The CloudEvents draft specification provides a common platform for developers to describe serverless events. This will allow for greater portability across platforms, such as AWS Lambda and Google Cloud
Enterprises are balking at moving Kubernetes into production environments because of too many choices. It "makes them basically an open source aggregator."
The company is using SDN technology to combine service edge routers for Ethernet and IP-based services. Software control will come from a single common compute platform based on x86
CEO Rajeev Suri noted that "longer term, there might be opportunities." Nokia could potentially benefit from the woes of its competitors Huawei and ZTE.
The Cloud Foundry platform runs on top of Kubernetes, which itself runs on IBM’s cloud architecture. It provides a level of abstraction for developers working with the container orchestrator.
The new platform allows the company to get into the application space and diversify operations away from the increasingly competitive infrastructure space around OpenStack and Kubernetes.
The company is looking to support unmodified big data software in containers so data scientists can spend their time analyzing data rather than fighting hardware and drivers.
The company is building a software platform that can be deployed on virtually any edge device in support of IoT. This involves a lightweight software stack that can adapt