Category Archives: serverless computing

Serverless, Inc expands free Framework to include monitoring and security

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Serverless development has largely been a lonely pursuit until recently, but Serverless, Inc has been offering a free framework for intrepid programmers since 2015. At first, that involved development, deployment and testing, but today the company announced it is expanding into monitoring and security to make it an end-to-end tool — and it’s available for […] Continue reading Serverless, Inc expands free Framework to include monitoring and security→

Capital One CTO George Brady will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise

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When you think of old, giant mainframes that sit in the basement of a giant corporation, still doing the same work they did 30 years ago, chances are you’re thinking about a financial institution. It’s the financial enterprises, though, that are often leading the charge in bringing new technologies and software development practices to their […] Continue reading Capital One CTO George Brady will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise→

Palo Alto Networks Details Strategy Post Acquisition Spree

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Palo Alto Networks plans to bring together several cybersecurity platforms into a unified platform it is calling Prisma in the wake of agreeing to acquire Twistlock, provider of a container security platform, and PureSec, provider of a platform for se… Continue reading Palo Alto Networks Details Strategy Post Acquisition Spree→

Serverless and containers: Two great technologies that work better together

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Cloud native models using containerized software in a continuous delivery approach could benefit from serverless computing where the cloud vendor generates the exact amount of resources required to run a workload on the fly. While the major cloud vendors have recognized this and are already creating products to abstract away the infrastructure, it may not […] Continue reading Serverless and containers: Two great technologies that work better together→

Google’s managed hybrid cloud platform is now in beta

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Last July, at its Cloud Next conference, Google announced the Cloud Services Platform, its first real foray into bringing its own cloud services into the enterprise data center as a managed service. Today, the Cloud Services Platform (CSP) is launching into beta. It’s important to note that the CSP isn’t — at least for the […] Continue reading Google’s managed hybrid cloud platform is now in beta→

AWS announces a slew of new Lambda features

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AWS launched Lambda in 2015 and with it helped popularize serverless computing. You simply write code (event triggers) and AWS deals with whatever compute, memory and storage you need to make that work. Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced several new features to make it more developer friendly, while acknowledging that […] Continue reading AWS announces a slew of new Lambda features→

Twistlock snares $33 million Series C investment to secure cloud native environments

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As the world shifts to a cloud native approach, the way you secure applications as they get deployed is changing too. Twistlock, a company built from the ground up to secure cloud native environments, announced a $33 million Series C round today led by Iconiq Capital. Previous investors YL Ventures, TenEleven, Rally Ventures, Polaris Partners […] Continue reading Twistlock snares $33 million Series C investment to secure cloud native environments→

The Istio service mesh hits version 1.0

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Istio, the service mesh for microservices from Google, IBM, Lyft, Red Hat and many other players in the open-source community, launched version 1.0 of its tools today. If you’re not into service meshes, that’s understandable. Few people are. But Istio is probably one of the most important new open-source projects out there right now. It […] Continue reading The Istio service mesh hits version 1.0→

Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services Platform

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The cloud isn’t right for every business, be that because of latency constraints at the edge, regulatory requirements or because it’s simply cheaper to own and operate their own data centers for their specific workloads. Given this, it’s maybe no surprise that the vast majority of enterprises today use both public and private clouds in […] Continue reading Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services Platform→

Serverless computing could unleash a new startup ecosystem

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While serverless computing isn’t new, it has reached an interesting place in its development. As developers begin to see the value of serverless architecture, a whole new startup ecosystem could begin to develop around it. Serverless isn’t exactly serverless at all, but it does enable a developer to set event triggers and leave the infrastructure […] Continue reading Serverless computing could unleash a new startup ecosystem→