Australia’s leading provider of mobile phones, mobile devices, home phones and broadband internet partnered with Pivotal, the enterprise software company, two years ago.

Since then, the company has moved 100 of its internal teams to Pivotal’s agile software development platform, accounting for 25% to 30% of its business.

To build software using agile methodologies on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Telstra’s teams have been trained in Pivotal Labs, in a bid to eventually shift 400 teams of 4,000 to 5,000 staff members to the cloud software development platform.

Adopting agile methodologies

Telstra CEO, Andy Penn, said to ZDNet: “Like any large, traditional corporate, we’re going through the same process that the other corporates are in other industries – which are many of our customers – and so at the same time we’re looking to transform Telstra from a technology perspective, we’re also supporting our customers on that journey to buy virtual products and services that we provide.

“So we’re on a journey of adopting agile methodology within the organisation, but also working with our key corporate customers in conjunction with Pivotal, so within our enterprise sales force we support Pivotal and particularly the Pivotal cloud software-development platform as part of our offerings to our customers.”

Penn also noted Telstra is additionally “doing a lot in agritech”, and argued that telco infrastructure is “one of the most important parts of the agriculture industry”.

Written by Leah Alger

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With more enterprises running applications in lightweight containers, Vmware has rallied Google and Pivotal to simplify deploying container-based applications in a multi-cloud environment.

The three companies spoke about the Pivotal Container Service (PKS) at VMworld 2017, explaining how it uses Kubernetes container orchestration platform, which deploys and manages Kubernetes cluster on any cloud.

VMware spokesperson said to Computer Weekly: “PKS will help operation teams deliver a hardened, maintainable container platform, while giving developers on-demand access to a production-ready environment featuring high availability, security, and multi-tenancy across private and public clouds.”

PDK also gives mid-sized and large enterprises the ability to deploy containers in VMware, vSphere, and is preconfigured for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), allowing developers to take advantage of GCP services like Spanner, BigQuery and Machine Learning.

Gary Chen, research manager at IDC, said to Computer Weekly: “IDC research shows that most enterprises are seeking a commercially supported Kubernetes solution and PKS has VMware, Pivotal and Google lined up to support it.”

VMware NSX will also power cross-cloud security and network connectivity, including container network services.

Written by Leah Alger

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