What is the state of Cloud Foundry in today’s increasingly competitive market for leveraging open-source technology? Is it losing development support from big players like Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and IBM Corp., and will alternative solutions from major contributors like Google Kubernetes displace Cloud Foundry’s efforts?

Looking to answer these question and others, SiliconANGLE is at Cloud Foundry Summit 2017, taking place in Silicon Valley, California, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.)

Cloud Foundry Foundation, the open-source organization that heads up development of the open-source cloud platform Cloud Foundry, offers developers a choice of clouds, development frameworks and application services for building and running apps at scale on public and private clouds.

Google Inc. signed on as a gold member of the foundation in December, joining the likes of EMC Corp., IBM, Pivotal Software Inc., SAP SE and VMware Inc. The latest additions to the foundation include Orange SA and Minio Inc., the Amazon Web Services S3-compatible cloud storage server.

One of the founding members of the foundation, SAP announced last month the general availability of Cloud Foundry for its customers, following a year-long public beta.

On the other hand, HPE announced at the end of last year that it was selling the bulk of its Cloud Foundry assets to Linux provider SUSE, whose parent company Micro Focus International plc is acquiring HPE’s software business.

To kick off the start of the Cloud Foundry Summit on Tuesday, the Cloud Foundry Foundation announced it will help ease the management of Kubernetes with Kubo, an open-source project that originated with Pivotal and Google. Kubernetes is also an open-source software package, but tends to be difficult to manage. To ease the management, Kubo will apply BOSH technology that will make it easier for operations engineers to manage distributed systems.

Keynote speakers at Cloud Foundry Summit include Cloud Foundry Foundation executives Abby Kearns, executive director, and Chip Childers, chief technology officer.

Other keynote speakers include Opal Perry, divisional chief information officer claims, vice president technology and strategic ventures at Allstate Insurance Co.; Greg Otto, executive director of cloud services at Comcast Corp.; Jessica Criscione, director of technology at Ogilvy & Mather Inc.; Björn Goerke, chief technology officer and president of SAP cloud platform at SAP SE; Karen Holtzblatt, chief executive officer of InContext Enterprises Inc.; Mojgan Lefebvre, senior vice president and chief information officer of global specialty at Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.; Kyla McMullen, assistant professor at the University of Florida; and Stephen O’Grady, principal analyst and co-founder of RedMonk LLC.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at Cloud Foundry Summit, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage starts today at 10:00 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. PDT.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from Cloud Foundry Summit on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from Cloud Foundry Summit, which runs until June 15, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Wednesday, June 14

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE includes Cloud Foundry Summit keynote speakers Chip Childers, Abby Kearns, Stephen O’Grady and Mojgan Lefebvre.

Other guests include Brian Gregory, director of cloud strategy and engineering at Express Scripts Holding Co.; James Watters, senior vice president of product at Pivotal; Kim Bannerman, program manager of developer relations at Google Inc.; and Cornelia Davis, director of technology at Pivotal.

Live stream from Cloud Foundry Summit

If you are unable to attend the Cloud Foundry Summit in Silicon Valley, there will be a live stream of the summit on the official event page. Register to get immediate access.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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