Discover the cutting-edge cloud native solutions showcased at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London.

This spotlight series features four innovative companies revolutionizing cloud infrastructure, security, and development:

• Akamai - Platinum CNCF Sponsor with Cloud Odyssey Hackathon 
• Aviatrix - Cloud Network Security for AI-Ready Enterprises 
• EnterpriseDB - Postgres and Kubernetes Innovation 
• Heroku - Simplified Developer Platforms and Cloud Native Experiences 

Who's solving the most critical challenges in cloud native technologies? Watch now and find out!

As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon prepares to take over London in 2025, Heroku's leadership is zeroing in on the transformative potential of AI and cloud-native technologies. In this interview with VMblog, Betty Junod, Heroku's CMO and strategic voice, reveals how the platform is addressing the critical challenges of modern software development: accelerating time-to-market, reducing operational complexity, and enabling teams to focus on delivering value through innovative AI-powered solutions.

Join David Marshall and Brian Ducharme from VMblog as they interview Gabriele Bartolini, VP, Chief Architect, Kubernetes at EnterpriseDB (EDB), ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London. In this insightful conversation, Gabriele shares how EDB is bridging the gap between PostgreSQL and Kubernetes with their innovative solutions.As a leading company in PostgreSQL development, EDB has been contributing to the open-source project for over 15 years, accounting for approximately 30% of the PostgreSQL codebase. Their focus has expanded to include EDB Postgres AI, an enterprise-ready platform supporting transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across hybrid environments.

In this VMblog interview from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London, host David Marshall along with Brian Ducharme speak with Betty Junod, Chief Marketing Officer at Heroku of Salesforce. Betty shares insights into how Heroku’s platform-as-a-service offering is evolving to meet the needs of modern developers while maintaining the simplicity that has made it popular since 2007.

Betty explains Heroku’s unique approach to solving the complexity challenges faced by cloud-native developers. Rather than requiring teams to piece together hundreds of point solutions from the expanding Kubernetes ecosystem, Heroku delivers an integrated, opinionated platform experience based on their proven 12-Factor app methodology.

Planning your visit to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London? Don't miss these innovative vendors who are solving critical challenges in the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem. From observability cost control to hybrid cloud management, this spotlight series highlights five companies showcasing solutions that address today's most pressing cloud native challenges.

In this video, we feature:

ControlTheory - Fixing broken observability with cost controls (Booth S732)
Mirantis - Simplifying Kubernetes complexity with k0rdent (Booth N331)
Nutanix - Delivering consistent Kubernetes across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (S210)
VictoriaMetrics - Open source observability solutions optimized for performance (N503)
Tintri - AI-powered storage solutions with Kubernetes support (Booth S341)Watch to learn how these vendors can help you optimize your cloud native infrastructure and applications.

Visit each booth at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 to learn more and pick up some exclusive swag!

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native technologies, PostgreSQL is emerging as the database of choice for modern workloads—including AI applications.Ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, VMblog spoke with Gabriele Bartolini, VP, Chief Architect, Kubernetes at EDB, about how their open-source CloudNativePG operator is reshaping how enterprises deploy and manage PostgreSQL in Kubernetes environments. Now recognized as a CNCF Sandbox project and the #1 PostgreSQL operator by GitHub stars, CloudNativePG represents a fundamental shift in database architecture—one that's built from the ground up for Kubernetes rather than simply containerizing legacy approaches. As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid cloud strategies and integrate AI workloads, Bartolini explains how EDB is positioning PostgreSQL as "the database of the AI era" while addressing the remaining barriers to enterprise Kubernetes adoption. 

In this VMblog video interview, Anirban Sengupta, Chief Technology Officer at Aviatrix, shares insights on the company's latest innovation-the Aviatrix Kubernetes Firewall-ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London. This timely release addresses critical security and scaling challenges faced by enterprises deploying Kubernetes at scale across multiple clouds and environments.

Watch VMblog's interview with Alex Freedland, Co-Founder and CEO of Mirantis, ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London.  Join hosts David Marshall and Brian Ducharme as they discuss how Mirantis is revolutionizing cloud infrastructure for the AI era.

In this insightful conversation, Freedland shares how Mirantis has evolved from "the OpenStack guys" to becoming a leader in container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure over its 15-year history. He explains how Mirantis' newest open-source project, k0rdent, is helping organizations tackle the massive shift from AI training to inference workloads - a market he predicts will be 50 times larger than training.

Key topics covered:

• How Mirantis is addressing the challenges of traditional computing (doing more with less) and accelerated computing (AI infrastructure)
• The real-world success story of a sovereign AI cloud provider in Europe using Mirantis technology
• How k0rdent differentiates itself by orchestrating Kubernetes clusters with a focus on MLOps and composable infrastructure
• The rapid growth of the k0rdent ecosystem, with over 20 partners joining within one month of launch
• Mirantis' partnership with Gcore to deliver inferencing capabilities anywhere, regardless of location

Freedland emphasizes that 2025 marks the year when AI moves from infrastructure building to application development, turning every AI workload into an HPC (High-Performance Computing) workload. He argues that open source is the only way to drive innovation in infrastructure, especially for AI, by bringing together talent from around the world without creating friction or lock-in.

Visit Mirantis at their KubeCon booth to learn more about their lens product, K0 suite, and the k0rdent project.

For more information, check out https://www.mirantis.com/ or explore their open-source projects at https://k0rdent.io/ and the K0 product line.