Cloud security vulnerabilities highlighted in “Cloud Security Trends” report
RedLock published its annual “Cloud Security Trends” report revealing that despite the uptick in data breaches, enterprises are still neglecting vulnerabilities in public clouds. More than half of the organizations surveyed leveraging industry storage services continue...
Mirantis Cloud Platform update focuses on making hybrid cloud management easier
Kubernetes continues to serve as the main container orchestration and management platform with updates to Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP). The latest MCP comes with a new capability to allow multi-cloud self-service Kubernetes clusters...
Kubernetes 1.8 focuses on boosting existing features
Version 1.8 of the open source Kubernetes container orchestration and management platform was recently released with an emphasis on updating existing features. Marking the third update this year, the new platform takes aim at enhancing security, workload support...
Cloud computing has played a major role in reshaping how companies conduct business. Several organizations are in the process of migrating to the cloud to achieve scalability, cost-efficiency and enhanced application performance. With increased embracement of cloud computing, let's take a look at some...
Austin, Texas -- Containers and microservices are the future of software-defined storage platforms, according to Stephen Watt, chief architect for emerging technologies within Red Hat’s Office of Technology. As container technology impacts how users think about storage for applications and microservices, software-defined storage will...
Aqua holds fundraiser to address one of the biggest hurdles facing containers: security
Aqua Security, a provider of container security solutions, recently raised $25 million in a Series B funding, making it “the largest fundraising round to date in the container space,” according to the...
Chris Wright, vice president and chief technologist at Red Hat, delivered a keynote presentation titled “Container, Culture and Community” at this year’s Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America.
Wright began noting what originally got him into open source. “I don’t know if I was...
New Pivotal Container Service promises to simplify container creation and management
Pivotal Software, Inc., VMware Inc. and Google announced at the VMWorld 2017 conference this week they are collaborating on a project that should make it easier for companies to create, deploy and manage containers...
The need for container orchestration
Containers are being embraced by enterprises across the industry. The lightweight technology allows service providers to package applications, along with their dependencies, libraries and other binaries, into isolated environments on an individual server. Accompanying the rise of containers is the...
How containers came to fame
Containers are a mature technology gaining traction in the telecom industry with the push toward virtualization. The lightweight technology enables service providers to run various, isolated applications on an individual server. Containers originally rose to stardom when Docker discovered a...
Mirantis Cloud Platform boosts NFV capabilities
Mirantis, a cloud computing services company, recently deputed a string of network functions virtualization (NFV) enhancements for its Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP). NFV involves running various network functions on inexpensive computer nodes in data centers. It has been heralded...
CNCF teams up with Packet to provide Lab to developers
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of cloud native applications, announced today it is making its CNCF Community Infrastructure Lab publicly available for open source projects.
Cloud native computing...