“We’re a pretty acquisitive company and so we are always looking for partners as the overall architecture disintermediates,” VMware's Sanjay Uppal said.

The Cloud Native Runtimes for Tanzu acts as a further abstraction layer on top of Tanzu’s core Kubernetes focus to more quickly get event-based cloud-native applications up and running

“One of our key objectives at Cloud and Network Services is to pivot our software to an as-a-service model,” said Raghav Sahgal, president of the Nokia's business unit.

Dell's Chad Dunn predicts HCI will drive consumption models, hybrid and multi-cloud, edge computing, and cloud-native adoption forward in 2021.

The open source community is looking to build positive outcomes on some of the most troubling aspects of the past year.

The scant presence of open source in RAN causes lament among some open RAN proponents.

A growing number of cybersecurity vendors are realizing that open source can be a powerful tool for protecting customers and staying ahead of attackers.

451 Research recently noted that up to half of the vendors on CNCF's landscape taxonomy, especially the smaller players, could be squeezed out due to the ongoing pandemic.

“It’s natural that the security factors become critical because now they're suddenly very large production loads ... and the world's starting to depend more and more on cloud native,"

The promise of 5G hinges on adoption of cloud-native technologies and specifically Kubernetes as enterprise 5G momentum will stumble without a cloud-native platform.

Will the NFV legacy trip up telcos’ leapfrog into containers?

Expect network connectivity between clouds to get more complicated.

IT operations teams need to get ahead of Kubernetes deployments that will soon span the extended enterprise.

Service meshes could displace many L4-7 networking functions. But will they?

Achieving standard, commodity uCPEs will be a longer journey than anticipated.

It's been more than six years since NFV became a reality but for service providers the transformation is far from over.

OSCON 2018 did a great job of highlighting women and people of color in their programming.

The scale and impact of Kubernetes was obvious at the recent OSCON 2018 conference in Portland, Oregon.

Half of container users started less than 12 months ago, providing new blood for AWS, Azure, Google, Docker, VMware, Red Hat to fight over.

The latest cloud orchestration report indicates that CIOs, cloud architects, and other IT infrastructure managers need to educate themselves on an increasingly wide variety of options.

Our analysis posts provide a deeper dive on what certain trends mean to the industry. In 2017 these articles coveraged a wide swath of topics from the best tools

Network virtualization overlays will determine winner of hybrid cloud computing race.

The IT industry has a selection of tools for deploying containers. They can use a PaaS or a CaaS based on Kubernetes, Marathon, or Docker.

As open source NFV technologies mature, the rate of adoption should soar in 2017.