Kubernetes 1.0 was released in July 2015. The next year, one of the first major companies to begin using the container platform was Ford Motor Co. Ford was early to the cloud-native bandwagon long before the majority of enterprises hopped aboard. The automaker had a culture of experimentation, according to one of its engineers, and ...

When the Cloud Native Computing Foundation published its original “landscape” graphic in 2016, there were only three projects under its stewardship: Kubernetes, Prometheus and OpenTracing. A year later, the number had grown to 14, and by 2021 it had climbed to over 120 projects hosted by CNCF. The project growth was indicative of both a ...

On the opening day of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 gathering in Detroit, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation recognized Intuit Inc. with its “Top End User” award. What stood out as part of the accolade was that Intuit’s cloud-native developer community had operationalized hundreds of Kubernetes clusters that run over 3,000 services in production, ...

The WebAssembly wave is coming, and Docker Inc. signaled its intent this week to ride it as far as it may go. The container platform company launched a preview of WebAssembly, or Wasm, tooling during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022. Wasm is designed to run native code safely in the browser and streamline the porting ...

The field of high-performance computing has grown with the rest of the technology world, progressing from its use as a niche tool for weather prediction and nuclear weapons modeling to providing support for an increasing number of enterprise use cases. What this means for the future of HPC will be the focus during upcoming International Conference ...

At a time when many enterprise application platforms are seeking to support all use cases, IFS AB is going vertical. The company made it clear during its IFS Unleashed event in Miami Beach last week that it will focus on aerospace, energy, defense, construction and engineering, manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications as its primary vertical markets. ...

For nearly four decades, Jeff Kofman covered major events for ABC News across the globe. He narrowly escaped a firefight during a coup in Haiti, spent five tours covering the Iraq War, and watched a man die in front of him during an insurrection in Honduras. All of this was preparation for his current role ...

The cryptocurrency community is on a collision course with government regulators and the centralized banking system, and the outcome could have big repercussions for a digital currency model based on decentralized finance and peer-to-peer transactions around the globe. The coming collision was very much on the minds of attendees at Bitcoin Amsterdam this week, billed ...

One company was founded in 1969, and the other got its start a mere eight years later. Both have come together recently to reshape the database industry and potentially change future chip design. Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has teamed up with Oracle Corp. to extend the capabilities of the enterprise database through advances in ...

Enterprises are taking a closer look at securing information technology infrastructure, and it’s proving to be a tall order. The work to secure virtual and bare metal machines, in addition to the software that runs on them, has revealed a catalog of vulnerabilities that outstrip the tools designed to guard against intrusion. This is the ...