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Google is said to be mulling the idea of commercializing a highly scalable, globally distributed database technology known as “Spanner”, which the company has been using in its own data centers for several years to deliver many of its core services. The …
Intel looking to offload its Intel Security arm
Intel is considering a sale of its Intel Security division, and has already spoken with several bankers in a bid to find a suitable buyer, the Financial Times reports. Intel Security was created after Intel acquired the antivirus software maker McAfee Inc., …
After the hype: Where containers make sense for IT organizations
Container software and its related technologies are on fire, winning the hearts and minds of thousands of developers and catching the attention of hundreds of enterprises, as evidenced by the huge number of attendees at this week’s DockerCon 2016 event. The big …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …