Category Archives: Cloud Infrastructure

Kong launches Kong Konnect, its cloud-native connectivity platform

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At its (virtual) Kong Summit 2020, API platform Kong today announced the launch of Kong Konnect, its managed end-to-end cloud-native connectivity platform. The idea here is to give businesses a single service that allows them to manage the connectivity between their APIs and microservices and help developers and operators manage their workflows across Kong’s API […] Continue reading Kong launches Kong Konnect, its cloud-native connectivity platform→

Microsoft challenges Twilio with the launch of Azure Communication Services

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Microsoft today announced the launch of Azure Communication Services, a new set of features in its cloud that enable developers to add voice and video calling, chat and text messages to their apps, as well as old-school telephony. The company describes the new set of services as the “first fully managed communication platform offering from […] Continue reading Microsoft challenges Twilio with the launch of Azure Communication Services→

Microsoft brings data services to its Arc multi-cloud management service

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Microsoft today launched a major update to its Arc multi-cloud service that allows Azure customers to run and manage workloads across clouds — including those of Microsoft’s competitors — and their on on-premises data centers. First announced at Microsoft Ignite in 2019, Arc was always meant to not just help users manage their servers but […] Continue reading Microsoft brings data services to its Arc multi-cloud management service→

Pure Storage acquires data service platform Portworx for $370M

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Pure Storage, the public enterprise data storage company, today announced that it has acquired Portworx, a well-funded startup that provides a cloud-native storage and data-management platform based on Kubernetes, for $370 million in cash. This marks Pure Storage’s largest acquisition to date and shows how important this market for multi-cloud data services has become. Current […] Continue reading Pure Storage acquires data service platform Portworx for $370M→

SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation

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SUSE today announced that it has contributed EiriniX, a framework for building extensions for Eirini, a technology that brings support for Kubernetes-based container orchestration to the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project. About a year ago, SUSE also contributed the KubeCF project to the foundation, which itself allows the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime — the core of […] Continue reading SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation→

Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes

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Mirantis, the company that recently bought Docker’s enterprise business, today announced that it has acquired Lens, a desktop application that the team describes as a Kubernetes integrated development environment. Mirantis previously acquired the team behind the Finnish startup Kontena, the company that originally developed Lens. Lens itself was most recently owned by Lakend Labs, though, […] Continue reading Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes→

Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh

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Microsoft today announced the launch of a new open-source service mesh based on the Envoy proxy. The Open Service Mesh is meant to be a reference implementation of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) spec, a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes that has the backing of most of the players in this ecosystem. The […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh→

Google Cloud launches Confidential VMs

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At its virtual Cloud Next ’20 event, Google Cloud today announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of the company’s work around confidential computing to ensure that data isn’t just encrypted at rest but also while it is in memory. “We already employ a variety of isolation and sandboxing techniques […] Continue reading Google Cloud launches Confidential VMs→