May 19, 2015
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VANCOUVER –– When Google announced that it would support AppC, a vendor neutral container format, and the first container based on it, CoreOS’s Rocket (RKT), some people took this as Google supporting AppC over Docker. That is not true. Google … Continue reading
May 19, 2015
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VANCOUVER — When you think of retail giant Walmart, you may think of great bargains, or the death of small businesses, or convenience. What you probably don’t think about is the software behind the supply chain that enables Walmart to … Continue reading
May 19, 2015
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VANCOUVER — At OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu‘s founder, announced that benchmarks proved that Ubuntu’s LXD container hypervisor “crushed” Linux’s own built-in virtual machine (VM) hypervisor KVM. Canonical claims LXD crushes KVM. More>
May 18, 2015
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How low can cloud prices go? On May 18, Google announced that it was cutting the price of its Google Cloud Platform prices by as much as 30 percent. Google fires first volley in new cloud pricing war. More>
May 18, 2015
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Back in 2007 when Drew Houston, Dropbox‘s CEO, had gotten sick and tired of misplacing his USB drive the idea of personal and small business cloud storage was a radical one. Today, everyone and their uncle seems to be offering … Continue reading
May 13, 2015
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Venom (Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation), the recently discovered security hole in the open-source QEMU virtual machine hypervisor, has been fixed. That’s the good news. The bad news is many of you, even though you may use a QEMU-based hypervisor … Continue reading