Altice Complete Cablevision Deal, Now No.4 Cable Operator in U.S.

Altice completed its previously announced acquisition of Cablevision Systems, the leading MSO in the NY metro region. Cablevision together with Suddenlink will form Altice USA, the #4 cable operator in the U.S., which serves more than 4.6 million Optimum and Suddenlink customers across 20 states. The deal was valued at $17.7 billion. BC Partners and CPP Investment Board hold a 30 percent stake, as previously announced. Altice outlined a number...

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Hedvig Deliver Software-defined Storage for Containers

Hedvig, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, unveiled its end-to-end CloudScale Reference Architectures to provide enterprises with tested infrastructure templates for software-defined storage in containerized environments. Specifically, Hedvig unveiled three enterprise-ready Docker solutions built on Quanta Cloud Technology, ContainerX and ClusterHQ technology. Quanta CloudScale Reference Architecture for Docker Datacenter: integrates...

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Software-defined storage for Containers

Eric Carter provides a quick overview of Hedvig's software-defined storage for containers at #DockerCon. See video: https://youtu.be/151KSqYPfQM ...

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Juniper's Contrail Adds Docker and Kubernetes Capabilities

Juniper Networks is enhancing its Contrail product line to enable Docker and container networking. New capabities will provide abstraction and automation of network segmentation and security, allowing the creation of the assignment of different groups of Docker containers to different virtual networks. Juniper said Contrail Networking can now integrate with container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes, and enables automated network segmentation...

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Aqua Adds Autoformation to its Container Security Platform

Aqua (formerly named Scalock)is rolling out enhancements to its Container Security Platform, including: A native Jenkins plug-in -- adds an Aqua Security step to the CI pipeline that enables organizations to automate container image security scanning, report within the CI/CD tool on vulnerabilities found, and allow/disallow the use of images according to policy. Integration with HPE’s next generation application lifecycle management (ALM) solution,...

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Avi Integrates with Docker Swarm

Avi Networks announced full integration with Docker Swarm, the native container clustering orchestration solution for Docker.  AVI said its integration with Docker Swarm enables a dynamic service fabric for micro-segmentation, service discovery, graphical application maps, load balancing, and autoscaling capabilities across thousands of Docker nodes. The Avi Vantage Platform leverages native cluster management for Docker to help developers deploy...

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Splunk Delivers Analytics for Docker Environments

Splunk is adding support for Docker environments to its Operational Intelligence platform. Splunk will now be able to provide insight into metrics and events on Docker containers, as well insight into administrative changes by consuming and analyzing data from Docker Universal Control Plane. http://www.splunk.com/containers...

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CloudMunch Offers Analytics for Docker/Kubernetes

CloudMunch released its next-gen Continuous Insights platform for cloud native applications. Continuous Insights covers the entire delivery pipeline, giving contextual actionable insights by correlating data from across multiple tools in the pipeline. The platform is available for Docker and Kubernetes ecosystems. It also supports Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. http://www.cloudmunch.co...

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Western Digital Launches All-flash VMware Virtual SAN with HPE

Western Digital introduced a software-defined, all-flash storage solution featuring HPE ProLiant DL Rack Servers and VMware Virtual SAN™ running SQL Server 2016 workloads. The virtualized storage and server infrastructure solution uses SanDisk’s enterprise-grade flash storage products and has demonstrated online transaction processing (OLTP) performance results of 2.4 million New Orders Per Minute (NOPM). “We are excited to raise the bar in the...

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Pentaho Labs Announces Docker Utilities

Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company, has released Docker open source utilities to help simplify and speed big data analytics. The Pentaho Server now works with the containerized open source platform to build, ship, and run big data analytics at scale. Pentaho’s Docker utilities are currently available in GitHub. “The open source foundation of Pentaho allows quick innovation with emerging technologies, so that we may remain autonomous and provide...

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