"Our vision is to create one common platform that runs any workload in VMs or containers across any footprint ... with the same experience across the board," said Red
Nokia is striving to deliver a “truly cloud native” software stack that can run applications in containers with full lifecycle management and deliver microservices.
Exposures and data breaches due to misconfigurations have become an “alarmingly common” trend according to StackRox’s latest Kubernetes Security Report.
“We’re not going to convince anybody until you see our first market and you can touch it, and feel it, and see why it’s different,” said Dish's Charlie Ergen.
Cornerstone’s platform uses automation to convert any programming language or database into any other language or database and prepare legacy workloads for cloud-native environments.
Ericsson is also adding containers on a bare metal cloud infrastructure, which it claims can save operators up to 30% on operational costs compared to virtual machines.
Millicom is taking the Affirmed vEPC platform to deploy virtualized services running on top of VMware’s vCloud NFV platform to support mobile and WiFi services in Latin America.
The Linux Foundation's Heather Kirksey likened OPNFV's current status to the Gartner Hype Cycle and looking to come out of the “through of disillusionment.”