Welcome!

Top Stories

Docker Meets Kubernetes Kubernetes, Docker and containers are changing the world, and how companies are deploying their software and running their infrastructure. With the shift in how applications are built and deployed, new challenges must be solved. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Sebastian Scheele, co-founder of Loodse, will discuss the implications of containerized applications/infrastructures and their impact on the enterprise. In a real world example based on Kubernetes, he will show how to migrate an existing application to Docker and Kubernetes, and what the benefits are. Speaker Bio Sebastian Scheele worked as a consultant and product manager for SAP for over 7 years. Now he is one of the founders of Loodse, a company that is working on a product based on Kubernetes. He is a Google Cloud Platform Authorized Trainer and has many years of... (more)

Book Review: Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property

According to Larry Rosen, "One of the challenges to writing about licensing in a book not specifically written for licensing professionals is to make a very dull subject interesting." A Complete and Thorough BookRosen has met that challenge in his exciting guide to the Open Source licensing zoo. As an extra fillip he offers a set of five Open Source Principles so clear and brief that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) would be well advised to adopt them, plus two new licenses intended to solve not only the weaknesses of some of the current Open Source licenses, but resolve the many problems that revolve around the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) GNU General Public License (GPL) and Lesser General Public License (LGPL). This clear book spends 314 pages in detailed discussion of more legal issues than this review can touch on. The author has the advantage of having trai... (more)

SGI Retrenches

The continuously bedeviled SGI, now staking a lot of its future on pushing Linux into the hysterically high end, said Thursday that it was going to can 10% of its staff, roughly 400 jobs, to lower costs and shift its focus to specific growth areas to bring expenses in line with revenues. It said the terminations are intended "to preserve customer-facing activities, protect customer investments and accelerate a return to profitability." Ironically Fortune magazine recently pegged SGI as one of the "Top 100 companies to work for." The reductions, coupled with an improvement in gross margin, are supposed to cut quarterly expenses by $10 million starting in calendar Q3 and will reduce the company's breakeven point. SGI will take a restructuring charge of $15 million-$20 million in the June quarter. In a canned statement SGI CEO Bob Bishop was quoted as saying, "Despite ... (more)

Lindows CEO Robertson Berates Microsoft's"Orchestrated Attempt to Slow the Adoption of Linux"

"We have completely withdrawn our products from these markets and put notices on every page of our website," protests Lindows CEO Michael Robertson in a news release put out by Lindows, Inc. yesterday, "yet Microsoft is still asking that the Judge fine us 100,000 euros per day because non-U.S. visitors can view our U.S.-based website." "Microsoft's actions," Robertson continues, "demonstrate this has nothing to do with protecting their Dutch trademark or confusion in the marketplace, but is simply an attempt to put us out of business." He is referring to papers just filed against Lindows Inc. in the Netherlands by Microsoft Corporation asking the court to fine Lindows 100,000 euros per day for permitting its Web site to be reachable by visitors from the Benelux countries (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg). "Since visitors to our website come from international ISPs... (more)

Slashdot & The Future of Operating Systems

A wise man once quipped that "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Matt Hartley, a contributing writer to OSWeekly.com, discovered the truth of this first-hand - and painfully - this week when an item that he'd written got picked up (and its content mauled) by Slashdot. Hartley's crime was to have written a futuristic sketch that he titled "A New Kind of OS." In it, he mused aloud about what he described as "the obvious advantages to an operating system that actually morphed and adapted to the needs of the users instead of the other way around." His big idea, in summary, that one's computer might in the future be more like a "probability engine" - operating 24x7 in "adaptive mode" and learning, from the ways we'd used our PC or our Mac in the past, how we'd probably prefer it to behave in the future: Consider the obvious advantages to a... (more)

USB:n Network Control Model (NCM) -mallin määritys on hyväksytty

ITHACA, New York, August 20 /PRNewswire/ -- MCCI Corporation on tyytyväinen USB Implementers Forumin päätöksestä hyväksyä Network Control Model (NCM) -tekniikka avoimeksi standardiksi. Julkaistu 1.0-versio on nyt saatavilla USB-IF-jäsenille. NCM on korvaamaton nykyistä nopeammalle kämmenlaitteiden tiedonsiirrolle, jota seuraavan sukupolven tekniikat vaativat. NCM parantaa nykyistä Ethernet Control Model -protokollaa LTE:n, HSDPA+:n, WiMAXin ja muiden tulevien verkkotekniikoiden yhteydessä käytettävän suorituskykyisen datatason kautta. Kun NCM otetaan käyttöön avoimena standardina, nopeaa tiedonsiirtokykyä haluavat käyttöympäristöjen toimittajat ja kämmenlaitteiden toimittajat voivat hyödyntää NCM-ratkaisua ja saavuttaa datan nopean läpiviennin. "NCM-määritteen ensisijainen tekijä ja tekninen toimittaja MCCI on jo ottanut käyttöön NCM:n alustavan version, jonka nim... (more)

Digi Launches ConnectCore Wi-i.MX51 Digi JumpStart Kit at Embedded World Nuremberg

Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) today introduced the ConnectCore™ Wi-i.MX51 Digi JumpStart Kit® featuring the ConnectCore Wi-i.MX51, the industry’s first core module designed specifically for low power, wireless multimedia applications. The kit includes all of the tools necessary to make wireless product development easy including development board, Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 board support package and a 7” WVGA LCD. The ConnectCore Wi-i.MX51 enables wired and 802.11n networking for low power embedded applications with demanding performance requirements such as medical devices, digital signage, transportation, security and surveillance, point-of-sale equipment and industrial automation technology. Kits will be available at Embedded World Nuremberg on Digi’s booth located in Hall 12, booth 12-244. “The ConnectCore Wi-i.MX51 Digi JumpStart Kit features all of the tool... (more)

Realtime Launches in U.S. With $100 Million Investment to Help Build the Real-Time Web

SANTA MONICA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/08/12 -- Realtime (http://www.realtime.co), creator of the leading global technology framework and applications to power the Realtime web, today announced its U.S. launch with a $100 million investment from BRZTech Holding, a São Paulo-based technology investment. BRZTech is a three-month old investment vehicle backed by a number of private investors in Europe and South America, including Portuguese conglomerate The Ongoing Group. Realtime, founded in 1997 as Internet Business Technologies (IBT), has in the past year developed and deployed a new technology that the Company believes will facilitate the transition from the currently static Web to the "live Web" -- one that is instantaneously updated worldwide within milliseconds. Today, Realtime has offices in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, London, Madrid, Lisbon, and its new newes... (more)

SeaChange Announces Two Americas Design Wins for Adrenalin Multi-Screen Video Platform

SeaChange International (NASDAQ: SEAC), a leading global multi-screen video software innovator, today announced that two additional multiple system video service providers in North America and Latin America have selected the SeaChange Adrenalin™ multi-screen video platform. One of these new green field customers has also selected SeaChange’s Nitro multi-screen user experience software. SeaChange CEO Raghu Rau commented, “The strong pace in Adrenalin uptake among existing SeaChange customers and, increasingly, new customers underscores how our strategic execution is delivering the gold standard in multi-screen software solutions. More and more service providers around the world recognize that our unparalleled innovation will help them get to market faster with exciting services to subscribers at home and on the go.” SeaChange’s Adrenalin software has been selected by... (more)

New Editions of Moab HPC Suite Enhance HPC System Efficiency

Adaptive Computing, the largest provider of private cloud management and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workload management software, today announced the release of two new editions of its Moab HPC Suite: Application Portal Edition and Remote Visualization Edition. These two new solutions are designed to leverage next-generation access models to simplify the collection and interpretation of data, improving the time it takes to achieve meaningful results. Moab HPC Suite – Application Portal Edition With an integrated NICE EnginFrame application portal, Moab streamlines the process of accessing job information by making it all available from a single point – applications, data, resources and job submissions – thus keeping costs to a minimum throughout the design and research processes. It supports the most common ISV and open-source applications used in a variety of... (more)

Tuxera exFAT Ships in Panasonic ELUGA Smartphones

HELSINKI, December 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Market Leading SDXC Connectivity and Improved Usability Tuxera Inc. announced today that Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese smartphone manufacturer, ships Tuxera exFAT in its Android smartphones to power the SDXC memory card standard and improve overall usability. The new high-end devices are pushing the boundaries in user experience with ultra-slim, high specification, dust and waterproof design for the style conscious. Now for the first time with SDXC support for 64GB and higher capacity memory cards consumers can transfer large files back and forth on the latest, high performance microSDXC memory cards at speeds not seen on any Panasonic device before. Because of increasing innovation and feature requirements in the market smartphone manufacturers are facing pressures to find quickly integrable ... (more)

CloudEXPO Stories
Docker and Kubernetes are key elements of modern cloud native deployment automations. After building your microservices, common practice is to create docker images and create YAML files to automate the deployment with Docker and Kubernetes. Writing these YAMLs, Dockerfile descriptors are really painful and error prone.Ballerina is a new cloud-native programing language which understands the architecture around it - the compiler is environment aware of microservices directly deployable into infrastructures like Docker and Kubernetes.
Signs of a shift in the usage of public clouds are everywhere. Previously, as organizations outgrew old IT methods, the natural answer was to try the public cloud approach; however, the public platform alone is not a complete solution. Complaints include unpredictable/escalating costs and mounting security concerns in the public cloud. Ultimately, public cloud adoption can ultimately mean a shift of IT pains instead of a resolution. That's why the move to hybrid, custom, and multi-cloud will become more and more prevalent. At the heart of this technology trend exists a custom solution to meet the needs and concerns of enterprise organizations, including compliance, security, and cost issues. The "new normal" of enterprise clients is a world of hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, and it is slowly changing the IT technology landscape. Better tools, better management, and easier adoption a...
At CloudEXPO Silicon Valley, June 24-26, 2019, Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with expanded DevOpsSUMMIT and FinTechEXPO programs within the DXWorldEXPO agenda. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout enterprises of all sizes.
As you know, enterprise IT conversation over the past year have often centered upon the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. In fact, Kubernetes has emerged as the key technology -- and even primary platform -- of cloud migrations for a wide variety of organizations. Kubernetes is critical to forward-looking enterprises that continue to push their IT infrastructures toward maximum functionality, scalability, and flexibility. As they do so, IT professionals are also embracing the reality of Serverless architectures, which are critical to developing and operating real-time applications and services. Serverless is particularly important as enterprises of all sizes develop and deploy Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives.
10ZiG Technology is a leading provider of endpoints for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environment. Our fast and reliable hardware is VMware, Citrix and Microsoft ready and designed to handle all ranges of usage - from task-based to sophisticated CAD/CAM users. 10ZiG prides itself in being one of the only companies whose sole focus is in Thin Clients and Zero Clients for VDI. This focus allows us to provide a truly unique level of personal service and customization that is a rare find in the industry. We offer a multitude of custom embedding options and hardware configurations to ensure our devices are tailor-made to fit seamlessly into the environments of our customers.