Yesterday, we hosted a Virtual Panel on VMworld 2017 talking about the news that came out of VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas last week. The panelists are: John Allwright, Pivotal Inc Rob Bissett, Virtustream Scott Fulton, The New Stack Bryan Friedman, Pivotal Inc Krishnan Subramanian, Rishidot Research (Moderator) We discussed many topics ranging from the […]
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Pivotal Container Service – A Quick Analysis
Yesterday, at VMworld 2017, Pivotal Inc announced Pivotal Container Service and a partnership with Google for Hybrid Cloud. Pivotal Container Service (PKS) is made available based on Kubo project which integrates Kubernetes with BOSH. The infrastructure orchestration plane for CloudFoundry. Pivotal Container Service if the commercial offering for Kubo and the partnership with Google will […]
Abstractions In The Multi-Cloud World
Information Technology is always focussed on abstractions as a way to remove complexity and simplify IT use for end users. IT evolution can be directly correlated to the quest to abstract at higher layers. Whether it is an evolution from binary programming to programming in higher level languages or virtualizing the servers for operations efficiencies […]
Microsoft Joins CloudFoundry Foundation – A Quick Take
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that they are joining CloudFoundry Foundation as a gold member. Here is my quick analysis of this news. This is expected ever since we saw blog posts talking about deploying CloudFoundry on Azure. Now it is official. What does it mean for CloudFoundry Foundation? Anytime a big company joins anOSS Foundation, it […]
Multi-Cloud Is Inevitable
In the early days of cloud computing, I was hoping for a more federated model of cloud providers because of my strong belief that oligarchy of cloud providers is bad for customers. I was hoping that open source infrastructure software like OpenStack, CloudStack, etc will lower the barrier for service providers to compete with Amazon […]
Virtual Panel: OpenStack Summit Boston 2017 Debriefing
Today, we hosted a virtual panel on OpenStack Summit held in Boston last week. Rob Hirschfeld (CEO of RackN), Ben Kepes (Analyst, Network World) and Swarna Podila (Product Marketing, AVI Networks) participated in the discussion.
Virtual Panel: Serverless Conference 2017
Yesterday we had a virtual panel with attendees of Serverless Conference 2017 to discuss the conference and the mood. We had a great set of panelists talking about the state of serverless, use cases, gaps in tooling, etc.. Watch the recording here.
Deciphering Red Hat – AWS Partnership
Yesterday at Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced a partnership with AWS through which some of the AWS services will be available for apps deployed on OpenShift, running on both AWS and On-Premises. What does it mean? To the end customers, it gives them single throat to choke. They don’t have to alternate between OpenShift support […]