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Sysdig Named 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Security

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

By winning a Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year award, Sysdig is recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem.

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  • By winning a Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year award, Sysdig is recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem.
  • “With Sysdig, we can identify and address potential threats in real time.”
    Additionally, Sysdig helps Google Cloud customers protect their entire ecosystem, boasting extensibility to Google VMs, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Anthos, Google Cloud Run/Build, Google Cloud Registries, Google COS, and Google Cloud Artifact Registries.
  • Sysdig also seamlessly integrates with Google Cloud security products, such as Google Security Command Center and Google Chronicle, so that all security data can be enriched and leveraged natively.
  • For Sysdig, the 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year award win comes on the heels of the company’s No.

Fermyon Contributes SpinKube to CNCF, Making WebAssembly a First-Class Workload in Kubernetes

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

SpinKube is an open source project that streamlines the experience of developing, deploying, and operating WebAssembly workloads on Kubernetes.

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  • SpinKube is an open source project that streamlines the experience of developing, deploying, and operating WebAssembly workloads on Kubernetes.
  • This follows the company’s recent announcement of Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes , the first WebAssembly platform for Kubernetes that enables 50x more applications per node.
  • By running applications at the Wasm abstraction layer, SpinKube enables application developers to easily deploy serverless WebAssembly applications into Kubernetes, leading to efficient use of node resources and cold start speeds under one millisecond.
  • It took me 5 minutes before I could start deploying Spin WebAssembly applications to my cluster,” said Kasper Juul Hermansen , Platform/Data Engineer, Lunar.

Fermyon Delivers the First WebAssembly Platform for Kubernetes, Enabling 50x More Applications Per Node

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

LONGMONT, Colo., March 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fermyon™ Technologies , the serverless WebAssembly company, today announces Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes , the first WebAssembly platform for Kubernetes.

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  • LONGMONT, Colo., March 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fermyon™ Technologies , the serverless WebAssembly company, today announces Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes , the first WebAssembly platform for Kubernetes.
  • Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes enables enterprises to achieve 50x or greater workload density per node, dramatically reducing costs while also increasing capacity.
  • Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes is a robust, easy-to-use serverless platform that enables developers to quickly deploy WebAssembly (Wasm) applications to Kubernetes, regardless of their experience level with Kubernetes.
  • Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes Key Benefits:
    Greater than 50x Density: Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes can deliver >1,500 serverless applications per Kubernetes node, with automated scale-to-zero and sub-millisecond cold-start times.

Solo.io Announces General Availability of Gloo Network for Cilium to Streamline Integration Across Hybrid Cloud Environments

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

“Cilium is helping reshape the future of cloud native networking thanks to its innovative capabilities and vibrant ecosystem.

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  • “Cilium is helping reshape the future of cloud native networking thanks to its innovative capabilities and vibrant ecosystem.
  • But deploying upstream Cilium has proven to be a complex endeavor for organizations,” said Idit Levine, CEO and Founder of Solo.io.
  • “With Gloo Network for Cilium, we’re enabling organizations to maximize their cloud networking potential by removing the complexity and providing access to our world-class support team to ensure their ongoing success.
  • Gloo Network for Cilium also seamlessly integrates with Gloo Mesh Core making it ideal for organizations transitioning to service mesh.

Strata Identity Promotes Gerry Gebel to Vice President of Product and Standards

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

Strata Identity , the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that its Head of Standards, Gerry Gebel, will also serve as the company’s Vice President of Product.

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  • Strata Identity , the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that its Head of Standards, Gerry Gebel, will also serve as the company’s Vice President of Product.
  • For over 20 years, Gerry has provided requirements definitions, architecture development and strategic planning for identity management projects with Fortune 500 corporations.
  • In addition to his work promoting industry standards with IDQL for identity and policy orchestration with the CNCF on Hexa and the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group , Gerry assumes responsibility for overseeing the Strata product management team and defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
  • “The identity landscape is at an inflection point with legacy identity systems reaching end-of-life and cloud identity providers creating a new set of silos that prevent organizations from unifying identity and policy management across multi-clouds,” said Gerry Gebel.

Grafana Labs Announces Updates to Kubernetes Monitoring Solution, Open Source Innovations, and Findings from 2024 Observability Survey

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

The company also released the findings from its second annual Observability Survey which provides insight into the evolving observability market.

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  • The company also released the findings from its second annual Observability Survey which provides insight into the evolving observability market.
  • With the new Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart, it’s easier to send metrics, logs, events, traces, and cost metrics to Grafana Cloud.
  • Kubernetes support in Beyla : Grafana Labs’ 2024 Observability Survey found that eBPF is one of the technologies respondents are most excited about.
  • Grafana Operator migration : Grafana Operator, the open source Kubernetes operator that helps you manage your Grafana instances within and outside of Kubernetes, will now officially be managed by Grafana Labs.

Cloud Computing Leader Vultr Expands Executive Team to Address Growing AI Infrastructure and Enterprise Cloud Demand

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Today, Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, announced the appointment of two new senior executives to its leadership team to meet the growing demand for its enterprise cloud compute and cloud GPU capabilities.

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  • Today, Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, announced the appointment of two new senior executives to its leadership team to meet the growing demand for its enterprise cloud compute and cloud GPU capabilities.
  • Building on Vultr’s growth to 32 worldwide cloud data center locations and expansive enterprise cloud services, Vultr’s new executives will accelerate the scaling of its enterprise customer base and cloud services globally.
  • A seasoned executive with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling technology businesses, Rai will serve as Vultr’s new General Manager of AI and Enterprise Cloud, driving innovation and growth.
  • In this role, Rai will be focused on expanding Vultr's AI and enterprise solutions across its global cloud footprint, spanning six continents.

Huawei Cloud at KubeCon EU 2024: Unleashing the Intelligent Era with Continuous Open Source Innovation

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Monday, March 25, 2024

Huawei Cloud plans to keep innovating open source projects and collaborating with developers to bring about an intelligent era.

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  • Huawei Cloud plans to keep innovating open source projects and collaborating with developers to bring about an intelligent era.
  • Dennis Gu shared stories about Huawei Cloud's AI innovation, offering developers a reference point to tackle the challenges.
  • Huawei Cloud used KubeEdge, a cloud native edge computing platform, to create a multi-robot scheduling and management platform.
  • Huawei Cloud is dedicated to open source innovation and aims to work with industry peers to usher in a new era of intelligence.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces the Winners of its First CloudNativeHacks Hackathon

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Friday, March 22, 2024

PARIS, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the first, second, and third-place winners of CloudNativeHacks.

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  • PARIS, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the first, second, and third-place winners of CloudNativeHacks .
  • During KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, CNCF, in collaboration with the United Nations, hosted its first-ever hackathon, CloudNativeHacks, to focus on advancing the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • "Congratulations to the winners of the first-ever CloudNativeHacks event," said Priyanka Sharma, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
  • The hackathon was presided over by a panel of judges from the cloud native community and the United Nations, including:
    Omar Mohsine Open Source Program Office, United Nations

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces CERN as the Top End User Award Winner

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

PARIS, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research, has been awarded the CNCF Top End User Award. Two times a year, CNCF recognizes the significant contributions made by CNCF End User members across the cloud native ecosystem.

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  • During KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, research leader CERN is recognized as an exceptional end user of cloud native technologies
    PARIS, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation ® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced that CERN , the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research, has been awarded the CNCF Top End User Award .
  • Two times a year, CNCF recognizes the significant contributions made by CNCF End User members across the cloud native ecosystem.
  • Since 2020, CERN has been a CNCF end user member and has been significantly involved in the cloud native community.
  • At the core of its cloud native strategy lies Kubernetes, which allows the orchestration of containerized workloads across CERN's infrastructure.