The platform uses events to trigger functions on serverless platforms from larger cloud providers like AWS' Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft’s Azure Functions.
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Company CEO Rob Bearden reportedly circulated a company-wide email stating that Docker Inc. has been “engaging with investors to secure more financing to continue to execute on our strategy.”
The company is offering Istio in two ways: as an ingress gateway for north-south traffic into the service mesh environment, and as a sidecar proxy to control inter-microservice communication.
The security unicorn says its technology is more effective than other SDN or hypervisor-based segmentation like Cisco ACI with Tetration and VMware’s NSX.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger thinks IBM paid too much for Red Hat at $34 billion. Meanwhile VMware paid $2.8 billion for Pivotal, and “I have better assets.”
The update includes SCM as a storage tier, dual port Intel Optane drives in support of NVMe-oF, as well as integrations with VMware, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
The company claims that simplicity and familiarity are what make Maesh different from other service mesh platforms on the market like Istio and Linkerd.