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VMware cranks up container efforts with open-source Photon Controller
VMware Inc. has followed up on a promise it made earlier this year to open-source its Photon Controller. The Photon Controller is a component of VMware’s much-hyped Photon Platform, a new infrastructure stack built for running “cloud native” (or containerized) applications that the company rolled out at this year’s VMworld event. Other components of the ...
Microsoft to roll out Windows 10 upgrades slower than first thought
Microsoft is likely to shift to a twice-a-year upgrade schedule for Windows 10, as opposed to the original three-times-a-year upgrade cycle it first proposed. Although no one from Microsoft has actually confirmed the new upgrade cycle, Gregg Keizer writes in ComputerWorld that the Redmond company has begun using different terminology in public documentation that talks ...
CoreOS open-sources Clair to clean up container vulnerabilities
Container-loving CoreOS Inc. has just released a new scanning tool that checks for vulnerabilities in containers to the open-source community. The new tool is called “Clair”, and is described as an API-driven analysis engine that inspects containers on a layer-by-layer basis to detect known security floors. “Using Clair, you can easily build services that provide ...
Microsoft ‘kills off’ Project Astoria, its plan to emulate Android apps
Microsoft has apparently decided to kill off a controversial project to create an emulator that would allow Android apps to run on Windows 10 mobile devices. The initiative, called Project Astoria, was first announced by Microsoft in April, along with similar projects to bring iOS and Web-based applications to the Windows platform. However, the somewhat ...
Nautilus sets sail with the world’s first floating data center
We’ve seen a number of novel approaches in the data center industry aimed at reducing energy consumption, from building facilities above the Arctic Circle to using water misters for evaporative cooling. Now, a startup called Nautilus Data Technologies Inc. from Pleasanton, California, has put forward a radical new idea – the floating data center. Last ...
New Relic delivers deeper analytics to keep your apps ticking over
New Relic Inc. is digging deeper into data with the launch of a new analytics component for its application and server monitoring software that promises to deliver new insights for developers. The New Relic Software Analytics Cloud will be embedded into each of the company’s product lines, giving developers the ability to rapidly query data ...
Cisco beats Q1 guidance but warns fortunes may soon decline
Cisco Systems Ltd. thrilled investors with better-than-expected revenues and income in its first quarter earnings, only for that delight to quickly turn to despair as the company issued a somewhat gloomy forecast for the future. First the good news – the company announced a net income of $2.4 billion, which translates to $0.48 cents per ...
Yelp cooks up an open-source PaaSTA dish for developers
Business listings and review site Yelp has made a surprise contribution to the open-source software world by releasing an internal Docker and Apache Mesos-based platform-as-a-service to the Apache Software Foundation. Yelp engineer Kyle Anderson provides a detailed look at the machinations of its custom-made PaaS, which it calls PaaSTA, in this blog post, describing in-depth ...
Microsoft’s targets the Enterprise with first major Windows 10 update
Microsoft rolled out the first major upgrade for Windows 10 yesterday, with a big emphasis on some nifty new enterprise features it’s hoping will tempt more organizations to install the latest edition of its operating system. Along with the more obvious new features like the Cortana upgrades and new, colored tilebars, the new enterprise features ...
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update is killing Outlook
IT admins are being advised to avoid patching their Windows systems due to a dodgy update that’s causing problems with the Outlook email client. The problems were first brought to light by The Register, which says the issue has to do with the Windows KB 3097877 patch that was issued in yesterday’s Patch Tuesday fixes ...