AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH
AMERICA – The Cloud Native Computing
Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains and
integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes®
and Prometheus™, today announced that Baidu, Inc.
(NASDAQ: BIDU) has joined the Foundation as a Gold Member.
Baidu is a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), using
methods including deep learning to develop new AI-enabled
initiatives in areas such as autonomous driving, conversational AI,
financial services and the cloud. Through collaborative open source
development, Baidu and other members are greatly accelerating deep
learning innovation with Kubernetes. Last year, Baidu open sourced
its deep learning framework, PaddlePaddle, as part of its continued
commitment to open source. Earlier this year the project announced
compatibility with Kubernetes, making PaddlePaddle one of the first
machine learning tools that supports Kubernetes. Baidu, CoreOS and
other community members continue to enhance PaddlePaddle and
fine-tune it for Kubernetes.
"Baidu has extensive experience in participating in open source
communities," said Watson Yin, Vice President of Baidu. "We decided
to open source PaddePaddle over a year ago, and, this July, we
announced our overarching commitment to an open platform and
win-win AI ecosystem with our partners and developers. Baidu
believes cloud native technologies are critical to accelerating
machine learning. CNCF membership is a way for us to directly
invest in many of the most cutting-edge, promising cloud native
technologies to fuel richer, faster deep learning market
growth."
As the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, Baidu
leverages its position at the intersection of big data, technology
and search to accelerate the commercialization and application of
AI technologies. The company is taking AI to the next stage through
its technology and research into areas such as image recognition,
speech recognition, natural language processing, and user
profiling.
"Baidu is already highly engaged in the cloud native ecosystem
through PaddlePaddle," said Dan
Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing
Foundation. "Kubernetes-powered PaddlePaddle enables cloud
providers to offer deep learning at scale for major competitive
differentiation. Baidu's pioneering work with machine learning and
Kubernetes will be invaluable to CNCF. We look forward to working
with them across a range of cloud native capabilities."
Additional Resources
- Learn About CNCF Membership
- Learn About CNCF End User Supporters
- CNCF Blog
- Join the CNCF Conversation on Slack
About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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, Fluentd, linkerd, Prometheus, OpenTracing, gRPC,
CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, and TUF. CNCF
serves as the neutral home for collaboration and brings together
the industry's top developers, end users and vendors – including
the six largest public cloud providers and many of the leading
private cloud companies. CNCF is part of The Linux Foundation, a
nonprofit organization. For more information about CNCF, please
visit: https://cncf.io/.
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese
language Internet search provider. Baidu aims to make a complex
world simpler through technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU". Currently, ten ADSs
represent one Class A ordinary share.
"Cloud Native Computing Foundation", "CNCF" and "Kubernetes"
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"Certified Kubernetes" and the Certified Kubernetes design are
trademarks of The Linux Foundation in the
United States and other countries.
Media Contact
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Woods
The Linux Foundation
(415) 312-5289
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