New marketplace for FPGA custom apps launches

A French company called Accelize has launched AccelStore, an app store specifically around providing custom programmed applications for FPGA accelerators.FPGAs are dedicated processors known for doing two things: very fast processing, and being reprogrammable. CPUs have to be general-purpose processors that run an OS, but an FPGA has the luxury of doing a dedicated task, so the architecture is different.The problem is that while FPGAs are reprogrammable to do new, specific tasks, they aren’t that easy to program. In fact, it’s often pretty hard to do. That’s Accelize’s sales pitch. Rather than writing the code to reprogram the FPGAs in your servers, it has the templates for you.To read this article in full, please click here

New marketplace for FPGA custom apps launches

A French company called Accelize has launched AccelStore, an app store specifically around providing custom programmed applications for FPGA accelerators.FPGAs are dedicated processors known for doing two things: very fast processing, and being reprogrammable. CPUs have to be general-purpose processors that run an OS, but an FPGA has the luxury of doing a dedicated task, so the architecture is different.The problem is that while FPGAs are reprogrammable to do new, specific tasks, they aren’t that easy to program. In fact, it’s often pretty hard to do. That’s Accelize’s sales pitch. Rather than writing the code to reprogram the FPGAs in your servers, it has the templates for you.To read this article in full, please click here

Running Docker on Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0

Did you know that Docker Hub has millions of users pulling roughly one billion container images every two weeks — and it all runs on Docker Enterprise Edition?

Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 may now be available to commercial customers who require an enterprise-ready container platform, but the Docker operations team has already been using it in production for some time. As part of our commitment to delivering high quality software that is ready to support your mission-critical applications, we leverage Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 as the platform behind Docker Hub and our other SaaS services, Docker Store, and Docker Cloud.

Some organizations call it “dogfooding;” some call it “drinking your own champagne.” Whatever you call it, the importance of this program is to be fully invested in our own container platform and share in the same operational experiences as our customers.

Our Migration to Kubernetes

One of the main features of this latest release is the integration of Kubernetes so we wanted to make sure we are leveraging this capability. Working closely with our SaaS team leads, we chose a few services to migrate to Kubernetes while keeping others on Swarm.

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Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0

 

We are excited to announce Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 – a significant leap forward in our enterprise-ready container platform. Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0 is the only platform that manages and secures applications on Kubernetes in multi-Linux, multi-OS and multi-cloud customer environments. As a complete platform that integrates and scales with your organization, Docker EE 2.0 gives you the most flexibility and choice over the types of applications supported, orchestrators used, and where it’s deployed. It also enables organizations to operationalize Kubernetes more rapidly with streamlined workflows and helps you deliver safer applications through integrated security solutions. In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the key new capabilities of Docker EE 2.0.

Eliminate Your Fear of Lock-in

As containerization becomes core to your IT strategy, the importance of having a platform that supports choice becomes even more important. Being able to address a broad set of applications across multiple lines of business, built on different technology stacks and deployed to different infrastructures means that you have the flexibility needed to make changes as business requirements evolve. In Docker EE 2.0 we are expanding our customers’ choices in a few ways:

VMware AppDefense Introduces Least Privilege Security for Containerized Applications

Summary: VMware AppDefense continues to advance with new capabilities, new partnerships, international expansion, and increasing customer adoption

 

As worldwide spending on IT security continues to climb, the odds of falling victim to a data breach have risen to 1 in 4. Despite a multitude of security products on the market and large budgets to purchase them, businesses are not significantly safer. The commoditization of cyber crime has made it possible for virtually anyone with a computer to launch a sophisticated attack against a company and new attacks are being developed every day. This means the continued focus on chasing threats remains relatively ineffective to stamping out the broader challenges facing IT security.

This is a scary prospect for CISOs who are faced with securing the applications and data living in increasingly dynamic, distributed IT environments. And as more businesses embrace modern, agile application development processes, the problem of implementing security at the speed of the business is exacerbated – security is often seen as an obstacle to progress.

We created VMware AppDefense to address these very issues, with a unique approach that leverages the virtualization layer to protect applications by “ensuring good” rather than “chasing bad”. AppDefense leverages VMware’s Continue reading

GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets For Golden Insight Nuggets

As humankind continues to stare into the dark abyss of deep space in an eternal quest to understand our origins, new computational tools and technologies are needed at unprecedented scales. Gigantic datasets from advanced high resolution telescopes and huge scientific instrumentation installations are overwhelming classical computational and storage techniques.

This is the key issue with exploring the Universe – it is very, very large. Combining advances in machine learning and high speed data storage are starting to provide hitherto unheard of levels of insight that were previously in the realm of pure science fiction. Using computer systems to infer knowledge …

GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets For Golden Insight Nuggets was written by James Cuff at The Next Platform.

Another Step In Building The HPC Ecosystem For Arm

Many of us are impatient for Arm processors to take off in the datacenter in general and in HPC in particular. And ever so slowly, it looks like it is starting to happen.

Every system buyer wants choice because choice increases competition, which lowers cost and mitigates against risk. But no organization, no matter how large, can afford to build its own software ecosystem. Even the hyperscalers like Google and Facebook, whole literally make money on the apps running on their vast infrastructure, rely heavily on the open source community, taking as much as they give back. So it is …

Another Step In Building The HPC Ecosystem For Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Pushing Up The Scale For Hyperconverged Storage

Hyperconverged storage is a hot commodity right now. Enterprises want to dump their disk arrays and get an easier and less costly way to scale the capacity and performance of their storage to keep up with application demands. Nutanix has a become as significant player in a space where established vendors like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC, and Cisco Systems are broadening their portfolios and capabilities.

But as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) becomes increasingly popular and begin moving up from midrange environments into larger enterprises, challenges are becoming evident, from the need to bring in new – and at times …

Pushing Up The Scale For Hyperconverged Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

BrandPost: 3 ways Extreme Networks wins over other network vendors

Extreme Networks recently released a new report, “Quantifying the Value of the New Extreme Networks Solution” (an Enterprise Strategy Group Economic Value Validation report), to show the IT community how deploying our new solution can generate ROI and slash costs significantly, particularly in comparison with other network vendors.When we embarked on this journey, our goal was to make the resources of our organization part of the package. Customers should have access to a comprehensive network solution that goes beyond solving their immediate technology problems and extends into cost savings and economic benefit opportunities, period. This is why we engaged ESG to execute their Economic Value Audit process—to show you how you can realize unparalleled savings through Extreme.To read this article in full, please click here

Using Ansible to Mitigate Network Vulnerabilities

Even Networks Aren’t Immune

Just like with Windows and Linux servers, networking devices can be exploited by vulnerabilities found in their operating systems. Many IT organizations do not have a comprehensive strategy for mitigating security vulnerabilities that span multiple teams (networking, servers, storage, etc.). Since the majority of network operations is still manual, the need to mitigate quickly and reliably across multiple platforms consisting of hundreds of network devices becomes extremely important.

In Cisco’s March 2018 Semiannual Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication, 22 vulnerabilities were detailed. While Red Hat does not report or keep track of individual networking vendors CVEs, Red Hat Ansible Engine can be used to quickly automate mitigation of CVEs based on instructions from networking vendors.

In this blog post we are going to walk through CVE-2018-0171 which is titled “Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Smart Install Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.” This CVE is labeled as critical by Cisco, with the following headline summary:

“...a vulnerability in the Smart Install feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of an affected device, resulting in a Continue reading

BrandPost: Solving enterprise networking challenges with Secure Automated Campus

A recently prepared report by IDC focuses on the practical solutions for bringing enhanced automation, security and visibility into the campus network and shares the trends that are impacting them.One trend we’ve observed during the evolution of digital transformation is seeing network workloads increase significantly, parallel to the significance of the network itself. Since business is centered on a fast-paced, on-demand culture, it’s only natural that major changes in networking technology are taking hold.To read this article in full, please click here

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