Cloud-Native Networking
How Linkerd Approaches Extensibility
Balancing minimalism with the pressure to deliver new features is not a concern unique to service mesh. It’s a question any team overseeing well-adopted open-source software must address at some point. Still, ...
Linkerd Update Simplifies Service Mesh Extensions
The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform. Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides ...
Tigera Previews Calico for Windows on Microsoft AKS
Tigera is making available a preview of open source Calico virtual networking and security software for running Windows in the Microsoft Azure Kubernetes (AKS) service. Amit Gupta, vice president of business development ...
Mavenir Taps Platform9 to Manage CNFs
Platform9 and Mavenir revealed today that Platform9’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing Kubernetes environments is being extended to manage container network functions (CNFs) deployed on Mavenir’s network infrastructure. The goal is to ...
VMware Makes Persistent Data Available Via Kubernetes API
VMware announced today general availability of a vSAN Data Persistence Platform, through which Kubernetes clusters will be able to access data stored in VMware platforms. Developed in collaboration with Cloudian and MinIO, ...
Survey Shows Microservices Prefer Key-Value, NoSQL Databases
A survey conducted by IDC suggests the rise of microservices is driving a significant expansion in the number of databases that IT teams will need to manage in the cloud-native era. The survey, conducted ...
Isovalent Looks to Transform Container Networking With eBPF
The way network packets are processed is about to dramatically change for the better, as more Linux distributions integrate extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) capabilities in 2021. Rather than processing packets in ...
F5 Networks to Acquire Volterra to Push Apps to the Edge
F5 Networks announced it intends to acquire Volterra, which provides a platform for managing hybrid cloud computing environments, for $500 million. During an analyst call, F5 Networks CEO François Locoh-Donou highlighted Volterra’s ...
CNFs to Drive Container App Deployment on 5G Networks in 2021
The widespread availability of next-generation 5G wireless networking services will drive a wider range of containerized applications to edge computing platforms in 2021. Most of those 5G networking services will be accessed ...
IBM Extends Red Hat OpenShift Alliance with Samsung
IBM and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd today announced they will extend their existing alliance into the realms of edge computing, 5G, hybrid cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) that at its foundation ...
