The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces 30 New Members

PRAGUE, Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Open Source Summit - The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus, today announced that 30 new members joined the Foundation.

451 Research forecasts the global DevOps & microservices market is predicted to reach $10 billion by 2021, positioning cloud native technologies for rapid adoption.

"CNCF is thrilled to welcome our many new members from around the world in diverse industries, including financial leaders like Bloomberg and Morgan Stanley," said Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "CNCF has now crossed over the 100 member mark in less than two years since we started, including the six largest public cloud providers. As our membership base diversifies, the ecosystem benefits from broader input, contributions and financial support to fuel more rapid adoption of cloud native computing."

About the newest Silver Members:

    --  ACEDEMAND IT Services has experience with software architecture and
        software development support to help with enterprise software projects.
    --  Alauda, with its container-centric enterprise Platform-as-a-Service
        offerings, empowers professionals in software and IT with a razor focus
        on delivering cloud native capabilities and DevOps best practices to
        enterprise customers across industries.
    --  Applatix provides products and services that help developers
        successfully run Kubernetes in development and production, including
        Argo - an open source container-native workflow engine for Kubernetes.
    --  Aqua Security enables enterprises to secure their container-based
        applications from development to production, accelerating container
        adoption and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security.
    --  Buoyant builds open source service mesh infrastructure to help companies
        run their applications safely, securely and reliably.
    --  Bloomberg is a global business and financial information powerhouse
        which uses innovative technology to deliver real-time data, news and
        analytics to influential decision makers across business, finance,
        government, policy and philanthropy.
    --  Cloudvisory provides centralized management of cloud native security
        controls - delivering real-time visibility, intelligent
        micro-segmentation, security policy orchestration and continuous
        compliance enforcement for Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMware and
        bare metal environments.
    --  ContainerShip is a multi-cloud CaaS platform that makes it easy to
        deploy, scale, manage and snapshot clusters on any of the integrated 14+
        cloud providers or your own datacenter.
    --  Dynatrace is the only digital performance management provider offering
        AI-powered, full stack, automated monitoring for today's hypercomplex,
        webscale IT environments.
    --  Ghostcloud is the biggest CaaS (container as a service) platform in the
        southwest of China, committed to helping enterprises transform from
        traditional IT to cloud native.
    --  Giant Swarm manages Kubernetes Clusters on top of a secure, multi-tenant
        platform for enterprise companies, both on-premises and in the cloud.
    --  GitLab is the leading integrated product for modern software
        development. Connecting issue management, version control, code review,
        CI, CD and monitoring into a single, easy-to-install application, GitLab
        helps teams go faster from idea to production.
    --  Gravitational offers tools to manage distributed applications across
        multiple hosting regions, including on-premise clouds. Teleport enables
        RBAC for multi-region SSH and Telekube securely replicates and manages
        Kubernetes clusters across regions.
    --  InfoSiftr - a global authority in container images - provides Docker
        Authorized Training, integration and consulting services, with a team
        that includes a Docker core maintainer as well as other contributors who
        support the container runtime spec - runC and containerd - and Docker
        CE.
    --  Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing
        investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment
        management services.
    --  New H3C Technologies is a world-leading provider of New IT solutions,
        fully committed to the research & development, production, sales,
        consulting and services of New IT products and solutions.
    --  Netsil provides observability and monitoring for cloud native
        applications - enabling real-time visibility into the health and
        performance of applications, without any code instrumentation.
    --  Nirmata provides multi-cloud Kubernetes cluster management for
        enterprise IT, as well as simplified delivery, management and governance
        of cloud native applications for product development and operations
        teams.
    --  OpenEBS is open source containerized storage natively integrated into
        Kubernetes that delivers per Pod or microservice storage policies such
        as cross cloud replication.
    --  Platform9's next-generation open cloud is built on a SaaS architecture
        that runs across any data-center or public cloud - making it easy for
        enterprises to deploy, manage and maintain hybrid clouds using industry
        standard cloud frameworks such as Kubernetes, OpenStack and Fission.
    --  Qualcomm's technologies are revolutionizing industries, including
        automotive, computing, IoT, healthcare and data center, and are allowing
        millions of devices to connect with each other in ways never before
        imagined. Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of
        QUALCOMM Incorporated, introduced Qualcomm Centriq(TM), a new family of
        ARM-based processors, to address the needs of today's datacenter.
    --  RackN is using fast, simple and open automation to change the economics
        of the data center.
    --  resin.io enables developers to remotely update and manage code running
        on fleets of Linux-based connected devices - bringing a modern software
        development workflow, including Docker, to the Internet of Things.
    --  WSO2 provides a 100 percent open source unified platform to build, scale
        and secure enterprise applications - enabling companies to innovate
        faster and digitally transform.

About the newest End-User Members & Supporters:

    --  GitHub - the largest open source community in the world - enables
        developers to create and maintain influential technologies from more
        than 68 million repositories worldwide.
    --  Kuelap is a cloud native platform for digital financial services based
        on the open source Apache Fineract framework and other open source
        standards - providing fast, low-cost mobile delivery of digital
        financial services to four billion people across the world who do not
        have access to financial services.
    --  Reddit - dubbed "the front page of the Internet" - is the home of
        conversation online. With more than 330 million global users monthly,
        Reddit is home to the most open and authentic conversations online.
    --  The New York Times Company is a global media organization known for
        excellence in its journalism, innovation in its print and digital
        storytelling, and its business model.
    --  The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports
        Wikipedia and its mission of free knowledge for all.
    --  Zendesk is a cloud-based company that builds software for better
        customer relationships - empowering organizations to improve customer
        engagement and better understand their customers.

Bloomberg, Reddit, GitHub, Kuelap, The Wikimedia Foundation, Zendesk, Morgan Stanley and The New York Times join other end user companies including Box, Capital One, eBay, Goldman Sachs, NCSOFT, Ticketmaster, Twitter, Vevo and Zalando in CNCF's End User Community. This group meets monthly and advises CNCF Governing Board and Technical Oversight Committee members on key challenges, emerging use cases and areas of opportunity and new growth for cloud native technologies. This month, Sam Lambert, Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at GitHub, was elected by the End User Community to the Technical Operating Committee (TOC) - joining other TOC members and representing CNCF's growing community of end users.

Additionally, CNCF is a Sponsor of Open Source Summit Europe - where Kohn will present "Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes," and Chris Aniszczyk, COO of CNCF, will offer a "Cloud Native Update" during his keynote with Riyaz Faizullabhoy, Security Engineer at Docker.

Additional Resources

    --  Learn About CNCF Membership
    --  Learn About CNCF End User Supporters
    --  CNCF blog
    --  Join the CNCF conversation on Slack

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of those software stacks including Kubernetes, Fluentd, linkerd, Prometheus, OpenTracing, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy and Jaeger. CNCF serves as the neutral home for collaboration and brings together the industry's top developers, end users and vendors - including the six largest public cloud providers and many of the leading private cloud companies. CNCF is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about CNCF, please visit: https://cncf.io/.

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