Open Source

One of the fathers of Kubernetes says enterprise customers see the most benefit from the community-driven approach because their users get the opportunity to influence the direction development takes.

At the first All Things Open event since Red Hat became a wholly owned IBM subsidiary, the company debuted an Open Source Community Grant that mixes cash and access to the IBM cloud.

In a surprise move, the Linux vendor decides that its resources are better deployed in other areas of its business than the open-source OpenStack cloud platform.

In addition to Knative, which is for deploying serverless workloads, Google evidently plans to keep the Kubernetes service mesh, Istio, in-house.

Thanks to a major update to StarlingX, cloud computing resources are no longer just about being at the core.

VMware faces competition from Docker, and even stiffer competition from Red Hat, as it goes for the brass ring in the crowded container market. If VMware pulls ahead in the cloud marketplace, it may actually be because it has remained true to its...

RISC-V now has formidable competition from an architecture with a long track record in servers and supercomputers.