Enterprise Kubernetes: 5 Insights from KubeCon 2018
By Sirish Raghuram
I had just returned from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018, which was held this week in Seattle, WA. The 8,000 attendees gathered at the conference (up from around 4,000 just last... Read More
The Seamless Upgrade for Kubernetes’ First Major Security Hole, CVE-2018-1002105
By Paavan Shanbhag
CVE-2018-1002105, a critical Kubernetes security vulnerability affecting multiple versions of the popular container orchestration system was recently discovered and fixed by the Kubernetes open source community. What is the CVE-2018-1002105... Read More
Questions Every CIO Must Ask Before Embarking on a Cloud-Driven Digital Transformation
By Vamsi Chemitiganti
Last month, I had the honor of moderating a CIO panel at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management at Lake Forest, IL near Chicago. The lively discussion at the... Read More
What is Serverless – Part 5: Reference Architectures for Common Types of Serverless Applications
By Vamsi Chemitiganti
This is the last part of a 5-part blog series. See part 1, part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. At their core, Serverless functions are about running pure business... Read More
Solving the Kubernetes and Storage Challenge
By Peter Fray and Vamsi Chemitiganti
Enterprise Infatuation with Kubernetes It seems that everyone is infatuated with Kubernetes. Every organization has an active project with Kubernetes or planning one. When adopting Kubernetes organizations are quickly realizing... Read More
7 Insights into AWS’ Outposts announcement at re:Invent and the future of hybrid cloud
By Sirish Raghuram
At Amazon’s re:Invent 2018 conference, Amazon finally announced their venture into on-premises data-centers, called AWS Outposts. Just a few years ago, this would have been unthinkable, given how Amazon executives... Read More
Our 2019 Predictions in Enterprise Cloud: Kubernetes, Serverless and Multicloud Move the Enterprise Forward
By Sirish Raghuram
As part of VMblog’s predictions series, industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019. Below are my predictions for 5 trends that present challenges and opportunities for enterprise cloud... Read More
What is Serverless – Part 4: Fission – An Open Source Serverless Framework for Kubernetes
By Vamsi Chemitiganti
This is a 5-part blog series. See part 1, part 2, and Part 3. Fission is a Kubernetes-native, open-source framework for Serverless functions. With this free Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) solution, developers... Read More
Transitioning from managing VMs to orchestrating containers
By Jennifer Gill
This is a guest blog post written by Ron Illsley, distinguished analyst at Ovum. One of the biggest challenges faced by organizations as they look to adopt newer cloud native... Read More