The vendor's 2.0 update includes testing and infrastructure provisioning capabilities that its CEO Joe Duffy said users are calling "superpowers."

Cisco paved Rakuten's virtual roaming road; VMware bolstered its hybrid cloud with Kubernetes products; and ARM joined the O-RAN alliance.

The updates include application and infrastructure additions designed to ease operations in a Kubernetes environment and further integrate VMware’s Kubernetes properties.

Some of the new features include better public cloud cost comparisons via integration with VMware’s CloudHealth and improved VMware Cloud on AWS migration.

The move targets the challenge of container storage by extending persistent data storage to containers running in the AWS ecosystem.

"Closed limited resources and ideas can never compete with something that is open to the world – and the world contributing," said Google's Kelsey Hightower.

KEDA was designed to allow developers to run serverless functions within a Kubernetes environment across other clouds and on-premises locations.

The DevOps monitoring platform extended support to several IBM Cloud services including IBM Watson and Cloud Foundry.

More than 225,000 branch offices have deployed VMware’s SD-WAN, said VMware’s Tom Gillis. “All of a sudden we’re No. 1.”

The carrier is “sizing our operations to economic activity”; VMware is helping Vodafone cut costs; and Snyk sees the pandemic propelling DecSecOps.

Chip Childers called the transition “a great moment in time” as Cloud Foundry continues to tighten its embrace of the Kubernetes ecosystem.

That challenge will rely heavily on IBM’s Red Hat business unit, which also received a new leader.

“As the 5G edge unfolds, we’ll start to see more of a marriage between the telcos and hyperscale clouds,” said Nick McQuire, SVP at CCS Insight.

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The work is based on the carrier's Conducktor internal Kubernetes platform.

The vendor's Managed Apps platform can oversee 10 cloud-native systems, including database and logging, monitoring, and alerting applications.

The application performance monitoring service launches less than a year after the company acquired SignalFx and Omnition.

VMware withdrew FY21 guidance citing coronavirus concerns; Kubernetes 1.18 ramped up Windows support; and NS1 CISO dished on disaster recovery.

Kubernetes 1.18 features 38 “enhancements” that include a “kubectl debug” command, improved support for Windows, and multiple extensions to the CSI.

Microsoft sunk its teeth deeper in 5G with Affirmed acquisition; Cisco Networking learned lessons during COVID-19; and Huawei boosted its R&D budget.

The adoption is another block in CFF's path-building toward Kubernetes.

The company has posted a 100% year-over-year increase in revenue during the past four years, and has more than doubled its customer base each of those years.

The job cuts include nearly 400 Cisco employees and 151 Hitachi Vantara employees.

The work is targeted at bridging the gap between VNFs that typically run on virtual machines (VMs) and CNFs that run in containerized environments.