Topic: cloud native
VMware scoops up cloud-native companies Pivotal and Carbon Black
VMware has officially announced it will be acquiring cloud-native platform provider Pivotal for $2.7 billion. The company first revealed it was in talks with Pivotal earlier this month. The acquisition will help the company grow its Kubernetes offerings. Pivotal recently launched Pivotal Spring Runtime for Kubernetes and is working on Pivotal Application Service for Kubernetes. … continue reading
SnapRoute delivers cloud-native network operating system
Saying that today’s network operating systems are keeping organizations from fully taking advantage of modern software architectures, SnapRoute today announced it is making available its Cloud Native Network Operating System (CN-NOS). The CN-NOS is containerized and cloud-native, and uses DevOps principles to give organizations the ability to deliver new services more rapidly and reliably as … continue reading
CoreDNS graduates from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The modern DNS server for service discovery in cloud-native deployments is graduating from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today. CoreDNS is the first project to graduate from CNCF this year, and follows last year’s graduates: Kubernetes, Prometheus and Envoy. In order to reach graduation, projects must demonstrate maturity, thriving adoption, diversity, commitment to community … continue reading
Cloud Foundry Foundation: Technology maturity is driving cloud adoption
As cloud technology continues to mature, more businesses are making the jump towards cloud adoption. A recent report from the Cloud Foundry Foundation found that if it weren’t for the cloud’s maturity and reliability, adoption would have diminished. The Cloud Foundry Foundation’s report is designed to look at what is driving businesses to the cloud. … continue reading
Twistlock introduces hybrid cloud, Kubernetes and serverless capabilities in 18.11
Twistlock announced the latest release of its container and cloud-native security platform with new support and features for hybrid cloud, Kubernetes and serverless. This is the company’s 15th major release in the last three years. “Since we shipped the first version of Twistlock in 2015 we’ve worked on 11,100 issues, pushed 5,800 commits, built Twistlock … continue reading
premium Five considerations when moving toward cloud native
Building applications had rapidly become the easy part of development. Whether on the web or mobile, these applications need a place to live, and that place is constantly changing. From local servers in closets to colocation facilities to the cloud, we’ve seen rapid change over just the last few years. Now we have containers and … continue reading
Envoy graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced Envoy is the third project to graduate from its foundation. Envoy is an open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native apps. The only other two projects to currently have graduated from CNCF are Kubernetes and Prometheus. According to CNCF, graduation makes a maturity level for projects that … continue reading
Aqua Security 3.5 comes with serverless functions and container encryption protection
Aqua Security has announced version 3.5 of its cloud-native security platform with new risk assessment controls for a range of cloud-native technologies. According to the company, this release addresses the need for runtime visibility and multi-application, multi-team policy management. A key feature of 3.5 is the ability to deploy end-to-end security for containers, serverless containers … continue reading
Twistlock provides insight into cloud-native environments with Cloud Discovery
Twistlock is open sourcing its Cloud Discovery tool to help infrastructure, operations and security teams discover the “unknown unknowns” in their cloud environments. Cloud Discovery provides insight into what cloud native services are running and where. According to the company, it can discover services like container registries, managed Kubernetes platforms, and serverless services through the … continue reading
Oracle revealed the Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment
Oracle is giving users an easier way to develop microservices-based applications. The company announced the Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment at Oracle Open World in San Francisco this week. According to Oracle, enterprises that are trying to decompose their apps into microservices are having a hard time finding the right technologies to help speed up … continue reading
premium Taking a cloud-native approach to security
We all know that infrastructures at most organizations are now oriented around the cloud, and that the cloud has introduced major changes to the way applications are designed, built, deployed and monitored. But what security experts may not realize is how significantly the cloud changes the security game. While you surely recognize that the cloud … continue reading
The Linux Foundation to unite network automation and cloud-native communities
The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaboration between the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the LF Networking community at the Open Networking Summit in Europe today. As part of the collaboration, the foundation will help with the migration of Virtual Network Functions (VFN) to Cloud-native Functions (CNFs). According to the foundation, networks need to … continue reading
