Leading Chinese fintech company increases commitment
to cloud native technology
这家领先的中国金融科技公司增强了对云原生技术的承诺
Shanghai, China – June 24, 2019 – KubeCon +
CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 – The Cloud
Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains
and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes® and Prometheus™, today
announced that Ant
Financial has joined the Foundation as a Gold Member.
Founded in 2014, Ant Financial, together with its partners,
now serves over one billion users worldwide through its dedication to using
technology to provide inclusive financial services. In joining as a Gold Member,
the company willboost
CNCF’s roster of Chinese companies that are eager to foster the adoption of
cloud native technology and innovation, along with Ant Financial’s
related company, Alibaba, which is also a CNCF member.
“Ant Financial is a good example of the surge of interest in
and adoption around cloud native technologies that we’ve seen in China, with its
commitment to running Kubernetes at massive scale, creating financial solutions
that are used by millions across Asia,” said Dan Kohn, executive director of the
Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “We’re thrilled to have the company join CNCF
and bringing its open source expertise to our global cloud native community.”
云原生计算基金会执行董事 Dan Kohn
表示：“蚂蚁金服是云原生技术在中国越发受关注和日益普及的一个很好例证，公司借助大规模
Kubernetes来打造亚洲数百万人在使用的金融解决方案。我们很高兴这家公司能够加入 CNCF 并将其开源专业知识带到我们的全球云原生社区。”
Ant Financial is committed to contributing and opening its
technology to financial institutions and partners across the globe, especially
for use in cloud native architectures with technologies like Kubernetes, service
mesh, serverless, containers and more.
Ant Financial has contributed to CNCF projects, including
Kubernetes, and has organized several meetups in China that cover Kubernetes,
cloud native, and service mesh. The company has also contributed to
Kubernetes-based projects, like KubeFlow,
and developed and open sourced several of its own projects including Scalable
Open Financial Architecture (SOFA) and SOFAMesh, and Node
Operators for Kubernetes.
“Last year, open source celebrated its 20th anniversary. For
its next ten years, the newest and most crucial application of open source may
lie in transforming financial services technologies to make them more accessible
to people around the world,” said Hu Xi, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Ant
Financial. “We at Ant Financial, and our open source SOFAStack, are excited to
be a part of this shared technology ecosystem and we hope it will bring more
equal opportunities to organizations around the world.”
Ant Financial is joining other CNCF members this week at KubeCon
+ CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China in
Shanghai, where experts from Ant Financial and their colleagues from Alibaba,
Baidu, eBay, Google, JD.com, Microsoft and many more are presenting on today’s
most pressing cloud native topics.
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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