Google Cloud: CEO Greene out, former Oracle Exec Kurian in
A two-decade veteran of Oracle, Thomas Kurian, will replace Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene, an apparent casualty of public cloud services market competition in which AWS remains tenaciously dominant, ...Full Article
Container Security Concerns Persist
Applications containers and other microservices are handling production workloads at an increasing rate, but several studies emphasize that container security lags. The latest concludes that risks around runtime attacks ...Full Article
Salesforce Invests in Docker, which Partners with MuleSoft
In a bid to link legacy but critical applications with agile microservices, cloud software giant Salesforce is taking a stake in application container pioneer Docker, which will collaborate with ...Full Article
Container Adoption Spurs Cloud Usage Across Asia
Cloud usage is surging in Asia, led by the adoption of cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes across the region but particularly in the booming Chinese technology sector, a new ...Full Article
Private Equity Firms Buys Cloud Vendor Apptio
Hybrid IT specialist Apptio, which went public in 2016, is being taken private by Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that has been snapping up enterprise IT vendors. ...Full Article
Docker Rolls Windows Server Migration Tool
Microsoft announced last summer it is ending support for Windows Server 2008 in January 2019, with support for Windows SQL server expiring six months later. That has prompted the ...Full Article
Rackspace Delivers Multi-Cloud via VMware on AWS
Rackspace is pointing its private cloud services toward multi-cloud deployments with the release of a VMware cloud running on Amazon Web Services. Rackspace said the managed service is intended ...Full Article
AMD Epyc Wins Another Cloud; Debuts on AWS
AMD’s mission to add market share in the super-hot data center server processor market has taken its Epyc chip into the biggest data center of them all, Amazon Web ...Full Article
VMware Buys Kubernetes Startup Heptio
There has been much talk with the rise of application containers about the microservices technology replacing virtual machines. VMware made a move this week that may make that a ...Full Article
