Microsoft makes SQL Server 2019 available on Windows containers as a preview
Microsoft has made its SQL Server 2019 available as Windows-based container images, writes The Register. This is a preview version of the Early Adopter Program. Previously, only Linux-based container images were available.
The SQL Server 2019 was unveiled last year. With the preview of that time, Mi...
Docker embraces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
Docker has announced what the company's container technology will look like for developers working on Windows. Microsoft recently unveiled the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), of which a preview version is now available.
WSL 2 has a different approach than the current WSl. WSL redirects syste...
Praqma launches Atlassian Software in Kubernetes
Praqma, channel partner of Atlassian, has announced the launch of Atlassian Software in Kubernetes (ASK), reports TechCrunch. This new solution allows enterprises to run their on premise applications as Jira Data Center and manage them as containers, using Kubernetes.
Containers are increasingly be...
Misconfigurations in root account of top 20 most common Docker containers
Sun 20 percent of the 1,000 most common Docker containers on the Docker Hub portal are affected by misconfiguration. This increases the chance that user systems are exposed to attacks under certain circumstances, according to Jerry Gamblin, principal security engineer at Kenna Security.
According to...
VMware goes all out on containers and broader multi-cloud
During the European version of VMworld 2018 in Barcelona, we were invited to see how VMware is doing and which way the company is moving. At VMware, they probably see standing still like a step backwards, because the company is steaming ahead, and it presented updates for just about all solutions. ...
Cohesity comes up with a platform for backup and recovery of large big data files
Cohesity, a specialist in secondary storage solutions, has recently announced new services for backing up, restoring and managing large amounts of workloads and data, such as Hadoop big data workloads, NoSQL distributed databases, containers of applications in Kubernetes. In addition, this solution ...
Red Hat and Microsoft jointly offer OpenShift from Azure
Red Hat and Microsoft have joined forces to now offer the well-known container platform directly within the public cloud environment Azure. According to both parties, this will bridge the gap between the on-premise data center and public cloud environments and thus provide a powerful stepping stone ...
Google Cloud Run brings serverless and containers together
During Google Cloud Next, Google announced a new product that brings together serverless and containerization. It's about Google Cloud Run. It also announced Cloud Run for GKE, which is specifically designed to run on Google's version of kubernetes.
The products are the result of discussions with cu...
Unpatched Docker hosts target of cryptojacking campaign
Hackers have successfully attacked hundreds of unpatched Docker hosts. The cybercriminals were able to use the hosts to run cryptomining scripts. That puts security firm Imperva in a new report, reports Silicon Angle.
The new wave of attacks on Docker follows the announcement of a vulnerability in F...
Red Hat launches Kubernetes-native development environment
With CodeReady Workspaces, Red Hat launches an integrated development environment for Kubernets and containers. The IDE is available to all OpenShift customers.
According to Red Hat, the glue between container development and Kubernetes is missing. Anyone who builds applications for containers today...
Cloudera uses Kubernetes for large-scale machine learning platform
Cloudera, a provider of modern, cloud-optimized machine learning and analytics solutions, will soon launch an çloud native platform for machine learning. The Cloudera Machine Learning platform is supported by Kubernetes' container technology.
The soon-to-be-launched solution, already previewed ac...
Red Hat optimizes its Enterprise Linux platform
Red Hat's new version of its enterprise open source Enterprise Linux platform is designed to help businesses and organizations better manage workloads across a variety of cloud environments. These are public, hybrid and multicloud environments, as well as bare-metal environments.
As if the recent ac...