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Companies are adopting cloud architectures at such a rapid rate that cloud traffic will account for 92 percent of the globe’s total data center traffic by 2020, according to a new report from Cisco Systems Inc. The networking giant predicts in its …
Dell EMC tops Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for disk arrays
Gartner Inc. has released its latest Magic Quadrant for general-purpose disk arrays, and it shows that the newly merged Dell EMC is out in front, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. snapping at its heels. That Dell EMC …
Report: Industrial IoT has hit the ‘trough of disillusionment’
Investments in the Industrial Internet of Things are slowing down as the industry enters the so-called “trough of disillusionment,” according to the “IoT State of the Union 2016” study released by Wing Venture Capital Wednesday. Still, proponents of the Industrial Internet shouldn’t …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …