VMblog visits the Rancher booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Rancher is a complete software stack for teams adopting containers. It addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure, while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running containerized workloads.

VMblog visits the Platform9 booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is a Kubernetes service that ensures fully automated Day-2 operations with 99.9% SLA on any environment: in data-centers, public clouds, or at the edge.

Their unique SaaS Management Plane remotely monitors, optimizes and heals your Kubernetes clusters and underlying infrastructure. With automatic security patches, upgrades, proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, auto-healing, and more -- you can confidently run production-grade Kubernetes, anywhere.

VMblog visits the Alluxio booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Alluxio is a data orchestration platform that works with Kubernetes. They enable elastic data for elastic compute with tight locality in K8s, meaning you can cache data close to compute, enable high-speed data sharing across jobs, and orchestrate data across storage systems.

Alluxio moves data seamlessly (no management overhead) from remote data silos from cloud stores like S3, or file systems like HDFS, into your K8s cluster for tighter data locality (fast performance) and highly elastic data access for your elastic compute within K8s.

VMblog visits the MacStadium booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

MacStadium is showing off Orka, a new virtualization layer built specifically for orchestrating macOS in a cloud environment using Kubernetes on genuine Apple Mac hardware.

Orka (which stands for Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple) brings powerful containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes to iOS and Mac app developers and the DevOps teams that support them. Orka was recently launched in August 2019.

VMblog visits the Blameless booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Blameless offers an industry leading go-to platform for SRE professionals. Blameless’s complete SRE platform enables enterprise customers to automatically analyze and optimize business risks and outcomes, resulting in the right balance between reliability and innovation.

Blameless has a uniquely strong emphasis on incident prevention. They have built a seamless SRE workflow into one easy to use product. So whether you are a VP of engineering, an SRE manager, or an SRE, Blameless can help you better prioritize your work and make your job easier.

VMblog visits the StackRox booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

At the show, StackRox showcased how their deep integration with #Kubernetes delivers the next generation in container security to address a company's most critical security needs.

StackRox is a Kubernetes-native container security platform that leverages Kubernetes' declarative data and built-in controls for richer context, native enforcement, and continuous hardening. Their focus on Kubernetes helps DevOps and Security teams operationalize security across the full container lifecycle - build, deploy, and runtime. As a result, customers can enable security that's built in, not bolted on, realizing the power of security as code.

VMblog visits the Solo.io booth during KubeCon 2019 in San Diego.

Solo.io is a software company that helps organizations adopt and operate innovative cloud native technologies like microservices, serverless and service mesh. They have open source and commercial technology like Gloo, a modern Envoy Proxy based API Gateway, Squash for debugging microservices, GlooShot for chaos engineering and Service Mesh Hub for installing, discovery and operation of any service mesh.

Solo.io wants to help other people use coud-native and distributed systems in their organizations without having to worry about lock-in or be forced to only use one vendor. They provide organizations with tools that are agnostic to application type, language, infrastructure, service mesh, because the reality is that many companies have very diverse IT portfolios and it will only grow as they add new technologies to their existing environment.

Are you attending KubeCon 2019 in San Diego in November?  If so, I invite you to add Blameless to your MUST SEE list of vendors.

KubeCon 2019 is shaping up to be a fantastic event!  And the number of sponsoring vendors at this year's show is extremely impressive as the show continues to grow in scope and size!  One of the companies that will be on VMblog's MUST SEE list this year at the event is Blameless.  Blameless offers an industry leading go-to platform for SRE professionals.  Blameless’s complete SRE platform enables enterprise customers to automatically analyze and optimize business risks and outcomes, resulting in the right balance between reliability and innovation.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview between VMblog and Blameless to learn what they have planned for the upcoming KubeCon North America 2019 event and why you need to visit their booth.

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At VMworld 2019, VMblog interviewed a number of different industry experts. In episode I, we spoke with Virtustream, Hitachi Vantara, ExtraHop, Morpheus, FireMon, Vembu, Zadara and Datrium. Watch as these experts talk about their predictions and future technologies for the coming year within the IT industry.