Mozilla has announced the Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview along with an experimental Android app. The app lets developers experience Firefox OS as an alternate home screen on their Android device, without having to re-flash and replace Android installation. Version 2.5 features add-ons that can extend apps, a new privacy feature that allows users to … continue reading
When Engine Yard acquired Deis in April, it was a clear sign that the company had an interest in containers. Deis offered a container-based PaaS, and today the company released a package-management system for Kubernetes, known as Helm. Kubernetes has recently become a popular target for developers and vendors alike looking for a way to … continue reading
Docker 1.9 arrived yesterday afternoon, bringing with it a host of changes to make the container platform more robust and capable of handling clusters of applications. This release is the first to include the final versions of multi-host networking and the clustering tool known as Swarm. Solomon Hykes, CTO and chief architect at Docker, said, … continue reading
Docker today announced its acquisition of Tutum, a startup founded three months after Docker itself was released. Tutum offers a Docker container-management and hosting platform that can control cloud or on-premise solutions from a cloud-based management console. Borja Burgos, CEO of Tutum and now a Docker employee, said of the founding of his company, “We … continue reading
Oracle has announced the availability of its second major release of Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux. The distribution is based on the Kilo release of the OpenStack platform, and is packaged as Docker containers. Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux and virtualization engineering at Oracle, said that Oracle not only differentiates its OpenStack distribution … continue reading
Illumio has announced new partnerships with Docker and Mesosphere to provide its adaptive security tooling to container users. The Illumio Adaptive Security Platform brings security controls and monitoring into the development process, to be managed as part of the software development life cycle. Alan Cohen, chief commercial officer of Illumio, said that his company’s platform … continue reading
Microsoft announced several new products that cover containers, security and Internet of Things. Those products, announced at AzureCon, will be applicable to Microsoft’s Azure product line. “We live in a connected world, and the intelligent cloud is powering it all,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise Division. “As data and … continue reading
Containers were the only thing anyone could talk about at VMworld this week, and yet the discussions were not about how great they are. Rather, the discussions were about, “How do we use this stuff in an enterprise?” VMware has a very distinct answer: Run the container inside of a virtual machine. And it is … continue reading
VMware doesn’t care if you use virtual machines or containers at this point. The company made this abundantly clear as it opened its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco yesterday. It took this opportunity to discuss improvements in vSphere 6.0, which allow containers to become first-class citizens of the data center. Michael Adams, director of … continue reading
VMware kicked off its annual conference in San Francisco this morning with new product demos and announcements from all manner of data center and virtualization solutions. And today, ClusterHQ, HyTrust and Pivotal all made announcements at the show. HyTrust announced CloudControl for VMware NSX. Version 4.5 of CloudControl sits between VMware’s vSphere and administrators, giving … continue reading
It happens all the time. You are out somewhere and your phone dies, or you are working on your laptop and it runs out of battery. To solve this problem, researchers from MIT and Samsung are working on a way for batteries to last forever. The researchers are developing a new approach to batteries, focusing … continue reading
Microsoft today released its third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and Systems Center 2016, bringing with them the first public preview of Windows Server Containers. This release features the culmination of work Microsoft had pledged to do alongside Docker to bring containers to both Azure and Windows Server. This release also improves upon the … continue reading
