Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: March 13, 2020

VMware Bakes Kubernetes into vSphere 7, Fleshes Out Tanzu - The grafting of the data center’s most pervasive software infrastructure manager with hypervisor-based virtualization is now officially complete.

HPE Says Kubernetes Runs Better on Bare Metal - The newly released HPE Container Platform supports virtualized infrastructure too, but the company claims bare metal is more efficient.

Intel Security Gap Hard to Exploit Without Physical Data Center Access - Security researchers say the flaw is “unfixable,” but attackers would need to get inside your data center to use it.

Cloudflare’s Current Expansion Is Different from the Others - The company is expanding its US network in a big way, and it’s turned to two edge data center startups for help.

Will the Coronavirus Break the Internet? Highly Unlikely, Says Cloudflare - The internet infrastructure provider says there have been big traffic spikes, but nothing like the Superbowl.