Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms (ESP).
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®) released the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, happening in-person in Paris, France, 19–21 March, 2024.
As cutting-edge technologies like AI, eBPF, WASM, and research around environmental sustainability impact the cloud native ecosystem, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will again bring together the unique and diverse community of cloud native technologists to learn from one another. Event co-chairs – Aparna Subramanian of Shopify, Kasper Nissen of Lunar, and Nikhita Raghunath of VMware – worked with a program committee of 128 community members and 22 track chairs, to review 2541 incredible submissions, curating a schedule that will help attendees make sense of the rapidly expanding and changing landscape. The conference this year will offer 223 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions, as well as 90 CNCF project maintainer-hosted sessions providing the opportunity to dive deep into each technology.
"There are so many exciting things happening in our community, and it's been an absolute pleasure to collaborate with my fellow co-chairs, curating the schedule, reviewing over 2500 submissions in the last 2.5 weeks!" said Kasper Nissen, Staff Engineer at Lunar and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference co-chair. "Based on the content we have received, attendees can expect to dive deeper into artificial intelligence, including new requirements, and how to ensure privacy, security, and compliance. Platform engineering is another big topic to look out for as it expands into the ML/AI space. Plus, Kubernetes turns 10 this year. In short, an inspiring and informative conference awaits attendees and hope to see you there!"
The community-curated schedule consists of a vast array of thought-provoking talks, including:
- Keynote: Optimizing Performance and Sustainability for AI - Lu Qiu, AI Platform Tech Lead, Alluxio; Susan Wu, Outbound Product Manager, Google; Victor Jakubiuk, Head of AI, Ampere Computing; Ricardo Rocha, Computing Engineer, CERN
- Keynote: Accelerating AI Workloads with GPUs in Kubernetes - Brian Blitzer, Cloud Engineering Team, Nvidia & Yuan Chen, Staff Software Engineer, Apple
- eBPF's Abilities and Limitations: The Truth - Liz Rice, Isovalent
- Is There Room for Improving Kubernetes' HPA? - Berta Serracanta Pujol & Albert Cabellos, UPC Barcelona Tech; Gabor Retvari, L7mp Technologies; Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Cisco
- Intelligent Observability: The Foundation for Operating Smarter in the Age of AI - Alolita Sharma, Apple
- Kubernetes Chronicles: Stories of Triumph in Kubernetes Support - Roman Doroschevici & Sian Meoli, Google
- Saving the Planet One Cluster at a Time: Operationalising Sustainability in Kubernetes - Gabi Beyer & Brendan Kamp, re:cinq
- Optimizing Large-Scale Cluster Efficiency: A Strategic Approach to Achieving CPU Load Balancing - Shawn Wang, Uber
- Keynote: A 10-year Detour: The Future of Application Delivery in a Containerized World - Solomon Hykes, CEO, Dagger.io
- Keynote: Building IT Green: A Journey of Platforms, Data, and Developer Empowerment at Deutsche Bahn - Gaulter Barbas Baptista, Lead Consultant for Platform Strategy and Enablement, Deutsche Bahn
Co-located events have become a staple of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, enabling attendees to spend one day immersed in one topic. This year CNCF and other organizations will host 16 CNCF-hosted and 13 sponsor-hosted co-located events on 19 March.
Industry News
Progress announced its partnership with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), the world’s largest member association representing the CPA profession.
Kurrent announced $12 million in funding, its rebrand from Event Store and the official launch of Kurrent Enterprise Edition, now commercially available.
Blitzy announced the launch of the Blitzy Platform, a category-defining agentic platform that accelerates software development for enterprises by autonomously batch building up to 80% of software applications.
Sonata Software launched IntellQA, a Harmoni.AI powered testing automation and acceleration platform designed to transform software delivery for global enterprises.
Sonar signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tidelift, a provider of software supply chain security solutions that help organizations manage the risk of open source software.
Kindo formally launched its channel partner program.
Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), Red Hat’s foundation model platform for more seamlessly developing, testing and running generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) models for enterprise applications.
Fastly announced the general availability of Fastly AI Accelerator.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch and general availability of Amazon Q Developer plugins for Datadog and Wiz in the AWS Management Console.
vFunction released new capabilities that solve a major microservices headache for development teams – keeping documentation current as systems evolve – and make it simpler to manage and remediate tech debt.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. announced that Infinity XDR/XPR achieved a 100% detection rate in the rigorous 2024 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations.
CyberArk announced the launch of FuzzyAI, an open-source framework that helps organizations identify and address AI model vulnerabilities, like guardrail bypassing and harmful output generation, in cloud-hosted and in-house AI models.
Grid Dynamics announced the launch of its developer portal.
LTIMindtree announced a strategic partnership with GitHub.