Tag: cloud
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Kubernetes marketshare across cloud and on-premises, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 survey
This is from our recent survey. There were 752 respondents, all working at companies of over 1,000 employees, with “about a third (34%) have between 100 and 1,000 developers, 8% have 1,000 to 2,500 developers, and 20% have more than 2,500 developers.” I’ve been writing up a series of blog posts and accompanying videos looking…
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How much on-premises is out there?
Hot new epigraph for daily life: There’s probably a lot of things I should be doing, but I’ve gotten good at not doing them. Mid-week edition Boy, in this issue you have a ramble – and then I lost energy and needed to get on with my day. I’ve written this issue up many times…
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What’s with the subscription revenue obsession?; what’s your synergies?; een huishouden van Jan Steen
This is a long edition. What can I say? The deal here is to empty out my “notebook” at least once a week no matter how short or long. I was in Warsaw for a day this week: Prague and Brussels next, and then not too much until VMware Explore EU in November. I hope.…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #56
What does “multi-cloud” mean? There are multi-definitions. Har har. Also, securing cloud applications and custom software in state and local governments. Also: kubernetes is not for developers…? Approaching Rain, Southwest Texas, 1922 Julian Onderdonk The many meanings of “multi-cloud.” (Well, two at last.) I really like the recent O’Reilly cloud survey. There’s a lot going…
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🗂 Link: IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT
The vast majority of CIOs expect to deploy new technology stacks in the next 12 months. Most CIOs said they are already using or are planning to deploy microservices (88%), containers (86%), serverless computing (85%), PaaS (89%), SaaS (94%), IaaS (91%) and private cloud (95%) in the next 12 months. … CIO responses captured in…
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🗂 Link: Waity K8-y no more Pivotal: We’ll unhook Application Service from VMware
“The urgency was more around understanding the long term vision than an immediate need,” said Andrews. “We’re still very early. Everybody is talking about K8s all the time, but if you look at who is actually using it in production, the list is much shorter. Our technology stack works incredibly well, we have customers with…
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🗂 Link: Pat Gelsinger and his calculated plan for VMware
“Three years ago, your biggest risk was cloud; six years ago, your biggest risk was Open Stack. If you look at it now, you can clearly say, ‘Hey, these next-generation applications, are you going to be the enterprise supplier of choice?’. So in that sense, I think we had a bit of defensive risk ……
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🗂 Link: What Cloud Vendors Really Want From Their Customers
How much a customer spends on an annual basis is absolutely an indicator of strength, both internally and to the market. It is also a clear indicator of being able to effectively execute to the often-publicized overarching objective of expanding the customer base’s portfolios of products over the course of the relationship and since inception.…
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🗂 Link: With Heptio and Pivotal, VMware Doubles Down on Kubernetes
The company introduced VMware Tanzu, a marketing name for a portfolio of products and services, existing and new, that will help enterprises build modern applications, run Kubernetes with consistency across environments, and manage all their Kubernetes clusters from a single control point. It will encompass aspects of its recent purchase of Bitnami, a library of…
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🗂 Link: VMware plan elevates Kubernetes to star enterprise status
A swag at how many new apps will be created to run on kubernetes cloud stuff. I assume this is actually existing, modernized apps and net-new ones despite the wording: VMware says that from 2018 to 2023 – with new tools/platforms, more developers, agile methods, and lots of code reuse – 500 million new logical…
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🗂 Link: VMware Adds Containers to Its Cloud Provider Platform
The platform also added an integration with VMware’s container orchestrator, Enterprise PKS, which means cloud providers can offer containers-as-a-service. And at VMworld the vendor will showcase a technology preview of vCloud Director integration with Bitnami Community. VMware bought Bitnami in May. It provides application packaging targeted at container and Kubernetes environments. The Bitnami Community houses…
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🗂 Link: The Cost of Banking Is About to Go Up: What the Capital One Breach at Amazon Could Mean for the Industry
“The adoption of cloud platforms is a movement that will not be stopped,” says Jerry Silva, research director, IDC’s Financial Insights Group. “But there will be a slowdown as regulators step in to ensure that the security and resiliency structures that have always applied to banks directly are applied to the cloud providers with which…
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🗂 Link: Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry
“The most difficult part of what was a 10-month programme of work was that we were working to transform the current application, which was manually built, on-premise, and converting that into infrastructure as code,” says Niculescu. “So we essentially took what would be manually-built environments that would usually take us weeks and months and numerous…
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🗂 Link: VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy will be a key focus at upcoming VMworld
All the VMware/public cloud partnerships. Source: VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy will be a key focus at upcoming VMworld
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🗂 Link: Scale and velocity are driving the next generation of DevOps
This massive growth in scale has required an evolution in practices and organization to achieve success. Most of what technologists are aware of in this regard is labeled “DevOps,” but there is more nuance to it than that. The way infrastructure capacity is allocated becomes decoupled from specific hardware, so the infrastructure team has to…
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Toyota is working to have 70% of new cars connected globally by 2020, with almost all of those in the U.S. and Japan. Automakers are already using the cloud to generate revenue through telematics insurance and car-sharing services. Toyota also has talked about using data to alert dealers when cars need servicing, provide information about…
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Link: How the subscription paradigm flips the cloud financials market
In the subscription world, you must understand the lifetime relationship with the customer – all the upsells and renewals and how they all build on one another. You also must understand the revenue, billings, and cash derived from those-again, over the entire lifetime of the customer relationship. In an ASC-606 world, you must track all…
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Link: Microsoft milestone: Tech giant’s cloud revenue now matches traditional products, analyst says
“We estimate that FY 4Q 19 was the first time MSFT generated as much revenue from running software in its own data centers, including cloud offerings like Azure and Office 365, as well as LinkedIn, Bing, GitHub and Xbox-Live, as it did from software licenses and upgrades, hardware and professional services,” according to the note…
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Link: IBM Takes A Hands Off Approach With Red Hat
The reason for this hands-off attitude for such expensive acquisitions is simple: Both VMware and Red Hat live and die by the fact that they are neutral to any particular platform. While IBM may prefer Red Hat’s various elements of the stack – the Enterprise Linux operating system, the OpenShift container system, the OpenStack cloud…
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