Mesosphere’s Investors Bet on Multicloud
Demand for capabilities like machine learning and distributed databases are attracting investors looking to cash in on the shift to micro- and other exascale services running on hybrid cloud ...Full Article
As Cloud Fight Looms, DoD Sees Some Progress
While vendors jockey for position to win a massive commercial cloud contract with the Defense Department, uptake on an existing military cloud platform is building. Pentagon agencies are shifting ...Full Article
Container Runtime Security Gets New Tools
As application containers enter the mainstream, a new set of production security issues is emerging. That has prompted early container orchestration and cloud vendors to establish frameworks to help ...Full Article
Survey Finds Microservices Teething Issues
Microservices, the web-scale application architecture, is making serious headway in production, according to a vendor survey, but the tradeoff for more agile application delivery is a new set of ...Full Article
Google Expands Cloud Tools with Data Orchestrator
Google Cloud Platform’s new data orchestrator dubbed Cloud Composer is its latest managed service based on its Apache Airflow workflow management tool. Announcing the beta launch of Cloud Composer ...Full Article
Tag, You’re Not It: Why Tagging Kills Cloud Cost Management
Tagging is a major part of pretty much any cloud deployment. It’s commonly used to assign some piece of useful information to a cloud resource. Most IT teams rely ...Full Article
Google Is Latest ‘Big Three’ Cloud Provider to Offer V100 GPUs
Google announced today that Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in public beta on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through its infrastructure-as-a-service offering Compute Engine and on ...Full Article
Rackspace is Latest to Roll Bare Metal Service
Rackspace is expanding it managed private cloud services with the addition of six new bare metal instances that it collectively refers to as bare metal as a service. The ...Full Article
Google, Atos Partner on Cloud Machine Learning
Google continues to add regional cloud partners as it seeks to differentiate its public cloud offerings while distributing its machine learning building blocks. Atos, the French big data platform ...Full Article
Heptio Builds Bridge to Kubernetes
Heptio, the startup launched in 2016 by the creators of the Kubernetes container orchestrator, is launching an open source initiative along with partner Actapio aimed at bridging cloud native ...Full Article