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 ...

The latest innovations in the multicloud era were on display in Las Vegas earlier this month as Dell Technologies World convened as an in-person gathering for the first time since the spin-off of VMware Inc. in November. While there was plenty of discussion around VMware’s continued influence in Dell’s go-to-market strategy, the focus was largely ...

It began with a seemingly innocuous Twitter message in mid-December 2020 from SolarWinds Inc. advising customers to immediately upgrade their Orion platforms. Few knew or suspected at the time that a vulnerability uncovered by the security software provider would become one of the most sophisticated and far-reaching hacks in modern history. The 18-month anniversary of ...

In the mind of Paul Cormier, chief executive officer of Red Hat Inc., the importance of hybrid versus multicloud isn’t even a close debate. It’s multicloud all the way. “Multi is more prevalent and more important than just hybrid alone,” Cormier said. “One cloud provider might be better in a different part of the world ...

The gravitational pull of the on-premises compute environment in proving hard to resist. In 2019, Amazon Web Services Inc. opened its cloud-native doors to include an on-prem data-sharing option with the introduction of AWS Outposts. Now another major cloud-native player, Snowflake Inc., has added on-premises functionality. This week during Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, ...