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KubeCon 2020 hindsight: The ultimate abstraction of the cloud native community

Jason English — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:44:30 +0000

We can look back on the recent virtual KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2020 event as marking the inflection point of Kubernetes becoming a ubiquitous architectural unit of enterprise computing of the future. More than 25,000 attended online, and millions more have downloaded hundreds of unique cloud native project binaries and packaged distributions at every stage of development — […]

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Red Hat ties Ansible automation to Kubernetes cluster management

Paul Gillin — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:30:58 +0000

Red Hat Inc. is again demonstrating why it paid $100 million for open-source automation startup Ansible Inc. in 2015. The company today announced it’s integrating its Ansible Automation Platform and Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes product lines to improve automation in cloud-native infrastructure. Red Hat said the move is “intended to help drive application modernization […]

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Google Cloud adds Cloud Native Buildpacks to boost container projects

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:53:39 +0000

Google LLC today announced that several of the core services in its cloud platform are receiving support for Cloud Native Buildpacks, an open-source technology designed to speed up the creation of containerized applications. The search giant also released open-source templates to ease adoption of the technology for customers. Software containers host the components of modern applications […]

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These are the top 5 enterprise questions on containers and Kubernetes

Arun Chandrasekaran — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:49:25 +0000

Despite having been around for over a decade, containers have significantly grown in popularity and adoption over the past few years. In fact, by 2025, more than 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 35% in 2019. The dramatic rise of containers and […]

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Data firehose: Next generation of streaming technologies goes cloud-native

Jason Bloomberg — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:49:08 +0000

Real-time streaming data has become a reality for an increasing number of enterprise applications. From the “internet of things” to artificial intelligence, from mobile analytics to a diverse range of big-data challenges, dealing with firehoses of information in real time is rapidly becoming standard fare for enterprise information technology. Over the years, many technologies have […]

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Report: Google planning to relinquish control of its open-source Knative project

Mike Wheatley — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:05:16 +0000

Google LLC is reportedly planning to relinquish direct control over its open-source Knative project to a five-seat steering committee that will have rules to prevent any single organization from having more than two seats. The plan is designed to stymie criticism that Google is secretly planning to retain control over key open-source projects it has […]

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Shipa debuts its cloud-native application management framework

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:00:57 +0000

Shipa Corp., a startup that has built a cloud-native application management framework for managing the full app development lifecycle, is emerging from stealth mode today after banking $3.75 million in seed funding round led by Engineering Capital and Jump Capital. Shipa is trying to make life easier for developers that build containerized applications based on […]

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Oracle launches a cloud-native observability platform for hybrid IT

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:00:21 +0000

Oracle Corp. said today it’s getting into the multicloud observability business with the launch of a new, highly integrated monitoring solution that provides visibility and control for applications deployed across various types of computing infrastructure. According to Oracle, its new Cloud Observability and Management Platform helps customers reduce the complexity, risk and costs associated with operating a […]

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Pure Storage buys Portworx for $370M to expand further into cloud-native storage

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:00:54 +0000

Pure Storage Inc. said today it’s acquiring data services platform Portworx Inc. as it looks to expand into the growing market for cloud-native and Kubernetes-based storage services. The company said it will pay about $370 million in cash to acquire Portworx in a deal that’s expected to be completed by the end of this month. Pure […]

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Meet GitOps, the key to launching effective software releases in the cloud-native era

Jason Bloomberg — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:12:55 +0000

The automation story behind DevOps centers on CI/CD, the continuous integration and continuous deployment that results in working code ready for production. Deployment isn’t the end of the process, however. Releasing code is the missing step — putting new software in front of customers and end-users while ensuring it meets the ongoing objectives of the […]

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PerimeterX’s cloud native approach signals the rise of serverless security

Stu Miniman with Mark Albertson — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:00:33 +0000

Fifteen years ago, global cybersecurity spending was in the $3.5 billion range. Three years ago, it was $120 billion. Next year? Try a cool $1 trillion. Some executives in the information technology world are beginning to wonder what protection $1 trillion might actually bring. Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that cybercrime will cost global businesses more […]

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TiKV graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for container applications

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:00:45 +0000

TiKV is now the latest project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an initiative that’s meant to help advance Kubernetes and other container technologies. TiKV is an open-source distributed transactional key-value database that’s optimized for stateful applications running in software containers, which are used to host the components of modern apps that can run in […]

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Beyond the fail whale: How former Twitter engineers designed a serverless database at Fauna

Stu Miniman with Mark Albertson — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:00:56 +0000

In the time it takes to read this sentence, more than 60,000 tweets will have already been sent. Twitter Inc. today has 330 million monthly active users, 1.3 billion accounts and 83% of the world’s leaders use the service. Yet, as the company’s 15th employee hired in 2008 saw it, one of the most powerful […]

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Rancher Labs’ K3s becomes the latest CNCF sandbox project

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:00:54 +0000

Container management software company Rancher Labs Inc. said today that its lightweight Kubernetes distribution K3s has been accepted as a sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Rancher Labs, which was recently acquired by SUSE Group, launched K3s last year in order to meet the growing demand enterprises have for smaller clusters of software containers […]

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GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner builds new tools for a developer-centric world

Stu Miniman with Mark Albertson — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:00:14 +0000

In a region known for creative company headquarters, Silicon Valley had never seen anything quite like what GitHub designed for its corporate offices nearly a decade ago. After meeting for years in bars and restaurants around San Francisco, the company’s co-founders took over a suite of offices that included a bar with beer on tap, a […]

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Open source shows its enterprise value as CNCF moves through its fifth year

Mark Albertson — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 02:00:32 +0000

As the Cloud Native Computing Foundation marks its fifth year of operation, the group’s growing range of projects highlights an important milestone for open-source computing. With continued expansion of the cloud native community and more companies, including many of the world’s largest enterprises, becoming involved, open source is beginning to define its own value. “It […]

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Traditional enterprise tests the waters of the open-source community pool as cloud native gains mainstream approval

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 22:30:38 +0000

Open-source software is no longer the domain of hard-core technology firms. As companies such as Conde Nast International Inc. and American Express Co. dip their toes into the community pool, major enterprise adoption is slowly becoming a thing. “Having this concentrated community and source of information, I think the companies actually understand the value in that and […]

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What would CNCF do? Team ‘cloud native’ tackles 2020 challenges through open-source ethos

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:36:25 +0000

In a year where cloud transformation became a do-or-die choice for many organizations, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is shining a light through the complexities of adapting to a remote-first world. “We are committed to bringing the open-source, cloud native way to help support this full global push to overcome 2020 as a year,” said […]

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Joy or horror? Corey Quinn calls it like he sees it in the cloud native world

Stu Miniman with Mark Albertson — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:00:31 +0000

The cloud industry sometimes takes itself too seriously in certain areas and not seriously enough in others. Corey Quinn is here to set the record straight on both counts. The chief cloud economist at The Duckbill Group (pictured) writes a blog on the firm’s website in which he has alternately lambasted Amazon Web Services Inc. for its […]

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‘Cloud bard’ Forrest Brazeal pinpoints failure and celebrates success in cloud native evolution

Stu Miniman with Mark Albertson — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:12:06 +0000

There is a right way and a wrong way to run a business in the cloud. Forrest Brazeal (pictured) has songs, cartoons and even a soon-to-be-released book on the subject to prove it. Brazeal, the “cloud bard” for training company A Cloud Guru, spent years working with enterprises on cloud adoption and is an advocate […]

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How cloud-native observability is transforming enterprise technology

Jason Bloomberg — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:43:38 +0000

In the world of information technology operations, observability extends the principles of IT monitoring by pulling together data from logs, metrics, traces and events to empower operators to identify root causes of issues and resolve them quickly. Cloud-native observability, in turn, extends these capabilities to Kubernetes and, by extension, the full gamut of multicloud hybrid […]

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Five questions investors are asking about Snowflake’s IPO

Dave Vellante — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:58:43 +0000

According to reports, Snowflake Inc. recently filed a confidential initial public offering document with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, with sources suggesting that the cloud data warehouse company’s valuation could be as high as $20 billion. In this week’s Breaking Analysis, we address five questions that we’ve been getting from theCUBE, Wikibon and Enterprise Technology […]

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Former Docker chief sees cloud native as a journey

Paul Gillin — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 21:01:04 +0000

As the former chief executive of Docker Inc., Ben Golub was pivotal in guiding software containers to their remarkable popularity. The self-contained software capsules that encompass applications and the services needed to run them have been widely adopted for their portability, compactness and simple provisioning. Gartner Inc. forecasts that containers will be default choice for […]

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Netlify’s JAMstack seeks to revolutionize website development outside the walled garden

Stu Miniman with Mark Albertson — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:00:50 +0000

Johannes Gutenberg began experimenting with the printing press in 1440, and his tinkering allowed information to be rapidly duplicated and distributed around the world. Nearly six centuries later, it’s a vastly different world, yet the idea of page distribution quickly and inexpensively remains very much the same. In the modern context, it’s all about finding […]

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Retooling technology for cloud native means upgrading people, too

Paul Gillin — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:51:31 +0000

When Rice University adopted a strategy to update its application portfolio with cloud native software, it needed to update its people, too. “We needed to retrain our staff,” said Klára Jelínkova, vice president for international operations and information technology. The infrastructure teams had to adapt to new roles in areas like business analysis, change management […]

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Running with scissors: Speed in cloud native requires rethinking security

Stu Miniman with Mark Albertson — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:00:48 +0000

In the cloud native ecosystem, there is a growing concern that “safe speed” is becoming an oxymoron along the lines of “jumbo shrimp.” Many impressive things are developed every day in the cloud and a lot of them can be created at lightning-fast speed. Yet a lot of mistakes can be made fast too, which […]

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Aqua Security revamps cloud native security tools and offers a new delivery model

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:00:25 +0000

Aqua Security Software Ltd. said today it’s expanding its portfolio of cloud native security products. The company, which has raised more than $130 million in funding, sells tools that can help to protect container-based, cloud native and serverless applications from malware and malicious attacks. Aqua’s tools enable developers to automate and improve container security and compliance […]

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As cloud native computing rises, it’s transforming culture as much as code

Paul Gillin — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 15:53:41 +0000

Rice University is in the process of shifting from a legacy on-premises enterprise resource planning application to one built entirely in the cloud. Along the way, the university is also shedding about 20 related special-purpose applications it has accumulated over the years. “These are little products that fit a space at one time,” said Klára […]

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DeltaBlue’s vision of cloud native focuses on app development without infrastructure headaches

Stu Miniman with Mark Albertson — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:48:08 +0000

With the rise of the DevOps culture, the challenge has now become how to enable “Dev” without the “Ops.” It has long been the goal of platform-as-a-service providers and various serverless and public cloud providers to free developers from operational burden. Yet as a recent GitLab Inc. survey has shown, the number of developers who […]

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Google Cloud rides the wave but remains a distant third place

Dave Vellante — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 20:38:49 +0000

Despite its faster growth in infrastructure-as-a-service relative to Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, Google Cloud Platform remains a third wheel in the race for cloud dominance. Ahead of Google LLC begins its Cloud Next OnAir online event starting Tuesday, July 14, in a series of nine rolling weekly sessions through early September, […]

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