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App Tracing Startup Emerges from Stealth
As enterprise software architectures evolve beyond monolithic applications to delivering micro-services, debugging tools like distributed tracing are emerging to detect cyberattacks against one of the foundations of cloud-native deployments: ...Full Article
Docker’s Sale Elevates Kubernetes as Standard
Docker, the cloud software startup that pioneered hyperscale use of agile application containers, is ending its six-year run as an enterprise vendor, selling off its container platform to cloud ...Full Article
Qualys Boosts Container Security with SecOps Deal
As native cloud applications expand across companies large and in between, greater attention is being paid to securing the ephemeral application containers increasingly used to deliver distributed apps. Cloud ...Full Article
Istio Service Mesh Advances to Production
Istio, the “service mesh” intended to connect application components and thereby boost the capabilities of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator, has advanced over the past year as a way of ...Full Article
GitLab, Google Team to Automate Kubernetes Deployment
GitLab, the open-source DevOps platform, is collaborating with Google Cloud to assist developers struggling to deploy the popular but complex Kubernetes cluster orchestrator. GitLab said this week it will ...Full Article
Cisco, Google Join Forces on Hybrid Cloud
Cisco Systems and Google announced a hybrid cloud partnership this week designed to securely deliver distributed enterprise applications and services across Google Cloud Platform and on-premise infrastructure. The partners ...Full Article
Google, IBM Partner to Tighten Container Security
Among the ways proposed to secure application containers and micro-services as they proliferate in datacenters is more rigorous oversight of the software supply chain. With those security considerations in ...Full Article
Software Emerges as Economic Force
If it is true that "software is eating the world," then cloud software appears to have the most voracious appetite, according to a new industry report that estimates software ...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
‘API Economy’ Gathering Steam
Mashape, the API marketplace delivering management tools for micro-services and an emerging category dubbed "micro-functions" said this week it has closed an $18 million funding round amid heavy enterprise ...Full Article
