Docker Releases Enterprise Edition with Multi-Architecture and Multi-Tenant Support
On August 16, 2017 Docker announced the new release of Docker Enterprise Edition (EE). Docker EE is a Container-as-a-Service (CAAS) platform that provides a cross-platform, cross-architecture supply chain and deployment environment for software applications and microservices built to work in Windows, Linux and Cloud environments. The Docker container platform is integrated to the platform infrastructure to provide a native and optimized experience for the applications. Docker EE has the Docker tested and certified infrastructure, containers and plugins needed to run applications on Enterprise Platforms. The new Docker EE provides a container management platform that accommodates Windows, Linux and Mainframe apps and supports a broad range of infrastructure types.
Quest Software released Toad Edge to Simplify MySQL Database Development
Open Source database management systems are increasing their market share dramatically over the last couple of years. Market Experts like Gartner are predicting a market shift from commercial, closed-source DBMSs to Open Source DBMSs in the coming years. According to Gartner, by 2018, more than 70 percent of in-house deployments will be on open source DMBSs and 50 percent of existing RDBMS deployments will have been converted or start the process.
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The rise of the vertical database.
Things are really heating up in the database industry; the last ten years have seen an explosion in the number of products and vendors (analyst firm 451 Research now tracks 386 different products on its popular ‘tube-map’ of the database landscape). The rapid evolution of the internet and the move towards data driven decisions across all industries has created a rich environment for database innovation. Read more.
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Changes and Enhancements in MySQL 5.7.19
MySQL 5.7.19 is available from late July 2017 onwards. Below are the changes in this version, compared to the prior one.
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