The theme of DockerCon 2022 was “Discover, Learn, Excel.” The organizers could have also added “Grow” in keeping with the rising popularity of Docker Inc.’s revitalized developer tools. Docker held back-to-back funding rounds in 2021 and 2022, which netted over $120 million in new capital. Perhaps more significant was the firm’s recent success in meeting ...

As key leaders from the enterprise tech community gather in Valencia, Spain, for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe May 16-20, the focus will be on both the promise and challenges for Kubernetes. Two data points for the popular container orchestration tool capture what lies in store. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, interest in Kubernetes ...

The latest innovations in the multicloud era were on display in Las Vegas earlier this month as Dell Technologies World convened as an in-person gathering for the first time since the spin-off of VMware Inc. in November. While there was plenty of discussion around VMware’s continued influence in Dell’s go-to-market strategy, the focus was largely ...

It began with a seemingly innocuous Twitter message in mid-December 2020 from SolarWinds Inc. advising customers to immediately upgrade their Orion platforms. Few knew or suspected at the time that a vulnerability uncovered by the security software provider would become one of the most sophisticated and far-reaching hacks in modern history. The 18-month anniversary of ...

In the mind of Paul Cormier, chief executive officer of Red Hat Inc., the importance of hybrid versus multicloud isn’t even a close debate. It’s multicloud all the way. “Multi is more prevalent and more important than just hybrid alone,” Cormier said. “One cloud provider might be better in a different part of the world ...

The gravitational pull of the on-premises compute environment in proving hard to resist. In 2019, Amazon Web Services Inc. opened its cloud-native doors to include an on-prem data-sharing option with the introduction of AWS Outposts. Now another major cloud-native player, Snowflake Inc., has added on-premises functionality. This week during Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, ...

Among the many announcements made by VMware Inc. during VMworld in October was the launch of Edge Compute Stack. A key element of the solution, which combined virtual machine and container-based stacks for modernizing edge-native applications, was an ability to provide real-time compute. This has opened up the hypervisor to support the operational technology space ...

Competition and partnership are not widely found in combination, but Dell Technologies Inc. and Equinix Inc. have created a business relationship that manages to successfully blend the best of both. As a provider of datacenter services in over 60 markets on five continents, Equinix faces competition from Dell’s APEX and datacenter-as-a-service capabilities. However, Equinix has ...

The storage software innovations announced by Dell Technologies Inc. on Monday reinforced the company’s position in building new levels of automation, security and multicloud functionality for the enterprise. A key part of Dell’s innovation revolves around hardware and its partner ecosystem to deliver new solutions. “Dell is still doing a lot of the really hard ...

After Dell Technologies Inc. introduced more than 500 storage portfolio advancements today, which included updates to boost services across multicloud environments, the company’s founder underscored his firm’s continued focus on the edge. “There are 7 million cellular base stations in the world, and every one of those is becoming a datacenter,” said Michael Dell (pictured), ...