The Pivotal Function Service is the first multi-cloud packaging of the Kubernetes-based Knative project and operates alongside the Pivotal Application Service and Pivotal Container Service.

“Obviously I love my vSAN child. It’s not as important as my NSX child,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said, referring to VMware’s software-defined storage and networking platform, respectively.

It affects all Kubernetes-based products and services, and it gives hackers full administrative privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster.

IT professionals list Microsoft Azure as the best cloud provider in terms of cost effectiveness, having the most advanced tools, reliability, and having the best support for container environments.

Google Cloud lands in Hong Kong; Infinera adds optical network to its open line system; and plenty of news from AWS re:Invent.

The service mesh proxy was initially developed by Lyft and breezed through the CNCF incubation process a year faster than its fellow graduates.

The open source platform acts as a next-generation hypervisor targeted at modern architectures and already powers AWS' Lambda and Fargate services.

Within GKE, Istio will collect telemetry about a running container and send that information to either Stackdriver or Prometheus to allow an organization to monitor the health of that

“When there is an economic recession that is when people pull in their horns," says Forrester VP John Rymer.

Its Cloud Migration Factory platform gained new automation features, while its Multicloud Management Platform was infused with ServiceNow support.

The latest update uses an in-house developed open source version of OpenStack that provides for more agility and a smaller footprint to support edge computing environments.

Scalyr’s technology centralizes server monitoring, log management, and visualization and analysis tools to monitor and manage modern architectures.

The company now supports the six largest Kubernetes providers in the world.

The OpenStack Platform 14 update makes it easier to install and run OpenShift in that environment and to run Kubernetes-orchestrated containers on bare metal.

The Ceph project is a unified distributed storage system providing applications with object, block, and file system interfaces.

Docker containerizes Windows Server 2008; Rumors fly that Thoma Bravo will buy Symantec; CommScope buys Arris.

While Cisco adds Kubernetes support across its portfolio, other vendors like VMware and IBM recently bought companies to boost their container cred.

The virtualization giant updated its hybrid cloud stack with new Kubernetes support and also announced a new integration with IBM Cloud’s managed Kubernetes service.

The deal was based on growing demand from enterprise customers that want to use Kubernetes as the basis for their cloud-agnostic infrastructure.

Developers are able to manage their serverless and FaaS deployments from the platform to work across different infrastructure environments.

Qualys buys Layered Insight for container-native security; Microsoft and Nasdaq partner on blockchain; Resin.io renames as balena, releases core platform.

The company offers open source-based software platforms that allow enterprises to manage distributed application infrastructure. It competes against companies like Puppet and Chef.

“Our goal is to bring a full software layer down to the lowest edge layer possible and to make building for the edge as easy as building for the

Red Hat is viewed as an open source software beacon and some worry a heavy-handed integration from IBM could snuff out that light.