See “one-click” software-defined wide area network, or SD-WAN. See SD-WAN operators try to secure the network. See SD-WAN morph into a bunch of new vendors, parts, and even more personnel to manage them — all at a cost. It’s a high premium to pay for a necessity like security. Is there an easier way to ...

What’s the next Cloud Native Computing Foundation project to hit the big time? The CNCF graduated Kubernetes, but that doesn’t mean the open-source poster child has moved out; it’s moved up to bona fide enterprise readiness. Thanks to growing adoption and support for industry-wide standards, The popular platform for running containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications), ...

Things aren’t what they used to be in information technology. Legacy vendors, and even proprietary startups, have swift competition from open-source communities. The pace of innovation, new releases and updates in open-source is changing how IT teams build infrastructure and applications. Bloomberg LP figured this out through a time-and-resource draining exercise readers are likely familiar with: building ...

If a business thinks it’s innovative just because it introduces new products or services every year or two, it’s running a bit behind. Innovation in the digital age is a round-the-clock process. That’s why one-off innovations won’t carry a company far into the future nowadays, according to Peter Coffee (pictured), vice president of strategic research at ...

Why does the Cloud Native Computing Foundation now host more than 30 projects? Why are cloud-based startups coming out of the woodwork with narrow point solutions? Mostly just so users can have a better time with an application. But it’s all getting a bit weedy. How can enterprises pick out the right technologies from the ...

There are a bunch of ways to jump into Kubernetes, the open-source platform for orchestrating virtualized containers for software application deployment. An enterprise could run it on its own on-premises data center. It could also consume it from a service provider — maybe one running its entire cloud on the same Kubernetes service its selling. The latter ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s central project Kubernetes has suddenly grown up into an enterprise-ready technology. An orchestration platform for software containers, a way to run applications unchanged in many computer environments, Kubernetes is seen as validation for CNCF and for cloud-native technology generally. But CNCF hosts more than 30 projects of varying maturity levels. ...

Anyone thinking of pairing cloud-native software development with the security solution they bought nine years ago? Then a lesson in tech matchmaking is due. Boxy old security with fixed parameters will likely shackle the agility of cloud-native computing. The swift mobility of cloud-native operations needs an agile security solution to move in tandem with it. “Cloud ...

A number of computing customers lately are asking for a smarter network. This might mean programmability, transparency, multiple lanes for prioritized web traffic, etc. The question is, will software developers and administrators need to get smarter in order to use such networks? Don’t they have their hands full already refactoring applications and managing distributed cloud environments? ...

Supercharging its position as an open-source purveyor, IBM Corp.’s recent acquisition of Red Hat Inc. has helped spread enterprise adoption of containers’ virtualized method for running distributed software applications. IBM now stands as an experienced enterprise player with a new open-source toolset. IBM’s investment in open source goes back years. Big Blue went all-in on Kubernetes, the popular open-source container ...