IBM adds AI features to Cloud Pak offerings
IBM has announced some new updates to Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation. The updates mainly consist of AI features that are supposed to take some tasks out of the hands of users.
In a press release, IBM has made an overview of the new features. The most important highlights can be ...
Amazon Web Services to launch its own public container registry
AWS's move is in response to Docker Hub imposing pull limits on some classes of customers.
Amazon Web Services is planning to create its own public container image registry. The initiative is in direct response to Docker’s decision to impose pull rate limits on Docker Hub.
The Docker Hub is...
Veeam commits to Kubernetes Backup with Kasten acquisition
Containers are the future of application development, according to many IT professionals. For the execution and management of these containers, Kubernetes is the go-to software platform. Increased use of containers and Kubernetes is to be expected. Because of this, data management player Veeam deci...
The OpenStack Foundation changes its name and its scope
The OpenStack Foundation is now the Open Infrastructure Foundation, with a broader portfolio.
At this week's OpenStack virtual developer conference, the foundation announced that it is changing its name to the Open Infrastructure Foundation. Speaking at the “Open Infrastructure Summit” the f...
Google Cloud adds support for Cloud Native Buildpacks
Adoption of the open-source technology will speed up the creation of containerized applications.
Last week Google announced that it will be adding support for Cloud Native Buildpacks several of its cloud platform services.
Buildpacks were first conceived by Salesforce's Heroku subsidiary in 2...
Cisco to acquire PortShift for Cloud DevOp security
The acquisition reflects Cisco's focus on security for cloud-native development environments.
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire PortShift, an Israeli startup that has built a Kubernetes-native security platform.
Portshift uses Kubernetes and Service-Mesh to deliver a single source of ...
AWS Bottlerocket container OS generally available
AWS has made its AWS Bottlerocket operating system, developed for containers, generally available. The special open-source operating system should make container management safer and easier.
AWS Bottlerocket should distinguish itself from the traditional Linux-based business operating systems. T...
Kubernetes version 1.19 finally released
After a postponed release date due to, among other things, the current pandemic, version 1.19 of container orchestration platform Kubernetes was released. Version 1.19 includes an extension of the support policy for patches, functionality around REST APIs and storage.
The latest version of Kuber...
Suse also contributes EiriniX to Cloud Foundry Foundation
Suse had announced that they contributed EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation. As an extension to KubeCF what was already contributed a year ago.
EiriniX is a framework for building extensions for Eirini, Eirini is a technology that enables Kubernetes based container orchestration to the Clo...
Red Hat continues to bet on Kubernetes with OpenShift
Red Hat puts more effort into orchestrating Kubernetes containers. Recently Red Hat OpenShift 4.5 became widely available, and the container specialist launched Kubernetes-based edge computing capabilities and improved DevOps tools for software containers. In addition, Red Hat is now working with I...
Dynatrace improves AI-based observability of Kubernetes environments
Dynatrace recently announced that it has expanded its Software Intelligence Platform to include AI-powered observability into the infrastructure layer of Kubernetes Environments. They now include every container, node, pod, and cluster.
The latest upgrade provides automated distributed tra...
‘Microservices are growing in popularity’
The use of microservices is growing in popularity. Researchers at O'Reilly concluded this in a recent study called 'Microservices Adoption in 2020'. Businesses are embracing microservices primarily to break down their existing 'monolithic' IT environments into smaller IT services that are easier to...