When IBM Corp. acquired Red Hat Inc. in October for $34 billion — a deal voted for approval this week — it gained more than just a successful open-source company. What IBM bought was a set of key enterprise computing tools, many of which revolve around the Kubernetes container management platform, that could propel the ...

For many participants in the world of financial technology, 2018 was a year to forget. The market for initial coin offerings ground to a halt, buffeted by regulatory issues and a steep collapse in value. Miners have come under fire for the massive amounts of electricity used to mint new coins. Questions plagued the security ...

In the 160-character-fueled, fail-fast and break-things culture of the technology world, perspective is often in short supply. Judy Estrin thinks she knows how to fix that problem. The Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur can offer a broader view of the industry because she has been part of the tech world since the early days of the internet. ...

Contrary to the preshow hype at the CES consumer electronics show this week in Las Vegas, 2019 will not be the year that 5G fully arrives. Not even close. But the fifth-generation wireless standard is on the way and its long-term impact promises to be huge. That’s the takeaway from nearly three days of speeches and ...

The early story line after two mind-numbing days of press conferences at the CES consumer electronics show this week in Las Vegas can be summed up in five words: It’s all about the data. From the use of artificial intelligence and deep learning for powering the next generation of home appliances and cars to the ...

It would not be a stretch to say that 2018 was the Year of the Cloud for Cisco Systems Inc. The networking company’s agreement in November with Amazon Web Services Inc. to provide an integrated platform connecting Kubernetes’ container orchestration management clusters across AWS and on-premises operations was just the culmination of a number of strategic, cloud-related moves. ...

As 2018 winds to a close, it’s worth taking a moment to take a brief look back and reflect on another tumultuous year in enterprise tech. Here are five numbers to keep in mind as the new year begins: No. 1: 2.4 billion That’s the number of data records stolen for a total of the ...

If 2018 confirmed the position of Kubernetes at the center of the cloud-native computing universe, then 2019 could well be the platform’s ultimate stress test. The widespread adoption of the container orchestration tool in the enterprise has helped pave the way for moving software workloads to public and private cloud platforms. The Cloud Native Computing ...

Every time Lyft riders order a car and step into the vehicle, they’re entering much more than a mass of metal on four wheels. They’re being propelled by a massive microservices-oriented computerized infrastructure fueled by the Kubernetes open-source container orchestration platform and other key open-source tools. Envoy, an edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications developed by Lyft ...

Tracking technology’s evolution sometimes requires looking less at the products created and more at the people behind them. In examining the Kubernetes container management platform and its meteoric rise inside the complex world of cloud computing, it’s instructive to follow the footprints of two engineers with a special affinity for Seattle. Joe Beda (pictured) and Craig McLuckie ...