Among the many announcements made by Oracle during Oracle CloudWorld in mid-October was the introduction of a cloud-based data lakehouse to support enterprise analytics projects. Designed as part of Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave database platform, Lakehouse was accompanied by claims from the company that the offering would deliver faster performance than competing products. Claims such as ...

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. launched its new ProLiant RL300 Gen 11 server in June, the company’s investment in its hardware line made a statement about the hybrid future. HPE signaled that enterprise customers were looking for server vendors to deliver end-to-end security, optimized performance per workload, and a fully managed environment that can be ...

Banking security has evolved as one of the most challenging in the IT industry because of the number of users and amount of money at stake. These dynamics make it equally difficult for developers to build the necessary service-oriented infrastructure without opening massive holes in security. ING Bank N.V. believes it has found a solution ...

After three full days in Detroit, the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA gathering came to a close, marked by open-source project news and expanding enterprise use cases for Kubernetes. Several key themes emerged during the week, with one that stood out in particular. “The big story was security; the software supply chain was the number one ...

Following two full days at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, analysts onsite gained a clearer sense of the key themes. One theme involves a realization that open-source technologies have become ingrained in the backbone of enterprise computing, and future work in the open-source community will be geared toward reducing operational friction. “This conference still feels very ...

Matt Klein’s Twitter feed lists his title as “Plumber,” a commentary on how the software engineer at Lyft Inc. views his current workload as a maintainer for one of the most popular open-source tools on the planet. Klein (pictured) is the creator of Envoy, an open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications. It was ...

Significant enterprise adoption of Kubernetes and the continued addition of new open-source projects are bringing the cloud-native community into new territory. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation currently hosts a record 140-plus projects, with that number expected to grow over the coming year. Attendance at this year’s gathering of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Detroit exceeded ...

Kubernetes 1.0 was released in July 2015. The next year, one of the first major companies to begin using the container platform was Ford Motor Co. Ford was early to the cloud-native bandwagon long before the majority of enterprises hopped aboard. The automaker had a culture of experimentation, according to one of its engineers, and ...

When the Cloud Native Computing Foundation published its original “landscape” graphic in 2016, there were only three projects under its stewardship: Kubernetes, Prometheus and OpenTracing. A year later, the number had grown to 14, and by 2021 it had climbed to over 120 projects hosted by CNCF. The project growth was indicative of both a ...

On the opening day of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 gathering in Detroit, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation recognized Intuit Inc. with its “Top End User” award. What stood out as part of the accolade was that Intuit’s cloud-native developer community had operationalized hundreds of Kubernetes clusters that run over 3,000 services in production, ...