At Mirantis’ inaugural Launchpad 2020 conference, the company announced the release of Docker Enterprise Container Cloud. Mirantis had previously acquired the Docker Enterprise Platform last November. According to the company, this new solution will provide faster ways to ship code in public clouds and on-premises. It helps reduce some of the complexity of Kubernetes by … continue reading
WANdisco has announced the release of its LiveData Migrator, which is a tool for migrating HDFS data to the cloud. According to the company, there aren’t any application, cluster, or node configuration changes that need to be made to move data using this tool. In addition, data is 100% available while it’s being moved, and … continue reading
IoT and 5G are relatively new technologies, but one of the main players in the space isn’t new to the game. Wind River was created nearly four decades ago as a provider of RTOSs for industries like aerospace, defense, automotive, and more. Now, they’re immersed in the 5G, IoT, and edge computing spaces. “The era … continue reading
TriggerMesh has announced that it is now available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, which is a repository of applications offered by Oracle and its partners. According to Oracle, its addition of TriggerMesh will allow it to provide cloud-enabled integration solutions to help customers meet their business needs. “We are very excited to be able to … continue reading
NVIDIA has announced that it is acquiring Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion. Arm is a manufacturer of processors. According to NVIDIA, this acquisition will bring together its AI computing platform with Arm’s ecosystem, creating a computing company for the age of artificial intelligence. It will enable them to accelerate innovation and expand into larger … continue reading
This week’s highlighted open-source project is Dragonfly, which is a P2P image and file distribution system. The goal of this project is to improve the efficiency of file transferring and maximize usage of network bandwidth. According to the project’s documentation, container technologies can make DevOps easier in a number of ways, but one of the … continue reading
StackRox has raised $26.5 million in funding. This round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Highland Capital Partners, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. The company will use the new funds to meet growing demand driven by Kubernetes and DevSecOps, and to deliver on its vision of providing organizations with the tools … continue reading
Google Cloud is expanding its Confidential Computing portfolio with two new additions: Confidential GKE Node and new capabilities for Confidential VMs. Confidential GKE allows customers to configure GKE clusters to deploy node pools with Confidential VM capabilities. This feature will be available in beta as of the GKE 1.18 release. Confidential VMs use memory encryption … continue reading
Cloud governance company cloudtamer.io has announced it is partnering with IT training platform Cybrary. Together, the two companies are launching a Cloud Governance Principles training course. The new course is designed for security leaders, financial leaders, and IT and cloud practitioners, cloudtamer.io explained. The new course will cover topics such as cloud governance definitions, the … continue reading
Remote connectivity solution TeamViewer has announced it is expanding its IoT offering with AI-enabled predictive maintenance. Previously, TeamViewer users working with IoT could do tasks like reading sensors, setting alarms, and connecting to a range of devices. With the added AI capabilities, they will now be able to perform predictive maintenance. According to TeamViewer, in … continue reading
AWS has launched a new open-source operating system called AWS Bottlerocket that is designed specifically for running containers. The OS is based on Linux. AWS Bottlerocket includes just the software needed for running containers, as well as a transactional update mechanism. According to AWS, this allows users to use container orchestration to run OS updates … continue reading
GigaSpaces has announced the release of GigaSpaces v15.5. This version has three main focus areas: realizing the value of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, perfecting microservices, and simplifying management and operations. New features include self-balancing capabilities, one-click microservices deployment, schema evolution, object analysis, Index Usage, and one-click connectors to Oracle and Postgres on premise and to … continue reading