Category Archives: Sam Ramji

Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns steps down to pursue a new executive role elsewhere

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The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), the home of the Cloud Foundry open-source developer platform, today announced that its executive director Abby Kearns is stepping down from her role to pursue an executive role elsewhere. If you’ve followed the development of the CFF for a while, it won’t come as a surprise that its current CTO, […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns steps down to pursue a new executive role elsewhere→

DataStax launches Kubernetes operator for open source Cassandra database

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Today, DataStax, the commercial company behind the open source Apache Cassandra project, announced an open source Kubernetes operator developed by the company to run a cloud native version of the database. When Sam Ramji, chief strategy officer at DataStax, came over from Google last year, the first thing he did was take the pulse of […] Continue reading DataStax launches Kubernetes operator for open source Cassandra database→

Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

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Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popular open-source tools for the distributed NoSQL database. […] Continue reading Datastax acquires The Last Pickle→

As Kubernetes surged in popularity in 2017, it created a vibrant ecosystem

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 For a technology that the average person has probably never heard of, Kubernetes surged in popularity in 2017 with a particular group of IT pros who are working with container technology. Kubernetes is the orchestration engine that underlies how … Continue reading As Kubernetes surged in popularity in 2017, it created a vibrant ecosystem→