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.
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 offer its “everyday low prices.” That would be OpenStack.
n a keynote and panel discussion at OpenStack Summit, Amandeep Singh Juneja, Walmart Lab’s Senior Director for Cloud Operations and Engineering, explained that “Walmart’s decision to invest in cloud infrastructure might not be something you’d expect from a brick and mortar retailer with over $480-billion in annual revenue,” but it was a necessity.
How Walmart uses OpenStack to deliver its ‘everyday low prices.’ More>
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.
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.
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 cheap or free cloud storage.
That’s great! Except, well, how do you choose which one is right for you? It used to be that most people decided simply on the basis of how much free storage you got. That had the advantage of being simple, but it only tells part of the story.
The real value from a cloud storage service comes from how well it works for you. As you’ll see, some work much better with some operating systems and business plans than others.
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 on your server or for your cloud, think you’ve nothing to worry about. You do.
For Venom security flaw, the fix is in: Patch your VM today. More>