IBM will acquire BoxBoat Technologies, a leading DevOps consultant and Kubernetes certified enterprise service provider. IBM’s container strategy and implementation services offering will be expanded by BoxBoat in order to enhance IBM’s hybrid cloud vision and drive Red Hat OpenShift adoption throughout the world. IBM to Acquire Premier Hybrid Cloud Consulting Firm, BoxBoat Technologies
IBM will acquire BoxBoat Technologies, a leading DevOps consultant and Kubernetes certified enterprise service provider. IBM’s container strategy and implementation services offering will be expanded by BoxBoat in order to enhance IBM’s hybrid cloud vision and drive Red Hat OpenShift adoption throughout the world. 
Neptune Software, an application development platform vendor with more than 600 enterprise customers and over 3 million licensed end users globally, has rolled out their Neptune DXP Cloud. It is a managed public cloud offering of the organization’s low-code app development platform. 
Red Hat OpenShift 4.8, the latest version of this well-known enterprise Kubernetes platform, would let companies create new cloud-native applications faster without abandoning old environments or IT investments. Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 would provide a strong platform for developing and connecting different workloads across the hybrid cloud. 
Multi cloud and edge service orchestration and automation platform, Cloudify, has announced partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel, and Capgemini Engineering aimed at speeding up the transition of telcos and organizations to public cloud-based infrastructure. 
Google Cloud and Canonical have announced a new Ubuntu offering to all the Google Cloud users named Ubuntu Pro. In simple terms, Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud will give instant access to security patching covering thousands of open source applications. 
WSO2 has acquired Platformer for an in disclosed sum of money. Platformer will play a key role in extending the Kubernetes capabilities of the data plane of Choreo, the new WSO2 integration platform as a service (iPaaS) launched today, as part of WSO2. Platformer has operations in Australia and Sri Lanka. 
Vapor IO, the developers of the Kinetic Grid Platform and a fast-growing provider of intelligent edge-to-edge colocation, exchange, and networking services, is integrating with Google Cloud’s network, as well as that of its partners, and Anthos. 
The newly launched managed Kubernetes Service from OVHcloud US, part of one of the world’s largest cloud providers, is now available. Kubernetes, in combination with OVHcloud’s public cloud service, would provide an ideal platform for developing and running scalable cloud-native applications that require on-demand compute and storage resources. 
Robin.io, a pioneer in Kubernetes-based cloud-native 5G, edge, and corporate application management, has closed an oversubscribed $38 million Series C investment round. Rakuten Capital led the funding round, which included Clear Ventures, Emory University, Raine Next-Gen Communications, and existing investors. The Series C increases Robin.io’s total capital raised to $86 million. 
The increased use of cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and agile processes has shattered traditional approaches to application security, according to an independent global survey of 700 CISOs, commissioned by software intelligence company Dynatrace. 
Global hosting provider phoenixNAP, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company delivering dedicated servers, colocation, and bare metal cloud, has released its Bare Metal Cloud (BMC) Controller for Kubernetes. 
During its VeeamON 2021 event last week, Veeam demonstrated how it expects to safeguard workloads in all environments including cloud, virtual, SaaS, Kubernetes, and physical. The company revealed details on planned upgrades to its platform for protecting and managing workloads. 
Wholesale colocation data center provider Kao Data has welcomed a new customer in Civo, a developer-first cloud platform based on K3s Kubernetes technology. The colocation agreement will enable Civo to deploy its OCP-Ready systems in Kao Data’s data center in the London area and launch its UK cloud region. It is Kao Data’s first OCP-Ready customer for its OCP-Ready facility in London. 
With IBM Cloud Code Engine, developers can go live in seconds, easily run any code, pay only for what they use, and scale up and down – even to zero. It is a fully managed container runtime available at the IBM Cloud. In this video, Briana Frank with IBM Cloud, showcases how IBM Cloud Code […] 
Is your organization preparing to use Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service to run apps on-prem and in the cloud? In this video, come explore how Rancher can enable a consistent operational experience across clusters everywhere. We will show how to leverage Rancher’s cluster provisioning capabilities to operate on-premise and cloud-based clusters. Last, we will discuss how […] 
