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AMD, Google Encrypt Data on Confidential VMs
AMD and Google Cloud are collaborating on a “confidential VM” security effort that uses encrypted virtualization to secure data “in use”. The confidential cloud computing effort is based on ...Full Article
Banking Sector Embraces Multi-Cloud
The financial services sector tends to be a bellwether for early adoption of disruptive technologies. For example, financial services giant Goldman Sachs played a key role in forging an application ...Full Article
Pivotal Adds Ubuntu to Cloud Foundry
The steady shift to cloud native infrastructure continues with a partnership between enterprise software vendor Pivotal and Linux specialist Canonical that will provide secure images from Canonical's Linux distribution ...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
Latest Ubuntu Server Packaged With Hyperscale Goodies
It is October, and that is how you know it is time for various Linuxes and the OpenStack cloud controller to get their semi-annual updates of shiny new code. ...Full Article
Tyan Ships First Non-IBM Power8 Server
The opening up of the Power chip architecture by IBM through the OpenPower Foundation has produced its first tangible, practical result, with Taiwanese motherboard and system maker Tyan getting ...Full Article
Firing Up 75K VMs On OpenStack In An Afternoon
Running distributed applications on cloud computing capacity means, in theory, that IT shops never have to do capacity planning again. For large enough aggregations of lines of business inside ...Full Article
OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
There is no question that OpenStack has momentum behind it and that organizations of all types and stripes are thinking about how they might deploy the open source tool ...Full Article
Power, ARM Become X86 Peers In Ubuntu Linux
If number two in any market tries harder, then number three has to really work it to get traction. And that is precisely what Canonical, the corporate entity behind ...Full Article
Ubuntu Server Linux Wrapped in Latest OpenStack
The quickest way to get your hands on a commercially supported variant of the new "Havana" OpenStack cloud orchestrator is to go to Canonical and get its Ubuntu Server ...Full Article