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.
An internal security audit found 37 security vulnerability issues, including five "high-severity issues," though fixes for those problems have already been deployed.
It was a key part of adding native integration of Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service as a managed Kubernetes option within its Cisco Container Platform.