SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 focuses on bridging infrastructures
SUSE today announced the release of its latest operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise 15. The company says version 15 is designed to help companies going through a digital transformation, and focuses on bridging multimodal IT infrastructures. “As organizations around the world transform their enterprise systems to embrace modern and agile technologies, multiple infrastructures for different … continue reading
Deep learning, containerized apps introduced in Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0
Big data company Hortonworks announced the release of Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0 today during the DataWorks Summit in San Jose. The latest release introduces the containerization of application deployments and productivity enhancements along with other updates to the cloud-based data management and computing platform. HDP 3.0 is based on version 3.1 of the open-source Apache … continue reading
Instaclustr launches Apache Kafka managed service
Open Source-as-a-Service platform provider Instaclustr announced the launch of its Apache Kafka managed service today, providing Kafka’s high-volume data management and streaming alongside its other managed service offerings, which include Apache Cassandra, Spark, Lucene, the Elasticsearch and Apache co-production Elassandra amongst others. The SOC2-certified service provides high throughput and availability via distributed server cluster; integrations … continue reading
How to extend application performance monitoring to your infrastructure
While application performance monitoring offerings can provide valuable insight into the user experiences of your application, there’s a key factor of performance monitoring and maintenance that APM provider AppDynamics’ senior director of tech evangelism Matt Chotin says businesses don’t put the proper resources behind — measuring how the application’s underlying infrastructure is impacting its performance. “The … continue reading
SQream and X-IO collaborate on analytics for massive datasets
GPU database developer SQream announced their first “technological collaboration” with enterprise data storage and advanced computing company X-IO Technologies today — the integration of SQream’s GPU-based edge computing and X-IO’s compact 2U form-factor-based Axellio database and storage technology for rapid data analytics for massive datasets. According to the announcement, benchmarks for the collaborative solution showed … continue reading
Condusiv Technologies enhances its I/O reduction software
Condusiv Technologies announced new editions for three of its I/O reduction software products today, featuring “no reboot” capability and enhanced performance reporting. V-locity 7.0 for virtual servers aims to handle application performance challenges on I/O-intensive systems like MS-SQL. Diskeeper 18 Server and Professional works to reduce I/O on HDD-based servers and PCs, and SSDkeeper 2.0 … continue reading
Expanded Prometheus support coming to Sysdig Monitor
Container monitoring solution provider Sysdig announced expanded support for the open-source Prometheus monitoring system in their flagship Sysdig Monitor software. Announced late last month, Sysdig will be introducing support subscriptions for users’ self-hosted Prometheus environments, giving users direct assistance with managing the performance measuring and monitoring platform. “Overall, our philosophy is to be open by … continue reading
OpenBMC and Linux Foundation join forces to codify open-source BMC firmware stack
IBM will be providing its OpenBMC code base to the Linux Foundation in support of the latter’s efforts to define a BMC stack that will work across varied systems including enterprise, HPC, telco and cloud-scale data centers. The OpenBMC Project’s community has already made substantial contributions towards open-source baseboard management controller firmware, but with the … continue reading
Instana releases Grafana Premium Datasource Plugin for analytics and monitoring
Application performance monitoring solution provider Instana announced the release of a Grafana premium datasource plugin for their platform today. The Grafana Premium Datasource Plugin for Instana is designed to bring the open-source dashboarding and reporting software to Instana’s containerized microservice-focused APM. The base Instana software automates the management of business-critical applications in containerized environments, automatically … continue reading
NAKIVO expands disaster recovery functionality Backup and Replication v7.4
Virtualization and cloud backup company NAKIVO has announced version 7.4 of NAKIVO Backup and Replication with a long list of features and improvements. According to the company, the biggest feature of the release is the automated VM disaster recovery for VMware, Hyper-V and Amazon Web Services. “The new version [of Backup and Replication] provides … continue reading
Data security still main reason for staying out of cloud, study finds
According to LogicMonitor’s “The Future of the Cloud – Cloud Influencers Survey,” by 2020, the share of workloads running in the public cloud could increase by 10 percent, from 31 to 41 percent. Despite this growth, some holdouts remain that prefer their self-managed on-site databases, citing concerns over the security of off-site managed database solutions, … continue reading
Google’s TPUs and GPUs now available in beta
Google announced that Cloud TPUs and GPU support for Google Kubernetes Engine are now in beta as part of a series of updates for the Google Cloud Platform. The Google-designed Cloud TPUs, built on four custom ASICs and with “up to 180 teraflops of floating-point performance and 64 GB of high-bandwidth memory onto a single … continue reading
