As widespread as Kubernetes has become in container orchestration for enterprise data management technology, its success is also heavily dependent on the ability to manage complexity and raise the level of innovation to meet networking needs. The community of engineers surrounding Kubernetes has focused on building new developer tools to address pain points in information technology ...

As the de facto standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes is expected to benefit from growing adoption by companies, with the application container market rising to a projected $2.7 billion by 2020. The open-source technology created by Google has become enormously popular, yet there are still important questions surrounding how it will become effectively monetized. “For the ...

The world’s finest wines often take years to age. Well-made furniture is usually assembled over many months in the workshop of highly skilled artisans. Yet when it comes to running enterprise software applications, the mode is usually, “Let’s get it out by Friday, but we have to figure out the infrastructure first.” The information technology fire ...

Among the many things that information technology customers have on their holiday wishlists this season, one likely top request is hybrid-cloud consistency. They want the same software to manage public cloud and on-premises data centers and remove infrastructure management headaches. Last month, the partnership of VMware Cloud and Amazon Web Services Inc. received another boost ...

In an episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” this year, two of the characters build a startup company that offers image recognition technology to distinguish what is truly a hot dog and what is not. Clips of the segment spread like wildfire around Silicon Valley, and several enterprising developers actually built real hot dog recognition apps. ...

The launch of AWS Marketplace more than five years ago heralded a unique opportunity at the time for customers of the public cloud to find, purchase and deploy software. The online bazaar has grown significantly since 2012, with 4,200 software listings from 1,300 providers. Just in the past month, Amazon Web Services Inc. has introduced several ...

For more than four decades, technology has allowed chip makers to place twice as many transistors into the same space every 24 months. This design capability, commonly known as Moore’s law (named after Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore), has enabled the rapid advancement of innovation from personal computers to smartphones and beyond. But the gift ...

When VMware Cloud on AWS was officially rolled out in August, the initial availability was only in the Western part of the U.S. Last week, the companies added the Eastern region and announced several new enhancements, including features for scale and recovery. The partnership between the two major cloud technology providers is further evidence that ...

Nine years ago, Apple Inc. launched the iPhone App Store, despite the misgivings of none other than co-founder Steve Jobs. The tech legend originally wanted new software applications developed inside the web browser over concerns about security and bugs. By the first weekend after the App Store launched, users had already downloaded more than 10 ...

Intel Corp.’s field programmable gate array acceleration stack offers tremendous potential for developers to deploy applications and workloads at maximum performance. But there can be issues when software programmers try to build applications for hardware platforms, including the time it takes. One startup company is creating new tools to make the job easier. “To develop FPGA ...