VMs and Containers on Kubernetes
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Rafay Systems, the platform provider for Kubernetes Operations, has announced support for running both Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers on Kubernetes through its Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP). To help enterprises that rely upon existing VM-based workloads, Rafay accelerates application modernization and increases operational efficiency for legacy application...
VMware Tanzu Application Transformer launches
Friday, February 4, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
VMware has announced the general availability of an Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu. Application Transformer for Tanzu is a tool that aids in the discovery, analysis, and containerization of legacy applications thus helping customers to simplify and accelerate their app modernization journey by targeting their re-platforming strategy on the well-known "5&#...
Intelligence cloud lands from Azul
Monday, December 20, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Azul announced Azul Intelligence Cloud, a new family of products that apply cloud resources to analyze and optimize Java fleets and provide actionable intelligence. Intelligence Cloud’s first offering, Cloud Native Compiler, brings elasticity to Java JIT compilation, enhancing the performance of Java applications in any computing environment, including microservic...
Kubernetes operations platform gets more funding
Thursday, September 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Rafay helps platform teams move beyond traditional Kubernetes cluster management to streamlined Kubernetes operations for modern applications.
Rafay Systems Kubernetes operations platform gets $25M in funding
Rafay Systems, the platform for Kubernetes Operations, has announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by ForgePoint Capital, with participation from ...
Beta support for Kubernetes announced by Druva Inc.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Druva, Inc. announced beta support for Kubernetes workloads which delivers complete application protection that is accessible by all teams, including the central IT team and DevOps. Offered through Druva Cloud Platform, users can quickly recover, migrate, or clone Kubernetes workloads, alongside existing data center, and cloud workloads from a unified interface. Combini...
Kubernetes advantages and challenges
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
In this exclusive Q&A with ADM, Sirish talks about how the pandemic accelerated the progression from cloud-enabled to cloud-native, he explains how 75 percent of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, plus how Platform9 is the outperforming leader in the hosted Kubernetes space among the giants.
ADM: From a developer’...
Freedom and Growth plans for Kubernetes from Platform9 lands
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Platform9 announced the availability of new Freedom and Growth plans for their Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) Service. Users can sign up online for free with the Freedom plan and instantly deploy Kubernetes clusters of up to 20 nodes (800 vCPU’s). The Growth plan starts under $500/month, including an option for month-to-month payments, and provides 99.9% SLA a...
Service mesh for all
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Kong Inc. announced the release of an open-source project called Kuma. Based on the popular open-source Envoy proxy, Kuma is a universal control plane that addresses limitations of first-generation service mesh technologies by enabling seamless management of any service on the network. Kuma runs on any platform – including Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines,...
F5 Acquires NGINX
Thursday, March 14, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
F5 Networks, Inc. and NGINX announced a definitive agreement under which F5 will acquire all issued and outstanding shares of privately held NGINX for a total enterprise value of approximately $670 million, subject to certain adjustments.
“By bringing F5’s world-class application security and rich application services portfolio for improving per...
Kubernetes and AI are like peas and carrots
Monday, February 11, 2019 by Carmine Rimi
Kubernetes (commonly known as k8s) started out as a small cluster management project within Google in the early 00s. Today, it’s by far the leading container management tool, with 83 percent adoption, according to the latest Cloud native Computing Foundation survey. Forrester has declared, “Kubernetes has won the war for container orchestration dominance and...
The first Kubernetes native IDE lands from Red Hat
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc. has announced the general availability of Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, a Kubernetes-native, browser-based development environment that enables smoother collaboration across the development team. Based on the open source Eclipse Che integrated development environment (IDE) project, CodeReady Workspaces is optimized for Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterpr...
Container security considerations for developers
Monday, October 29, 2018 by Richard Harris
On the path to a secure digital business, secure service containers bring the best of agility and security to development teams – a growing concern for companies from startups to the Fortune 500. By moving the security concern out of the application layer into an encompassing container platform, one provides a very elegant solution to significantly reduced attack ...
PHP support reaches Instana microservice monitoring
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 by Richard Harris
Instana announced functional enhancements around code-level visibility and monitoring that help make it easier for DevOps to monitor microservice applications. The enhancements include automatic instrumentation for applications written in PHP. The company also announced the addition of REST API support to its Python Monitoring capabilities.
“With polyglot micro...
IBM expands of cloud capabilities to 18 new locations
Monday, June 18, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
IBM announced a major expansion of its cloud capabilities with plans to launch 18 new availability zones for the IBM Cloud across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
"The world's biggest companies work with IBM to migrate them to the cloud because we know their technology and unique business needs as they bridge their past with the future," sa...
Using AppDynamics for Kubernetes and CloudCenter 4.9 together
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Cisco has announced Kubernetes support for AppDynamics and Cisco CloudCenter, enabling enterprises to quickly adopt Kubernetes in production, and create and modernize their applications for the multicloud era. Now, enterprises can easily harness the value of Kubernetes to help deliver better user experiences.Companies are rapidly adopting containers on the promise of in...
Rapid production debugging solution launches by Rookout
Monday, April 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
Rookout has announced their launch and $4.2 million in funding by TLV Partners and Emerge. Using Rookout, a company can tackle bugs and understand issues by collecting and pipelining data on-demand, without any need for coding, re-deploying or restarting their applications.Tackling a bug or an issue often means writing extra code, testing it, getting it approved, pushin...
GitLab now offers native integration into Google Kubernetes
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
GitLab in collaboration with Google Cloud is offering native integration into Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The integration enables GitLab developers to take advantage of Auto DevOps, by simplifying the complexity of setting up and deploying to a Kubernetes cluster.As software development teams adopt modern Cloud Native development practices, using microservices and c...
Kubernetes platform helps simplify the app dev process
Monday, February 26, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kublr has developed an enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform that’s not tied to a single cloud, PaaS, OS, or technology stack. With the launch of Kublr 1.8, Kublr is introducing its self-service control plane that enables simplified Kubernetes deployment and management. The Kublr control plane empowers enterprises to run Kubernetes in production at scale out-of-the-box -...
Introduction to Kubernetes from The Linux Foundation released
Monday, July 10, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, has announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is now available. The free course, LFS158x - Introduction to Kubernetes, is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning platform founded in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of T...
JBoss Fuse 6.3 integration services for Red Hat OpenShift released
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Red Hat announced the latest update to the Red Hat JBoss Fuse-based integration service on Red Hat OpenShift. With the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-based SaaS systems, and new data streams, organizations can face increasing pressure to more quickly deliver innovative new services. Traditional centralized, monolithic ESB-style integration approaches...
New release of Aqua security platform includes secrets management
Friday, February 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Aqua Security, a platform provider for securing containerized applications, has announced the release of version 2.0 of its Container Security Platform (CSP). A major requirement for securing containerized applications is ensuring that containers can only communicate within their permitted network segment, limiting the “blast radius” in case of an attack. The challenge ...
XebiaLabs Releases New Integrations to Help Deliver Enterprise Software Better
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
XebiaLabs just announced the availability of several new integrations, including plugins for Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Docker and Ansible. These integrations help enterprise IT teams better manage container deployments and orchestrate complex DevOps tool chains across different technology platforms and application technologies. As a result, organizations gain the...
Kontena Container Now Available on Packet Bare Metal Servers
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kontena just announced that it is partnering with Packet, creator of an API-driven, bare metal platform. The partnership consists of a ready-made version of the Kontena container and microservices platform that runs on Packet’s bare metal servers. The combined technology provides an extremely fast and developer-friendly environment to run applications in conta...
How Software Defined Networking Is Changing App Development
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Midokura is a global software innovator in network virtualization founded in 2010. The co-founders began their careers building distributed systems for the world’s preeminent e-commerce website: Amazon.com. Recognizing that companies around the world faced similar challenges and needed networking infrastructure not found in conventional networking, they applied th...
VMware Releases New Support for ProductionGrade Containerized Applications
Sunday, September 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
VMware has announced new capabilities of VMware vSphere Integrated Containers, which provides companies with a Docker compatible interface for running on existing vSphere infrastructure which can help simplify the delivery of containers and application services into production in virtual environments whether on-premises or in the public cloud. VMware vSphere provid...
Twistlock Releases New Security Platform for Container Environments
Thursday, May 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Twistlock has announced the release of Twistlock Runtime, a set of automated capabilities that defend against active threats targeting container environments. The platform is designed specifically to detect and stop sophisticated runtime attacks – including APTs and zero-day exploits – against containerized applications. Twistlock Runtime is a component within the ...
A Discussion on Container Security with Twistlock CEO Ben Bernstein
Thursday, December 3, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Twistlock CEO Ben Bernstein to talk about his company’s Twistlock Container Security Suite and the recent announcement of its relationship with Google through the Twistlock for Google Cloud Platform integration with Google Container Engine and Container Registry.Twistlock came out of stealth earlier this year and on November 10 the company annou...
Hedvig's New Solution for Storage Provisioning and Data Persistence for Docker
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Hedvig has joined the ClusterHQ storage partner ecosystem to offer an integrated solution for storage provisioning and data persistence for Docker volumes. Hedvig and ClusterHQ collaborated on the development of the Hedvig storage driver for Flocker, a software plugin that integrates Hedvig’s software-defined storage solution and ClusterHQ’s Flocker container data manag...
CloudBees Releases Kubernetes Plugins for Containerized Applications
Monday, August 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
CloudBees, in collaboration with the Jenkins open source community, has released three Kubernetes plugins to assist in the continuous delivery of containerized applications with Jenkins. Kubernetes, launched by Google, is used for managing containerized applications – such as those handled with Docker – in a clustered environment. It provides a way for teams to wor...
VMware Releases Two Previews of Products for Docker Containerized Applications
Monday, July 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
To help companies build, deploy and run cloud-native applications, VMware has released technology previews of two new Docker tools - AppCatalyst and Project Bonneville,AppCatalyst is a technology preview of an API and Command Line Interface (CLI)-driven hypervisor that offers developers a way to replicate a private cloud locally on their desktop for building and t...
Docker Plugins Released for Jenkins CI Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Jenkins open source community, in collaboration with CloudBees have announced the availability of six Docker-related plugins to enable continuous delivery of containerized applications with Jenkins. Jenkins CI is an open source project developed for and by the Jenkins CI community and is the leading open source platform for continuous delivery. Built with Java,...
