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Public cloud giants get security nod from FedRAMP
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and the lesser known CSRA Inc. have landed a key authorization from the U.S. government that gives federal agencies permission to use their cloud-computing services to store highly sensitive data. The three companies’ clouds (AWS GovCloud, Azure GovCloud and CSRA’s ARC-P IaaS) have all been granted provisional authority that allows ...
Data Center survey shows enterprises waste little time in shifting to the cloud
The cloud is absolutely not a fad. Instead, enterprises are falling over themselves to have public cloud providers reduce the burden of managing their IT, according to the results of a new study by the Uptime Institute this week. Just over 50 percent of IT professionals and data center operators quizzed in the newly published ...
Microsoft cozies up to Docker with enhanced container support
Microsoft made a number of container-related announcements at DockerCon yesterday, saying its expanding support for the technology by integrating it more deeply with a number of its DevOps and enterprise tools. Docker’s ecosystem and containers in general are something that Microsoft has been trying to break into for a while now. The company is planning ...
Docker opens the doors to its new enterprise-focused app store
Perhaps being influenced by the cliché that you’re just not cool if you don’t have your own app store, Docker Inc. yesterday launched the Docker Store in private beta, a new marketplace to showcase only the most trusted and validated Docker software. Docker says the concept is to deliver a self-service portal for ecosystem partners ...
Tokyo drivers brace themselves for deep learning-based, targeted ad bombardment
Object storage provider Cloudian Inc. is teaming up with Japanese digital advertising agency Dentsu Inc. to deliver the world’s first targeted ads to drivers as they drive past billboards in Tokyo. The experimental system has been set up on a major highway in the Japanese capital, using roadside cameras to capture images of vehicles and ...
Platform9 embraces container movement with support for Kubernetes
Private cloud services vendor Platform9 Systems Inc. is getting into the container game, introducing support for Kubernetes on its managed OpenStack offering. Founded by a bunch of ex-VMware Inc. engineers back in 2013, Platform9 is a fairly unique and interesting vendor in that it focuses on customer’s existing infrastructure and transforms infrastructure into an agile, ...
Public cloud strengthens its grip as enterprise adoption accelerates
The software-defined data center is seeing widespread adoption with more workloads, ranging from routine functions to mission-critical tasks, shifting to public clouds, according to a new survey from HyTrust Inc. HyTrust, which is partly funded by the CIA’s venture capital unit and works with government agencies and public firms, said that adoption of software-defined data ...
Ready for takeoff: FAA set to announce commercial drone rules this week
Drones for commercial use are set to get the go ahead at long last this week, as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prepares to introduce new regulations governing their use. Don’t get too excited just yet though, as the new regulations are likely to limit flights to daytime only, and the drones must always ...
Azure Premium Storage gets new backup capabilities
Microsoft’s blockbuster acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. overshadowed a lot of its other moves last week, but that didn’t stop it from pushing out a ton of cloud updates. The biggest move last week was that Azure Backup‘s data protection capabilities are now being offered for Premium Storage virtual machines (VMs). Microsoft’s Azure Premium Storage service ...
Microsoft launches dedicated tool to remove ‘bloatware’ from Windows 10
Anyone who’s bought a new personal computer or laptop recently will likely be familiar with the “bloatware” that OEMs increasingly love pre-installing on their machines along with Windows 10. Unfortunately for us, this bloatware is not only annoying but can also have significant security problems that could degrade the operating system’s performance or leave users ...