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Red Hat Extends Commitment to Integrate OpenStack and K8s
At the OpenInfra Summit today, Red Hat announced that, in addition to supporting the latest iteration of the open source OpenStack, it is extending Red Hat OpenShift’s management reach to add support ...

Why 5G Needs Kubernetes
As with many things, COVID-19 sped up the need for high bandwidth delivered fast to end users. Working from home, Zoom calls, VPN connections, social media—all of it requires speed, resiliency and ...

GitOps is Essential for 5G Deployment
As 5G rollouts begin in earnest during 2021-2022, carriers are beginning to face the incredible challenge of deploying and configuring millions of devices, VMs and containers across not just the data center ...

Red Hat Partners With Mavenir on CNF Development
Red Hat has partnered with Mavenir to enable developers to employ the Red Hat OpenShift platform, based on Kubernetes, to build container network functions (CNFs) for open radio access networks (RAN). Ian ...

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 ...

Latest ONAP Release Deepens Kubernetes Ties
The latest Frankfurt edition of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) being developed under the auspices of the LF Networking consortium significantly tightens integration between the open source framework for automating the ...

Cradlepoint Enables Container Apps to Be Deployed on Wireless Routers
Cradlepoint has added a container service dubbed NetCloud Container Orchestrator (NCCO), to its wireless cellular routers to make it simpler to deploy applications at the network edge. One of the first independent ...

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 ...

Red Hat Extends Container Alliance With NVIDIA to 5G Edge
At the Mobile World Congress event this week, Red Hat and NVIDIA extended their alliance to include deployment of containerized artificial intelligence (AI) applications and services at the emerging 5G network edge ...

Mirantis Aligns With Facebook to Advance CNFs
Mirantis announced it is furthering the adoption of container network functions (CNFs) by collaborating with Facebook to bring Magma, an open source converged access gateway software platform, to Kubernetes. Announced at the ...