ScaleOut Offers Microsoft AppFabric Alternative
IT professionals concerned about the viability or open source nature of the substitutes Microsoft suggested when it stops supporting AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server on April 2, 2016, have ...Full Article
Docker Attracts Big Fish, Eyes Micro-Service Platform
Application container specialist Docker Inc. announced its latest and greatest funding round this week totaling $95 million, attracting such heavyweights as financial services giants Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust. ...Full Article
Visions Differ on Moving Containers to Production
The development of an ecosystem around application containers and related lightweight virtualizations technologies may be gaining traction as promoters of the technology move beyond the hype and focus on ...Full Article
CoreOS Platform Looks to Scale Containers
CoreOS Inc., the hyperscale Linux operating system specialist, has been steadily rolling out application container and distributed system components over the last few months. Now, the San Francisco-based company ...Full Article
Taking the Pain Out of OpenStack Upgrades
The tenth release of OpenStack, "Juno," last October, added a batch of new enterprise features aimed at boosting stability and performance and extending the reach of the open source ...Full Article
Puppet Tool Expands to Manage Docker, AWS
As the line between datacenter management and DevOps continues to blur, more tools like Puppet and Chef are emerging to help automate management of physical and virtual servers, network ...Full Article
Red Hat Reports Double-Digit Growth
The overall health and vibrancy of the enterprise technology sector and the open source community in general appears to be reflected in the financial results of one of its ...Full Article
Service Providers Jump on DevOps Bandwagon
The rush to fill what many see as a DevOps gap continues as the growing need for development skills shifts from the datacenter to the enterprise. A recent study ...Full Article
Linux Skills in High Demand, Survey Finds
Coinciding with a robust U.S. jobs report for February, the Linux Foundation says recruiters remain "in hot pursuit of Linux talent." According to the 2015 Linux Jobs Report released ...Full Article
