VMware pushed Kubernetes automation; Amazon promised a hiring spree; and IBM went all in on AI.

The SlashData and CNCF survey also found that somehow 14% of backend developers had not heard of Kubernetes, compared to just 5% that had not heard of containers.

The cloud management updates “really cut across both VM-based infrastructure as well as container-based infrastructure,” VMware’s Ken Lee said.

The scaled-down push is targeted at moving OpenShift out of the data center and public cloud environments and into edge environments.

The launch comes just weeks after Google made a controversial hosting decision for its Istio service mesh platform.

Cisco dished on cybersecurity diversity; Google's Istio move ignited an open source tempest; and Nokia’s new CEO confronted complacency.

The Kubernetes 1.19 release should have dropped at some point around June 30. However, external events altered that plan.

The deal calls for VMware to supply its Telco Cloud platform to support Dish’s burgeoning 5G network plans.

Ezmeral is HPE’s answer to similar Kubernetes-focused platforms like VMware’s Tanzu and Red Hat’s OpenShift Kubernetes product.

“While I am not yet concerned with the declining Azure numbers as the revenue base is growing, it's something to keep our eyes on,” noted analyst Patrick Moorhead.

HyperScale X marks the first integration of the acquired Hedvig technology into the Commvault storage portfolio.

The latest VMware Cloud on AWS updates are targeted at furthering the cost benefits of using the nearly three-year-old service.

“I do have deep concerns about the impact of this on the health of the community,” said VMware's Craig McLuckie.

IBM's Jason McGee said the move does not live up to what it thought were the eventual plans for Istio, which were to move it into the Cloud Native

Verizon boosted Nokia; Cisco joined AT&T’s SD-WAN lineup ; and Alibaba Cloud expanded its global reach with Equinix.

The deal will combine SUSE’s enterprise portfolio that is focused on Linux, edge computing, and artificial intelligence with Rancher Labs’ Kubernetes management platform.

Google beat cloud rivals, won a deal with Deutsche Bank; Samsung pledged 5G vRAN by fall; and VMware purchased True Visibility to bolster analytics suite.

Its namesake Data Platform monitors, protects, and recovers Kubernetes-based workloads running in Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

Cisco rolled out its SASE ambitions; Verizon teased its forthcoming DSS launch for nationwide 5G; and cryptominers attacked Azure.

Diamanti Spektra’s reaches on-premises and across public cloud to deploy, replicate, and migrate stateful applications.

The feature allows for central management of data protection of Kubernetes clusters running across multiple environments.

The new piece of the strategy is Ezmeral, a Kubernetes-based platform that allows customers to deploy and manage containerized applications across any infrastructure.

GCP also announced it had pushed 15,000 nodes per cluster in its Kubernetes Engine platform.

Chip Childers, who recently took over as director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation from Abby Kearns, has overseen several Kubernetes-focused updates.