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AWS Embraces FPGAs, ‘Elastic’ GPUs
A new instance type rolled out this week by Amazon Web Services is based on customizable field programmable gate arrays that promise to strike a balance between performance and ...Full Article
Exabytes Hit the Road with AWS Snowmobile
Big data, meet your big rig. Amazon Web Services took containerization technology to new levels yesterday when it unveiled plans to use 45-foot trailers equipped with scads of disk ...Full Article
Amazon Adds AI, SQL to Analytics Arsenal
By any measure, Amazon Web Services is already a monster in the field of analytics via pre-built Hadoop, Redshift, Kinesis, and deep learning services. With today’s unveiling of its ...Full Article
SUSE Acquires HPE’s OpenStack, Cloud Foundry Assets
Hewlett Packard Enterprise continued the selloff of its enterprise software assets this week in an expanded deal with open source specialist SUSE to acquire its OpenStack and Cloud Foundry ...Full Article
American Airlines Tabs IBM for 1st Public Cloud PCI-Compliant System
American Airlines has selected IBM Cloud as its public cloud services provider to develop, among other enterprise systems, what IBM said will be the industry’s first PCI-compliant ecommerce solution ...Full Article
Container Security and the Multi-cloud Control Plane: More than Just the Image
A cynic might conclude that “image” has more than a little to do with the phenomenal interest in containers and microservices right now. But just like the security required ...Full Article
IT ‘Sprawl’ Spawning Security Gaps, Survey Finds
The steady shift toward purchasing IT "as a service" is accelerating the decentralization of infrastructure management, fostering growing security concerns as more enterprises shift operations to the cloud, according ...Full Article
Container Toolbox Grows With Azure Support
Microsoft moved this week to expand its Azure cloud container service with the release of extended native support for the Kubernetes cloud orchestrator along with upgraded support for Mesosphere ...Full Article
Microsoft Releases Cloud Hardware Specs
Microsoft Corp. launched an open source initiative aimed at forging future hyperscale cloud hardware designs and a development template for open datacenter servers. However, its power specifications differ from ...Full Article
Container Manager Targets Multi-Cloud, Legacy Apps
As application containers move steadily to production, vendors are stressing the ability to securely transfer workloads across multiple clouds while at the same time managing both cloud-native and legacy ...Full Article
