for Kubernetes, Mesosphere on Azure
Microsoft Corp. has introduced extended native support for Kubernetes on its Azure cloud container service, along with upgrades support for the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System. The Redmond-based company announced the container initiatives at this week’s KubeCon event in Seattle, saying the preview release means that the Azure cloud now supports Kubernetes, Mesosphere DC/OS and Docker ...
Cloud Native Computing Foundation unveils Fluentd data collector
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is tasked with nurturing the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration platform project among others, has been busy. On Tuesday, the group announced a host of new members, a new certification course and a new project at the inaugural Cloud Native Con, which is co-located with the KubeCon event in Seattle. The biggest ...
Containers battle barriers in drive to revolutionize software
One of today’s most disruptive information technology trends is software containers, a technology that’s poised to transform the enterprise IT landscape by revolutionizing the way software is built and run. But just how and when containers go mainstream remains a matter of pitched debate. Containers bundle an entire runtime environment – including an application and ...
CoreOS touts ‘Operators’ for simpler Kubernetes management
CoreOS Inc. is looking to alleviate some of the complexity that comes with using Kubernetes, the open-source application container cluster manager, to manage modern distributed applications. The company has created new open-source software called “Operators” that make cloud-native apps easier to run on Kubernetes. Operators are software that understands specifics of each application and can ...
Cyber-attackers probe public clouds for specific weaknesses
Hackers are getting smarter, picking away at different public cloud’s architecture in an effort to find unique vulnerabilities in infrastructure hosted by companies like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The fruits of such labor are clearly evident in new research from security firm Rapid7 Inc. It shows, for example, that almost a quarter of ...
Report: Next U.S. president will face a ‘major cyber-crisis’ in 2017
Whichever presidential candidate moves into the White House in January can expect to face a “major cyber-crisis” within 100 days as enterprises across the country struggle to “defend against escalating, dynamic security and privacy risk,” warns a new report from Forrester Research Inc. That was one of several cyber-security predictions the research firm has made ...
Microsoft stops selling older Windows versions to computer makers
Microsoft will no longer sell licenses for its Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 operating systems to personal computer manufacturers. Now that this is official, it means it won’t be long until companies like Dell Technologies and Lenovo Group Ltd. stop selling machines that are running the older operating system. It has been known for a ...