News Category: Enterprise
Dawn Foster | September 23, 2016 
What is DevOps? Bridget Kromhout Explains
Bridget Kromhout can be found traveling and speaking at conferences on a variety of DevOps topics. She is a global core organizer for devopsdays and is on the program committee for Velocity in addition to organizing local tech meetups in Minneapolis. She is a Principal Technologist for Cloud...
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ZDNet | September 23, 2016
Red Hat Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Loves Containers
When Red Hat launched its OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud in 2013, the focus was on making life easier for developers. OpenShift's theme remains the same but Red Hat has made it crystal clear that developing on the cloud today means using containers. The name says it all: Red Hat...
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Virtualization Review | September 23, 2016
SDN Platforms Boron, Hummingbird Released
Seen by some as competing for supremacy in the software-defined networking (SDN) controller space, the ONOS Project and the OpenDaylight Project just released respective platforms within one day of another.
Today, the ONOS Project announced its eighth quarterly platform release, called Hummingbird...
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The New Stack | September 23, 2016
Containerized Production Environments: Networking, Security, and Storage
So you have an application that is composed around containers. You have lightweight base images, a centralized container registry, and integration with the deployment and continuous integration (CI) pipeline — everything needed to get containers working at full scale on your hardware. For running a...
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Amber Ankerholz | September 22, 2016 matthew-garrett-linux-security.png
Security of the boot chain is a vital component of any other security solution, said Matthew Garrett of CoreOS in his presentation at Linux Security Summit.
Matthew Garrett Explains How to Increase Security at Boot Time
Security of the boot chain is a vital component of any other security solution, said Matthew Garrett of CoreOS in his presentation at Linux Security Summit. If someone is able to tamper with your boot chain then any other security functionality can be subverted. And, if someone can interfere with...
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Sam Dean | September 22, 2016 openstack-support.jpg
OpenStack distribution vendors compete on support offerings.
Support Is Now the Differentiator in the OpenStack Race
When it comes to OpenStack cloud computing distributions, now offered by a variety of vendors, we are at a tipping point. As businesses and organizations demand flexible solutions for deploying cloud solutions based on OpenStack, competition is fierce. With so many vendors competing in this arena...
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Amber Ankerholz | September 22, 2016 elastic-stack.jpg
Giovanni Bechis, explains how ELK can be used to aggregate any kind of data in a productive way, in this preview of his upcoming talk at LinuxCon Europe.
Managing Log Files and More With Elastic Stack
Managing log files is becoming increasingly harder with growing amounts of data and differing file formats. Giovanni Bechis, in his upcoming talk at LinuxCon Europe, describes a solution using the ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), which he says let's you easily collect, parse, and manage...
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The Register | September 22, 2016
Object Storage Leading the Advancement of Software-Defined Storage
Software-defined storage (SDS) is one of those terms that has been readily hijacked by vendors over the past few years. The term developed from the adoption of software-defined networking (SDN), used to define the separation of control and data traffic in the networking world, which provides the...
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Tech Republic | September 22, 2016
National Software Reference Library: An Important Digital Tool for Forensic Investigators
The story starts with Stephen M. Cabrinety, the Stanford University Libraries, and NIST's National Software Reference Library (NSRL). Cabrinety collected more than 50,000 pieces of commercial software and nearly 300 functioning microcomputer systems—some dating back to the mid-1980s. Stanford...
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SDx Central | September 22, 2016
Industrial IoT Group Releases Security Framework
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) , which was founded by AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, and Intel, released a common framework for security that it hopes will help industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments better address securityproblems. Security is critical to industrial IoT because...
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