Alan Shimel speaks with Shaun O’Meara (CTO) and Alex Freedland (CEO and co-founder) of Mirantis at KubeCon. Mirantis, a pioneer in cloud-native technology, has played a key role in the development of OpenStack and container management solutions. The conversation highlights Mirantis’ evolution, from cloud infrastructure to AI-driven workloads and the importance of staying aligned with industry standards.
They discuss the growing need for open-source, hybrid cloud solutions to support AI’s massive computational demands. The duo emphasizes the significance of Kubernetes and infrastructure orchestration in managing AI workloads and the role of Mirantis’ open-source projects, like k0rdent (http://k0rdent.io/) in shaping the future of AI. They also touch on the concept of distributed computing and the necessity of an open ecosystem to foster innovation.