Container technologies give developers the tools they need to package an application with all the dependencies into a container which may be deployed and run in any environment.
This application portability enables developers to release software faster, as they don’t need to configure nor adapt it to different environments. In addition, containers are really light, so they make an efficient use of the resources they run on.
The OpenStack Summit 2105, a four-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software will start tomorrow in Tokyo. During four days, attendees will enjoy in-depth technical discussions, hands-on workshops, and the full presence of almost every player in the OpenStack Ecosystem.
Speakers will talk about topics such us accelerating the Open Could with OpenStack, OpenStack Neutron, Unlocking OpenStack for service providers or migrating enterprise applications to OpenStack.
Dell announced at Dell World 2015 the expansion of its cloud portfolio with a new hybrid cloud solution, featuring technology jointly developed with Microsoft.
Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft is built around the new Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard. It is the industry’s first integrated, modular hybrid cloud solution. This new system delivers simplified, automated deployment and maintenance capabilities, a unique payment solution to reduce customer investment risk and unparalleled hybrid cloud governance, control, and policy-based automation for Microsoft Azure and other cloud environments.
The growth and improper use of domain administrator accounts is one of the major security threats to systems in Windows Active Directory (AD) domains.
In order to avoid potential issues arising from these troubles, here’s an article about restricting the use of domain admin accounts to domain controllers in Windows Server 2012 R2 domains by enabling support for additional Kerberos features.
The author also explains how to create a new authentication policy and silo. You can have a look at the tutorial here
Red Hat today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, a provider of IT automation solutions designed to help enterprises move toward frictionless IT. Ansible’s automation capabilities, together with Red Hat’s existing management portfolio, will help users drive down the cost and complexity of deploying and managing both cloud-native and traditional applications across hybrid cloud environments. With today’s announcement, Red Hat expands hybrid cloud management, OpenStack and containers.
Ansible does not require any special coding skills, removing some of the most significant barriers to automation across IT.
The most read topics in our blog during last weeks have been Apple‘s decision about not renewing VMware‘s license agreement for server virtualization, UDS Enterprise & Nutanix Acropolis integration and Free Software Foundation 30th anniversary.
Find below the links to our top 3 posts according to our followers just in case you didn’t have the chance to read them yet:
Apple bets on Open Source & moves from VMware to KVM
