Wired: “Open source is going even more open-because it has to”
July 28, 2015
Google often gives its software away for free. It has long believed in open source software. But last week, the company took this idea to the next level. It gave away all rights to Kubernetes, a cloud computing...
RedMonk: “The implications of cloud native”
July 24, 2015
Two months ago, “Cloud Native” was something of a new term, adopted most visibly by the Cloud Foundry project; a term both aspirational and unburdened by legacy at the same time. As of this week at OSCON, it’s...
Box: "Box and IBM partner to transform work in the cloud"
July 23, 2015
At Box, we’re building out a platform that enables enterprises to become more digital. This means enabling life sciences organizations to collaborate on drug research, empowering financial institutions to accept and process loans without ever printing a piece...
Silicon Angle: "The Cloud Native Computing Foundation bids to kickstart container interoperability"
July 22, 2015
The Linux Foundation is teaming up with 18 technology giants and IT organizations to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an initiative that’s hoping to make it easier for businesses to build and deploy containerized cloud applications oriented...
InfoWorld: "Linux Foundation unboxes another container consortium"
July 21, 2015
A mere month after Docker and other companies formed the Open Container Project, which placed their software-containerization concepts under the control of the Linux Foundation, another major initiative involving containers is taking off — and many of the...
ZDNet: "Cloud Native Computing Foundation seeks to Forge Cloud and Container Unity"
July 21, 2015
Open-source communities seem to do a better job than standards committees in creating new software that sticks to a common plan. In the latest example, The Linux Foundation, is once more fostering a new group: The Cloud Native...
Mesosphere: "Welcome to the age of Cloud-native Computing"
July 21, 2015
It’s a great time to be an application developer, and it just keeps getting better. Today, a consortium of companies led by Google announced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and Mesosphere is a founding Platinum member. We...
Forbes: "Container competitors Google, CoreOS, Joyent and Docker join new Linux club as Kubernetes turns one"
July 21, 2015
Kubernetes, the container management solution originally open sourced by Google GOOGL +1.04%, is deemed ready for mainstream use as it reaches version 1 today. Alongside this software versioning milestone, Google is joining a host of familiar names in...
Venture Beat: "Google, Docker, CoreOS, Mesosphere form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to standardize container tools"
July 21, 2015
No fewer than 22 companies are coming together today to establish the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a standards body that will provide shared governance for tools that companies can use when deploying applications in Linux containers – an...
TechCrunch: As Kubernetes hits 1.0, Google donates technology to newly formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation
July 21, 2015
Kubernetes, the open-source container management tool Google launched last February, hit version 1.0 today. With this update, Google now considers Kubernetes ready for production. What’s more important, though, Google is also ceding control over Kubernetes and is donating...