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Containers

• August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19

  Cray to support US Department of Energy El Capitan exascale programme

  Shasta platform will be used to expand traditional supercomputing to support complex workflows

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Google increases presence and investments in Finland

  New next-generation datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google’s growing interest in Finland

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction

  Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  How Suse is taking open source deeper into the enterprise

  Suse’s focus on developer needs, industry-specific use cases and engineering partnerships with the likes of SAP are among efforts to take open source software deeper into the enterprise

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Tax changes lead to review of Sweden’s datacentre development

  Swedish government has changed the rules on how it offers tax rebates to datacentre providers and users, hitting domestic companies

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth

  The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Chef demos Windows Server 2008 migration

  Windows Server 2008 R2 reaches end of support in January 2020. Businesses using older Windows server software have little time to redevelop code

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Datacentre operators urged to look beyond past experience to fill talent gaps

  Panellists at the annual Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco claim operators will continue to struggle to plug talent gaps while focusing on finding candidates with years of experience in datacentres, rather than those with an aptitude for the type ...

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Keeping Java relevant in the age of cloud and agile

  Java Community Process chair Heather VanCura talks up efforts to keep Java up to speed with the needs of developers in the era of cloud and agile software development

• June 03, 2019 03 Jun'19

  How Alibaba Cloud plans to win over APAC enterprises

  The Chinese cloud supplier is counting on data analytics, industry-specific offerings and its knowledge of the China market to gain a foothold in the Asia-Pacific region

• May 23, 2019 23 May'19

  Why enterprises should dump their VMs for containers

  Kubernetes is five years old and server virtualisation is the new legacy, says Aparna Sinha, director of product management for Kubernetes at Google

• May 22, 2019 22 May'19

  How Kubernetes’ fifth year is leading to a shift in enterprise IT

  As Kubernetes turns five, the Cloud Native Computing Forum (CNCF) plans to make containerisation simple

• May 21, 2019 21 May'19

  MoneySupermarket.com orchestrates data pipeline with GKE

  The price comparison site has used container orchestration to split its machine learning data pipeline into parallel processes

• May 20, 2019 20 May'19

  Reduxio’s Magellan charts course to storage in containers

  Reduxio makes its storage product functionality available via microservices in containers aimed at container-native deployments, in an initial closed customer beta

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  How APAC enterprises are using VMware Cloud on AWS

  VMware’s cloud business unit CTO reveals how APAC businesses are using its hybrid cloud service to move workloads to the cloud

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Laing O’Rourke Australia chooses private cloud route

  The Australian arm of global engineering firm Laing O’Rourke signs up for Nutanix to run its core applications on a private cloud

• April 22, 2019 22 Apr'19

  With Anthos, Google seeks to unify open source cloud technologies

  Urs Hölzle, Google’s head of technical infrastructure, talks up efforts to deliver what he claims to be the first open source cloud stack

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  How Kubernetes has simplified Bet365’s software deployments

  Online betting company has begun using Kubernetes to make it easier for its IT infrastructure and product teams to share complex configurations

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Auto Trader UK cuts IT resource use through Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Istio adoption

  Auto Trader is the UK's biggest online marketplace for new and used car sales. Its head of infrastructure sets out how cloud, containers and microservices will help reinforce its market-leading position in the years to come

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Sweden chosen by Amazon Web Services as renewable energy project location

  Amazon Web Services has chosen a wind farm in Sweden as part of a project to source renewable energy for its global infrastructure

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Norway datacentre strategy producing dividend

  Norway's strategy to become a favourable location for Nordic datacentres is gathering steam

• March 27, 2019 27 Mar'19

  Amadeus deploys cloud-native shopping application on Google cloud

  Amadeus has moved off mainframes and is redeveloping its software to be cloud native. Its Master Pricer is the first of its core application to be deployed on Google

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  Veeam’s business soars in APAC, acquisitions on the cards

  The backup, recovery and data management hotshot expects to grow its APAC business by about 40% this year, with an eye on acquisitions in adjacent market segments

• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  Red Hat eyes Unix-to-Linux migrations in emerging ASEAN markets

  Open source bigwig is starting its new fiscal year looking at Unix-to-Linux migrations in markets such as Thailand and Indonesia

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Lyft commits to going 'all-in' with AWS to support autonomous vehicles push

  Ride-sharing app Lyft is on a quest to reposition itself as a multi-modal transport company, and is deepening its use of Amazon's cloud technologies to support its work

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Interview: Moving to DataOps

  During a London data science popup meeting, Computer Weekly caught up with MoneySuperMarket.com’s analytics head, Harvinder Atwal

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Interview: The power of open source

  Stefanie Chiras, who heads up RHEL at Red Hat, discusses how open source enables enterprises to benefit from tech innovations

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  How TensorFlow makes Candy Crush virtual players

  Researchers have used artificial intelligence to beat humans in popular games such as Chess and Go, but King, developer of Candy Crush, has found a novel use for it

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Clydesdale, Yorkshire and Virgin Money opt for OpenShift digital push

  Banking group CYBG uses OpenShift to roll out a common set of services and improve developer productivity

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Nordic green energy IT strategy gains momentum

  The Nordic countries are building strong IT sectors around their green-powered datacentre infrastructures

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Veritas launches Docker container backup in NetBackup

  Docker is becoming an industry standard form of application virtualisation, and with that comes the need to back up Docker environments and data. Veritas joins CommVault and Asigra in doing so

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  Almost half of containers in production have vulnerabilities, study finds

  More containers are being deployed in production, but many businesses are unaware if they are secure

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  IT monitoring tops uses for machine data analytics

  Advanced analytics is being deployed to make sense of the masses of machine data in IT operation, but complex environments is making this harder

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  How Docker plans to help businesses get around Windows Server 2008

  Microsoft will end support for Windows Server 2008 in 2020. Many applications will fail to upgrade to the latest server OS. But Docker has a plan

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  It’s still early days for hybrid IT in APAC

  The tipping point for hybrid IT adoption will come only when more enterprises start running production workloads on the public cloud, says HPE’s chief technologist for the region

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  Singapore government to boost cloud capabilities of SME tech suppliers

  Smaller tech firms in the city state can look forward to a new capability development programme to help them build cloud-native applications

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  Unpacking the OpenStack Foundation’s open infrastructure push

  OpenStack Foundation’s push to broaden its focus beyond the provision of private and public cloud-supporting open source software is gathering pace, with the emergence of new pilot projects and use cases for its technology

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2019

  Edge computing, data management and microservices will play a bigger role in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019 as enterprises reshape their technology architectures to become ‘digitally determined’ organisations

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  Why Kubernetes is driving a groundswell in containerisation

  Kubernetes is fast becoming a de facto standard, but CIOs may be unaware of its footprint in their businesses

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  OpenStack Foundation hails innovation benefits of open and inclusive software development

  OpenStack CIO Mark Collier predicts the next five to 10 years will see more software development conducted in open, transparent and collaborative ways, as enterprises strive to speed up digital transformation efforts

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  OpenStack Foundation will tackle infrastructure barriers to enterprise AI adoption

  OpenStack supporting community will help enterprises to overcome infrastructure barriers to adopting artificial intelligence technologies in 2019 as demand for GPU and FPGA-based set-ups grows

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  How Kubernetes is becoming a platform for AI

  Data scientists and artificial intelligence engineers need a host of tools to build AI-powered applications – this requires a complex IT environment

• November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18

  OpenStack restates commitment to core cloud platform as 'open infrastructure' push gathers pace

  OpenStack Foundation executive chairman Jonathan Bryce used the opening keynote of its user summit to flesh out its open infrastructure proposition, while reinforcing its commitment to creating open source clouds

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Why commercial software providers are buying into cloud native

  There is a reason why IBM has announced it will be spending $34bn to buy Red Hat, much like VMware’s acquisition of Heptio

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  APAC enterprises, analysts weigh in on IBM-Red Hat deal

  Mega-deal could accelerate adoption of open source software and extend the reach of OpenStack and OpenShift across the region

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2018 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: Shortlist announced

  Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, with the winners set to be announced at VMworld next week

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger

  Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Businesses must get ready for a multi-cloud strategy

  The debate about what is the right enterprise IT architecture has moved beyond private, public and hybrid clouds to the need to run multiple clouds

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Porsche Informatik deploys OpenShift to accelerate software development

  The automotive manufacturer's software arm is using a Red Hat private cloud to develop new trading platforms