Tag: bigco
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Telstra speeds up its release cycles with all the great cloud native stuff
According to Telstra, in some cases, its software development time has decreased from 6-8 months to 10-12 weeks through its work with Pivotal, More on how widespread it is: Telstra has moved 100 of its internal teams to Pivotal’s agile software development platform since partnering with the enterprise software company two years ago, with the…
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IBM’s new Private Cloud Stack, it’s got the Kubernetes & Containers
This week, Big Blue rolled out its new IBM Cloud Private software platform that is designed to enable enterprises to develop on-premises private cloud environments to accelerate app development and allow for easier movement of workloads between their private clouds and public clouds – not only the IBM Cloud but also those from other vendors.…
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Oracle interview on cloud: on-premise, enterprise tech not a perfect fit for AWS & co.
Oracle’s view is simple: SaaS suites win in the long term. Source: How is the big switch to the public cloud working out… for Oracle?
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Fidelity’s cloud native stacks
“The company builds its apps in Docker containers. Apps that need to stay on the company’s premises run on an OpenStack private cloud. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are used for public cloud. Fidelity uses a combination of cloud-native management tools like CloudFormation for AWS, Heat templates for OpenStack, and Terraforms, which runs across…
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Better details on the Cisco/Google partnership around kubernetes and Istio
The cloud initiative combines Google’s de facto standard Kubernetes cluster orchestration platform for managing applications and services across hybrid infrastructure with Cisco’s networking and security expertise. It also leverages Cisco’s push into hyper-converged infrastructure. Along with extending security to application containers and other micro-services, the deal would allow users to monitor application behavior running on…
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Companies that loose billions have a hard time being successful
How all these unprofitable companies sustaining high valuations: bending reality today has three elements: a vision, fast growth, and financing. But: A few firms other than Amazon have defied the odds. Over the past 20 years Las Vegas Sands, a casino firm, Royal Caribbean, a cruise-line company, and Micron Technology, a chip-maker, each lost $1bn…
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ScienceLogic momentum
The company targets very large users, with 60% of its customers being MSPs, followed by enterprises at about 30%, and the rest coming from government agencies. It doesn’t report the number of direct customers, but its website boasts 47,000 organizations as users, many of them employing ScienceLogic via service providers. Average annual contract value for…
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Oracle’s public cloud momentum
Oracle reports its PaaS and IaaS revenue together, which makes understanding its IaaS growth difficult. FY16 to FY17 revenue increased from $0.9bn to $1.4bn, equivalent to 60% YoY growth. The company claims to have added 14,000 IaaS and PaaS customers to OCI since its inception, almost all of them existing customers of its licensed software.…
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Atlassian revenue up 47% y/y
The enterprise collaboration software vendor said it earned 12 cents a share, three cents ahead of the consensus estimate. Revenue climbed 41.7% year over year to $193.8 million, also above the $185.8 million analysts had forecasted. You know what they say: developers don’t pay for anything. Someone either needs to acquire Atlassian, it has to…
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Docker and kubernetes
Dave Bartoletti, an analyst with IT consultancy Forrester, said it’s clear that Kubernetes has won at the orchestration layer. “There’s too much mindshare around it,” he said in a phone interview with The Register. “There are too many developers who just want this.” Pretty much everyone has the sentiment that kubernetes has won. More details…
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Google, IBM and others launch an open source API for keeping tabs on software supply chains
You probably still want to know who actually built a given container and what’s running in it. Source: Google, IBM and others launch an open source API for keeping tabs on software supply chains
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Training developers in person, then going back home
From an interview with Jeffrey Hammond and Marc Cecere on developer skills gaps. Here, the trend to training with people in person and then (slowly) going back “home”: [Hammond:] One of the things I think you see is it– so many companies have used the words, partnering model, for years, and it’s been more or…
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Bloomberg on kubernetes in Cloud Foundry
On overview of how Bloomberg is looking at the likes of Pivotal Container Services: “Many Kubernetes distributions are good on day one, when they’re first deployed,” said Andrey Rybka, technical architect in the office of the CTO at Bloomberg, the global finance, media and tech company based in New York. “But what happens on day…
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What is Microsoft Doing?
Paying premium bucks to hire influencers for the big cloud migration wars. Source: What is Microsoft Doing?
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The Serverless Revolution Will Make Us All Developers
Consider the case of the connected cows. The grand unified, cloud/AI/IoT/serverless theory: That was the essence of the Build keynote: The cloud interprets IoT telemetry, in real time, with AI. And that AI can, in turn, instruct other IoT devices to do things based on its interpretation. Source: The Serverless Revolution Will Make Us All…
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Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud
Oracle all over that public kubernetes service. Source: Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud
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Docker CEO Steve Singh Interview: All About That Migration To Cloud
The single biggest one is the move to public cloud, and this is where Docker is focused today. This is the number one area that we are putting all our investment in. We have this great container platform that allows you to do a lot of things, but just like any company, we need to…
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TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco’s data virtualization business – 451
The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any of the $180m it paid for Composite Software in 2013. Cisco did at least manage to grow the data virtualization business during its ownership. The company told us in September 2016 that it had 250 paying customers…
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Latest public cloud market-sizing from Gartner
Lots of growth, it’s all just public cloud, though. Source: Public Cloud Doesn’t Dominate IT Quite Yet
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What’s in Microsoft Azure Stack
Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying infrastructure that customers purchase from one of Microsoft’s certified partners (initially Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo) and software that is licensed from Microsoft.The software includes basic IaaS functions that make up a cloud, such as virtual machines, storage and virtual…
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