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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Aporeto unveils whitelist security model for application containers
A cloud-native security startup today introduced what it says is a dead simple security model for containers, which allow applications to run on any computer. Aporeto on Tuesday unveiled a new open-source project called Trireme that simplifies application segmentation for distributed apps. The project, …