Tag: cloud
-
VMware Tanzu Platform 10: Unified cloud app development simplified – ‘“With Tanzu platform 10, we have a unified single console to manage your applications, look at your CVEs, security governance, compliance,” she stated. “There are three main messages. Keep it very simple for the developer, never expose YAML files, configuration files and lower level configs.…
-
Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be – Maybe private AI will really be a thing: ‘“We are still in the early innings, and our AI opportunity with tier 2 CSPs, enterprise, and emerging sovereign customers is immense,” Jeff Clarke, Dell’s chief operating officer, explained on the call with Wall Street…
-
How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing – A sort of community cloud for Germany and Austria? // “Its IT unit, Schwarz Digits — which became a standalone operating division in 2023 — has signed up clients including Germany’s biggest software group SAP, the country’s most successful football club Bayern Munich…
-
Teaching to the Test. Why It Security Audits Aren’t Making Stuff Safer – Bullshit Work in enterprise security. // Plus, why not start with basics before going advanced: ‘The world would be better off if organizations stopped wasting so much time and money on these vendor solutions and instead stuck to much more basic solutions.…
-
What people buy for Kubernetes
Where the Kubernetes spend is Here’s a presentation recording going over our recent Kubernetes survey. I’ve mentioned it several times here, but there’s some new charts (like the above) and commentary in this talk I did with Rita and Danielle. Check out it for free in LinkedIn. Wastebook 1 cup toilet chemical solution, three cups…
-
There’s a lot of private cloud out there
…right? I’ve been looking around for estimates on how many custom written apps run on private vs. public cloud. There’s a lot of coverage and estimates of people using multiple clouds, but finding breakouts is tough. IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND! Here’s what I’ve found recently: “According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023,…
-
Why Supercloud Architectures Could Upend Cloud Computing – Or Not | IDC Blog – ”IDC’s March 2024 Cloud Pulse Survey (n = 1,350) shows that 74% of cloud buyers have multicloud strategies. It’s no longer a big deal to use multiple clouds.”
-
Developer Experience: What not to do – In summary: don’t be enterprise software. Less crass: be easy/instant to install and run, and have good docs that explain how to do [I’d say 2 to 3 example apps/uses]. Even better: be a SaaS, at least have that as an option. All of this advice is pretty…
-
Buy your platform, don’t build it
When it comes to cloud native application platforms, we’re at an important evolutionary point: will the best practice for platform strategies be to build or to buy? Should you choose the components you need for a platform and integrate them together, or should you buy a pre-integrated platform? Unless you’re a handful of organizations, the…
-
6 views on open source business models
On that random person in Nebraska Open source is important for the entire industry, sell side (especially in the cloud era) and buy side. Things would go very bad if it did not exist as method of software production and innovation. (Source: see the QED from that one xkcd.) Open source is a bad business…
-
3 Kubernetes Market-Sizes: mid to low single digit billions ~5 years from now.
Kubernetes is popular. If you’re in my business, you know that it’s widely considered to be how enterprises run and will their applications. So, it must be a huge market right? Lots of money flowing around. Well…not really! Let’s look at some numbers: “The container management market has seen accelerated growth of 28.6% over the…
-
OK Cloud, On-Prem is Alright – A case for private cloud, or, if you prefer the “a nicely automated VM or container environment” view: on-premises. I’d summarize it to: there isn’t enough ROI to motivate everyone to change, even spend the time to decide to change.
-
IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next? – Good analysis of the possible business strategy, the synergies to activate. // “Customers in specific industries, often highly regulated and conservative in outlook, have often chosen IBM and continue to do so. For them, the value of cloud is complementary at the margins, not a wholesale change…
-
The cloud is benefiting IT, but not business – “The central promise of cloud computing was to usher in a new era of agility, cost savings, and innovation for businesses. However, according to the McKinsey survey, only one-third of European companies actively monitor non-IT outcomes after migrating to the cloud, which suggests a less optimistic…
-
Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps
Lots of original content this week, starting with this prediction about “enterprise AI”: I also made these since last episode: Another go-round at figuring out playing D&D with ChatGPT. It went pretty well! Here’s my retro/analysis of it, and here’s the actual play session with inline commentary. I was the guest co-host on this week’s…
-
Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets | Computer Weekly – “Nearly three in four (72%) of the IT decision-makers polled reported that their company exceeded its set cloud budget in the most recent fiscal year. Among the areas experiencing an acceleration of cloud deployments are: applications/workloads in IT operations (54%); hybrid work (50%);…
-
Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals – Defending yourself against the three public clouds.
-
Battle of the Redis forks? – Commercialized open source is a mess right now…for the past ~3 years. Like other types of software, cloud has really been, uh, “transformative.”
-
If you’re not changing tools, you’re not changing
All Talk, No Tools I like heuristics you can use to figure out what’s “really” going on at work (well, in any system, I guess). When it comes to Big Change, one of the heuristics I like to use is to ask if the organization is using new tools. My colleague Bryan Ross has a…
-
Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better? – 2024 Watch List
I don’t like annual predictions. Thankfully, no one’s asked me to do a big post about them this year, but usually I’m asked to do something formal. I always end up just predicting the same thing – predictions turn a lot more into hopes and dreams. I do like flagging things to pay attention to,…
You must be logged in to post a comment.