Confidential computing will emerge as a leading force says Talentica
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 by Richard Harris
In 2024, the rise of the zero-trust paradigm will drive a significant shift in security models, with confidential computing emerging as a leading force in implementing this transformative approach.
Confidential computing will emerge as a leading force
In the coming year, we can expect an increase in the integration of hardware-based confidential computing as cloud...
IBM first to certify Java EE 8 compatibility
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
With an estimated 15.6 million developers worldwide creating billions of apps for consumers and business, Java remains one of the most critical and vital programming languages in the world. Over its two decade plus lifetime, Java has grown to encompass all industry segments and given rise to a rich ecosystem of tools and frameworks.
Plus, Java remains a top programmi...
Solving persistent storage problems for cloud native
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Virtuozzo has announced the availability of Virtuozzo Storage for Kubernetes. The new solution solves persistent storage selection problems for cloud native environments and applications for Kubernetes (K8s) production deployments. A purely software-defined storage solution that runs on commodity hardware, Virtuozzo Storage for Kubernetes provides container-friendly sto...
IoT Mobybased container engine from resin.io launches
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Resin.io is releasing balena, a Moby-based container engine designed for IoT and embedded use cases. The new balena container engine is 3.5x more compact than Docker Community Edition and is 10-70 times more bandwidth efficient in container updates. It leaves out datacenter-oriented features of Docker and adds functionality for running Docker containers on resource-cons...
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...
Cloud native app firewall Twistlock 2.1 launches
Monday, July 17, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Twistlock, a provider of cloud container security solutions, has announced the availability of Twistlock 2.1. The latest release of their flagship product includes a first of its kind cloud native app firewall, vulnerability risk ranking that uses knowledge of an enterprise’s unique environment to prioritize what to fix first, a brand new dashboard and integrated secret...
Introduction to Kubernetes from The Linux Foundation released
Monday, July 10, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, has announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is now available. The free course, LFS158x - Introduction to Kubernetes, is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning platform founded in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of T...
NodeSource N|Solid for Alpine Linux
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
NodeSource, the Node.js company, has announced the release of NodeSource N|Solid for Alpine Linux, the newest addition to its enterprise-grade Node.js platform that enables a secure, reliable and extensible platform for Node.js applications. The latest release makes it easier for teams using Docker containers with the popular Alpine Linux distribution to leverage the en...
CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise announced
Monday, February 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
CloudBees, Inc. announced the availability of CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise to help enterprises accelerate software delivery and meet the rapidly growing volume of software development. Every company in every industry is dependent on software to support strategic initiatives and competitive differentiation. To support this business imperative, IT departments are ado...
Anchore Navigator adds more registries to find containers in
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
With nearly 500,000 images on DockerHub and thousands more hosted by cloud providers such as Amazon and Google, finding the right container image and keeping track of updates is becoming increasingly complicated. And that's not even mentioning the growing number of private registries hosted by independent software vendors.That's why Anchore, Inc. thinks that their free ...
Flying cars are going to be a reality
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
A pair of recent announcements from Shanghai-based Ehang and the Israeli firm Urban Aeronautics have advanced the concept of the flying car - long a staple of science fiction - from the imaginary distant future to a looming reality. In January, a year after debuting its drone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Ehang released video footage showing its Ehang 1...
Getting beer faster in the Caribbean with F5m tablets
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Xplore Technologies Corp., a tablet computer manufacturer, has announced that one of the largest beer distributors in the Caribbean has begun using their Motion F5m tablets to track and schedule beer shipments among its 600 delivery trucks in the Dominican Republic. The company is also using F5m tablets to run an inventory control management application on its bottling...
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...
Just What is Edge Analytics and Fog Computing
Friday, August 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
Foghorn Systems may be first to exploit the technology architecture called fog computing to solve the stickiest problems holding back adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications.With its initial funding round, FogHorn has plans to rapidly expand market adoption of its software platform that enables companies to perform critical analytics on streaming d...
Crunchy Data Releases Set of Docker Containers and Kubernetes Services for PostgreSQL
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Crunchy Data has announced that it is open sourcing its Crunchy PostgreSQL Container Suite, a pre-packaged set of Docker containers and Kubernetes services for running and managing the PostgreSQL open source database in cloud native Kubernetes environments with a full set of management micro-services. PostgreSQL offers an open source, object-relational da...
Michele Casey of Oracle Chats About Oracle Linux
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Michele Casey, Oracle Linux Senior director of Product Management, reached out to provide insight into Oracle Linux and the platform’s place in the evolution of containers for next-generation application development.ADM: To set the stage, what are some notable container use cases where people are pursuing Oracle Linux as a solution?Casey: Oracle Linux supports abroad po...
Mesosphere's DC-OS Now Integrates CloudBees Jenkins Continuous Delivery
Thursday, June 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
CloudBees is now working with Mesosphere to support continuous delivery by running Jenkins on Mesosphere's Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS), offering an open platform for building, running and scaling modern enterprise applications. The new offering will provide the support for companies looking to scale workloads using containerized infrastructure.Running on Mesosph...
BlueData Updates Platform to Deploy Big Data Infrastructure and Applications
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released updates to its BlueData EPIC software platform provides enterprise-class security and quality of service (QoS) for multi-tenant Big Data deployments. With the release BlueData continues to add support for new applications and frameworks to provide a Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) environment on-premises.BlueData’s EPIC platform provides the ability ...
Real World Insight Into Docker's New Datacenter Platform
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
We visited with Sven Dummer, senior director of product marketing at Loggly, to discuss Docker’s recent announcement of the Docker Datacenter (DDC), an integrated, end-to-end platform for agile application development and management that companies can use to deploy an on-premises (on in a virtual private cloud) Containers-as-a Service (CaaS) solution (CaaS is ...
Shippable Announces New Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Shippable has announced a new continuous delivery which offers end-to-end deployment pipelines that help eliminate the need to create custom automation and integrations. It also gives developers flexibility and choice of development tools and deployment options, and provides an application delivery path with support for n-tier applications as well as cloud-native techno...
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...
Software AG Apama Streaming Analytics Platform Offers New IoT Functionality
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Software AG has announced the availability of Release 9.9 of its Apama Streaming Analytics platform built for streaming analytics and conducting intelligent, automated action for the IoT and Big Data. It combines event processing, messaging, in-memory data management and visualization to manage large, fast-moving data streams.The new enhancements in the release will hel...
Oracle Offers New Cloud Products for JavaScript and Java Developers
Sunday, November 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released new cloud offerings that extend its product line with new services, toolkits and updated frameworks for JavaScript and Java developers. The new offerings are designed to facilitate application development, delivery and deployment for polyglot software development ecosystems.Oracle’s new cloud products offer a set of services, toolkits and development...
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...
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...
New Mesophere SDK Gives Data Center Developers a Shiny New Tool
Thursday, July 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Mesosphere, who in 2013 introduced its Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) for managing cloud and datacenter resources at scale, has created a new developer program which includes a software development kit (SDK) and certification program for developers building distributed services for its platform. Mesosphere’s platform supports a class of applications which are b...
VMware Releases Two Previews of Products for Docker Containerized Applications
Monday, July 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
To help companies build, deploy and run cloud-native applications, VMware has released technology previews of two new Docker tools - AppCatalyst and Project Bonneville,AppCatalyst is a technology preview of an API and Command Line Interface (CLI)-driven hypervisor that offers developers a way to replicate a private cloud locally on their desktop for building and t...
Mars Release Latest in Eclipse Annual Release Train
Monday, June 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Eclipse Foundation has announced the availability of the Mars release, the next iteration of its annual Eclipse open source release train. This is the tenth year the Eclipse community has shipped a coordinated release of multiple Eclipse projects. The Mars release represents the work of 79 different open source projects, 65 million lines of code and involved 380 Ecl...
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,...
IBM Adds Services to Bluemix Cloud Development Platform
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has introduced several new services designed to help developers create analytics-driven cloud applications on the Bluemix cloud development platform.The services are designed to make it easier for developers to create cloud applications for mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), supply chain analytics and intelligent infrastructure solutions. This most recent releas...
IBM Releases New Bluemix Services Including First Commercial Watson Service
Friday, February 27, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has released new Bluemix services that enable developers to connect apps, data and services across an open and flexible environment of traditional systems, cloud platforms and any device, weaving data and services with APIs to compose new apps and services. These new services include:- Secure Passport Gateway: Allows self-service to developers to securely connect da...
