Topic: edge
SUSE receives Common Criteria certification
SUSE’s flagship Linux distribution, Linux Enterprise, has earned the Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification for IBM Z, Arm, and x86-64 platforms. This signifies compliance with the most demanding security requirements for mission-critical infrastructure, according to SUSE. The exponential growth in IoT and edge devices has prompted countries to raise their compliance requirements for infrastructure providers, … continue reading
DH2i launches free DxEnterprise & DxOdyssey Developer Editions
DH2i announced the launch of developer editions of its DxEnterprise and DxOdyssey software, which offer free licenses for non-production use and trials. DxEnterprise enables users to manage and ensure high availability (HA) for a variety of workloads such as SQL Server at the instance level and also SQL Server availability groups inside or outside containers. … continue reading
Report: Open-source crucial to IoT and edge deployments
Open source is increasingly becoming a crucial foundation of IoT and edge deployments. This is according to the Eclipse Foundation’s 2021 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey, which found that 74% of organizations use open source in their edge deployments, which is a 14% increase since the foundation’s same survey from 2019. “We recommend people … continue reading
StarlingX 5.0 now available with edgeworker nodes
Open-source edge computing platform StarlingX has announced its 5.0 release. StarlingX combines technologies like Ceph, OpenStack, and Kubernetes to provide a software stack that gives everything enterprises need to deploy an edge cloud, according to the company. StarlingX 5.0 adds support for edgeworker nodes, which are usually deployed at or close to the edge device … continue reading
Microsoft announces Azure Arc updates
Microsoft added new innovations to Azure Arc, a set of technologies that extends Azure management and services to any infrastructure, including on-premises, multicloud, or at the edge. Users now have access to Azure Machine Learning, which enables data scientists and developers to build, deploy and manage machine learning (ML) models. Customers can train ML models … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Contour
Contour is a high-performance ingress controller for Kubernetes which provides the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy. Contour is currently listed as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubating project meaning it has to cross over from being used by the early majority to the late majority before graduating. The project supports dynamic … continue reading
Computing on the Edge with Kubernetes: Solutions to common issues
The four key considerations for deploying applications to the edge are connectivity, architecture, sizing and scale, according to Mikhail Kozorovitskiy, consulting engineer at Rancher Labs. Kozorovitskiy explained these considerations as well as how to solve common issues they run into at the Computing on the Edge with Kubernetes conference yesterday. According to Kozorovitskiy, the four … continue reading
IIC describes new framework for distributed computing in new report
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published the Industrial Internet of Things Distributed Computing in the Edge Technical Report. The report defines a framework for distributed computing that moves the capabilities of data center-based cloud computing closer to IoT devices at the edge. “In edge computing, data, networking, storage, and computing are distributed throughout layers … continue reading
Linux Foundations shows progress with its LF edge and LF networking umbrella organizations
The Linux Foundation umbrella projects LF Edge and LF Networking have reached new milestones that highlight trends that set the stage for next-generation technology. “Indicative of what’s coming next, our communities are laying the groundwork for markets like cloud native, 5G, and edge to explode in terms of open deployments,” said Arpit Joshipura, the general … continue reading
Distributed Clouds: Extending edge compute for new era of 5G & IoT
Edge computing requires new thinking on how to build and operate data center infrastructure. It demands purpose-built hardware and software that is easy to deploy and manage while simultaneously addressing the constraints of smaller and distributed data center environments. Attempting to retrofit technologies and products designed for large-scale centralized data centers has proven that they … continue reading
IBM and Red Hat tackle 5G edge computing
IBM and Red Hat have announced new solutions designed to prepare companies for the 5G era. The new services and solutions are focused on transitioning edge computing to 5G, and leveraging 5G for crucial use cases such as emergency response, robotic surgery, and connected-vehicle safety features. “In today’s uncertain environment, our clients are looking to … continue reading
Report: Complexity replaces cost as the number one concern for WAN
Complexity and application performance have grown as the biggest concerns for global IT and network practitioners as modern applications become more distributed across on-premise data centers, multiple public clouds and edge locations. This is according to Aryaka’s 2020 State of the WAN study. “The two are interrelated since complexity negatively impacts application performance and therefore … continue reading
