History of Container Technology Offers Lessons for Future

Many of the issues associated with container technology are due to infrastructure decisions made long before containers, cloud and the internet.
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Defining Serverless at Container World

Serverless Summit, a pre-opening event at this year's Container World, indicated that serverless is a technology still finding its footing.
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Docker Platform Outlook: Anusha Ragunathan Talks Containers

Docker software engineer Anusha Ragunathan talks about what the year ahead holds in store for the Docker platform and container technology.
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Google Cloud Platform to Add Regions in Salt Lake City, Seoul

At Google Cloud Next, Google said that it spent $47 billion dollars between 2016 and 2018 building its cloud infrastructure.
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Data Center World: The Unintended Consequences of the Data Revolution

The generations that have grown up never knowing a world without internet are in many ways leaving tradition behind.
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F5 Ups Its Container and Open Source Game With $670M Nginx Deal

Networking and security company says it's only in the early stages of developing for containers and hopes the acquisition will hasten that process.
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AWS, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat's New Registry to Act as Clearing House for Kubernetes Operators

Operators make life easier for Kubernetes users, but they're so popular that finding good ones is not easy. Operatorhub.io is an attempt to fix that.
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Rancher Labs' K3s Shrinks Kubernetes for the Edge

For running containers at the edge, Rancher Labs has created K3s, a Kubernetes distribution that weighs-in at 40MB and needs only 512MB RAM to run.
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New Elisa Project Focuses on Linux In Safety-Critical Systems

A safety-critical system is any system in which failure could result in injury, loss of life, significant property damage or environmental damage.
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Microsoft IIS Web Server's CPU Gobbling Bug

Microsoft's fix for a bug in its IIS web server will require configuration by admins once the patch is applied.
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Swim Open Sources Its Machine Learning Platform for Edge Computing

Taking the "open core" route, the startup wants the open source community to take its platform in more directions than it's been able to so far.
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Mirantis to Help Build AT&T's Edge Computing Network for 5G On Open Source

The two companies hope other telcos will follow AT&T's lead in building their 5G networks on open source software.
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Container Bug Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access on Host Machine

The container bug, difficult to exploit because it requires a malicious container to be installed on the system, affects nearly everyone using containers.
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Rancher Now Allows Containerized Apps to Run on Multiple Clusters

The open source Kubernetes startup Rancher makes public its easy way to deploy containerized applications to multiple clusters.
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Mesosphere's New CEO Fey Takes the Reins

With C-level roles at Symantec and McAfee on his resume, the new chief exec steps in to extend the open source startup's reach.
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Microsoft Expands Azure PostgreSQL Moxy Through Citus Data Purchase

Microsoft's purchase of Citus Data is about more than just the software. It's also about talent.
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New Linux Foundation Project Aims to Open Up and Standardize Edge Computing

With LF Edge, the foundation wants to establish an open edge computing framework that's agnostic of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system.
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Ubuntu Core 18 Seeks to Make IoT and Embedded Easier

Ubuntu's IoT-ready Linux distribution makes developers lives easier and boosts security through use of Snaps.
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Nvidia's Latest Tesla T4 GPUs Live in Beta on Google Cloud

In addition to now offering NVIDIA's latest data center GPU, the cloud company has expanded the locations where GPU's are available.
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SUSE Server for Arm Becomes Generally Available

The SUSE server (SLES) for Arm processors is now available directly from SUSE with a new price structure that counts cores and sockets.
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