containers
Hybrid Cloud Seen Driving Container Adoption
The growing number of hybrid cloud deployments is accelerating demand for enterprise container infrastructure as companies seek a consistent application development environment across on-premise infrastructure to the cloud, a ...Full Article
IBM-Nutanix Deal Moves Power Servers to Datacenters
Targeting AI, machine learning and other big data workloads, IBM and Nutanix will join forces to deliver the enterprise cloud vendor's software via Power servers. The deal is Nutanix's ...Full Article
OpenStack Maturing, User Survey Finds
OpenStack proponents said their latest user survey shows that the open-source cloud-computing platform has emerged as a mature infrastructure technology with broader enterprise adoption and more deployments in production. ...Full Article
Container Projects Expand as Ecosystem Matures
Application container technology continues to mature at an accelerating pace as it expands beyond cloud native deployments to address emerging platforms such as the Internet of Things while building ...Full Article
VMware Buys Cloud Monitoring Startup
One week after selling its cloud operations to a European cloud-hosting provider, VMware Inc. said it is acquiring a cloud application monitoring service provider as IT micro-services move deeper ...Full Article
IBM Launches Container Service Around Watson
A new IBM cloud service targeting the development and deployment of cognitive applications will utilize the Docker container engine running on the Kubernetes container orchestrator. IBM's container service running ...Full Article
CoreOS, Docker Donate Container Engines
Applications container pioneers are donating infrastructure building blocks to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in hopes of encouraging continued collaboration and interoperability in an increasingly competitive sector. CoreOS and ...Full Article
Public Cloud Adoption Up, Private Cloud Flat
The rise of hybrid cloud adoption among enterprises, powered by a substantial shift to multi-cloud infrastructure designed in part to retain flexibility, has resulted in market gains by rivals ...Full Article
Google, Red Hat Partner to Extend Kubernetes
The ecosystem for the Kubernetes application container orchestrator continues to expand with support for Windows server and greater upstream collaboration between Kubernetes developer Google and Red Hat. With the ...Full Article
VMs Still Have Legs, Survey Finds
Faster server provisioning and consolidation along with long-term cost savings remain the key benefits of virtualization, according to a new vendor survey, with virtual machines keeping pace with trendy ...Full Article