Tag: AWS
-
Link: Serverless survey
“Serverless is growing, and fast. Several key adoption metrics are 2x what they were last year. And not just with smaller companies; the enterprise is adopting serverless technologies for critical workloads just as rapidly.” Original source: Serverless survey
-
Link: Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent
$1.6bn profit, before taxes and such I’m sure. Original source: Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent
-
Link: Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors
‘Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Target “is migrating key areas of its business to the Google Cloud platform”’ Original source: Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors
-
Link: Amazon launches Part Finder, built by technology it acquired from Partpic in 2016
Machine learning is turning out to be more practical than apocalyptic. Original source: Amazon launches Part Finder, built by technology it acquired from Partpic in 2016
-
Link: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of kubernetes clusteres
Kubernetes in-store, and such. Original source: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of kubernetes clusteres
-
Link: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available – More Regions and New Features
“The GA release of AKS includes a set of new features available in all regions like the Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC), Azure Active Directory-based identity, and the ability to deploy clusters into pre-existing custom virtual networks.” Original source: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available – More Regions and New Features
-
Link: Enterprises taking path of greatest resistance to cloud, survey shows
Still a lot of stuff on-premises, and people want to move it to public cloud: ‘More than 80 percent of respondents have more than 100 applications under their purview, and a solid majority have a good deal still managed on-premises. The survey finds 74 percent stating at least half of these applications are on-premises. Another…
-
Link: Amazon is coming for the insurance industry – should we be worried?
“While UK insurers are investing in tech and providing digital services, the majority are light years behind Amazon,” noted Davies. “If insurers are not careful, they may be pushed out of having a direct relationship with customers and be relegated to the role of a price-driven risk carrier at the back end (assuming Amazon doesn’t…
-
Link: Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It?
“Amazon.com Inc. is famous for its losses over the years. But even in the heyday of the dot-com bubble, the e-commerce giant never came close. Amazon’s biggest loss was in 2000—a $1.4 billion embarrassment, or about $2 billion adjusted for inflation. Most years, Amazon turns a profit, albeit a small one. What Uber backers can…
-
Link: Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS?
The scenario of AWS out-kubernetes kubernetes by layering another abstraction layer on-top of it to hide kubernetes from end-users “caring” about it: “In a not so distant future, users of container clusters will not care if they are using Kubernetes or under some AWS abstraction because it is the efficient way to do containers.” Also,…
-
Link: Global race for 5G heats up with latest US Congress bill
“Prices vary widely across the United States but the average cost of installing equipment on a pole is around $2,000 per year. AT&T recently complained that it had received an estimate of $8,000 a year from a city in California. Even in low-cost Georgia, the local government felt it could get away with asking for…
-
Link: The Hidden Costs of Cloud Adoption
Despite it being aw some, you still have to pay for public cloud, and it’s pay as you go: ‘“Cloud is an inexpensive and easily accessible technology,” the infrastructure survey concludes. “People consume more, thereby spending more, and forget to control or limit their consumption.”’ So: “the market analyst found that 34 percent of enterprises…
-
Link: Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups
Original source: Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups
-
Link: The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law
“The larger problem, as we have pointed out before, is that it is very difficult to make a buck in the server, storage, and networking business with so many big buyers pushing down prices, enterprises shifting some compute from their own datacenters to public clouds (and therefore some of their budgets from capex to opex),…
-
Link: Look at stupid, sexy Kubernetes with all the cloud firms hanging off its musclebound arms
“I think that a lot of companies find themselves using Kubernetes because it’s going to be built into the AWS’s and the Azures and so on,” Longbottom said. “So if you’re going to be looking at a hybrid cloud then you might as well be putting Kubernetes in place in your private cloud environment, because…
-
Link: Is Microsoft Azure really making up ground on AWS?
In terms of raw figures, not growth, Azure is still a way behind. Even a generous assumption of Azure’s share of that US$5.3 billion intelligent cloud revenue figure for the quarter would put it well behind the US$5.1 billion AWS racked in over a similar period. Dave Bartoletti, a principal analyst at Forrester estimates AWS…
-
Link: Start a nuclear war? There’s an app for that – US military teams up with Silicon Valley to revolutionise the battlefield
‘And they ended up saving $1million in fuel per week – but more importantly speeding up decision making when time is of essence. “We paired with them and we taught them this new way of building software and we built the software application side-by-side with them,” Mr Salisbury said.’ Original source: Start a nuclear war?…
-
Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan form health care mega-company
‘There aren’t many, but the announcement says this new entity focuses on “technology solutions that will provide U.S. employees and their families with simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost,” beginning with the companies’ own workers.’ Original source: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan form health care mega-company
-
Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs
“The tanker refuelling system software for the air force – which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry – was built for under $2 million in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It is currently saving the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being…
-
Link: Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1
People say Amazon isn’t good for Seattle, here’s a summary of the issues: ‘Housing prices in Seattle are rising faster than anywhere else in the nation. According to Business Insider, from 2005 to 2015, Seattle’s median rent jumped from $1,008 to $1,286, an increase nearly three times the national median, while the city’s median home…