Futurum Research senior analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on news coming out of the Linux Foundation’s KubeCon event by Red Hat. As edge computing use cases explode, Kubernetes deployments have become under increasing stress. The latest additions to Red Hat’s flagship OpenShift Kubernetes orchestration platform position the platform to address the scale and complexity of such edge use cases and also handle the inherent network connectivity issues that exist at the edge.
SUSE Announces Q3 Earnings and Updates on Rancher Growth
Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced Q3 earnings from SUSE. With SUSE having recently acquired Rancher Labs and IPO’ing the business in May, this second set of numbers was crucial to demonstrate execution and growth and the company delivered. SUSE showed strong growth and positive signals across all areas of the business, including Cloud adoption and launched new solutions and even hinted at acquisitions in the near-term future.
Red Hat Partners with Nutanix to Put Squeeze on VMware
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on news of the partnership between Red Hat and HCI provider Nutanix and what this might mean for the increasingly complex cloud landscape. This partnership looks to bring choice and deployment simplification to the company’s respective customers.
SUSE Announces First Earnings as a Public Company, Post Rancher Labs Acquisition
Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the first set of earnings announcements from SUSE as a public company. With SUSE having recently acquired Rancher Labs and IPO’ing the business in May, this first set of numbers was crucial to the market sentiment around this open source leader. SUSE showed strong growth and positive signals across all areas of the business, including Cloud adoption.
Red Hat Announces Latest Version of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
As organizations increasingly move to multi cloud models, leveraging Kubernetes, automation is becoming critical as operations teams look to keep pace with their agile enabled developer brethren. Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the latest release of Red Hat’s Ansible Advanced Cluster Management offering.
HPE Extends GreenLake Capability with Ampool Acquisition
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the recent announcement by HPE of SQL data management vendor Ampool. HPE is building out capabilities for mission critical data management as a service with this acquisition that will complement both the Ezermal and GreenLake platforms, doubling down on streamlining the data management stack.
IBM to Acquire BoxBoat, Doubles Down on Hybrid Cloud Services
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his insight on news coming out of IBM yesterday on the acquisition of Kubernetes and container focused services business BoxBoat. This acquisition, although not significant in revenue terms, clearly shows IBM’s strategic intent to build a hybrid cloud focused services business post spinoff of Kyndryl.
Red Hat Launches Latest Version of Flagship Kubernetes Product OpenShift 4.8
Futurum Research senior analyst, Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the recent Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 announcement and what it means for the competitive landscape for Kubernetes management and more widely the hybrid cloud landscape.
Red Hat Buys StackRox to Strengthen Security and Hybrid Cloud
Red Hat buys cloud startup StackRox. This is the company’s first deal since the IBM acquisition in 2019 and focuses on bolstering Red Hat’s OpenShift Kubernetes and hybrid cloud capabilities.
HPE Turns to Containers With Its Ezmeral Software
At its virtual Discover event this week, HPE announced the launch of its kubernetes-based container software, HPE Ezmeral. This announcement shows HPE’s continued dedication to its goal of everything-as-a-service by 2022 and heats up the container wars with competitors like IBM RedHat and VMWare.
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