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OpenStack Newton Seeks Scale, Easier Deployment

The latest version of the OpenStack cloud platform emphasizes scale and automation tools with a batch of new features that include a container cluster orchestration manager, a new container-networking ...Full Article

SoftBank Invests in Bare Metal Cloud Startup

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. continues to invest in enterprise infrastructure developers, leading an early funding round and forming a partnership with bare metal server automation startup Packet. The partners ...Full Article

Flocker Gets a Flash Storage Manager

With persistent storage emerging as a key issue in application container deployments, a flash storage vendor has partnered with container data management software specialist ClusterHQ to build a storage ...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

The Open Source World of Today: How We Got Here

Is the closed-source system on its last legs? Maybe not just yet, but we’re pretty close to it. Consider the phenomenal growth in the last five years of new ...Full Article

‘Cloud Shift’ Gains Momentum, Spending Surge Seen

So-called "cloud first" strategies are expected to propel IT spending over the next five years as more enterprises transform themselves into digital businesses, a new forecast predicts. In a ...Full Article

A User Guide For Securing Docker Containers

As important and prevalent Docker containers are today, they still pose a unique security risk for users. Containers simplify the distribution of software and allow greater sharing of resources ...Full Article

Container Tool, Key-Value Store, Gets an Upgrade

The latest version of a distributed key-value platform used to store data in containers across a cluster of machines and previously integrated with the Kubernetes cluster manager includes API ...Full Article

Group Forging Cloud-Native Roadmap

The inexorable shift to cloud computing and the embrace of scalable cloud-native applications and services has prompted an industry effort to harmonize IT technologies emerging around the nascent application ...Full Article

Linux Distributions Expand on IBM Servers

Since unveiling its Linux mainframe servers at last summer's LinuxCon conference, IBM has been adding more open-source distributions to its LinuxOne line of z Systems-based mainframes. This week it ...Full Article