VMware and Carbon Black announce new app security solution
VMware and endpoint security firm Carbon Black announced they are building on their partnership with a new security solution, which combines the former’s AppDefense with the latter’s Cb Defense. The purpose of the solution is to...
IBM premieres Agile Lifecycle Manager version 1.2
IBM recently deployed Agile Lifecycle Manager (ALM) version 1.2, which provides a design, test and automated deployment platform to address technical challenges anchored to network functions virtualization (NFV). According to the company, IBM ALM v1.2 enables automated operating...
ONF launches CORD 4.1
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced that Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) has undergone some significant changes with the release of CORD 4.1 in order to provide a single platform for multi-access edge cloud.
CORD is an architecture of the...
Huawei and China Mobile submit BNG proposal to IETF
Huawei and the China Mobile Research Institute submitted a standards proposal at the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) 100th meeting for the first cloud-based Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) interface protocol requirements. According to the companies, the...
Weaveworks announces free tier Weave Cloud on Google Cloud Platform
Weaveworks announced free tier of Weave Cloud for Google Cloud Platform users. The platform is intended to make it easier to develop, deploy and oversee container-based applications.
Weave Cloud is a software-as-a-service leveraged by app developers....
CoreOS unveils Tectonic 1.8
CoreOS, maker of the Tectonic cloud-management platform built on Kubernetes, announced Tectonic 1.8 will ship with the beta version of Open Cloud Services Catalog. In addition to circumnavigating cloud vendor lock-in, the catalog aims to enable companies to launch key infrastructure...
Software company launches Cloudify 4.2
Austin, Texas -- Software company Cloudify unveiled Cloudify 4.2 at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 this week, which includes -- among other features -- interoperability and cross-cloud functionality through the new Kubernetes provider plugin. According to the company, the latest...
Companies tag team Heptio Ark project
Austin, Texas -- Microsoft and Heptio announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 they are working together to ensure the Heptio Ark project provides a Kubernetes disaster recovery solution for customers wanting to use it on Azure. The companies collaboration...
Oracle brings two Kubernetes projects to open source community
Austin, Texas -- Oracle announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon it is open sourcing Fn project Kubernetes Installer and Global Multi-Cluster Management, two projects made to aid the development of the next generation of container native applications...
Alibaba Cloud and Baidu become CNCF members
Austin, Texas -- The two major cloud companies, Alibaba Cloud and Baidu, have announced their support of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) by becoming members of the organization, as noted this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017.
The...
The role of Kubernetes in AWS
Austin, Texas -- Pay-as-you-go, self-service, global distribution and high utilization -- those are the principles that undergird cloud native, noted Adrian Cockcroft, vice president of cloud architecture strategy at AWS, during a keynote presentation at this year’s KubeCon +...
Equinix unleashes new inter-metro connectivity through cloud exchange fabric
Equinix, a global international and data center company, announced an addition to its interconnection offering, leveraging software-defined network (SDN) to make it easier for different data centers to connect. Specifically, the company said it will move...
Huawei to integrate EC-IoT solution into Wapwag’s smart supply management platform
Huawei and Wapwag Smart Water Public Co. announced at the Edge Computing Industry Summit 2017 in Beijing they have reached an agreement in which the former’s Edge Computing IoT (EC-IoT) solution will be integrated...
Nuage Networks to expand and upgrade Fujitsu Enterprise Cloud Service K5
Fujitsu has chosen Nuage Networks, Nokia’s software-defined networking (SDN) subsidiary, to extend and update its enterprise cloud service.
Fujitsu Enterprise Cloud Service K5 is the world’s biggest OpenStack cloud service, according to the company, providing...
AWS launches Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes
Following its cloud competitors, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it has added Kubernetes to its Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS), enabling the container management platform to be used on AWS.
Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration platform...
Trend Micro purchases Immunio to enhance software security offering
Security firm Trend Micro announced it has recently acquired Immunio, a startup focused on web app security, in a bid to expand its hybrid cloud security to DevOps. The company intends to combine automation protection with...
Amazon and VMware extend availability of VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware announced they are expanding the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as providing additional capabilities that help customers with disaster recovery and incorporate on-demand capacity.
VMware customers have...
Amazon offers tools to help deploy MCU-based connected devices
NXP Semiconductors, a Dutch global semiconductor manufacturer, introduced the LPC54018 MCU-based IoT module with support for the recently launched Amazon FreeRTOS on Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing developers with universal connections to AWS.
The cost and complexity...
MEF casts wider net in cloud app market with IMTC
Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a nonprofit international industry consortium, is seeking to make a splash in booming cloud-centric applications market by integrating the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) into its new Applications Committee, which formally...
Microsoft and SAP compete against Amazon in cloud market space
In an effort to compete with Amazon in the cloud market space, Microsoft announced it is expanding its partnership with German enterprise software company SAP. The companies will deploy each other’s cloud solutions internally, and...
McAfee announces intent to purchase Skyhigh Networks
In an effort to build upon its security portfolio, McAfee announced Monday it intends to acquire Skyhigh Networks for an undisclosed amount. The deal comes fewer than eight months after the company was spun out from Intel as...
Microsoft sports new cloud tool “Azure Migrate”
Microsoft unveiled a free cloud tool called Azure Migrate yesterday, which the company said will make it easier to move VMware based applications to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The tool, available Nov. 27, signals a move on Microsoft’s part...
AWS unveils “Secret Region” cloud service for U.S. Intelligence Community
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently debuted a cloud service for the U.S. Intelligence Community dubbed “Secret Region,” accessible only to those with a secret level classification from the government. With the launch of Secret Region,...
The rise of the IoT
IoT devices have given birth to a tremendous amount of information, changing the way data is uploaded and shared. Traditionally, the cloud has played a pivotal role in managing the data churned by IoT devices. However, as the distance between...
