The new so-called Swarm Mode in Docker Engine 1.12 is optional: it can be turned off if you still prefer to use Kubernetes or similar. It is designed to be self-organizing and self-healing, which is a fancy way of saying the software automatically makes sure it just works as configured, rebalancing workloads even if a server falls over.Basically, you run docker service create and a bunch of managers are fired up. They break the service into tasks and assign these to worker nodes, which run co
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Der japanische Autohersteller Nissan verkauft sein gesamtes Batterie-Geschäft an den chinesischen Finanzinvestor GSR Capital. Das teilt Nissan auf seiner Webseite mit. Davon umfasst seien die Batterie-Sparte Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) sowie zwei Batterie-Werke in Nordamerika und Großbritannien. Auch Teile der Entwicklungsabteilung in Japan seien vom Verkauf umfasst. Das Geschäft solle im Dezember abgeschlossen sein.

Nissan will weiter Batterien für seine Elektro
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Chircop thinks: The container market is on the verge of being enterprise-ready, there being a vast ecosystem of developers and products pumping huge momentum into the area. OpenStack supports containers. So too does VMware, with Photon. NetApp has a container plug-in and its SolidFire unit is involved with DockerCon, as will IBM.In the fast-moving container compute environment, traditional storage is too slow, too awkward, too complex and over-expensive. It has to have lower cost and automate
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The big loser in all this is Google's Chrome browser. It may be the most popular browser out there, but Chrome is notoriously resource-hungry and can take up a lot of power and processing cycles. Other browser manufacturers know this and are increasingly using the issue as a stick to beat Google's browser with.Will it work? That remains to be seen. It's too early to know if Opera's battery saving tech is pushing its market share out of the single digits, and while the latest stats on Edge loo
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The Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing (CSLFR) has admitted paying off ransomware runners after one of its main test computers got infected with Truecrypt malware. The laptop was quickly isolated, but left the team's crucial test data locked up two days before a big race.Just knowing that we could lose everything that we have worked so hard to achieve over the years in 48 hours was terrifying, said Dave Winston, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Crew Chief for CSLFR.The data that they were threate
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