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The New Stack | August 12, 2016
Container Defense in Depth
The new age of image-based containers exploded onto the scene in early to mid-2013. Since the early days of the Docker container engine, we heard questions of whether they were secure enough. Our very own Dan Walsh was heard many times saying, Docker containers dont contain so the question is, can...
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Apprenda Blog | August 12, 2016
Cloud and the ‘Existing X’ Dilemma
Anyone designing an IT strategy that incorporates cloud is faced with the question of what to do with existing assets including apps, infrastructure IT systems, processes, skills, etc. Some will tell you that the only way to handle the “existing X” parts of your strategy is to forget about them and...
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Softpedia | August 12, 2016
Red Hat Announces the Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.2.6
Red Hat, through Scott McCarty, is happy to announce the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.2.6, a maintenance update that adds many performance improvements to most of the included components.
As for those behind with their Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host reading,...
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OpenSource.com | August 12, 2016
Trends in Corporate Open Source Engagement
In 1998, I was part of SGI when we started moving to open source and open standards, after having been a long-time proprietary company. Since then, other companies also have moved rapidly to working with open source, and the use and adoption of open source technologies has skyrocketed over the past...
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InfoWorld | August 12, 2016
Save the Whale: Docker Rightfully Shuns Standardization
You can be forgiven for thinking Docker cares about standardization.
A little more than a year ago Docker donated "its software container format and its runtime, as well as the associated specifications," to the Open Container Project to be housed under the Linux Foundation. In the FAQ, the Linux...
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Eric Brown | August 11, 2016 mediatek-soc.png
MediaTek has revealed the upcoming Helio X30 system-on-chip that will likely be one of the first 10nm fabricated SoCs to arrive when it ships in mid-2017.
MediaTek’s 10nm Mobile-Focused SoC Will Tap Cortex-A73 and -A32
MediaTek has revealed an upcoming Helio X30 system-on-chip (SoC) that will likely be one of the first 10nm fabricated SoCs to arrive when it ships in mid-2017. The deca-core mobile SoC will also be one of the first to use ARM’s new Cortex-A73 successor to the Cortex-A72, according to PhoneRadar,...
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Pam Baker | August 11, 2016 open-sign.jpg
Wim Coekaerts says Microsoft is very committed to open source and that the opportunities that brings are almost limitless.
Inside How Microsoft Views Open Source
Editor's Note: This article is paid for by Microsoft as a Diamond-level sponsor of LinuxCon North America, to be held Aug. 22-24, 2016, and was written by Linux.com.
Few saw Microsoft’s embrace of open source coming. When CEO Satya Nadella declared two years ago that “Microsoft loves Linux” it’s...
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TechCrunch | August 11, 2016
Sometimes the Most Qualified Applicant Is Not the Most Obvious
Hiring managers often give preference to (and even hold out for) those who have the “right” specific last roles, the “right” internships, a specific number of years of experience or graduated from the “right” university. Interestingly, those companies often state bold goals in improving diversity,...
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Lars Kurth | August 11, 2016
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The development of Virtual Machine Introspection and its applications show how the Xen Project community is bringing revolutionary technologies to market.
Virtual Machine Introspection: A Security Innovation With New Commercial Applications
A few weeks ago, Citrix and Bitdefender launched XenServer 7 and Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection, which together compose the first commercial application of the Xen Project Hypervisor’s Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) infrastructure. In this article, we will cover why this technology is...
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ST Industries | August 11, 2016
Bad Dockerfile
If you deal with Docker one of the security challenges you might come across is that of image content security. When I talk about this I mean some way of verifying that the software in an image is:
Free from known software vulnerabilities in the base OS
Free from known software vulnerabilities in...
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