IBM’s Red Hat Buy Aims to Bring the ‘Hybrid Cloud’ to the Enterprise
IBM’s pending acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion “changes everything about the cloud market,” asserted Arvind Krishna, IBM senior vice president for hybrid cloud, as well as the director of IBM...
View ArticleVMware to Acquire Heptio for Enterprise Kubernetes Expertise
Augmenting its own growing practice in cloud native computing, VMware is in the process of acquiring Heptio, an enterprise-focused consulting firm founded by two of the initial developers of the open...
View ArticleGraphQL Gets Its Own Foundation
Addressing the rapidly growing user base around GraphQL, The Linux Foundation has launched the GraphQL Foundation to build a vendor-neutral community around the query language for APIs (application...
View ArticleOpenStack Foundation Expands into Open Infrastructure
The OpenStack Foundation is extending beyond its core mission of providing support for the OpenStack private cloud software, with the aim of fostering the growth of open infrastructure software, a...
View ArticleAll The 🔥Hot🔥 Infra Tech at OpenStack Summit Berlin
Though the weather was a bit nippy in Berlin this week, the latest OpenStack Summit that was held here seemed to spark a lot of enthusiasm over the new and emerging technologies around the open source...
View ArticleAWS Firecracker: A Micro-VM for Serverless Deployments
Sensing the need to bring virtualization-based security rigor and multitenancy to serverless workloads, Amazon Web Services has released as open source a “micro-VM” ideally suited for serverless...
View ArticleSaltStack for Event-Based IT Orchestration Across the Hybrid Cloud
SaltStack sponsored this story. Many IT operations teams turn to SaltStack for help in configuration management, but this is only a subset of the software’s capabilities. Organizations can think about...
View ArticleAWS Re:Invent Day 1: New Machine Learning, Data, Infrastructure Services
As in year’s past, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy formally kicked off annual AWS re:Invent user conference, being held in Las Vegas this week, by introducing a dizzying array of new cloud services,...
View ArticleAWS Extends Lambda Service with a Custom Runtime, Layered Libraries
Amazon Web Services introduced the world to the concept of serverless computing in 2014 with the introduction of its Lambda service, and it continues to break new ground in extending Lambda to the rest...
View ArticleQ&A: Rain Capital’s Chenxi Wang on ‘DevSecOps’
CloudBees sponsored this story, as part of an ongoing series on “Cloud Native DevOps.” Check back through the month on further editions. Turning your IT shop into a DevOps shop is the way to go if you...
View ArticleVMware Extends Istio into the ‘NSX Service Mesh’ for Microservices
Using the open source Istio as a foundation, VMware has introduced the VMware NSX Service Mesh to provide application-level visibility, control, and security for enterprise-grade microservices, all...
View ArticleThe Etcd Database Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The distributed key-value database powering every single Kubernetes cluster in the world has joined Kubernetes in being an open source project managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)....
View ArticleOracle Cloud Native Framework Promises ‘Bi-Directional’ Cloud Portability
Oracle has released a framework to help develops build applications for cloud native architectures, both those in the cloud as well as those behind the firewall. To be available both as a service on...
View ArticleTraefik: A Dynamic Reverse Proxy for Kubernetes and Microservices
An open source edge router with automated reconfigurability is finding a home in the world of Kubernetes-driven cloud native operations. Emile Vauge had created Traefik three years ago as a side...
View ArticleKubernetes Now Does Self-Hosting with Kubeadm
Kubernetes can now set up its own clusters. The most recent release of the Kubernetes container orchestration software, earlier this month, came with the ability to bootstrap its own deployments,...
View ArticleLinux Technology for the New Year: eBPF
In the year to come, we will start to see a change in the Linux kernel architecture, as a new component, eBPF, starts taking over more monitoring, security and networking duties from individual kernel...
View ArticleGitLab Uses TriggerMesh to Offer Knative-Based Serverless Workflows
Thanks to the power and flexibility of the recently-launched Knative, GitLab has provided users with the ability to execute their serverless code automatically right from their repositories, onto...
View ArticleKubernetes and the Return of the Virtual Machines
This week on The New Stack Analysts podcast, we take a closer look at the appeal of using virtual machines in Kubernetes environments. The discussion was sparked by a popular blog post penned last...
View ArticleDatabase Operators Bring Stateful Workloads to Kubernetes
Last year, Red Hat formally launched the Operator Framework, a way to customize the APIs of Kubernetes for specific applications. With the Operator Framework, originally developed by CoreOS before the...
View ArticleDr. Michael Stonebraker: A Short History of Database Systems
When it comes to understanding database systems, there may be better no better person to speak with than Dr. Michael Stonebraker, who, along with Eugene Wong in 1974, created the first working...
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