Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Suddenly, everyone is getting their head around containers. One recent survey projects that 69 percent of companies will embrace them in the next year for production environments. To better understand why containers are gaining so much mindshare, OpenStack just published a paper you can download titled “Exploring Opportunities: Containers […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. At the OpenStack Silicon Valley event, the head of the OpenStack Foundation announces new nonprofit status and developer initiatives. OpenStack continues to move forward, even as new technologies like containers enter the cloud virtualization landscape. At the OpenStack Silicon Valley event on Aug. 26, OpenStack supporters discussed […]

Revelant links are at the bottom of this post The DIUx will position the Department of Defense to be more open to the infusion of non-traditional technical ideas and talent.  The initiative is designed to create a hub for increased communication with, knowledge of, and access to innovating, high-tech start-up companies and entrepreneurs and their […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Department’s information technology arm has unveiled a guide for IT shops in the defense and military space planning a move to the cloud. Released by the Defense Information Systems Agency, the guide is aimed at DOD “mission owners” wanting to migrate an existing information system from […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Peter thanks for the heads up. It’s a predictable argument: Should the techies — with their hands on their keyboards — be the people who decide which technology or deployment is right for the company? Or should CIOs and senior management — with their strategic perspective […]

Relevant link(s) are at the bottom of this post. These are still early days in the Air Force’s efforts to recapitalize its Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) program, but some things already are clear. Since it was first deployed in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, JSTARS has successfully tracked ground vehicles and aircraft, […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Information Systems Agency on July 24 issued three new documents targeting cloud security, including two new requirements guides and a new concept of operations. The three new documents more thoroughly define cloud security and the steps to achieving it, outlining the responsibilities of the organizations and […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Today Google is becoming a sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, an industry effort dedicated to creating an open infrastructure-as-a-service stack for enterprises.  We’re excited to add our expertise in container-oriented computing to one of the most widely-adopted private cloud stacks, while improving interoperability between private and […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Google has become the biggest name yet to back the open source cloud system OpenStack. Specifically, Google will help integrate its own open source container management software  Kubernetes. This may seem like in-the-enterprise-weeds news, but it represents another significant step as Google tries to make up ground against Amazon’s wildly […]

Relevant links can be found at the bottom of this post. Why Read This Report OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that has become a compatibility standard for the private cloud market. Despite its headway into the Fortune 100 and long list of notable vendor supporters, coverage thus far has been limited to media […]