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Red Hat Announces Latest Version of OpenStack — Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17 — at MWC Las Vegas

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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of MWCLV22, where Red Hat announced the latest version of OpenStack, OpenStack Platform17. With many enterprises focused on Kubernetes and containers, Red Hat continues to demonstrate engineering prowess and reap the benefits of downstream convergence of OpenShift and OpenStack.

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Red Hat Announces Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Continuing to Innovate in the Kubernetes and Containers Space

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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements of the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift becoming generally available. As customers look to innovate and simplify cloud operations, whether that is on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, complexity and scale is often a challenge. Red Hat is focused on delivering a simplified hybrid cloud management experience and these announcements build on this holistic vision.

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SUSE’s Innovation Engine Roars: SUSE Rancher Now on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE – New Futurum Research Report

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In this research report, Futurum Research explores why the SUSE Rancher solution and SUSE Rancher deployed on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE can deliver on the need for enhanced security, performance, and availability while simplifying IT operations and efficiency as organizations expand their adoption of microservices architectures and use of Kubernetes orchestration to enable DevOps and IT infrastructure teams to accelerate digital transformation initiatives.

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SUSECon Digital ‘22: Announcements from the All Things SUSE Conference

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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of the SUSECon Digital ’22, the annual global technical conference for SUSE customers and partners that has been going on this week, including the company announcements around SLES 15.4, a raft of updates to SUSE Rancher and Neuvector, security updates, partnerships, and more.

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Is SUSE becoming the Container Company?

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Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced updates to Rancher and NeuVector. At the recent KUBECON Europe event, SUSE took the opportunity to expand on its vision for container security and provide updates to its strategic container management platform Rancher.

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Pure Storage Expands Portworx Portfolio to Make Kubernetes More Rewarding for Developers

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Pure Storage’s new Portworx portfolio enhancements, including general availability of Portworx Data Services, meet growing developer demand for swift ease of use combined with elastic scaling and automated capabilities as well as strict organizational requirements for data protection and access control across fast-growing Kubernetes development environments.

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VMware Extends Wipro and Atos Partnership

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Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced partnership extensions between VMware, Wipro and Atos. As Kubernetes deployments start to happen at scale, Global System Integrators are flocking to form relationships with VMware so they can be skilled in the latest technologies.

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vFunction Launches AI powered Modernization Assessment Solution

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Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent announcements from vFunction. As customers look to migrate legacy applications to the cloud re-platforming is not ideal. Customers need to go further and re-factor applications if they want to leverage all the benefits of the cloud. However, technical debt holds them back from getting started. The new tools launched by vFunction look to help people assess their technical debt.