Cloud-Native Development

Competition Among Container Platforms Heats Up
CNCF survey highlights movement in the container sector The most recent biannual survey of 2,400 IT professionals conducted by The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finds that 40 percent of respondents who ...

Automation and Orchestration in a Container World
Since Docker began popularizing containers about five and a half years ago, this technology has become a key element of digital business transformation. Characteristics such as portability, highly efficient sharing of system ...

Drone.io Extends CI/CD to Windows
Drone.io, a provider of an open source continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform optimized for containers, announced this week it has extended the reach of that platform to include Windows. Company founder Brad ...

IBM Relies on Kubernetes to Advance Analytics Strategy
IBM this week extended the reach of the IBM Cloud Private (ICP) for Data platform to include the Red Hat OpenShift platform based on Kubernetes. ICP also aligns with Red Hat and ...

Dataiku Embraces Containers to Advance AI
Dataiku, a provider of a framework through which developers of artificial intelligence (AI) application collaborate, this week announced that its software now can create a Docker image containing AI code and required ...

Serverless and Containers: Not an Either/Or Decision
Containers and serverless computing are revolutionizing how cloud apps are built, and both are quickly moving into developers’ toolboxes. This has led to the hotly debated question: Which is better to use ...

IBM Extends Kubernetes Reach
IBM plans to make an instance of the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment available on Kubernetes generally available on the IBM Cloud at the end of this quarter. In addition, ...

IDC Survey Finds Containers Driving Mission-Critical Apps
A survey of 301 IT leaders conducted by International Data Corp. (IDC) finds that, increasingly, they are comfortable using containers within mission-critical applications. According to the survey, 76 percent are now broadly ...

Serverless Computing vs. Containers: Which to Choose for Cost and Benefits?
Serverless computing has seen a significant adoption over the last couple of years, with all the major public cloud providers enabling serverless architectures. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions provide ...

Drone.io Adds Arm Support to CI/CD Platform
Drone.io, provider of an open source continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform optimized for building containers, has added support for Arm-based systems as part of an effort to facilitate the building of internet ...