The new valuation inches the company closer to the $7.5 billion Microsoft spent to acquire rival GitHub.

The latest Anthos updates include an Istio-based service mesh and a serverless-focused Cloud Run for Anthos product.

Rafay Systems made available its software-as-a-service (SaaS) for Kubernetes lifecycle management and closed an $8 million Series A funding round.

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.”

Kubernetes becomes the de facto management plane for Apache Spark jobs running on YARN and Kubernetes within Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.

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 service mesh is based on the Envoy service proxy and supports microservices running in Kubernetes, VMs, containers, and legacy environments.

The Google angle hardens the underlying Google Kubernetes Engine node against rootkits and bootkits.

Chris Kozup returned to Aruba Networks as CMO; Mike Sicoli bids farewell to GTT; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

The company claims that simplicity and familiarity are what make Maesh different from other service mesh platforms on the market like Istio and Linkerd.

Splunk today said it acquired Omnition, a startup developing a observability platform for cloud-native, microservices-based applications.

The CDN's Edge Computing Platform Service is built on Kubernetes and Docker using a container architecture to support easier application deployments.

Google and Red Hat remain the two largest single contributing companies to Kubernetes, but VMware has begun to post a growing influence.

CEO Dheeraj Pandey said Nutanix signed 58 deals worth more than $1 million during Q4 of fiscal 2019.

Cisco’s multi-cloud management tool CloudCenter Suite is now globally available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

Rackspace rolled out five new enhancements to its hybrid cloud portfolio aimed at helping customers accelerate their IT migrations.

VMware hasn’t had the best reputation in the open source community, CEO Pat Gelsinger admits. In fact, he sums it up in one word: “Bad.”

VMware kicked off VMworld with more proof that it’s all in on containers in the form of Tanzu, which is its new Kubernetes’ portfolio.

VMware said it will buy Pivotal in a deal valued at $2.7 billion and security company Carbon Black in a deal valued at $2.1 billion.

The OpenShift Service Mesh handles service-to-service communication of Kubernetes-orchestrated applications running on Red Hat’s OpenShift 4 platform.

VMware bought Intrinsic, an application security startup, in its fifth acquisition in three months, adding serverless security to its lineup.

Kasten's flagship cloud-native data management product K10 enables enterprises to run stateful applications on Kubernetes.

Mesosphere's recent name change and operational focus follows similar moves by Docker Inc., Pivotal Software, and IBM.

“The foundational security of the cloud providers was less of a concern, and we saw more concerns over issues that [enterprises] have control over,” said CSA’s John Yeoh.