Ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023?  Attending the show?  Make sure to visit with Mezmo.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon takes place November 6 - 9, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and Tucker Callaway, CEO of Mezmo, one of the industry's leading observability data platforms.

Mirantis helps organizations simplify operations, reduce complexity, and accelerate innovation by providing open-source solutions for delivering and managing modern distributed applications at scale. The company enables platform engineering teams to build and operate secure, scalable, and customizable Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) across any environment — on-premises, public cloud, hybrid, or edge.

As AI-driven workloads become a core component of modern architectures, Mirantis provides the automation, multi-cloud orchestration, and infrastructure flexibility required to support high-performance AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. Committed to open standards and avoiding vendor lock-in, Mirantis empowers organizations to deploy and operate infrastructure and services on their terms.

Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, Ericsson, Inmarsat, PayPal, and Societe Generale. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.

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Mirantis named a Leader in Omdia Universe: Container Management Products, 2024–25

Mirantis is recognized as one of three Leaders in the global market for standalone container management solutions. We’re proud to be the only independent company named a Leader — we don’t have the heavy bureaucracy of a technology giant, and we don’t peddle a cloud native stack built around our own Linux distribution. We feel this honor is a testament to our commitment to delivering open source, vendor-neutral, enterprise-grade container solutions.

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Kubernetes is notoriously challenging—but many developers are expected to learn it on the run. That’s why we created a book for developers who need a crash course in Kubernetes…and who need it now.

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k0s and k3s are both popular open source Kubernetes distributions with small footprints—but which is right for your use-case? Easily compare the most important k0s and k3s features and characteristics, including security accreditation, system requirements, major components, and more.

Ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023?  Attending the show?  Make sure to visit with CAST AI.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon takes place November 6 - 9, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and co-founder and CPO Laurent Gil of CAST AI, an all-in-one Kubernetes cost optimization and automation platform.

Ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023?  Attending the show?  Make sure to visit with Equinix.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon takes place November 6 - 9, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and Edward Vielmetti, Developer Partner Manager at Equinix, the world's digital infrastructure company.

Ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023?  Attending the show?  Make sure to visit with Spectro Cloud.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon takes place November 6 - 9, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and Saad Malik CTO & Co-Founder of Spectro Cloud, a leading platform provider of modern Kubernetes management.

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023, with Ambassador Labs, Aserto, BellSoft, CloudCasa, JFrog, and SentinelOne, six innovative companies that are leading the way in Kubernetes and cloud native computing.

These companies are at the forefront of developing new technologies and solutions that are helping organizations to build, deploy, and manage their cloud native applications more effectively and efficiently.

In this video, you will learn about:

• Ambassador Labs: Ambassador Labs is revolutionizing the way development teams code, test, ship and run Kubernetes applications. Their flagship products, Edge Stack and Telepresence, are used by global enterprises to accelerate deployment and facilitate collaboration across the full lifecycle of cloud native software delivery. Ambassador Labs was an early Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open source project contributor, and their Emissary-ingress and Telepresence projects are used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide.
  
  
• Aserto: Aserto is a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to implement fine-grained access control for their applications and data. Aserto's fine-grained approach to authorization makes it easy to define and manage complex access policies, and to ensure that users only have access to the resources they need. 
  
  
• BellSoft: BellSoft is a major contributor to the OpenJDK project, and Liberica JDK, our branded OpenJDK runtime, is the Java runtime of choice for VMware, Spring Framework, JetBrains, and millions of users around the world. We are the only OpenJDK vendor that supports all LTS Java versions, legacy JDK 6 & 7 and Liberica NIK, the GraalVM-based native-image compiler. Our Java platform, Liberica JDK, provides a unified Java experience across the organization, delivering a more secure, reliable, and cost-effective approach to application development on any platform and in any environment. Liberica JDK Performance Edition, currently available for JDK 11 and expected for JDK 8, allows you to boost your app’s performance with JVM 17 features without migration. Performance Edition is available in Alpaquita containers, which is critical for enterprise cloud-based Java development.
  
  
• CloudCasa: CloudCasa by Catalogic provides innovative multi-cloud data protection, migration, and disaster recovery for Kubernetes applications and cloud data services. CloudCasa is fully compatible and complementary to Velero, the open-source Kubernetes backup tool that has been downloaded over 100 million times.
  
  
• JFrog: Driven by a “Liquid Software” vision, the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform is a single system of record that powers organizations to build, manage, and distribute software quickly and securely, ensuring it is available, traceable, and tamper-proof. The integrated security features also help identify, protect, and remediate against threats and vulnerabilities. JFrog’s hybrid, universal, multi-cloud platform is available as both self-hosted and SaaS services across major cloud service providers. Millions of users and 7K+ customers worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 100, depend on JFrog solutions to securely embrace digital transformation.
  
  
• SentinelOne: SentinelOne is a cybersecurity company that provides the world's first Singularity XDR platform. SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform detects, prevents, and responds to cyber attacks at machine speed, empowering organizations to secure endpoints, cloud workloads, containers, identities, and mobile and network-connected devices with speed, accuracy and simplicity.

This video is a must-watch for anyone who is interested in learning more about the latest innovations in Kubernetes and cloud native computing. It is also a great resource for organizations that are looking for new solutions to help them build, deploy, and manage their cloud native applications more effectively and efficiently.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is the premier event for Kubernetes and cloud native computing. It is taking place in November 2023, and these six companies will be showcasing their latest products and solutions at the event. If you are attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, be sure to visit their booths to learn more about how their solutions can help you to succeed in your cloud native journey.

Ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023?  Attending the show?  Make sure to visit with Ambassador Labs.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon takes place November 6 - 9, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and Dave Sudia, Director of Developer Relations at Ambassador Labs, the cloud native developer experience leader.

Ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023?  Attending the show?  Make sure to visit with SentinelOne.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon takes place November 6 - 9, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

Read this exclusive interview between VMblog and Rick Bosworth, Director of Product Marketing, SentinelOne, a global leader in autonomous cybersecurity.

ThreatX is API and application protection that lets you secure them with confidence, not complexity – from the edge to runtime. It blocks botnets and advanced attacks in real time, letting enterprises keep attackers at bay without lifting a finger. Trusted by companies in every industry across the globe, ThreatX profiles attackers and blocks advanced risks to protect APIs and applications 24/7. Learn more at https://www.threatx.com.  

Resources:

ThreatX Runtime API and Application Protection

Protecting Against Runtime Threats to APIs and Applications

Managed API and Application Protection

ngrok is a secure unified ingress platform that combines global server load balancing, reverse proxy, firewall, API gateway, and Kubernetes Ingress Controller to deliver applications and APIs across every stage of the development lifecycle from any cloud, datacenter, or home network. ngrok brings secure ingress to your test/dev environments, external networks you don't control as well as apps and APIs in production. Over 5 million developers use ngrok for testing webhooks and previewing apps and the world’s top technology brands — including Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, Shopify, Zoom and Twilio — advocate ngrok as a key integration partner. ngrok is venture-backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue.  Learn more at ngrok.com.

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