If VMware had opted to create "yet another vendor solution," that would be "insufficient," SVP Purnima Padmanabhan said.

Kubernetes 1.28 has more than 45 enhancements to help improve resiliency and networking-related security and performance.

Nephio R1 uses Kubernetes as a foundational layer to automate deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and network functions.

Editor Dan Meyer shares his top stories this week, calling them "hot-button issues for the telecom, networking, cloud and cybersecurity ecosystems."

The vendor found its original container security strategy was “the wrong approach,” not resonating with their core user base — the Carbon Black users, VMware's Jason Rolleston said.

Cilium's 1.14 update takes it beyond Kubernetes use cases, introducing new mesh capabilities, high-speed networking and security enhancements.

Connecting networking services in cloud native Kubernetes is all about service mesh and the biggest project is (finally) graduating to maturity.

This week was about cybersecurity -- avoiding vulnerabilities, learning more about them, or CISOs dealing with the consequences.

Tanzu Mission Control Self-Managed offers air-gapped deployment targeted at data sovereignty for regulated industries.

Red Hat's new Service Interconnect offering enables orgs to more easily create secure application connections across clusters and clouds.

Truly sustainable open source projects require adequate resources to maintain healthy code and communities, Amazon Web Services' Nathan Taber said.

As compute demand grows and climate change worsens, it's "paramount to be energy conscious," Microsoft's Jorge Palma said.

Red Hat's open source Project Kepler measures the energy use associated with running workloads in data center or public cloud environments.

The vendor also introduced a reference deployment for Mendix apps on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.

The vendor also announced the first commercial collaboration with long-time vendor partner Samsung tied to Dish Network’s ongoing 5G deployment.

The platform creates container images that it publishes and stores in Docker-compatible container registries before deploying them to Kubernetes.

The cloud-native security vendor integrated ChatGPT to help organizations quickly secure Kubernetes clusters using an open policy agent.

The latest Tanzu Application Platform 1.4 includes "hooks into the enterprise world," VMware SVP Edward Hieatt said.

As 2022 draws to a close, the era of cloud shows few signs of the same.

The 5G standalone core is based on Cisco’s cloud-native control plane that uses Kubernetes to orchestrate containers running on bare metal.

HPE GreenLake for private cloud enterprise now supports Kubernetes container deployments with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.

OutSystems also unveiled an AI mentor system that "literally shaves weeks and months off of the development process," CPO Gonçalo Gaiolas said.

The cloud sustainability technical guides help "support the societal infrastructure for a sustainable world," VP Alysa Taylor said.

"VMware is leading the industry when it comes to sovereign cloud," said Rajeev Bhardwaj, VP of cloud provider solutions.