Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

RedHat’s CoreOS launches a new toolkit for managing Kubernetes applications

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CoreOS, the Linux distribution and container management startup Red Hat acquired for $250 million earlier this year, today announced the Operator Framework, a new open source toolkit for managing Kubernetes clusters. CoreOS first talked about operators in 2016. The general idea here is to encode the best practices for deploying and managing container-based applications as code. […] Continue reading RedHat’s CoreOS launches a new toolkit for managing Kubernetes applications→

Microsoft makes managing and updating Windows 10 easier for its business users

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With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Microsoft is launching a number of new features for its desktop operating system today. Most of those apply to all users, but in addition to all the regular feature updates, the company also today announced a couple of new features and tools specifically designed for its business users […] Continue reading Microsoft makes managing and updating Windows 10 easier for its business users→

Google Cloud expands its bet on managed database services

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Google announced a number of updates to its cloud-based database services today. For the most part, we’re not talking about any groundbreaking new products here but all of these updates address specific pain points that enterprises suffer when they move to the cloud. As Google Director of Product Management Dominic Preuss told me ahead of […] Continue reading Google Cloud expands its bet on managed database services→

Tableau gets new pricing plans and a data preparation tool

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Data analytics platform Tableau today announced the launch of both a new data preparation product and a new subscription pricing plan. Currently, Tableau offers desktop plans for users who want to analyze their data locally, a server plan for businesses that want to deploy the service on-premises or on a cloud platform, and a fully […] Continue reading Tableau gets new pricing plans and a data preparation tool→

Heptio launches an open source load balancer for Kubernetes and OpenStack

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Heptio is one of the more interesting companies in the container ecosystem. In part, that’s due to the simple fact that it was founded by Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of the three engineers behind the original Kubernetes project, but also because of the technology it’s developing and the large amount of funding it […] Continue reading Heptio launches an open source load balancer for Kubernetes and OpenStack→

Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry grow closer

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Containers are eating the software world — and Kubernetes is the king of containers. So if you are working on any major software project, especially in the enterprise, you will run into it sooner or later. Cloud Foundry, which hosted its semi-annual developer conference in Boston this week, is an interesting example for this. Outside […] Continue reading Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry grow closer→

Cloud Foundry Foundation looks east as Alibaba joins as a gold member

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Cloud Foundry is among the most successful open source project in the enterprise right now. It’s a cloud-agnostic platform-as-a-service offering that helps businesses develop and run their software more efficiently. In many enterprises, it’s now the standard platform for writing new applications. Indeed, half of the Fortune 500 companies now use it in one form […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry Foundation looks east as Alibaba joins as a gold member→

Cloud.gov makes Cloud Foundry easier to adopt for government agencies

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At the Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, the team behind the U.S. government’s cloud.gov application platform announced that it is now a certified Cloud Foundry platform that is guaranteed to be compatible with other certified providers like Huawei, IBM, Pivotal, SAP and — also starting today — Suse. With this, cloud.gov becomes the first government […] Continue reading Cloud.gov makes Cloud Foundry easier to adopt for government agencies→

With Fargate, AWS wants to make containers more cloud native

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At its re:Invent developer conference, AWS made so many announcements that even some of the company’s biggest launches only got a small amount of attention. While the company’s long-awaited Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes got quite a bit of press, the launch of the far more novel Fargate container service stayed under the radar. When […] Continue reading With Fargate, AWS wants to make containers more cloud native→

Google Cloud gives developers more insights into their networks

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Google Cloud is launching a new feature today that will give its users a new way to monitor and optimize how their data flows between their servers in the Google Cloud and other Google Services, on-premises deployments and virtually any other internet endpoint. As the name implies, VPC Flow Logs are meant for businesses that […] Continue reading Google Cloud gives developers more insights into their networks→