In Hillsboro, Oregon, Verizon is running a trial that it says is both an industry first and a glimpse of its network's future: a fully cloud-native, container-based element of its Evolved Packet Core, operating on its live network and serving customers.
The proof-of-concept trial with...
Nuage Networks projects highlight progress toward network slicing with data center SDN
The long-term vision of 5G includes network slicing--using virtualized network functions and software-defined networking (SDN) to enable operator networks to automatically create service-specific data pipes that precisely meet the needs of a particular...
Alibaba Cloud joins Cloud Foundry as gold member
Alibaba Cloud announced it is deploying Cloud Foundry on its infrastructure alongside joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member.
Cloud Foundry is an open source, multi-cloud application platform-as-a-service governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. According to...
Docker launches Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0
Docker recently rolled out Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0, which enables customers to run
multi-container applications with either Kubernetes or Swarm.
Docker EE emerged last year as a Container-as-a-Service platform that secures applications across disparate infrastructure, both on-premises and in the...
IoTium announces availability of OT-Edge
Industrial IoT company IoTium introduced a new container-based platform, dubbed OT-Edge, which it claims is the first edge-cloud infrastructure solution built on remotely managed Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source platform, which has become the de facto standard of container orchestration....
GitLab and Google work on automating container cluster deployments
GitLab is collaborating with Google Cloud to provide native integration into Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
GitLab said its native GKE integration will enable developers to automatically spin up a cluster to deploy applications in a few clicks....
Gluster Community announces Gluster 4.0
The Gluster Community recently premiered the latest version of the open source software scalable network filesystem, Gluster 4.0, with new features focused on container integration and storage management.
Gluster was founded in 2005 with the goal of simplifying storage using open...
China Mobile selects Nuage Networks VSP to provide public, private and hybrid cloud services
China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) recently announced that it has chosen Nokia’s Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) as the software-defined networking (SDN) platform for its public and private enterprise cloud...
ZTE adds container networking solution to TECS OpenPalette platform
Chinese vendor ZTE recently premiered an end-to-end container networking solution in the open-source network functions virtualization (NFV) field , dubbed Knitter, as part of its Tulip Elastic Cloud System (TECS) OpenPalette Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
According to ZTE, contemporary...
Microsoft gives sneak peak of Windows Server 2019
Microsoft recently previewed Windows Server 2019 with general availability slated for the second half of this year. Based on feedback from its customers, Microsoft is focused on four themes with Windows Server 2019, including hybrid, security, application...
Google announces Skaffold automation tool for Kubernetes
Google recently introduced a new open source, automation tool called Skaffold, which the company said facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.
Kubernetes is an open source platform that manages containerized workloads and services, where a container serves as a...
IBM announces managed Kubernetes on bare-metal servers
IBM announced its Cloud Container Service, a fully-managed container services based in Kubernetes, is now able to run on bare metal nodes.
Containers are a lightweight form of virtualization, which enable developers to run an application and its dependencies...
Kubernetes-as-a-Service comes to Mesosphere DC/OS 1.11
Cloud database company Mesosphere announced version 1.11 of its data center operating system (DC/OS) container platform, with updates centered around Kubernetes, edge and multi-cloud operations.
Mesosphere’s DC/OS serves as a distributed system, which provides common services to software container applications....
VMware announces new hybrid cloud capabilities
VMware announced it is extending its portfolio of cloud services to help deal with complexities and risks anchored to multi-cloud environments.
Hybrid cloud environments consist of using one or more public cloud providers with a private cloud platform. Despite the...
Popular open source projects
The open-source movement has gained momentum over the last few years. So much so that The Linux Foundation recently formed the LF Networking Fund (LFN) in an effort to place multiple open source networking projects under a single umbrella. These types...
Red Hat to acquire CoreOS for $250 million
Red Hat announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire container management startup CoreOS for $250 million.
CoreOS was founded in 2013, concentrating on containerized software. The startup is recognized as a leader in the Kubernetes community....
Cisco launches open container platform for hybrid cloud deployments
Cisco is taking aim at the multi-cloud market with the introduction of an open and production-grade Cisco Container Platform. Announced at Cisco Live in Barcelona, the purpose of the platform is to help customers launch and...
CNCF announces 15th project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a non profit organization dedicated to the development of cloud native applications, announced it has voted to accept Rook as its 15th hosted project, following Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI,...
The de facto standard for container orchestration
Kubernetes was crowned the de facto standard of container orchestration in 2017, with companies like Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Docker embracing the open source platform. According to the Portworx Annual Container Adoption survey that included insight...
Rise of the cloud
The cloud rose to new heights in 2017 as tech giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and a host of other vendors competed for market space. As we enter 2018, enterprises continue to look to the cloud to gain a...
Portworx and HPE deliver joint solution for stateful containers
Portworx and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently debuted a solution-based reference configuration, which enables enterprises to launch stateful container workloads with Kubernetes.
Containers are a lightweight form of virtualization, which break down monolithic applications into small chunks...
New Kubeflow project brings machine learning to Kubernetes
Google engineers recently announced a new project dubbed Kubeflow, which leverages machine learning to address the hurdles of launching convoluted workloads on Kubernetes.
Kubernetes is an open source platform that serves as the backbone of container orchestration management....
Serverless multi-cloud market growth compels Joyent and LunchBadger partnership
Joyent, a software and services company, and LunchBadger, a serverless microservices platform, recently announced they are teaming up to support multi-cloud serverless applications.
Joyent is a subsidiary of Samsung, which was acquired by the company in 2016....
Weaveworks announces free tier Weave Cloud on Google Cloud Platform
Weaveworks announced free tier of Weave Cloud for Google Cloud Platform users. The platform is intended to make it easier to develop, deploy and oversee container-based applications.
Weave Cloud is a software-as-a-service leveraged by app developers....
