App modernization is empowering enterprises to make data-driven marketing decisions, and the MarTech ecosystem is growing exponentially as a result. According to recent data compiled by ChiefMartec, there are now 9,932 solutions in the marketing technology landscape, a 6,521% growth rate from 2011. Marketing and customer experience practitioners have become big spenders on digital software ...

Knative, the open-source, Kubernetes-based platform for deploying and managing serverless and event-driven applications, is on the move. In March, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that it had accepted Knative as an incubating project after Google changed course and decided to donate the technology it originally developed in 2018. Red Hat, IBM, VMware and TriggerMesh ...

Organizations are interested in accelerating application modernization, and during the recent KubeCon gathering, HCL Technologies Ltd. launched a new initiative to do exactly that. The company announced the Kubernetes Migration Platform, or KMP, an automated solution that helps migrate workloads from legacy on-premises systems and Cloud Foundry environments to Kubernetes platforms. “The key attraction of ...

The major cloud providers offer managed container solutions to run and scale Kubernetes on-premises or in the cloud. Yet there are signs that the Kubernetes market has opened a new opportunity for companies seeking to provide essential operational support for what remains a complicated technology. One such firm is Rafay Systems Inc., a five-year-old startup ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has well over 120 projects in its fold, yet a grand total of 16 were the only ones to graduate through 2021. Service mesh framework Linkerd received its cap and gown last year. Linkerd was the first service mesh project to achieve graduated status. Much of its success can be ...

The enterprise world has seen entire businesses, such as Snowflake, Databricks and Confluent built on the cloud platform. These are essentially platforms built on platforms, and one company is pursuing an answer to a simple question: Why can’t every company do this as well? “We’re trying to help people build their own platforms,” said Bassam ...

Microsoft recently disclosed that 10 million users had given Xbox Game Pass a try. What those cloud gaming customers may not have realized is that they used a light, fast service mesh to check out the new technology. The services powering Xbox Cloud Gaming are massive, with nearly 30 Kubernetes clusters spread across multiple Azure ...

Open source is becoming mainstream technology, and that’s reshaping how it will affect daily life. An example of this trend can be found in May’s announcement by Red Hat Inc. of an In-Vehicle Operating System in partnership with General Motors Co. While the GM news attracted a great deal of attention, Red Hat also generated ...

The theme of DockerCon 2022 was “Discover, Learn, Excel.” The organizers could have also added “Grow” in keeping with the rising popularity of Docker Inc.’s revitalized developer tools. Docker held back-to-back funding rounds in 2021 and 2022, which netted over $120 million in new capital. Perhaps more significant was the firm’s recent success in meeting ...

As key leaders from the enterprise tech community gather in Valencia, Spain, for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe May 16-20, the focus will be on both the promise and challenges for Kubernetes. Two data points for the popular container orchestration tool capture what lies in store. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, interest in Kubernetes ...