Justin Warren

Vendors including Tigera/Calico, New Relic and JFrog are providing better security tools that take customer context into account.

At KubeCon EU in Paris, France, open source projects are demonstrating increased maturity in how they approach questions of governance, sustainability, and purpose.

The FluxCD project has received significant support from companies in the cloud native community as it defines a new path after Weaveworks’ sudden collapse.

The demand from MSPs surprised Alcion, which moved quickly to adapt its approach in response.

An open source project, Apache Arrow, has emerged as the de facto mechanism used by most of the industry for data interoperability.

Cloud data API company Neurelo has launched with a 1.0 version of its core product: a database abstraction layer to make distributed scaling easier.

With revenue and profits on the line, the people tasked with keeping infrastructure alive—the operators—have well and truly arrived at KubeCon.

While talk of AI overshadowed other topics during the first day of KubeCon NA, customers and vendors alike are focused on more practical matters.

Data protection vendor Veeam will offer, for the first time, a first-party Backup-as-a-Service product for Microsoft 365 and Azure called Cirrus by Veeam.

The continued success of the OpenTofu project could threaten HashiCorp’s cloud revenue growth or inspire new competitors.

Logz.io Open 360 collects observability data from multiple sources including logging, APM, metrics, and tracing, and provides connected, integrated views across the data based on customer use-cases.

Cosmonic is one of a wave of new WebAssembly-based companies looking to completely transform the way software is built and run.

Fermyon is well-placed to both capitalize on enthusiasm for this emerging category and to shape the direction of the category to its benefit.

Zeet, which bills itself as an “integrated DevOps and deployment platform for software developers” has raised $4.3 million in a seed round lead by Sequoia Capital.

Product engineering productivity software maker Shortcut has added a documentation system to its software called Docs.

Statsig is a software product experimentation tool designed to make A/B testing more useful for more companies.

Onehouse makes a managed data lake product that combines transactional features of a data warehouse with the massive data capabilities of a data lake.

Pure Storage has unveiled a new top-of-the-range array it’s calling the FlashArray//XL.

Data quality software startup Anomalo wants to help customers watch their data for weirdness.

Pure Storage has announced two substantial new products: Portworx Data Services—which it bills as a Database-as-a-Service offering for Kubernetes—and Pure Fusion, an expansion of the Pure1 SaaS management service to bring cloud-like operations to a customer’s Pure Storage fleet.