New open source cloud discovery tool arrives from Twistlock
Thursday, November 15, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Twistlock has released a new open source Cloud Discovery tool. Cloud Discovery gives enterprise infrastructure, operations, and security teams the ability to easily understand and quantify the size of their environment, and get a birds' eye view of what cloud native services are running and where. The first release supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Micro...
GitHub Actions and other announcements from GitHub Universe
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
GitHub, the soon to be acquired by Microsoft company, has always been known for its source code repository capabilities for developers. But why just store the code on a platform when you can run it too?
At its annual developer conference, GitHub Universe, they announced Actions, which is essentially a way to help automate your development workflows. Actions use...
Legacy system gridlock overcome in OutSystems 11
Friday, September 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
OutSystems announced the release of OutSystems 11, a low-code solution to address one of the biggest issues facing IT teams - legacy system gridlock. Building on its low-code platform for web and mobile apps, OutSystems 11 delivers new advanced capabilities to help organizations modernize legacy systems and replace large application portfolios.
“The legac...
Netsil emerges from stealth with new AOC
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Netsil has launched from stealth by unveiling the Netsil Application Operations Center (AOC), a universal observability and monitoring platform for modern cloud applications. With the AOC, Netsil enables DevOps teams to gain complete visibility into all the services and their dependencies, with absolutely no code changes required. As a result, DevOps teams are able to r...
DH2i launches DxEnterprise v17 for databases and Docker containers
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
DH2i has announced the release of DxEnterprise v17, a unified Windows and Linux Smart Availability solution for databases and stateful Docker containers. The latest generation of DH2i's software that enables workload and data portability and high availability, DxEnterprise v17, features built-in DR-readiness while ensuring near-zero planned and unplanned downtime-all wh...
Open Source Summit North America announces additional keynote speakers
Friday, July 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation has announced additional keynote speakers for Open Source Summit North America, taking place September 11-14 in Los Angeles, CA.The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit is the premier open source technical conference in North America, gathering 2,000 developers, operators and community leadership professionals to collaborate, share information and l...
NeuVector has a new approach to securing Docker containers
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
NeuVector has announced the launch and availability of a new approach to securing Docker containers. With constant behavioral learning automatically applied to security policies for containers, the platform secures containers where they have been most vulnerable: in production environments where they are constantly being deployed, updated, moved, and scaled across hosts...
BlueData EPIC Software Platform on AWS for Enterprise Is Here
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released the enterprise edition of its BlueData EPIC software platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public clouds in the coming months including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.BlueData facilitates the deployment of Big Data infrastructure and applications, leveraging embedded Docker container technology. The BlueData EPIC software platf...
Scality Releases S3 Server Open Source Version of Its S3 API
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Scality has announced the GA release of its S3 Server software, an open source version of its S3 API which provides object storage for AWS S3-based applications. Packaged as a Docker container to be deployed on a single server, the Scality S3 Server will enable developers to code to the S3 API locally and to extend the API should they need it. Applications develope...
The Challenges of Legacy Storage Containers
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Gou Rao, Co-Founder and CTO of Portworx, to discuss issues associated with legacy storage containers and the solution of container-defined storage. ADM: What challenges does legacy storage pose for containers?Rao: Most scale-out clouds have an intelligent storage fabric on commodity storage, which causes issues with scaling, cost and comple...
BlueData Facilitates RealTime Data Pipelines with Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
BlueData has launched a new Real-time Pipeline Accelerator solution for building real-time data pipelines with Spark Streaming, Kafka and Cassandra. The new platform provides the ability to develop and test applications for analyzing “Fast Data,” facilitating real-time or near real-time data that requires instant awareness, faster decision-making, and immediate action.B...
Kubernetes Based Google Container Engine is Production Ready for Docker
Thursday, September 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Google Cloud Platform has announced its Container Engine is now production ready, providing the ability to set up a container cluster and manage applications. The Container Engine is a cluster manager and orchestration system for running Docker containers. It schedules containers into the cluster and manages them automatically based on defined requirements (suc...
Hedvig's New Solution for Storage Provisioning and Data Persistence for Docker
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Hedvig has joined the ClusterHQ storage partner ecosystem to offer an integrated solution for storage provisioning and data persistence for Docker volumes. Hedvig and ClusterHQ collaborated on the development of the Hedvig storage driver for Flocker, a software plugin that integrates Hedvig’s software-defined storage solution and ClusterHQ’s Flocker container data manag...
Microsoft Shows Docker Some Love with New Windows Server Containers
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released the first preview of Windows Server Containers as part of its Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 release. The release includes support for the Windows platform in the Docker Engine and a preview of the Docker Engine for Windows. Visual Studio Tools for Docker has been updated to support Windows Server Containers, providing the ability to...
CloudBees Releases Kubernetes Plugins for Containerized Applications
Monday, August 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
CloudBees, in collaboration with the Jenkins open source community, has released three Kubernetes plugins to assist in the continuous delivery of containerized applications with Jenkins. Kubernetes, launched by Google, is used for managing containerized applications – such as those handled with Docker – in a clustered environment. It provides a way for teams to wor...
Docker Releases New Docker Trusted Registry
Monday, June 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker has announced the general availability of new commercial solutions for Dockerized distributed applications offering new support services, certified Docker Engines and management tools. The new offering is available for on-premises or cloud-based configurations and is available directly from Docker as well as through Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Microsoft, with s...
Docker Plugins Released for Jenkins CI Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Jenkins open source community, in collaboration with CloudBees have announced the availability of six Docker-related plugins to enable continuous delivery of containerized applications with Jenkins. Jenkins CI is an open source project developed for and by the Jenkins CI community and is the leading open source platform for continuous delivery. Built with Java,...
CenturyLink Contributes Panamax to Open Source Docker Platform
Thursday, August 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
CenturyLink has announced the contribution of Panamax, a Docker management platform, to the open-source community. Panamax gives developers a single management platform to create, share and deploy any Docker-containerized application.Docker, the Linux container manager that Panamax is based on, is an open-source project used by the developer and devops communities. Beca...
