By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-03-30 15:34:00
Modern virtualization is becoming the new enterprise blueprint, bringing virtual machines and cloud-native applications together on Kubernetes. For large-scale providers, that means breaking down legacy storage silos and building a more flexible, protected and automated platform.
The key to this transition is ensuring that data remains mobile and protected regardless of workload type, according to Jeroen van Gemert (pictured, right), DevOps engineer at Koninklijke KPN N.V., a Dutch telecommunications and IT services provider. By treating virtual machines as declarative Kubernetes resources, platform teams can apply the same self-service and disaster recovery policies across their entire landscape. But while customer needs may vary, the bedrock remains the same.
“It doesn’t really matter that it’s internal or external customers. We have a base setup and we have some little deviations from that that should suit the customer and that’s the way we do it,” he said. “The base is the same for everybody because it’s still Kubernetes.”
Van Gemert and Joe Gardiner (left), assistant vice president of cloud and data sales, EMEA and LATAM, at Portworx by Everpure Inc. spoke with theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight and Paul Nashawaty at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed modern virtualization, the rise of sovereign cloud requirements and how collaborative engineering is…
