OCI gets new, flexible AMD EPYC-based E5 instances
Oracle continues to build on its offering of AMD instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The new OCI Compute E5 instances are based on the 4th generation AMD EPYC processors and come in three different flavors. We briefly introduce them to you in this article.
The partnership between Ora... Read more
Mirantis Container Cloud offers Kubernetes on different clouds
Mirantis announced Mirantis Container Cloud with hundreds of updates. It includes support for the IaaS solution VMware, which helps businesses build and operate container and virtual machines (VMs) clouds, wherever they want, with consistency.
Adam Parco, the VP of engineering at Mirantis, says ... Read more
Equinix to rent out bare metal Arm servers
Data center giant Equinix has announced that the company is leasing bare metal servers equipped with Arm processors. The company already offered x86-based bare metal servers for some time.
The new service is called Equinix Metal and uses Ampere eMAG-processors with 32 Arm v8 cores and a 3.3GHz c... Read more
Google Anthos update focuses on modernizing applications
Google has further expanded the capabilities of its hybrid cloud development and management platform Google Anthos. The update focuses on modernizing the most critical business applications. This needs to be faster and more flexible.
With the Google Anthos platform, companies can develop c... Read more
Equinix acquires Packet for adventure in the network edge
Equinix, operator of data centers, has bought the start-up Packet for a move to the edge computing market. Packet offers hosted bare metal servers; Equinix wants to use the acquisition to improve its own bare metal offering.
Packet's bare metal servers allow customers to manage all layers above ... Read more
Cloudborne vulnerability exposes cloud servers to hackers
A new vulnerability has been found that may enable hackers to capture data that companies store in the cloud. This is a vulnerability called Cloudborne, which affects certain components of the motherboard of servers that are often found in cloud provider data centers.
Researchers from the company Ec... Read more