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Packet, the bare metal cloud provider, today announced that it has partnered with open source hybrid cloud specialist Platform9 to launch a new private cloud solution for businesses that want to have greater control over their platforms.

Built by Platform 9 and other contributors in the Kubernetes community last year, Fission is a open-source Function as a Service (FaaS) serverless framework focused on developer productivity and high performance.

Function-as-a-service is more than just a buzzword, it’s an evolution of application development and deployment that started with virtualization over a decade ago.

Serverless computing is rapidly emerging as a viable option for enterprises looking to run cloud-native workloads, according to a new whitepaper published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation this week.

With virtualization, organizations began to realize greater utilization from physical hardware. That trend continued with the cloud, as organizations began to get their virtual machines in a pay-as-you-go service.

Predictions tend to focus a lot on the cutting edge and what’s new. And while it’s important to look at how developing technologies will shape the year ahead, we must not forget the importance of where our consistently faithful platforms are headed. For instance some have made claims that Kubernetes’ success is dwindling and OpenStack is dead, but in 2018 I believe these tools – which have vastly changed enterprise cloud infrastructure – will prove they are here to stay.

Semi-conductor tools company Cadence Design Systems has been using Platform9’s cloud management solution for over 12 months and spoke to me about how it’s helped their research and development teams to make productive use of private and hybrid cloud.

Taking the time to attend a conference dedicated to containers and a specific platform such as the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event signals whether an IT professional is part of an organization considering or already making a commitment to containers running on Kubernetes clusters.