March 6, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Kubernetes jumps in popularity
A few years ago, if you’d heard of Docker or containers, you’d thought of shipping containers. My how things have changed! In the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey, it found 84% of companies are using containers in production this year — up from 23% … Continue reading
February 20, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat OpenStack lives on in a new release
SUSE may have given up on the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, but Red Hat hasn’t. The Raleigh, N.C.-based company has just released its latest OpenStack distribution, Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOP) 16. Red Hat OpenStack lives on in a new release More>
October 9, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on SUSE drops OpenStack Cloud
For years, SUSE, the European Linux and open-source company, was one of the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud program’s champions. No longer. SUSE has decided to cease production of new versions and to discontinue sales of SUSE OpenStack Cloud. This comes only a few months … Continue reading
October 9, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on With Windows Virtual Desktop, the bad old days are coming back
I’ve been saying for a while now that Microsoft wants you to move from Windows on your desktop to Windows as a service. I’ve rarely gotten so little pleasure from saying I was right. In the last few weeks, Microsoft rolled out Windows … Continue reading
October 2, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on IBM and Canonical work together in financial services
Yes, IBM bought Red Hat, but as Chris Wright, Red Hat‘s CTO, recently told me, “We’re fundamentally a separate entity from IBM.” Want proof of that? In NYC, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, Ubuntu Linux‘s parent company, and Ross Mauri, general manager … Continue reading
March 12, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open Distro for Elasticsearch is Amazon’s move to show it’s pro-open source
Amazon Web Services (AWS) just launched Open Distro for Elasticsearch. This program takes AWS’s recent proprietary additions to Elasticsearch and open sources them under the Apache 2.0 license. That sounds good. Shay Banon, co-founder of Elasticsearchand CEO of Elastic, its parent company, sees … Continue reading