Pivotal embarks on new Cloud Foundry era and works with IBM

Pivotal is gaining a great deal of attention in the world of cloud, with the likes of Accenture and IBM working with the influential startup. Pivotal has reached a major milestone with the announcement of the next era of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the open source, multi-cloud application platform. Flanking this latest announcement is a set of other new features, including the Pivotal Functions Service, a serverless computing product designed to respond intelligently to requests. Additionally, the arrival of the new Foundry will involve the initial availability of Pivotal’s Google Cloud/VMware Kubernetes container product called the Pivotal Container Service. This news also includes the arrival of an expanded Pivotal Services Marketplace, this will involveadd-on services from IBM, Splunk, GitHub and New Relic. Tying into this latest stride forwards for Pivotal, the company announced that it will be collaborating with IBM to provide developers with tools targeting the streamlining of app development. It is intended that this ultimately provide more app deployment options.