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By Tom Fenton
KubeCon 2026 EU's second day explored how enterprises can balance digital sovereignty with open-source collaboration -- with speakers arguing that organizations must distinguish between a unified global codebase and locally controlled operational deployments -- while showcasing real-world Kubernetes applications ranging from France's national railway infrastructure to satellite-based environmental monitoring.
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By Tom Fenton
KubeCon EU 2026 drew a record 13,500 attendees to Amsterdam -- the largest open-source software meetup in history. Day 1 keynotes centered on AI infrastructure: NVIDIA joined CNCF as a Platinum member and donated its GPU driver as a standard reference for the Kubernetes DRA API, while new projects like AICR and LLM-D tackle the distributed inference challenge at scale. Virtualization & Cloud Review's Tom Fenton reports from the show floor.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton's on-the-ground report from KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam reveals that enterprises are actively pursuing Kubernetes-based alternatives to legacy VM infrastructure -- with a pre-conference "VM on Kubernetes Day" event and vendor discussions with Cast AI and ZEDEDA highlighting real-world strategies for migration, cloud cost optimization, and edge AI deployment.
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By Tom Fenton
Edera's Micro VM platform isolates each Kubernetes pod in its own private Linux kernel using a Rust-based, Xen-derived hypervisor -- reducing the container attack surface by up to 95% while maintaining near-native performance
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By Tom Fenton
A Q&A recap from a December 4th, 2025 webinar covers key Kubernetes and cloud-native trends from KubeCon '25, including AI operations, security, observability, and enterprise adoption.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explains why he's attending KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam despite having just attended the North America conference, highlighting the unique Euro-centric themes, networking opportunities with European maintainers, fresh AI-focused content, and the event's convenient logistics and comprehensive schedule.
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In a post-KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 webcast, Kubernetes expert Tom Fenton explained how Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the default platform for AI workloads and why scaling those workloads efficiently now hinges on standards, portability, and maximizing scarce GPU resources.
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By Tom Fenton
A roundup of key companies and technologies showcased at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, highlighting developments in observability, enterprise AI, Kubernetes management, secure connectivity, and broader conference themes.
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By Tom Fenton
Our man on-site, Tom Fenton, explains how KubeCon 2025 highlighted the rapid convergence of AI and cloud-native infrastructure, with Kubernetes firmly established as the preferred platform for training, inference, and emerging agentic AI systems, alongside vendor updates and conversations showcasing broad innovation across the ecosystem.
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By Tom Fenton
Day 2 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 highlighted major real-world engineering wins, nonprofit impact stories, large-scale modernization efforts, and the CNCF community awards.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton recaps Day 0 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, where CNCF’s co-located events offered deep dives into specific technologies.
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By Tom Fenton
KubeCon’s Project Pavilion serves as the heart of open-source innovation, bringing together maintainers, contributors, and attendees to collaborate on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s projects in a hands-on, community-driven environment.
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By Tom Fenton
After finding his recent presentation well received, Tom Fenton puts it online.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton spotlights five startups to watch at KubeCon 2025--TestifySec, Chkk, Border0, DevZero, and Syntasso’s Kratix--each tackling key challenges in security, reliability, and developer productivity across the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem.
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At our Container Security 101 Summi today, expert Greg Schulz highlighted backups as the frontline in ransomware defense, stressing immutability, air-gaps, and verification as essential safeguards for resilient containerized environments.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explains why the November conference will be a milestone event, marking its 10th anniversary with 300+ sessions, co-located tracks on AI, GitOps, and Observability, and a strong community focus.
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Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for Container Management sees Google, Microsoft, and AWS leading the market, with Red Hat, Alibaba, SUSE, and Huawei also in the Leaders quadrant. The report cites expanding AI/ML workload support, hybrid/multicloud trends, and ongoing challenges for new adopters.
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Forrester's Q3 2025 "Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Platforms" report assesses vendors in a market reshaped by the need for consistent management across public, private, and edge environments. The report identifies leaders in providing unified management, security, and governance for containerized applications in complex multicloud deployments.
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By Tom Fenton
After writing about Orka Desktop, Tom Fenton turns his attention to the company behind it, MacStadium, and its other wares in the macOS virtualization landscape.
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GenAI dominates the new Nutanix Cloud Index, the latest in a years-long series of surveys the hybrid multicloud specialist publishes to measure global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. The 2025 report published today reveals that GenAI is changing organizations' priorities, with security and privacy being a primary concern.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton concludes his exploration of Flatcar Container Linux, recently accepted as an incubating project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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By Tom Fenton
After it catches his attention at KubeCon, where it was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an incubating project, Tom Fenton tackles deployment.
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By Tom Fenton
After it catches his attention at KubeCon, where it was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an incubating project, Tom Fenton puts it through its paces.
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By Tom Fenton
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton finds talk about patent trolls, AI, new products and more.