Cloud-Native Networking

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 ...

VAST Data Delivers of CSI Promise
VAST Data has made generally available versions of its all-flash storage arrays that support the Container Storage Interface (CSI) for connecting external storage systems to Kubernetes clusters. Jeff Denworth, vice president of ...

Using Kubernetes for Mission-Critical Databases
Successfully using Kubernetes with production databases requires the right level of management and monitoring It is remarkable how quickly Kubernetes has moved through the hype cycle to become an integral part of ...

Istio Extension: Secure Multi-Cluster Communication
Istio is an open source service mesh that seamlessly integrates with Kubernetes. Istio is typically deployed in a single Kubernetes cluster, but as the adoption of Kubernetes increases, the deployment of Istio ...

Best of 2019: Demystifying Persistent Storage Myths for Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes
As we close out 2019, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of ...

Report Sees Containers Playing Critical 5G Role
A report published by ABI Research finds that if service providers hope to gain any operational efficiency as they roll out 5G wireless services, they will need to embrace cloud-native technologies such ...

Actifio Simplifies Copying Data Using Containers
Actifio today made available an update to its namesake copy management software to make it easier to clone databases consisting of terabytes of data using containers. Chandra Reddy, senior vice president of ...

Dell Technologies Adds CSI Support to All-Flash Array
Dell Technologies has added support for a Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin to the Dell Unity XT all-Flash storage array. In addition, Dell announced it is adding support for the VMware vRealize ...