QMware NVIDIA and Oracle to advance hybrid quantum computing
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 by Richard Harris
QMware announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA and Oracle through which it will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU clusters, as well as the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum open-source hybrid quantum computing platform, to test and develop a new state-of-the-art hybrid quantum computing service for enterprise customers. An initial version ...
JBoss EAP 8 released from Red Hat
Thursday, February 8, 2024 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 8. JBoss EAP 8 delivers security enhancements, improved cloud workflow tools, and compatibility with Jakarta EE 10, contributing to streamlined application modernization for customers and continued support for enterprise J...
Red Hat AI revealed at KubeCon 2023
Friday, November 10, 2023 by Richard Harris
At KubeCon 2023 Red Hat made a number of announcements for its hybrid cloud portfolio, including the general availability of Red Hat Device Edge and Red Hat OpenShift 4.14; new certified plug-ins for the Backstage community; and Red Hat’s vision for AI and automation.
Red Hat Device Edge is now generally available
Red Hat Device Edge aggregates an enterprise...
Kubernetes clusters for AI ML apps
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Quickly launch and easily manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters for AI and machine learning applications at scale with Rafay.
Rafay Systems, the platform provider for Kubernetes Operations, announced the expansion of the industry's only turnkey solution for operating Kubernetes clusters with GPU support at scale by adding powerful new metrics and dashboards...
CI CD solution from CircleCI and ionir
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 by Richard Harris
ionir announced it has become a technology partner with CircleCI to offer customers a streamlined CI/CD solution. This effort aligns with ionir’s initiative to meet market needs and accommodate customers’ DevOps needs with cloud-native CI/CD solutions that are scalable and easy to use.
CircleCI manages, automates, and ensures that the DevOps lif...
HAProxy load balancer 20th anniversary celebration
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 by Christian Hargrave
HAProxy Technologies, the provider of a software load balancer, has announced the 20th anniversary of the HAProxy load balancer, a major milestone for one of the industry's most successful open-source products. This week, the HAProxy community will be celebrating this milestone at the virtual HAProxyConf by presenting individual experiences in deploying the HAP...
Freedom and Growth plans for Kubernetes from Platform9 lands
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Platform9 announced the availability of new Freedom and Growth plans for their Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) Service. Users can sign up online for free with the Freedom plan and instantly deploy Kubernetes clusters of up to 20 nodes (800 vCPU’s). The Growth plan starts under $500/month, including an option for month-to-month payments, and provides 99.9% SLA a...
Service mesh for all
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Kong Inc. announced the release of an open-source project called Kuma. Based on the popular open-source Envoy proxy, Kuma is a universal control plane that addresses limitations of first-generation service mesh technologies by enabling seamless management of any service on the network. Kuma runs on any platform – including Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines,...
Open Source Summit welcomes Platform9 experts
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
Platform9 shares best practices for Kubernetes at scale on Bare Metal, with RDBMS, and with serverless apps at Open Source Summit and other industry events in August.
Cloud-native experts share tips and practical learnings for Kubernetes in the enterprise, Kubernetes on bare metal or with stateful MySQL databases, and optimizing the cost and performance of Serverless...
Platform9 just filled a gap in the Kubernetes community
Monday, April 29, 2019 by Richard Harris
Platform9 announced Klusterkit – a set of three open source Kubernetes tools that enable organizations to easily deploy and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters in air-gapped, on-premises environments.
Each of the three tools comprising Klusterkit fills a gap in the Kubernetes community toolchain, and can be used independently or in tandem:
etcdadm &...
4 predictions for hyperconverged infrastructures in 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
Enterprise Storage in 2019 will no doubt continue to evolve as the demand for storage space continues to grow. Almost everyone agrees that hybrid cloud is going to improve, we will see more automated and intelligent storage, and containerization and server-less solutions will abound.
But as reported by Forbes, we humans produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day...
PCE Supercluster now offered by Illumio
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Illumio, a cybersecurity company delivering micro-segmentation, announced full availability of PCE Supercluster designed for enterprise-scale real-time application dependency mapping and micro-segmentation deployments. PCE Supercluster, which is currently in use by some of the largest organizations in the world, makes Illumio the first company to offer a micro-segmentat...
Kublr updates to 1.11
Monday, December 17, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Kublr’s version 1.11 brings new automation and control improvements for deploying Kubernetes clusters in multiple environments. In the cloud, Kublr provides fine-grained controls that enable deployment of Kubernetes on top of existing infrastructures. Customers in highly regulated industries have asked for the ability to deploy Kubernetes on top of existing virtua...
IoT security standards to come with Sprint Curiosity IoT
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Sprint has unveiled the Curiosity IoT platform, a new standard in how IoT is managed and secured. Enterprises will now be able to manage IoT devices and connectivity over the air across multiple SIM profiles. Intelligence from device data will be generated instantly through the dedicated, distributed and virtualized core, built together with the new operating system. An...
The ITOM Platform is built on a foundation of shared microservices
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Micro Focus has announced the IT Operations Management (ITOM) Platform. The ITOM Platform is built on a foundation of shared microservices - including analytics, orchestration and ChatOps collaboration. The platform’s microservices are re-useable and include RESTful APIs to enable customers and partners to extend their IT management and DevOps processes. Micro Focus als...
Using AppDynamics for Kubernetes and CloudCenter 4.9 together
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Cisco has announced Kubernetes support for AppDynamics and Cisco CloudCenter, enabling enterprises to quickly adopt Kubernetes in production, and create and modernize their applications for the multicloud era. Now, enterprises can easily harness the value of Kubernetes to help deliver better user experiences.Companies are rapidly adopting containers on the promise of in...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: multicloud, and containers and AI, oh my!
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, recently introduced the new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, optimized for security, multi-cloud, containers and AI. Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) runs on public clouds, VMware, OpenStack, and bare metal and delivers the latest upstream version, currently Kubernetes 1.10. After the initial three-step guided deployment, the distribut...
GitLab now offers native integration into Google Kubernetes
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
GitLab in collaboration with Google Cloud is offering native integration into Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The integration enables GitLab developers to take advantage of Auto DevOps, by simplifying the complexity of setting up and deploying to a Kubernetes cluster.As software development teams adopt modern Cloud Native development practices, using microservices and c...
DNS security and why mobile app developers should care
Monday, February 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
DNSSEC is a DNS security extension specification for securing information provided by DNS. DNS has been a part of the global internet since the 1980s, but its authentication mechanisms are fairly weak. As a result, DNS is vulnerable to a form of attack called cache poisoning. Cache poisoning is a man-in-the-middle attack that implants false DNS information to redirect e...
Scaling container platforms on bare metal with HPE Synergy
Monday, January 22, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Portworx and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have announced a solution based reference configuration that allows enterprises of all sizes to deploy, scale, and manage stateful container workloads. This new solution enables IT teams to deploy a scale out container platform on bare metal using a combination of HPE Synergy composable system, Kubernetes and Portworx’s clou...
Red Hat offers tips for enterprises ready for serverless architectures
Thursday, December 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
As serverless architectures continue to emerge in the cloud application space, many have chosen to make the transition in the enterprise realm. And although having the drawback of heavy third-party dependence can be a pain, the benefits of a low-cost and efficient backend can be incredibly important for developers to scale out their platforms.We talked with an expert in...
The cloud is changing under our nose according to Packet
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Zac Smith, CEO of Packet to talk about the challenges with existing cloud and infrastructure solutions for the modern app developer. As new and emerging technologies and consumer experiences including IoT, virtual/augmented reality, mobile gaming, drones, and autonomous cars become more common, developers building apps to power these things wil...
Oracle brings database and tools to Docker store
Friday, April 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Oracle announce that it is collaborating with Docker to release its flagship databases, middleware and developer tools into the Docker Store marketplace via the Docker Certification Program. Together, Oracle and Docker want to enable developers to quickly build cloud-native applications using Docker Enterprise Edition as their container platform. The Docker Certificatio...
HPE containerizes their ITOps management software
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software launched new containerized versions of its HPE IT Operations Management (ITOM) offerings. These suites - Hybrid Cloud Management, Data Center Automation, Operations Bridge, and IT Service Management Automation - help enterprise IT customers manage their private and public cloud infrastructure, and deliver new services at scale in resp...
Capsule8 comes out of stealth to help protect Linux from attacks
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Capsule8 has emerged from stealth mode to unveil its plans for the industry’s first container-aware, real-time threat protection platform designed to protect legacy and next-generation Linux infrastructures from both known and unknown attacks. Founded by experienced hackers John Viega, Dino Dai Zovi and Brandon Edwards, Capsule8 is being built on the real-world experien...
DevOps in the cloud
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Jeff Klaus
There’s no question that DevOps delivers significant benefits to enterprise IT, including improved productivity and efficiency, shorter time-to-market, more reliable releases and higher levels of end-user satisfaction.Meanwhile, enterprises, attracted by the flexibility and the lack of infrastructure overhead that Cloud solutions offer — advantages that are ever more ap...
Demystifying persistent storage: As containers die, data lives on
Monday, November 21, 2016 by Aubrey Muhlach
According to a recent survey from Portworx, IT managers depend on containers to help improve their agility, reduce their costs and improve system performance. Yet their number two concern with container storage - loss of data.Containers were developed to be stateless, ephemeral, lightweight tools, only megabytes in size to enable quick application launch. However, in de...
Boundless: The first complete supported open GIS platform
Friday, November 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Eighty percent of data in the world today includes a location component. However, because of the issues associated with proprietary GIS solutions, many organizations are unable to tap into this data and gain valuable insights. Boundless is the first open source GIS solution of its kind, delivering the ultimate open GIS ecosystem, comprised of a unique combination...
Why Microservices are so important
Monday, November 7, 2016 by Jim Scott
Having been a software engineer for nearly 20 years I have an appreciation for what is important when it comes to creating great software. One of the most important things that is not well understood by non-engineers is that the development process is equal parts artistry and logic. I see software architecture to be much like artistry. This is because there is no single...
Kontena Container Now Available on Packet Bare Metal Servers
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kontena just announced that it is partnering with Packet, creator of an API-driven, bare metal platform. The partnership consists of a ready-made version of the Kontena container and microservices platform that runs on Packet’s bare metal servers. The combined technology provides an extremely fast and developer-friendly environment to run applications in conta...
Manage Your Red Hat Systems With the New Satellite 6.2
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Satellite 6.2, a systems lifecycle management tool across physical, virtual, and private and public cloud environments. Red Hat Satellite 6.2 now enables users to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host as a compute resource, as well as directly deploy containers to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. The ...
CloudFabrix Launches New AppDimensions Application Analytics and Intelligence Platform
Saturday, July 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
CloudFabrix has announced its AppDimensions application analytics and intelligence platform is now generally available. The PaaS solution provides cross-layer and cross-domain application operations analytics irrespective of underlying technology stacks.AppDimensions offers predictive analytics and optimizations by leveraging iterative data explorations and machine lear...
Gridstore and DCHQ Merge to Offer New HyperConverged InfrastructureasaService
Friday, July 29, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Gridstore and DCHQ have merged to launch a new company named HyperGrid. The new company will market a HyperConverged Infrastructure-as-a-Service (HCIaaS), a solution that bridges the needs of traditional and cloud-native developers with IT Operations, delivering an AWS-like environment for DevOps.HyperGrid combines compute, all-flash storage, and networking into a singl...
AdaptiveMobile Adds SS7 Cat 3 Detection Capabilities to Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
AdaptiveMobile has announced advanced SS7 “Cat 3” Signalling Protection detection capabilities to its Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform including Network Memory, Location Plausibility, and Remote Intercept. The Company’s advanced threat detection is based on continuous data and analysis with all rules validated with information from across five continents. Adapt...
Portworx Releases PXEnterprise Platform for ContainerDefined Storage in Production Environments
Friday, June 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Portworx has released the PX-Enterprise platform offering a purpose-built, enterprise-class storage container-defined storage for containers used in production environments. The company says that by using PX-Enterprise, companies can cut the cost of traditional storage arrays and virtual machines by up to 70 percent. Portworx reports early success with application ...
