Enterprises have seen automation success, but not enough to justify further investments.

The organization's move adds to the growing push for simplifying container deployments.

The launch is a bright spot for Ericsson, which is in the midst of a re-organization.

Thirty entities have so far participated in the equity funding round.

SDAN is targeted at greater control over network access resources.

Challenge will be in garnering attention from developers.

The update allows customers to manage, scale, and upgrade their storage needs using a single control plane.

WG2 is looking to bring cloud ecosystems closer to mobile telecom operators.

P4 Runtime overcomes SDN shortfall of a programmable forwarding plane.

Eventually the carrier plans to merge all access platforms under a single SDN control.

Focus on open source viewed as helping to avoid vendor lock in.

Automated workflow allows serverless functions to be preloaded ahead of use.

Heptio CTO Joe Beda claims greater Kubernetes reach will be achieved, not by a single technology, but by solving problems.

Hyperscale support pushes the focus onto application stability.

54 percent of Fortune 100 companies claim to be using Kubernetes.

The initial platform support is tied to AWS Lambda, but Azure Functions is on the schedule.

Top end speed increased from 25 Gb/s to 30 Gb/s thanks to technology advances.

Rancher's customers have been demanding Kubernetes support.

Scality Direct is also available in a stateless version for hosting on a VM within Azure.

The move was a first for Microsoft as it grows open source support.

Data Box also joins the list of ways to transfer information to the cloud.

Both cloud subsystems are linked to a "new computing paradigm."

The archive platform is extensible enough to work across any cloud provider.

Organization notes container adoption has been "harder than expected."