The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaches 236 Members, Including 54 End Users

BEIJING, June 24, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen - The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes® and Prometheus(TM), today announced that 19 new members have joined the Foundation.

These new community members not only demonstrate growing support for CNCF worldwide, but a particularly strong surge of growth in the Chinese market - as China is embracing cloud native and open source technologies at a rapid rate. In fact, according to IDC, China will be fifth in the world in public cloud spending by the end of 2018 at $5.4 billion.

In a recent survey conducted by CNCF, adoption of CNCF projects is growing quickly in China. Kubernetes remains the first choice for managing containers with 35 percent of respondents using the platform, while other CNCF projects - including OpenTracing, Prometheus, and gRPC - are also regularly being used in production. As a response to this growing interest, CNCF will host its first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China in Shanghai from November 13-15.

"CNCF is thrilled to welcome 19 new members and supporters, led by a particularly strong showing of new commitment from the Chinese market," said Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "As our membership base continues to diversify, the cloud native ecosystem will benefit from resources and contributions from users across the globe."

About the newest Silver Members:

    --  Agile Stacks is a DevOps platform that provides automation for cloud
        infrastructure, applications, and security. With Agile Stacks, users can
        build a stack from auto-generated infrastructure as code scripts,
        significantly reducing the effort to integrate cloud infrastructure
        services and DevOps tools into the stack.
    --  Camptocamp focuses on the software implementation of Geographic
        Information Systems (GIS), business management (ERP), and IT
        infrastructure management to implement ambitious projects.
    --  China Mobile Research Institute is the direct R&D unit of the China
        Mobile Group and is committed to becoming the company's authoritative
        strategic think tank. Through technical industry leadership, CMRI
        supports the current network operations, develops new products, and has
        strong industry and international influence.
    --  CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform
        that helps teams work smarter, faster.
    --  Cloudbase Solutions is a privately held company committed to cloud
        computing and interoperability, with offices in Romania (Timisoara,
        Bucharest, and Iasi) and one soon in the U.S.
    --  Datica is a security and compliance layer for Kubernetes - designed for
        those who store, manage, and share protected health information (PHI) in
        the cloud, the Datica Platform manages all ongoing compliance and
        security burdens found within the exacting standards of HIPAA, HITRUST,
        GDPR, and GxP.
    --  DefineSys, based in Shanghai, is an enterprise-level cloud computing
        service leader.
    --  eBaoTech's mission is "make insurance easy" - pioneering the 3G
        insurance tech, or Java based core insurance system, eBaoTech is moving
        to the 4G insurance technology which is cloud native and microservices
        based.
    --  Edgewise is the industry's first Zero Trust platform for hybrid cloud
        security - stopping attackers' lateral movements and protecting
        workloads by allowing only verified applications, users, containers, and
        hosts to communicate.
    --  Elastisys provides products and services in the realm of Kubernetes and
        automation - enabling intelligent autopiloting for IT operations,
        increased performance, and availability of applications, all based on
        world renowned cloud research.
    --  Octarine delivers total visibility, easy policy management, and strong
        app security with seamless integration with systems such as Kubernetes,
        Istio, and Kafka to reduce security threats, obtain compliance, and
        achieve simple, secure multi/hybrid-cloud.
    --  Ping An Technology - the technology incubator for Ping An Group, with
        strong research and development capabilities in cloud, artificial
        intelligence, and big data technologies - is headquartered in Shenzhen
        and has branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Nanjing.
    --  QingYuan Technology is committed to enterprise containerized platform as
        service through delivering sophisticated containerized solutions across
        industry and government scenarios, with capabilities of orchestration,
        monitor, DevOps, and microservices governance, to empower IT revolution
        within the cloud native ecosystem.
    --  Rackspace is a leading provider of IT as a service in today's
        multi-cloud world - delivering expert advice and integrated managed
        services across applications, data, security, and infrastructure,
        including public and private clouds and managed hosting.
    --  Safewrd aims to enable and train companies to use open source and cloud
        technologies to release new software faster.
    --  SAKURA Internet is a Japan-based servers and internet service provider
        that operates robust and secure data centers.
    --  Samsung Research America is the premier research and development center
        for Samsung products and services - strengthening open innovation by
        leveraging key relationships with start-ups and academic institutions,
        and optimizing R&D performance via collaborations and agile processes.

About the newest End-User Members & Supporters:

    --  Ads on Top runs a DOOH ad delivery system connected to various demand
        sources, built on cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, to open up
        the floodgates of programmatic buying.
    --  DiDi is the world's leading one-stop mobile transportation platform,
        offering a full range of app-based mobility options for over 450 million
        users.

Ads on Top and DiDi join other end user companies including Box, Capital One, eBay, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, NCSOFT, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, Twitter, Vevo, and Zalando in CNCF's End User Community. This group meets monthly and advises the CNCF Governing Board and Technical Oversight Committee on key challenges, emerging use cases and areas of opportunity and new growth for cloud native technologies.

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 cloud native software stacks, including Kubernetes and Prometheus. CNCF serves as the neutral home for collaboration and brings together the industry's top developers, end users and vendors - including the world's largest public cloud and enterprise software companies as well as dozens of innovative startups. CNCF is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about CNCF, please visit www.cncf.io.

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