Mark Albertson
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Cabling is now code: How cloud and open source fuel Cisco’s vision for the programmable network
It would not be a stretch to say that 2018 was the Year of the Cloud for Cisco Systems Inc. The networking company’s agreement in November with Amazon Web Services Inc. to provide an integrated platform connecting Kubernetes’ container orchestration management clusters across AWS and on-premises operations was just the culmination of a number of strategic, cloud-related moves. ...
PREDICTIONS 2019
To understand what’s coming in 2019, remember these five numbers from 2018
As 2018 winds to a close, it’s worth taking a moment to take a brief look back and reflect on another tumultuous year in enterprise tech. Here are five numbers to keep in mind as the new year begins: No. 1: 2.4 billion That’s the number of data records stolen for a total of the ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
Kubernetes can handle the gnarly plumbing, but can it handle the gnarly problems too?
If 2018 confirmed the position of Kubernetes at the center of the cloud-native computing universe, then 2019 could well be the platform’s ultimate stress test. The widespread adoption of the container orchestration tool in the enterprise has helped pave the way for moving software workloads to public and private cloud platforms. The Cloud Native Computing ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
As cloud-native matures, CNCF sees mainstream adoption of open source
Every time Lyft riders order a car and step into the vehicle, they’re entering much more than a mass of metal on four wheels. They’re being propelled by a massive microservices-oriented computerized infrastructure fueled by the Kubernetes open-source container orchestration platform and other key open-source tools. Envoy, an edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications developed by Lyft ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
The co-evolution of Kubernetes and Heptio founder Joe Beda
Tracking technology’s evolution sometimes requires looking less at the products created and more at the people behind them. In examining the Kubernetes container management platform and its meteoric rise inside the complex world of cloud computing, it’s instructive to follow the footprints of two engineers with a special affinity for Seattle. Joe Beda (pictured) and Craig McLuckie ...
Czech competitors watch as Moneta Money Bank moves to public cloud
When Moneta Money Bank made the decision earlier this year to move approximately 20 application workloads to the public cloud, it caught the attention of other financial institutions within Czechoslovakia. After all, wasn’t there risk, both technological and regulatory, in moving key banking applications out of legacy infrastructure and onto a cloud platform? Despite some ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
Original developers assess past, present and future of Kubernetes
Before Kubernetes there was Borg, a system management tool created by Google engineers to run thousands of jobs from applications across thousands of machines within the search giant. The system got its start around 2003 as Google was beginning to scale up, and it ran quietly, without fanfare, for a number of years. But when ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
Service meshes and serverless are just a slice of what Kubernetes enables
After two days of presentations and dialogue with attendees at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle this week, observers have seen several key themes emerge, but prime among them is the emergence of container orchestration technology Kubernetes as a central point of activity within the “holy trinity” of storage, compute and networking infrastructure. “De facto standards ...
Mileage rewards program gets boost from blockchain solution for frequent flyers
It’s an all-too-often aggravation for participants in airline frequent flyer programs. Travel, accumulate miles, and then wait weeks to see them posted to a loyalty rewards account. In an effort to enhance the overall experience of its customers, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. has turned to the blockchain to improve real-time mileage crediting and other features ...
Life in the fast lane: TransCore turns to Datrium for speed and backup in toll tag business
It’s hard to envision a technology that has endured for more than 80 years. Yet, when TransCore LP installed radio communications in 1939 on the country’s first toll road in Pennsylvania, it sparked an engineering solution that has grown exponentially as the nation’s transportation infrastructure expanded by leaps and bounds. As automated systems replaced human ...
