VMware

The company has also announced four flavors of Tanzu and updated Cloud Foundation and vSAN.

Joe Beda, one of its creators, said one reason for the move was reassuring non-VMware developers that Contour's development wouldn't be steered by a single company.

The new feature promises to take the effort out of interconnecting on-premises VMware environments with AWS.

A key part of the negotiations will center on a commercial agreement between Dell and VMware that would formalize aspects of its current working relationship.

The VMWare Kubernetes offering Tanzu seems designed to fill a major gap in the container orchestration platform.

It’s a way to extend your VMware environment into Azure. Wait, didn’t we already have that?

It may be a new world for many, but, argues Kubernetes’ co-creator, organizations can take their time getting there.