CoreOS

| June 01, 2016

CoreOS on June 1 officially launched the Torus open-source distributed storage project for container deployment. Torus makes use of some existing CoreOS-led open-source efforts, including the etcd distributed key value store that is also a core component of the Kubernetes container orchestration system....

Google | July 21, 2015

No fewer than 22 companies are coming together today to establish the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a standards body that will provide shared governance for tools that companies can use when deploying applications in Linux containers — an alternative to longstanding virtual-machine technology. AT&T, Box, Cisco, Cloud Foundry, CoreOS, Cycle Computing, Docker, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Kismatic, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Switch, Twitter, Univa, VMware, and Weaveworks...

cloudpro | January 31, 2018

Red Hat is set to buy container specialist CoreOS in a $250 million acquisition. The deal will see Red Hat add CoreOS's products to its existing container offerings as the wider IT industry accelerates its adoption of containers."The next era of technology is being driven by container-based applications that span multi- and hybrid cloud environments, including physical, virtual, private cloud and public cloud platforms," said Red Hat's president of products and technologies, Pa...

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...