Rival Camps Try to ‘Orchestrate’ Container Specs
The basis for an application container scheme continues to evolve as a group seeking to align competing technologies announced acceptance of a container orchestration platform developed by Google. The ...Full Article
CoreOS Bolsters Container Platform With Crypto ‘Trust’
A stumbling block to broader adoption of micro-services in general and application containers in particular has been ensuring the overall security of infrastructure while running business-critical applications housed in ...Full Article
Google Targets AWS With New Cloud Boss Diane Greene
Google is upping the ante in the cloud, moving beyond incremental tactics like price wars with market leader Amazon Web Services, to develop a long-term enterprise strategy under new ...Full Article
Startup Floats First Commercial ‘Data Barge’
Datacenter operators have adopted a range of novel approaches to reducing energy consumption while boosting a key industry metric: power usage effectiveness, or PUE. These approaches range from building ...Full Article
Diversity 2.0: Tech Companies Rewrite Internal Hiring Code
The Grace Hopper Celebration demonstrated many women find exciting careers in computer science. But as all participants agreed, there's still a lot of work ahead to level the field ...Full Article
Mirantis, CoreOS Marry OpenStack With Containers
Capitalizing on momentum generated by the release of a production-ready container cluster manager, OpenStack vendor Mirantis and hyperscale Linux developer CoreOS are combining the former's OpenStack distribution with the ...Full Article
Google ‘Clarifies’ Position on Docker, Promotes Choice
Google moved this week to quell industry concerns that it was throwing its considerable weight behind an alternative application container format by reiterating support for Docker and noting that ...Full Article
Google, Others Back App Container Spec
An application container specification that defines how to build and run pre-packaged apps has gained some big-name backing as an ecosystem emerges to "secure the backend of the Internet," ...Full Article
AWS Rules Cloud Services Roost
Amazon Web Services dominates the cloud infrastructure services market, owning a bigger share than all its largest competitors combined. AWS holds 29 percent of the market, according to a ...Full Article
Google Splits Difference with Nearline Storage
Google Cloud Platform's new archival storage offering called Nearline appears to target the same "cold storage" market eyed when Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a similar service called Glacier ...Full Article
