Pure Storage acquires PortWorx to accelerate cloud-native growth
Pure Storage is looking to expand its operations into the growing cloud-native and Kubernetes-based storage market. As a result, they have announced that they are acquiring Portworx, a data services platform. The company announced that it is paying $370 million in cash for the deal.
Portworx off...
Dell integrates VxRail with VMware’s Tanzu
Dell Technologies announced that it's integrating its Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure appliance with VMware's Tanzu solution. The move will lead to faster on-premises Kubernetes deployments
The company claims that this means Dell EMC VxRail is the first appliance to offer a fully i...
Nutanix presents all-in-one Kubernetes platform
Nutanix holds a large virtual event this week to announce the latest developments within the company. The most important product innovations in our view are the Kubernetes PaaS platform; Nutanix Karbon Platform Services and a new collaboration with Microsoft to bring Nutanix Clusters to Azure.
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Microsoft and VMware make Azure Spring Cloud generally available
Microsoft and VMware have made their joint Azure Spring Cloud solution generally available. With this cloud solution, developers can also use the Spring Boot framework for their applications from the public cloud.
With this managed version of Spring Boot, a product of Pivotal, acquired by VMware...
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...
NetApp wants to make its operating system ONTAP Kubernetes-native
NetApp wants to make its storage operating system ONTAP Kubernetes-native. It is doing so as part of its Project Astra initiative, which focuses on combining storage and data services with the container platform.
The storage vendor previously announced Project Astra. In a blog, Vice President of...
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...
Palo Alto Networks warns users about Kubernetes security flaw
Recently, an issue that was named CVE-2020-8558 was discovered in a networking component of a Kubernetes node known as the Kube-proxy. In the last week of July 2020, the research arm of Palo Alto Networks, Unit 42, issued a security alert that warns of the same vulnerability.
The warning was tha...
Nutanix releases new update for Kubernetes tool Karbon
Nutanix has released a new version of its Kubernetes management tool Karbon. Version 2.1 makes it easier for users to use container-based applications cloud-native on the Nutanix platform.
Nutanix wants to make it easier for Kubernetes users to run container-based applications cloud-native on it...
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...
What is Google Anthos? Is this the modern cloud infrastructure you’re looking for?
Google Anthos was presented at the beginning of 2019 as the platform for modernising applications and indirectly the underlying infrastructure. At that time, Google was talking about unlimited possibilities. Now that a year has passed, it is time to do a deepdive into Anthos. For what purposes shou...