by Melissa Palmer | Jan 15, 2019 | Containers, Linux, Melissa Palmer, Platforms, Windows
After a rocky start in October due to a bad Windows Update that impacted the brand new Windows 2019 platform, Windows 2019 is available and being deployed. With every new Windows version comes a host of new features and functionality. Let’s take a look at some...
by Melissa Palmer | Feb 13, 2018 | Containers, Linux, Melissa Palmer, Platforms
Fans of the open source ecosystem will undoubtedly recognize the names Red Hat and CoreOS. Red Hat has has long been the leader of open source in the enterprise with a huge following of many community projects including Fedora, Ansible, Ceph, and many others. CoreOS...
by Gina Rosenthal | Sep 5, 2017 | Gina Rosenthal, Linux
Solaris changed our industry. But according to reports, the Solaris operating system may be nearing death. Oracle, who acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, has laid off most of the remaining staff who were working on Solaris. There will be support for the OS until 2030,...
by Melissa Palmer | Jul 12, 2016 | Linux, Melissa Palmer, Platforms, Virtualization
It’s been a long journey for Kubernetes over the last year. We first talked about Kubernetes here on 24 x7 IT Connection in August of 2015. Back then, Kubernetes was just a year old, with its 1.0 release landing in June of 2015. Now, we’re up to Kubernetes 1.3,...
by Theresa Miller | Jun 20, 2016 | Containers, Linux, Open Source, Storage, Theresa Miller
As enterprises continue to become interested in Docker; the types of features we have access to and the available third party integrations become more and more important. You may have previously seen this topic covered on 24×7 IT Connection by Melissa Palmer....
by Melissa Palmer | Feb 9, 2016 | Linux, Melissa Palmer, Open Source, Platforms
Recently, CoreOS, the creators of a streamlined Linux distribution with running containers in mind, announced the 1.0 release of Rocket (rkt), their home grown container runtime environment. CoreOS was initially released in October of 2013, and has seen a massive...
