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DC Blox Snares $37M in Funding for Southeast Data Center Expansion
The Atlanta-based firm expects to add new data centers by year-end to support multi-access edge computing and cloud services.
Kubernetes’ Future Is More Jazz Improv Than Just Orchestration
Heptio CTO Joe Beda explained that orchestration infers a plan from the start, while Kubernetes is more about not knowing what's going to emerge.
Rackspace Joins the Managed Kubernetes Fray
The company sees its platform as having a scale advantage over tech-focused vendors like Docker, but with more agility than larger systems integrators like IBM.
ADVA Drives Cloud-Native Encryption Into ConnectGuard Platform
The cloud-native update also bolsters the platform's ability to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities.
Verizon to Migrate 1,000 Biz Apps and Backend Systems to AWS
The deal bolsters Verizon’s overall operations, but it also boosts AWS’ position among the country’s largest telecom operators.
Verizon’s Fixed 5G Plan Is Just 1 Slice of Its 5G Deployment Picture
The carrier sees an addressable market of some 30 million homes for its fixed 5G service plans, but it will also support slices for mobile and enterprise services.
Protego Scores $2M in Seed Funds to Target Serverless Security
A recent report found 21 percent of open source serverless projects contained at least one critical vulnerability or misconfiguration.
Investors Purge Infinera Stock on Price War Concerns, Ignore Q1 Results
One analyst said Ciena was the source of the current price war in the optical networking space.
Cycle Pedals Bare Metal Container Orchestrator as Kubernetes Alternative
The barebones platform is available through Packet's bare metal compute, network, and storage resources.
Customer Hack Leads IBM, Red Hat to Combine Cloud, Container Support
IBM’s Cloud Private management layer can be deployed directly on top of OpenShift. This will also provide IBM’s middleware with access into that new infrastructure.
Microsoft Touts 10x Increase in Kubernetes Usage on Azure Cloud
The latest round of Azure Kubernetes Service updates include the new name and general availability in the coming weeks.
Aqua Security Sprinkles Support Over CRI-O Kubernetes Runtime Platform
CRI-O was launched as a lighter alternative to using Docker as the runtime for Kubernetes.
Mesosphere Scores $125M in Funding to Target IoT, Geo Expansion
The latest funding round pushes the company's total haul to nearly a quarter-billion dollars since its founding in 2013.
Google Cloud Swallows 300 Petabytes of Twitter Storage
Twitter runs multiple Hadoop clusters across tens of thousands of servers for storage and analytics.
Fortinet Quadruples Q1 Revenues, Posts Triple-Digit Cloud Growth
Investors were not as impressed as the company's stock was trading down early Friday off of a recent 52-week high.
Google Secures 5 Partners for Its Cloud Security Command Center
The five container-focused partners include Aqua Security, Capsule8, Stackrox, Sysdig Secure, and Twistlock.
Rancher Labs Ties Future to Building a Car Around Kubernetes
The company launched general availability of its Kubernetes-based platform that breaks from its past reliance on Docker.
CNCF, Oracle Boost Serverless Standardization Efforts
The CloudEvents draft specification provides a common platform for developers to describe serverless events. This will allow for greater portability across platforms, such as AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions.
Open Source, Operators Key to ONF’s New Optical Disaggregation Plan
The ODTN project has some overlap with OpenConfig and TIP, but differs from the AT&T-led OpenROADM project.
Cisco Tucks Kubernetes Support Into CloudCenter, AppDynamics
Enterprises are balking at moving Kubernetes into production environments because of too many choices. It "makes them basically an open source aggregator."