Platform9 now runs Nodes in a cluster on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Platform9 announced an update today to its managed Kubernetes solution. With Arbitrage, users can now define the total number of nodes in a Kubernetes cluster and deploy them as Spot Instances on Amazon EC2. In addition, users can specify the level of fault tolerance and performance to maintain. The technology will continuously evaluate cloud resources … continue reading
Gremlin unveils new features for resilient containerized infrastructure
Failure-as-a-Service platform provider Gremlin wants to make containerized infrastructure more resilient with the addition of new features. The company announced Container Discovery and Multiple Attacks features. Container Discovery enables DevOps teams to automatically identify Docker containers. Multiple Attacks enables users to simulate real-work outages. “The concept of purposefully injecting failure into systems is still new … continue reading
Robin Systems brings Kubernetes to Big Data, database and AI/ML apps
Robin Systems wants to extend Kubernetes to data-heavy apps with the release of its hyper-converged Kubernetes platform ROBIN. The new platform is designed to bring the benefits of Kubernetes to Big Data, databases, and artificial intelligence/machine learning solutions. “Kubernetes is the de-facto standard for container orchestration for microservices and applications. However, enterprise adoption of big … continue reading
DeepMind and Google are using AI to cool data centers
DeepMind and Google are utilizing their AI-powered recommendation system to provide data center cooling. The recommendation system was first developed in 2016 as a way to improve the energy efficiency of Google’s data centers. “Now we’re taking this system to the next level: instead of human-implemented recommendations, our AI system is directly controlling data centre … continue reading
Aqua Security open sources Kubernetes penetration testing solution
Aqua Security is probing for Kubernetes cluster security issues with the release of kube-hunter. The newly announced solution is an open-source tool designed to increase security awareness and provide visibility into security within Kubernetes environments. According to the company, the solution performs automated penetration testing and is intended to test only your own deployments, not … continue reading
How to approach EA implementation for successful IT modernization
Businesses are in the midst of a digital transformation, and that means they need to rethink and replan their processes and tools. Too many enterprises are still being bogged down by legacy architectures. According to André Christ, co-founder and co-CEO of LeanIX, a enterprise architecture tool provider, legacy architectures equate to slow business processes, decisions … continue reading
Evolute launches enterprise cloud migration and container platform
Cloud migration and container company Evolute launched the first version of its enterprise software platform. The launch of its enterprise container and migration technology is designed to help IT teams reliably migrate and run software apps between computing environments faster, and at a fraction of the cost as virtualization solutions, the company explained. According to … continue reading
Report: Enterprises are looking to replace VMs with containers
As enterprises are evaluating the benefits of containers, many of them are looking to reduce their reliance on commercial virtualization technologies. A newly released report found about 44 percent of respondents plan to move from VMs to containers. The report comes from Diamanti’s 2018 Container Adoption Benchmark, which looks at the current state of container … continue reading
Confluent 5.0 focuses on securing and managing infrastructure
Confluent has announced the latest release of its enterprise streaming platform based off of Apache Kafka. The Confluent platform 5.0 focuses on making infrastructure secure, reliable and easier to manage. “At Confluent, our vision is to place a streaming platform at the heart of every modern enterprise, helping infrastructure owners get the most out of … continue reading
OverOps Platform to give more insight into errors
Software analytics company OverOps today introduced the OverOps platform to bring new machine data to DevOps and IT operations teams. The OverOps platform will continue the company’s goal of bringing code-aware insight to detect and troubleshoot issues. “We initially created OverOps to help developers debug code and improve their productivity, but through our customers we … continue reading
Codefresh announces enterprise version of its Kubernetes-native CI/CD platform
Codefresh today announced Codefresh Enterprise, a new solution designed to give enterprises more options to run Codefresh at scale. Codefresh is a continuous delivery platform built for Kubernetes that features self-service test environments, release management and Docker and Helm registry support. “From our many enterprise customers, like Arm, CBS, La Figaro, HP, and more, along … continue reading
IBM introduces open-source project for cloud-native Node.js apps
IBM is looking to simplify the development of cloud-native apps with the newly announced CloudNativeJS.io project. CloudNativeJS.io is an open-source community project designed to provide resources such as best practices, assets and tools for building cloud-native Node.js apps. According to the company, while developers are using the cloud to deploy and run apps, only 38 … continue reading
