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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.

The recent news from Amazon Web Services that it will finally support Kubernetes is great news for CIOs, but it’s also a watershed moment for the cloud industry as a whole—one that could finally see Amazon’s seemingly unassailable dominance in the cloud start to be diminished.

Platform9 started as a managed OpenStack vendor, but the Sunnyvale, Calif-based startup has become a player in container tech since the introduction of its managed Kubernetes service.

Platform9 today announced expanded support for on-premises deployments of its Managed Kubernetes service. This makes it easier for customers to launch the popular container orchestration software on infrastructure that’s managed using VMware vSphere, Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV), and bare metal servers.