Software as a service is taking a big bite out of the licensed software market in the enterprise. Recent analysis by Synergy Research Group found that global spending for cloud-based software will exceed $100 billion next year and is growing at 30% annually. If software is truly going to eat the world, then SaaS has ...

What do free goldfish, puppies, and open-source software have in common? When the gifts come home, there’s actually a lot of time and expense that goes into keeping them all alive and thriving. As much as open-source tools have been a major contributing factor in advancing the cause of technology for enterprise businesses today, it ...

It doesn’t seem like much can slow the hot pace of container adoption these days, but a lack of persistent storage support for containerized applications could apply the brakes. Sensing an opportunity to simplify the scale-out and presentation of arrays and servers to the container orchestrator, Pure Storage Inc. developed a tool for developers that ...

One hybrid cloud data services and management company wants to make developers’ lives easier. NetApp Inc. recently announced general availability of Cloud Volumes Service and Cloud Volumes ONTAP for the Google Cloud Platform. The new solutions are designed to provide fully managed, cloud-native file services for running workloads in production and deliver storage management enterprise ...

Containers and cloud-native applications are moving into telecommunications as part of the 5G future. A proof of concept for how this might work was demonstrated at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in San Diego this week, as representatives from Red Hat Inc. unveiled a fully containerized, end-to-end 5G network that was built using open-source technologies. The buzz ...

If there’s one statistic that neatly captures the rise of Kubernetes’ popularity in the enterprise as the container orchestration tool of choice, it might be from a session held this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. The session involved an in-depth look at Project Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, which originally became a part of the ...

When a company’s technology is used by the White House, the Vatican, the Federal Reserve, and the Bank of England, the computing infrastructure behind it had better work. This is the challenge faced every day by Bloomberg LP, the financial, software, data and media company. And what many people may not know is that the ...

When Dan Kohn, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, declared this year that Kubernetes had “crossed the chasm,” he had the data to back it up. According to the CNCF’s “Project Journey Report,” 1,704 companies have participated in solutions for the container orchestration tool, represented by 24,000 information technology professionals who have made ...

When it comes to stateful versus stateless applications, the role of Kubernetes is changing. As a container storage company, Portworx Inc. has found itself in a position to observe the evolution of Kubernetes and its use in the enterprise, because the company runs stateful containers in production with DevOps in mind. Stateful, which depends on ...

It has been a little under six years since the container orchestration tool Kubernetes was initially released. While that may not seem like a long time to some, it’s long enough for the technology to work itself into the mainstream of enterprise operations to the point where businesses are applying Kubernetes as a new tool ...