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Rackspace Delivers Multi-Cloud via VMware on AWS
Rackspace is pointing its private cloud services toward multi-cloud deployments with the release of a VMware cloud running on Amazon Web Services. Rackspace said the managed service is intended ...Full Article
VMware Buys Kubernetes Startup Heptio
There has been much talk with the rise of application containers about the microservices technology replacing virtual machines. VMware made a move this week that may make that a ...Full Article
Xilinx Moves FPGAs Deeper into Datacenters
Three Chinese infrastructure vendors are embracing FPGA technology as a way of accelerating datacenter workloads. FPGA specialist Xilinx Inc. announced during a developer forum in Beijing this week that ...Full Article
IBM Opens Up with Multi-Cloud Manager, AI Tools
With upwards of 85 percent of companies using more than one cloud provider, the shift to multi-cloud deployments driven by emerging open-source platforms has prompted infrastructure vendors to begin ...Full Article
Bloomberg: Supermicro Motherboards Bugged by Operatives in China
Roiling the tech industry and intelligence community, a news story on the Bloomberg BusinessWeek site reports that spies in China hacked Super Micro Computer servers widely distributed throughout the ...Full Article
Kubernetes Update Boosts Security, Cloud Scaling
Security and stability were the watchwords with the most recent release of Kubernetes, the third version of the production container orchestrator so far this year. The accelerating release cycle ...Full Article
AWS, Iridium Partner on Space-Based IoT Network
Iridium, the satellite communication specialist, is nearing full deployment of a new constellation of telecom satellites that would plug gaps in cellular coverage. Iridium and launch partner Space Exploration ...Full Article
VMware Buys Cloud Manager, Partners With AWS
VMware said it will acquire CloudHealth Technologies, a provider of tools for managing cloud costs and resources. Separately, VMware announced during a company event this week in Las Vegas ...Full Article
Cloud Revenue Growth at 50% Clip, Top 4 Providers Extend Dominance
Public cloud market growth is a steamroller on steroids. It’s also an industry that, if not winner-take-all, is increasingly dominated by the top quartet of service providers. Second quarter ...Full Article
AWS Joins Cloud Memory Push
Public cloud vendors are focusing their infrastructure upgrades on the growing number of memory-intensive enterprise workloads. Earlier this week, Google rolled out virtual machines that support persistent memory for ...Full Article
