BROWSING: containers

The global market for wide-area RTA trackers, comprising low-power IoT trackers attached to returnable transport assets (RTAs) like multi-usage crates and containers, will reach 117.3 million connections by 2027, according to analyst house ABI Research. The projected rise is spurred mostly by the increasing...

Enterprise IoT Insights is putting together a report on IoT tracking in the supply-chain industry (in case recent posts have not made that clear), and the discussion has ebbed and flowed about the role of IoT, itself, in the sector’s broader transformation story. As...

BT has picked AWS to help its ambitious digital transformation, with a particular attention to containers and serverless technology.

Google has finally submitted to the CNCF Istio, its Kubernetes-adjacent cloud app container service mesh project.

A new report says Kubernetes is becoming invisible as it "moves up the stack" with more mature APIs and hyperscaler-managed services.

Kubernetes is cloud software container management that can help carriers with 5G Network Functions Virtualization

Kubernetes is "as significant" as cloud and virtual machines, Pat Gelsinger says SAN FRANCISCO--VMware is betting big on Kubernetes as the container orchestration tool to facilitate software development and operations across public, private and hybrid clouds. During the company's VMworld event today, CEO Pat Gelsinger...

In Hillsboro, Oregon, Verizon is running a trial that it says is both an industry first and a glimpse of its network's future: a fully cloud-native, container-based element of its Evolved Packet Core, operating on its live network and serving customers. The proof-of-concept trial with...

As mobile operators continue to extol the theoretical expectations of new services and revenue streams that 5G is supposed to herald, they’re faced with a much more concrete reality on the network side: How should 5G network architectures be built to deliver upon all...

Docker launches Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 Docker recently rolled out Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0, which enables customers to run multi-container applications with either Kubernetes or Swarm. Docker EE emerged last year as a Container-as-a-Service platform that secures applications across disparate infrastructure, both on-premises and in the...

IoTium announces availability of OT-Edge Industrial IoT company IoTium introduced a new container-based platform, dubbed OT-Edge, which it claims is the first edge-cloud infrastructure solution built on remotely managed Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open source platform, which has become the de facto standard of container orchestration....

Huawei announces DMM open source project Huawei recently rolled out its new dual modes, multi-prococols, multi-instances (DMM) open source project with the aim of redesigning the protocol stack container in networking. The company’s DMM is a Fast Data project and part of the Linux Foundation’s FD.io...

On the path to 5G The telecommunications industry is undergoing an evolution in preparation for the commercialization of 5G. The fifth generation of mobile communication networks promise to deliver faster speeds, shorter delays and increased connectivity. To make good on these promises, several network operators...

Gluster Community announces Gluster 4.0 The Gluster Community recently premiered the latest version of the open source software scalable network filesystem, Gluster 4.0, with new features focused on container integration and storage management. Gluster was founded in 2005 with the goal of simplifying storage using open...

CloudBees CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise now available on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform CloudBees. Inc, the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, recently announced the availability of CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise offers operations centers and managed masters as a...

Microsoft gives sneak peak of Windows Server 2019 Microsoft recently previewed Windows Server 2019 with general availability slated for the second half of this year. Based on feedback from its customers, Microsoft is focused on four themes with Windows Server 2019, including hybrid, security, application...

Google announces Skaffold automation tool for Kubernetes Google recently introduced a new open source, automation tool called Skaffold, which the company said facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications. Kubernetes is an open source platform that manages containerized workloads and services, where a container serves as a...

Nutanix announces intent to purchase Netsil Cloud computing software company Nutanix Inc. announced it intends to purchase Netsil Inc. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Netsil is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012. It offers an observability and monitoring platform for cloud apps...

Hybrid cloud complexity creating security challenges Container security company Capsule8 recently released a survey conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in November 2017 exploring trends in hybrid cloud security. Among these trends, the survey found the complexity of hybrid cloud environments is making it difficult...

The Linux Foundation unveils Akraino project The Linux Foundation recently announced a new project, dubbed Akraino, to develop an open source software stack capable of supporting high-availability cloud services for edge computing systems and applications. To kick off the project, AT&T will contribute code made...

Securing open distributed architectures Service providers have gravitated toward open distributed architectures over the past few years with the rise of network functions virtualization (NFV), software-defined networking (SDN), virtual machines, containers and other technologies. Although network operators have been eager to embrace open distributed architectures...

WhiteHat boosts SAST services portfolio WhiteHat Security recently expanded its portfolio of static application security testing (SAST) services with the addition of Sentinel Source for Microservices, which is aimed at companies currently embracing microservices-based architecture. Microservices architecture involves piecemealing large-scale monolithic code into isolated chambers known...

Container security vendor premiers Twistlock 2.3 Container security company Twistlock announced the availability of Twistlock 2.3 with a focus on protecting container workloads. The debut marks the 12th release of the company’s main product with new features like cloud native firewall, app aware system call...

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 +...