SUSE releases its first version of Rancher: Rancher 2.6The new Rancher promises to be better than ever at helping you manage your Kubernetes cloud environments.September 1, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
Azure Cosmos DB alert: This critical vulnerability puts users at riskCosmos DB is in serious trouble thanks to ChaosDB, a critical vulnerability in the Azure cloud database. It enables anyone to take remote control of your databases. Fortunately, there is a fix.August 27, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Security
Desktop as a service: Yesterday, today, and tomorrowWe started with green text on black terminals, and before we're done, we'll return to the 21st-century version of it with our "desktops" running on the cloud.July 28, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Enterprise Software
Mirantis provides consistent Kubernetes experience across platformsThe latest version of Mirantis Container Cloud includes numerous updates and now supports VMware IaaS.April 19, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Virtualization
StormForge survey finds you can waste a lot of money deploying Kubernetes to the cloudA great deal of time and money is wasted on the cloud with poorly done Kubernetes implementations.April 16, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
Flux GitOps program becomes a CNCF incubator programFlux, the Kubernetes-based Continuous Delivery (CD) program, continues to mature.March 12, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
Nextcloud 21 arrives with ten times better performanceThe latest version of Nextcloud, the open-source IaaS cloud program boasts an optional high-performance backend for files, which speeds up client-server file connection updates by a factor of ten.February 22, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
Elastic changes open-source license to monetize cloud-service useThe business-model war between open-source software vendors and cloud providers heats up with Elastic taking on Amazon Web Services.January 20, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
Why Parler's revival on public cloud is complicated and unlikelyEven if the right-wing social network Parler wasn't being rejected by every major public cloud and hosting company, it would find it almost impossible to move to another site.January 12, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
Private Nextcloud instances available to European Deutsche Telekom business customersThis open-source, private-cloud may also soon be available to US customers via T-Mobile.January 11, 2021 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
AWS: Containers, serverless, and cloud-native computing oh my!In a flood of announcements, AWS is going all the way -- with Lambda, micro-services, and containers -- in its vision of the public cloud.December 2, 2020 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
The Linux Foundation offers Advanced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp programKnow your way around the cloud, but need help taking the next six-figure income step up in your career? The Linux Foundation has a new educational program for you.July 22, 2020 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Bootcamps
SODA Foundation expands cloud data autonomy plansOne of the keys to a successful hybrid or multi-cloud is being able to work with data across clouds. That's where the SODA Foundation comes in.June 30, 2020 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
FinOps Foundation joins The Linux Foundation to nail down best cloud financial practicesManaging cloud costs and making the most from cloud services is a full-time job, but thanks to the FinOps Foundation, you don't have to go it on your own.June 29, 2020 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud
Principled Technologies releases first true cloud performance benchmarksBenchmarking experts take on the difficult problem of measuring Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud performance.June 26, 2020 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Cloud