By Serdar Yegulalp Docker has long anticipated placing containerd, a core piece of the Docker runtime, under the stewardship of a third-party group. Now the official word is out: Docker’s submitting …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Cloud
Google’s microservices protocol joins Kubernetes in cloud foundation
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Google’s gRPC protocol was originally developed to speed up data transfer between microservices, proving faster and more efficient than passing around data encoded in JSON. Yesterday the Cloud Native Computing …read more Source:: OpenSource
Technology of the Year 2017: The best hardware, software, and cloud services
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•By Doug Dineley Looking over the winners of the 2017 Technology of the Year Awards, you can’t help but be struck by the startling number of open source projects. For several years …read more Source:: OpenSource
Kubernetes as a service simplifies public and private cloud management
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Platform9, creator of a turnkey OpenStack SaaS solution and the Fission framework, today unveiled a new service for running Kubernetes at scale in multiple environments. Managed Kubernetes enables …read more Source:: OpenSource
The cloud updraft grows stronger
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•By Eric Knorr You might think we make an awful lot of fuss about the cloud, considering that global public cloud spending amounts to a small fraction of IT spending overall — roughly …read more Source:: OpenSource
Who’s cashing in on containers? Look to the cloud
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•By Matt Asay Docker-style containers are so hot they’ve broken the scale ETR uses to measure CIO intent to purchase enterprise technology, registering “the strongest buying intention score ever recorded in …read more Source:: OpenSource
FBI withdrew national security letter after Cloudflare lawsuit
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•Cloudflare, served with a national security letter at the beginning of 2013, managed to get the FBI to withdraw its request but has been under a gag order preventing it …read more Source:: Legal
Red Hat needs to get real about the cloud
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•By Matt Asay Red Hat ended 2016 with a precipitous 12 percent drop in its stock price, courtesy of its CFO’s departure and lighter-than-expected revenues. Losing a CFO to a grass-is-greener …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cloud convenience is killing the open source database
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•By Matt Asay Open source has never been more important or, ironically, irrelevant. As developers increasingly embrace the cloud to shorten time to market, they’re speeding past open source, making it even …read more Source:: OpenSource
To the cloud! Real-world container migrations
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•By Bob Violino We hear a lot from vendors and service providers about the wisdom of migrating applications and workloads to the cloud. The potential benefits include lower capital costs and increased flexibility. <a class="colorbox" …read more Source:: OpenSource