Pinterest has signed a US$4 billion cloud deal with AWS, extending its cloud services agreement with Amazon Web Services through 2031. The agreement is Pinterest’s largest infrastructure commitment to date. It builds on a cloud relationship that began in 2010, when Pinterest started using AWS to support the reliability and performance of its core services. […]
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Microsoft has detailed a high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability that can allow a local, unprivileged user to gain root access on affected systems. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 and also referred to as “Copy Fail,” affects multiple Linux distributions used in enterprise and cloud environments. Microsoft said affected platforms include Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, […]
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Automating patching for container-based images has become a requirement for organisations running production workloads at scale. Containers promised faster delivery and cleaner infrastructure boundaries, but they also introduced a new operational reality: base images now function as long-lived supply-chain artefacts. Once approved, they are reused in services and environments, often persisting, unchanged for months. This […]
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Rubrik is expanding its backup software to cover more cloud databases and Oracle Cloud services, according to TechTarget. The company shared these updates during its annual Rubrik Forward event, which was held online. In the coming months, Rubrik’s platform will support managed relational databases like AWS RDS and Microsoft Azure SQL. It also plans to […]
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More than 400 partners from in Asia Pacific gathered in Thailand on May 9 for Huawei Cloud’s annual partner conference. The event focused on how companies can use AI to build better services and meet rising demand in industries. This year’s theme was “Go Together, Grow Together.” Jacqueline Shi, who leads Huawei Cloud’s global marketing […]
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European organisations are still beleaguered by storage bills as 50% of all cloud storage costs in EMEA go to data access and usage fees rather than capacity, according to the 2024 Global Cloud Storage Index from Wasabi Technologies. Still, EMEA companies see the value of cloud storage services and plan to increase their spend in… Read more »
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Cloud consultancy Rebura, which specialises in supporting AWS cloud migrations and modernisations across the UK, Nordics and central Europe, has been acquired by global technology distributor Westcon-Comstor. Founded in 2017, London-based Rebura supports companies of all sizes as they build and optimise their apps and workloads on AWS, increasing productivity, scalability, cost efficiency and security.… Read more »
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Benchling has launched its inaugural 2023 State of Tech in Biopharma report, which has shed light on the obstacles that biopharma encounter when striving to fully implement and embrace these technologies. The report surveyed 300 R&D and IT experts from biopharma companies large and small to do a first-ever investigation into biopharma’s use of an… Read more »
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Vertice, an optimisation platform for SaaS and cloud spend, has unveiled the results of its global survey, ‘The State of Cloud Cost Optimisation’, which reveals that organisations are being held back from controlling their cloud spending and gaining ROI because of a lack of alignment between finance and tech leaders. Amidst cloud costs rising by… Read more »
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The post below was written by GreenPages Enterprise Consultant Chris Williams and was published on his Mistwire blog.
So what does this mean? Is this (potentially) bad news for VMware and Microsoft?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss*
*VMware and MS are working on projects to get in on the containery goodness, so I won’t speak about that here. Instead I’m going to walk through how to set up your first Docker engine ON CentOS ON ESXi in your existing vSphere environment.
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