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Red Hat has announced an integration of Ansible and OpenShift that enables organisations to automate the deployment of Kubernetes clusters alongside legacy IT systems.
The enterprise open source solution provider unveiled a technical preview of the integration at AnsibleFest Virtual 2020, which the company said expands automation capabilities for companies leveraging hybrid cloud architecture.
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US Supreme Court justices discussed restaurant menus, computer keyboards, songs and even the periodic table on Wednesday in trying to resolve a copyright dispute between tech giants Google and Oracle.
The justices were hearing arguments on Wednesday in a dispute that is worth billions and important to the future of software.
It was not clear how the justices would rule, but some of the justices seemed at least concerned about what a ruling for Oracle could mean.
Quantum Employment Design company My Digital has launched a real-time digital accounting cloud service focused exclusively on the needs of the flexible workforce.
The UK economy’s new workforce is made increasingly of “quantum” employees working and contracting on a part or flexi-time basis. Today, one in seven UK workers are on flexible contracts, up 25% in the last two decades.
A Canadian quantum computing company has launched a new cloud computing service that allows businesses to experiment with a 5000-qubit system.
D-Wave, which has been developing commercial quantum systems for over 20 years, revealed its next-generation quantum cloud computing service, Leap, is now ready for businesses to build quantum applications on.
VMware kicked off virtual VMworld 2020 with a string of new cloud services and integrations with the world’s leading public cloud providers to strengthen its multi-cloud proposition.
Improved support for the VMware Tanzu product range is now being rolled out across VMware’s AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle and Azure partnerships, partnerships VMware launched to enable vSphere customers to embrace the hybrid cloud trend.
The digital division of the UK Ministry of Defence has added Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to the suite of cloud services available to the UK defence community.
Defence Digital said the addition of OCI to MODCLOUD, a collection of approved public and private cloud services for application delivery and sensitive data processing and storage, will enable the MoD to meet the demand for a ‘real-time information advantage’ – a military term describing how information and IT is reshaping modern warfare.
A cooling failure at an Azure data centre in the UK has sparked system problems for organisations across the country, including Public Health England’s (PHE) coronavirus case dashboard.
The platform is used to track the number of new positive coronavirus cases and reported deaths linked to the virus in England and is normally updated daily.
Kubernetes has become the standard tool for running and developing container-based application applications in the cloud. But according to major advocates, like Red Hat, Kubernetes has a lot more to offer than bolstering application development.
With hybrid and multi-cloud key enterprise trends, Kubernetes is also increasingly being touted as a foundational tool for such strategies. Why? Partly because it allegedly enables portability, allowing organisations to easily move applications between environments and clouds, thus avoiding dreaded vendor lock-in.
The US Department of Defence (DoD) has reaffirmed its decision to award Microsoft with a major military cloud contract in the latest blow to Amazon’s attempts to overturn the award.
In March, the DoD said it would launch a reevaluation of its decision to address Amazon’s claims the JEDI award was based on politics instead of the merit of the respective cloud provider’s proposals.
Italy’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Apple, Google and Dropbox over their cloud storage services.
The competition and market authority said it has opened a total of six investigations into Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox’s online storage service in response to complaints about unfair commercial practices and violations of the country’s consumer rights directive.
Researchers have identified a new worm spreading through Amazon’s cloud that is stealing user credentials and deploying cryptojacking malware to mine Monero cryptocurrency.
According to researchers at Cado Security, the hacking group known as TeamTNT is responsible for the worm.
TeamTNT has a history of attacking Docker and Kubernetes systems and the group’s latest worm also uses infiltrated instances to scan the internet for misconfigured Docker systems for later attacks.