Dev Tool Startup GitLab Gains Traction With Investors
Among the complaints of enterprises considering hybrid cloud deployments are integration issues, application incompatibility along with a lack of development tools and common APIs. Hence, vendors of collaborative software ...Full Article
HPE Spins Software Unit to Focus on Infrastructure
As at least one competitor gets bigger, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) got smaller this week with an $8.8 billion spinoff and merger of its software unit with staid software vendor ...Full Article
U.S. Out of Medal Contention in Coding Olympics
China’s impressive standing up of the 93 petaflops Sunway TaihuLight atop the Top500 list in June ruffled more than a few feathers in the west. Here’s yet more fodder for ...Full Article
OCP Tackles ‘Big Software’ Compatibility Issues
The Open Compute Project spearheaded by Facebook continues to wring out "big software" platforms such as the latest release of OpenStack, container orchestrators like Kubernetes along with block and ...Full Article
Bullish Hadoop Forecast Despite Spark Hype
Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy ...Full Article
Container Vendors Downplay ‘Memory Pressure’ Concerns
Leading purveyors of application container infrastructure are downplaying a recent analysis that identifies a resource management feature in the Linux kernel as a potential "performance killer." LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) ...Full Article
Container Testing Reveals ‘Memory Pressure’ on Apps
With early adopters of application container technology completing early testing in multi-tenant settings, potential performance issues are beginning to surface. Among them, according to hyper-scaler LinkedIn, is a Linux ...Full Article
U.S. Open Source Policy Seeks to Leverage Code Reuse
The Obama administration has released a new federal open-source policy for improving access to software developed by or for federal agencies. The new policy released this week by Tony ...Full Article
Deployment Hurdles Emerge as Containers Go Mainstream
Application container deployment is accelerating as security and persistent storage concerns are addressed and enterprises seek to capitalize on the potential efficiencies, flexibility and long-term savings offered by distributed ...Full Article
