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Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Ellison Steps Down As Oracle CEO

Larry Ellison, the brash Silicon Valley entrepreneur and college drop out who built Oracle into a software and enterprise computing powerhouse, will step down as the company's CEO and ...Full Article

WaveMaker Leverages Docker for App Delivery

Application development and delivery software unveiled by apps specialist WaveMaker leverages Docker container technology to help improve management of application infrastructures, or what the company calls "application platforms-as-a-service." The ...Full Article

Facebook Opens Up Tools To Scale Memcached

When a back-end database can't serve up bits of data fast enough to deal with the hit load on the web servers that sit in front of it, the ...Full Article

Docker Containers Get a Delivery Upgrade

An ecosystem is beginning to emerge around Docker containers, this time focusing on speeding software development and code delivery. The latest example is an updated version of a delivery ...Full Article

Red Hat Upgrades Satellite Management, Hints at Container Tools

Red Hat continues to expand its cloud management toolkit with the release of its Satellite 6 suite as the open-source specialist sharpens its focus on areas like subscription management ...Full Article

How Shutterstock Keeps Its Hyperscale Infrastructure In Check

Since it was founded 11 years ago, Shutterstock has grown to become one of the largest image sharing marketplaces on the Internet. Managing that growth has not always been ...Full Article

Red Hat, Cisco Prepare Containers For Prime Time

Cisco Systems and Red Hat are joining forces to ready Linux application containers along with Docker for prime time. In a relatively detailed blog post co-authored by Cisco and ...Full Article

Univa Grid Engine Does Windows, Linux Containers

Grid Engine, the popular workload management tool for distributed computing environments, now does Windows. And it is also doing Linux control groups, or cgroups, containers, a technology that was ...Full Article

VMware Embraces OpenStack Clouds, Docker Containers

Even if you can beat them, sometimes you join them anyway because that is easier and more expedient. And so at the VMworld event in San Francisco today, VMware ...Full Article