Containers, a virtualization method for deploying and running software apps, are proving to be an excellent tool for speeding up development. However, development is only one length in the pipeline to shipping product. Someone has to manage those containerized solutions, and even containers require a certain amount of massaging to fit into a working system. ...

In business, no one wants to bet all their money on one roll of the dice. Nevertheless, that’s what the business world has been traditionally doing — once a product was released, that was it. The only way to find out what customers thought about the product would involve months of market research to answer ...

Adding something new to the information technology stack can be a dangerous thing. It takes resources; it takes skill. Most of all, it takes time. Building data pipelines and related IT infrastructure is one of those time-eating tasks that takes skilled IT administrators and developers away from their real projects. The solution is to use modern technology, ...

It’s good that containers, a virtualization method for deploying and running software apps, allow an application to run on a wide range of systems, because companies don’t all use the same platforms. Instead of developing on one environment and then porting code to another, companies can deploy the same code they write. “One of the ...

While the open-source community is still discovering new opportunities for container technology’s methods for virtualizing software application deployments, its ancestor the Linux kernel OS, first released in 1991, isn’t old news just yet, according to Scott McCarty (pictured), technical product marketing, containers, at Red Hat Inc. “Containers have made the [Linux] kernel hot again in a ...

No one likes waiting those long milliseconds for their data to thaw out of an archival storage system. Then again, no one likes paying high-performance prices for long-term storage either. One solution is a streaming storage system that combines low latency with High Throughput File System storage, according to Tom Kaitchuck (pictured), senior consultant software engineer ...

Setting up a data processing pipeline is a juggling act. What applications work with the backend? Can those applications work together? What about fitting it into existing infrastructure? The best answer to those questions is a system that can reach across many applications and infrastructures, according to Kenneth Knowles (pictured),  software engineer at Google Inc. One ...

Using applications from the cloud is easy. Putting applications on the cloud, not so much. Many business applications require custom setups, and they communicate with other programs that demand their own special resources. Developing ways to more easily move applications to the cloud is a growing business opportunity in the enterprise. However, the best solution ...

All things in the enterprise come down to the data center. Data must be stored, presented, moved and processed. Most importantly, data must live somewhere, and it’s to everyone’s benefit if that somewhere can serve up the data as quickly as possible. The OpenPOWER Foundation is a group built around using open standards to customize ...

The data analytics market is currently in a strange place. While data insights have proven vital to the enterprise, it’s nothing if a company doesn’t act on it, a process typically outside the realm of analytics service providers. Likewise, powerful tools, such as Apache Hadoop, produce insights that boost the value of such products from service providers. So, ...