Cloud-Native Networking

NetApp Launches Project Astra for Kubernetes Data Management
NetApp today launched Project Astra, a storage initiative for Kubernetes that promises to both optimize I/O performance and ensure data portability across clusters. Eric Han, vice president of product management for NetApp’s ...

Solo.io Open Sources Service Mesh Hub
Solo.io is making a Service Mesh Hub available as an open source project to make it easier for IT organizations to automate the management of network and security services. Company CEO Idit ...

4 Ways DDI Containerization Can Drive Network Agility
Today’s network teams face myriad challenges such as trying to speed up the DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI) aspects of continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines or working through IP ...

Kasten Adds Transformation Framework to Manage Kubernetes Data
Kasten this week updated its data management platform for Kubernetes to make it possible to capture more granular events when migrating or backing up data. Company CEO Niraj Tolia says version 2.5 ...

DataStax Simplifies Cassandra Deployments on Kubernetes
DataStax has developed an Operator that makes it easier to deploy and update the open source Cassandra distributed database on top of Kubernetes clusters. At the same time, the company also revealed ...

Google Teams Up with Solo.io to Extend Istio
Google and Solo.io are now collaborating to make open source Istio service mesh more extensible by adding support for WebAssembly (WASM), which was created under the auspices of the World Wide Web ...

Run:AI Leverages Kubernetes to Virtualize GPUs
Run:AI this week announced the general availability of a namesake platform based on Kubernetes that enables IT teams to virtualize graphical processor unit (GPU) resources. Company CEO Omri Geller says the goal ...

IBM Brings Red Hat Container Platform to Mainframes
IBM this week announced that the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is now available on the distribution of Linux that IBM makes available on mainframes. Barry Baker, vice president of IBM Z ...

Nutanix Updates Kubernetes Platform
Nutanix today announced it has made available an update to its Karbon platform for deploying instances of Kubernetes on the company’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform. IT organizations can now upgrade an existing ...

Catalogic Software Debuts Open Source Backup Tool for Kubernetes
Catalogic Software has made available the open source KubeDR utility for backing up and recovering Kubernetes cluster configuration, certificates and metadata residing in an etcd repository. Company COO Sathya Sankaran says Catalogic ...