Cloud Native Computing Foundation Seeks Alignment Among Container Technologies

A new Cloud Native Computing Foundation is being launched to drive the alignment of container technologies.  Founding organizations include AT&T, Box, Cisco, Cloud Foundry Foundation, CoreOS, Cycle Computing, Docker, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Kismatic, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Switch SUPERNAP, Twitter, Univa, VMware and Weaveworks. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is a project managed by The Linux...

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Kubernetes V1 Released on Github

Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration system, has reached the v1 milestone (GitHub), indicating that it is now ready for commercial use. Google noted that Kubernetes was built by over 400 contributors with 14,000 commits. The list of set of features in this release includes: App Services, Network, Storage  Includes core functionality critical for deploying and managing workloads in production, including DNS, load balancing,...

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Gigamon Launches Security Visibility Platform for Advanced Persistent Threats

Gigamon introduced its "GigaSECURE" Security Delivery Platform for providing pervasive visibility of network traffic, users, applications and suspicious activity, and then delivering it to multiple security devices simultaneously without impacting network availability. The idea is to counter Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) by leveraging a traffic visibility fabric to extract scalable metadata across a network, including cloud and virtual environments,...

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Cavium's 100G NITROX V Security Processor Packs 288 Cores

Cavium unveiled its new family of NITROX V security processors & adapters aimed at enterprise networking equipment and virtualized cloud data centers, where increasing east-west traffic flows are driving high performance, symmetric encrypted bandwidth requirements. In addition, SaaS providers such as search engines, email services and social networking services are now encrypting customer data they receive over the Internet using SSL and new...

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Arbor: DDos Attacks Continue to Grow in Ferocity

The average size of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, from both a bits-per-second and packets-per-second perspective, continues to grow, according to new tracking data released by Arbor Networks. Arbor’s data is gathered through ATLAS, a collaborative partnership with more than 330 service provider customers who share anonymous traffic data with Arbor in order to deliver a comprehensive, aggregated view of global traffic and threats....

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Microsoft's Commercial Cloud Revenues on $8B Annual Run Rate

Microsoft reported revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2015 of $22.2 billion.  Gross margin, operating loss, and loss per share for the quarter were $14.7 billion, $(2.1) billion, and $(0.40) per share, respectively. These results include the impact of a $7.5 billion non-cash impairment charge related to assets associated with the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services (NDS) business, in addition to a restructuring charge of $780...

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Verizon Reports Steady Trends with LTE and FiOS

Verizon Communications reported Q2 revenue of $32.2 billion, a 2.4 percent increase compared with second-quarter 2014, and EPS of $1.04, compared with $1.01 per share in second-quarter 2014. The company cited top-line revenue growth driven by wireless and FiOS, with emerging revenue streams from the Internet of Things (IoT) and telematics, and continued strong cash flow. “Verizon has delivered another quarter of strong financial and operational...

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DOCOMO Expands 5G Collaboration Program

NTT DOCOMO is expanding its industry collaboration program for 5G.  The company announced individual collaborations with five additional vendors: Intel, Keysight Technologies, Panasonic Corporation, Qualcomm Technologies, and Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. DOCOMO and its vendor-partners expect to begin technical discussions and various indoor trials at the DOCOMO R&D Center in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture within the current fiscal...

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