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The largest pain-point today for organizations moving to a container strategy is that containers are being adopted and managed by developers. Operations and Security do not have the level of visibility and control that they are accustomed to. At the same time, for DevOps to succeed, security and operations controls must be as agile and move as quickly as the assets to be protected. Twistlock’s Container Security Suite, the only dev-to-production security product on the market today, enables just that. The Suite allows security operations to come together with developers to achieve security control and compliance without impeding the operational benefits of container technologies.

With a successful beta program that included 15 enterprise customers, including Wix, AppsFlyer and HolidayCheck, Twistlock’s technologies are now available for all eligible customers worldwide. This makes it possible for many additional businesses to benefit from the vulnerability management, fine-grained access control and smart runtime protection capabilities offered by Twistlock.

Through Tesseratic Container Engine, deploying a Docker container becomes extremely easy and developers can immediately enjoy the benefit of high availability, load balance and scalability naturally built on the platform. It truly provides an efficient platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for programmers to focus on service development without disturbing infrastructure. What is even better is that the Tesseratic Container Engine actually packages itself as a container, so that it can be easily run on any public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, OpenStack or even bare metals. It provides flexibility and high mobility for developers to build their services wherever they want. Via Tesseratic Container Engine, orchestration has never been this easy and that brings DevOps into real implementation. If agility is king, then TC Engine is the king of agility.

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in security software solutions, today announced it has joined the VCE Select Program, to bundle Trend Micro Deep Security with the VCE converged and hyper-converged infrastructure systems, offering customers and partners security solutions for easier consumption. Trend Micro Deep Security has received both Vblock Ready and VCE Validation Ready certifications. With this step, VCE and Trend Micro significantly deepen their alliance and commitment to customers and partners to strengthen cloud security.

“By joining the VCE Select Program, VCE and Trend Micro can offer customers a seamless experience securing their cloud and data centers, allowing them to focus on business objectives rather than infrastructure compliance and security,” said Partha Panda, vice president of global channel & strategic alliance, Trend Micro. “The close alliance with VCE confirms our commitment to deliver best-in-class security solutions to our customers as they are adopting our joint solution to secure their enterprise workloads.”

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers a comprehensive set of integrated, subscription-based infrastructure services that enable businesses to run any workload in an enterprise-grade cloud-managed, hosted, and supported by Oracle. Oracle IaaS offers a set of core capabilities, like elastic compute and storage to help customers quickly reach their IT goals.

"With the threat landscape still evolving, our latest edition of Technology Radar continues to focus on security and innovative approaches," said Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks. "In addition, we are seeing exciting growth and investment around microservices, opening up new opportunities for developers to create more maneuverable architectures. And the explosion in container ecosystems is helping reduce the friction of reliably building and deploying applications to the cloud."

PSB is an open, software-enabled platform for delivering dedicated services based on NFV technology to CenturyLink’s enterprise and small and mid-sized business (SMB) customers at any time regardless of their location. It places applications and services close to the network edge so they can be deployed, modified and scaled rapidly as business demands change. CenturyLink was one of the first providers to use NFV to deploy firewalls and content distribution networks. The company recently announced that, in the coming months, it expects to begin deploying a range of virtualized data and voice infrastructure services, including customer premises endpoints.

Grazed from CIO. Author: Clint Boulton.

To make drilling more efficient during a commodities industry downturn, Laredo Petroleum is turning to cloud applications from a Silicon Valley startup to correlate production and operational costs. An offhand remark about hating spreadsheets led Laredo Petroleum CIO Lars Crotwell to deploy analytics software to help the company curb production costs.

Crotwell, during a phone call with a friend in 2013, complained that business managers were cross-referencing data from dozens of Excel files to understand why operating costs for some wells were higher than those producing twice as much oil. "We were using a lot of homegrown spreadsheets and it was like herding cats," says Crotwell, who manages IT for publicly traded Laredo, which produces 15 million barrels of oil annually from 1,000 wells situated in the Permian Basin of West Texas…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cio.com/article/3003498/cloud-computing/oil-company-hopes-to-strike-efficiency-with-cloud-analytics.html

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Oleg Dulin.

On October 21st, HP officially announced what many of us anticipated for months. After months of denials and flip-flopping they will shut down their HP Helion Public Cloud service. How does their SLA stack up against other cloud providers now? The problem with HP’s cloud strategy was simple:

In April 2015, Hilf told the New York Times. "We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. It turns out that it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head." HP offered a small subset of features cloud adopters look for. Their compute service offered a fraction of what AWS EC2 service does, at prices starting at 3-times those of EC2…

Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Gary Hilson.

Microsoft Corp. rolled into town Monday with its Cloud Roadshow aimed at providing an exclusive training session for IT staff. The educational tour comes on the heels of the Oracle’s OpenWorld conference where CEO Mark Hurd boldly stated Oracle Corp. was best positioned to deliver on the promise of cloud computing and that it and one other company would own the lion’s share of the market by 2025. Julia White, general manager, cloud platforms product management at Microsoft, addressed those claims in a roundtable with local journalists following a keynote where she outlined the key elements of the company’s strategy and portfolio.

White said Oracle is actually late to the cloud. “It has been building on-premise technologies and you have to fundamentally shift that at a deep level. I think they have a pretty long journey ahead.” She said Microsoft has adopted a DevOps model where the people who code the services are the ones operating those services as well, and was confident that the Microsoft technology stack does in fact stack up well against Oracle’s.

Read more from the source @ http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/microsoft-keeps-it-cloud-open-yet-secure-for-hybrid-enterprises/378334#ixzz3r75MNL2a