In New Relic's fiscal first quarter earnings call with investors, CEO Lew Cirne said that its business continues to grow as it adds new points of visibility to its
When the hybrid cloud product, based on Kubernetes, launches this month it will face stiff competition from other similar services, including Google’s own GKE On-Prem.
At the annual Google Next conference the company launched an integrated portfolio of cloud services that combine open source projects with Google’s cloud infrastructure and security services.
The SNAPS-Kubernetes platform helps to deliver virtual network functions that use fewer resources, are more fault-tolerant, and can scale quickly to meet demand.
The design differs from traditional Docker-based containers that allow for a host kernel to be shared by running containers, which leads to more interaction between the host and container
For its first code release the OpenSDS project unified storage with Kubernetes for container control and storage with OpenStack for virtual machine control.
Other adoption challenges cited by the report include multi-cloud/cross-data center integration, data management in containerized environments, and security profiles.
The Google Cloud Platform Marketplace updates its previously launched Cloud Launcher service and offers applications that are tested and vetted to work on Kubernetes.
Although there are other Kubernetes projects about stateful storage they lack the enterprise-level capabilities to support more robust application sets, says BlueData.
Recent surveys show surging use of serverless platforms and the potential for performance benefits. But deployment challenges could open the door for Kubernetes to act as an orchestrating element.
The company's platform helps developers to automate their application deployment to Kubernetes in as little as 10 minutes and is more Kubernetes-centric than Spinnaker.
The move is tied to the company’s desire to further exploit Google's Kubernetes support. Although the timing is interesting given Microsoft's recent announcement that it is purchasing GitHub.
The platform allows customers to consume Kubernetes without the need to get their hands dirty with the deployment and operation of Kubernetes clusters.
Developer concern over Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub could provide a long-term opportunity in the open source Git repository community.
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