SAN FRANCISCO, June 28, 2022 / PRNewswire/ – Tigera, which provides the industry’s single active Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with full-stack observability for containers, cabinets, and cloud, today announced that it has been recognized as the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year, for in open-source software (OSS) in Azure. Tigera has been honored in a global field of leading Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
“We are extremely proud to be recognized as Microsoft’s Partner of the Year for OSS in Azure as it reaffirms the reach and proliferation of Tigera’s Calico Open Source solution for container networking and security in Azure and AKS,” said Ratan Tipirneni, President and CEO, Tigera. “As businesses standardize Microsoft Azure, customers need resource-efficient and scalable networking and security solutions that protect workloads in a hybrid environment that extends from the cloud (Azure and AKS) to in traditional on-premise deployment (AKS on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server) .Calico is the only technology to support native Windows, eBPF, and Linux containers to match the extent of Microsoft’s offerings on AKS, AKS on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server, and self-managed Kubernetes on Azure. “
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners who have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices over the past year. The awards were classified into various categories, where the honorees were selected from a range of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries around the world. Tigera is recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services for open source in Azure.
The Open-Source Applications & Infrastructure category for the Azure Partner of the Year Award recognizes unique partners who excel at delivering unique open source-based applications or infrastructure solutions to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. As a winner in this category, Tigera demonstrated innovation, competitive diversity, customer value and successfully met customer interoperability needs using Calico along with the benefits of using Microsoft Azure services.
“I am pleased to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards,” he said. Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. “These partners are unique among these unique groups of nominees and I continue to admire their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers.”
Since June 2021, Tigera and Microsoft Azure together provide users with active build, deploy, and runtime security with full-stack observability for securing, tracking, and troubleshooting Azure and AKS containers. Tigera works closely with Microsoft to offer networking, security, and observability for containerized workloads running on Microsoft Azure.
Calico Open Source, the default CNI for AKS in Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server, is the most adopted networking and security solution for containers and Kubernetes. It provides businesses with:
- Data plane selection: eBPF, standard Linux data planes, and Windows
- Interoperability: Works on non -Kubernetes workloads
- Optimized performance: Developed to go faster with lower CPU consumption
- Operating to scale: As your AKS deployments grow, Calico CNI can work significantly without performance degradation
- Access control grains: Rich networking and security policy model for secure communication
- Data-in-transit encryption: WireGuard-based encryption
- Full support for Kubernetes network policy: Works with the original reference policy implementation in the Kubernetes network. Although the Kubernetes network policy only applies to pods, the Calico network policy can be applied to many types of endpoints including pods, VMs, and host interfaces.
Calico is a major open-source solution, and there is no cost for using Calico CNI, Calico IPAM or Calico networking and security policies in Azure AKS. For more comprehensive protection, AKS users can easily upgrade to the advanced Calico Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) through the Azure Marketplace to prevent, identify, troubleshoot, and automatically reduce risks to exposure to security issues at the build, deploy, and runtime stages in containers. To learn more, watch the on-demand replay of the recent Tigera office hours at Microsoft. Users can also sign up for a free trial of Calico Cloud at Azure Marketplace.
Additionally, Tigera is a contributor to Azure Arc’s “Jumpstart Friends,” Microsoft AKS Hackfest, Microsoft’s Cloud Native Partner Community, and AKS Office Hour. To learn more about how Tigera and Microsoft work together, visit here.
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company’s global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which takes place on July 19-20 this year. More details on the 2022 awards are available at Microsoft Partner Network Blog. The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found here.
About Tigera
Tigera provides the industry’s only active Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with full-stack observability for containers, toilets, and cloud. The company’s platform prevents, detects, troubleshoots, and automatically mitigates the risks of exposure to security issues at the build, deploy, and runtime stages. Tigera delivers its platform as a fully managed SaaS (Calico Cloud) or a self-managed service (Calico Enterprise). Its open-source offer, Calico Open Source, is the most accepted container networking and security solution. The Tigera platform defines security and observability as code to ensure consistent implementation of security policies, enabling DevOps, platform, and security teams to protect workloads, detect threats, achieve ongoing compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real time.
Strengthens more than 100M containers on 2M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software supports all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distribution, and is used by leading companies including AT&T, Discover, Merck, ServiceNow, HanseMerkur, RealPage, L3Harris, and Mindbody.
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