The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, home of the Kubernetes open-source community, grew wildly this year. It welcomed membership from industry giants like Amazon Web Services Inc. and broke attendance records at last week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference in Austin, Texas. This is all happy news for Kubernetes — the favored platform for orchestrating containers (a virtualized method ...

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s kaleidoscope of cloud offerings keep morphing, merging and meshing into new delivery models. The juggernaut just threw EC2 Bare Metal instances into the pot along with virtual machines, serverless functions and containers — a virtualized method for running distributed applications. And just announced Fargate enables users to mix different instances with containers ...

All this hubbub about needing to simplify the Kubernetes container orchestration management platform makes one wonder: Is untangling its complexity really worth the fuss? What’s the payoff? The payoff in the big picture of an information technology department will be reduced complexity through consistency, according to Chen Goldberg (pictured), director of engineering at Google LLC. “I think that’s ...

Two tech trends with a shot at dominating next-generation software applications are containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) and serverless computing. Kubernetes’ popular container management platform is maturing and adopting community standards from top players, while the serverless sector remains a Wild West of disparate initiatives. Will software developers welcome Kubernetes’ adult supervision or ...

Bad news for those in business to cloud wash legacy applications to modernize them without overhauling the infrastructure: The modern app is a cloud app up and down the stack, according to Kalyan Ramanathan (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Sumo Logic Inc. That’s the gist of Sumo Logic’s special report, “The 2017 State of the ...

What are entrepreneurs to do at a time when cloud technology is booming but many customers’ software applications are still glued on-premises hardware? Wrap a hardware appliance, software platform and select Amazon Web Services Inc. offerings in a single package like just-launched Zettabytes Inc. “It’s a software platform, as well as an appliance,” said Rishi Yadav (pictured, right), ...

What’s more annoying than forgetting the password to an email account? How about when an employee shares a password, which is then stolen by a hacker who uses it to breach sensitive data and bring down an enterprise. “Identity sprawl” contributes to today’s biggest cybersecurity vulnerability, according to Tom Kemp (pictured), chief executive officer of Centrify ...

SAP SE built its brand as the staid and solid enterprise application software through longstanding support and, typically, longstanding products. So cloud, with its agile, iterative, fail-fast approach could be an awkward fit for SAP. The company, however, is helping its customers marry the best of both worlds, according to Paul Young (pictured), global vice president of ...

The rich complexity of Kubernetes’ open-source system for managing containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) attracts diverse users and contributors alike. Everyone from public cloud providers to small startups to enterprise users has their hands in it; can they collaborate to control the chaos and bring standards to the maturing technology? The range ...

Within 10 years, 99 percent of the data from “internet of things” systems will live and die at the edge of the network, according to Wikibon.com analyst David Floyer. This means that edge device hardware will have to become a lot more hospitable to data analytics for artificial intelligence applications like autonomous vehicles and digital personal assistants. ...