Tag: cloud
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Link: The Future of Database Management Systems is Cloud!
it confirms that more and more end-user organizations are deploying systems and applications to the cloud, including replacing on-premises systems with SaaS. IT may or may not be driving these shifts. Source: The Future of Database Management Systems is Cloud!
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Link: Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition
“When we moved to the cloud the first time, we cut down the lead time for an environment from 100 days to 85 days. This is self-inflicted lead time… processes that are keeping you from moving faster,” he said. “We also had 30 people involved in a classic delivery, and we figured the cost was…
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Link: Red Hat shoves OpenShift in VMware’s software-defined data centre stack
Chris Wolf, VMware’s CTO for the Americas, said Kubernetes will ultimately morph into the “modern application middleware that crosses clouds, data centres, and edge sites”. Source: Red Hat shoves OpenShift in VMware’s software-defined data centre stack
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Link: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA
This week in data lakes… Source: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA
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DellWorld 2019 coverage, selections
Dell executives have been blunt about their expectations for the impact of 5G and the edge. Dell Technologies Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke told conference attendees that 25% of all data will soon be consumed at the edge through evolving 5G applications. Dell himself was even more expansive, flatly predicting in this interview that compute of…
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Speak at SpringOne Platform 2019
Want to come to Austin & talk about DevOps, Java, THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS & cloud hoopla? Apply to speak at SpringOne Platform this year, Oct 7th to 10th. I help pick talks for 3 tracks, so you can torment me! This is the last week to CFP! SUBMIT!
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Link: Assessing IBM i’s Role In Digital Transformation
Making the financial case: “This is going to sound silly,” he says. “The hardest part isn’t necessarily the refactoring. The hardest part is convincing people to do this. Because, let’s be honest the upfront cost can be very scary, man. It can be frightening. The business is going to say, ‘We just put in X…
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Link: Accenture has ~$1bn left for 2019 acquisitions
Out of a $1.5bn pool for 2019. The deals align with “The New” — an Accenture strategy that pushes the company deeper into digital, cloud and security services. Source: Accenture Acquisitions: $1.5 Billion War Chest for Fiscal 2019
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Link: The platform play: How to operate like a tech company
One of the global leading banks created about 30 platforms. One such platform was payments, which consisted of more than 60 applications that previously had been managed independently from each other. The top team decided to bring the 300-plus IT people working on development and maintenance of payments together with the corresponding people on the…
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Link: Standard Bank contracts with AWS for mass migration to the cloud
The bank has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider with the intention of porting its production workloads, including its customer facing platforms and strategic core banking applications to the cloud. From what I can tell talking with banks, they’re over that 2010 thing of “public cloud isn’t secure enough.” Now it’s a scramble to…
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Link: Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at Big Red
These US-based layoffs are part of a broad round of job cuts around the globe this month, said to range from 500 to 14,000 at the database giant. The biz employs about 140,000 worldwide. All the articles say it’s in the cloud business. Source: Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at…
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Link: BMC Touches Clouds with Job Scheduler
The new support for cloud platform as a service (PaaS) functions — including Lambda, step functions, and batch on AWS and logic apps and functions on Azure — gives organizations the capability to orchestrate workflows on the cloud. But, importantly, it also allows customers to integrate these cloud functions with applications running in private clouds…
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🗂 Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications
It either means not having to worry about managing your middleware stack and/or a trigger-driven event system. m.subbu.org/contempor…
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🗂 Keep kubernetes clusters small and dumb
> Rule #2: take away the problem of scale from infrastructure, push it back on the apps — things run surprisingly well. Smaller clusters, more of them. threadreaderapp.com/thread/10…
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🗂 Two-thirds of federal email is now in the cloud
> Quite a few departments have entirely moved their email to the cloud: Transportation, [HUD], Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the [GSA], Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and U.S. Agency for International Development. www.fedscoop.com/two-third…
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🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds
> Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are developing at least 60 percent of their applications on cloud platform. That total is up sharply—13 percent—from the group’s last survey released in March. Demographics: > ClearPath Strategies conducted this wave of quantitative research as part of the Global Perception…
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Link: HSBC chief architect: Why machine learning is accelerating cloud adoption
If you build it, you own it, big data ed.: “We got some value out of that but to be honest we found it hard to keep on top of, just hard to build skills at the pace required to integrate new technologies,” Knott says. “No matter how hard we ran there is always something…
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Link: The computational legacy is Oracle’s cloud opportunity today
The company said it was saving most of its cloud-native announcements for KubeCon in December, but highlighted its new managed Kubernetes service (OKE, launched in May), platinum-level membership in the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation and growing support of open source projects (e.g., Fn, a functions project; Terraform for Oracle Cloud orchestration) as evidence that it has…
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Link: Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat
While many organizations have extensive on and off premise infrastructure investments, comparatively few of them are sophisticated in the way that those environments are tied to each other. If expectations are scaled back to the more realistic “multi-cloud” – the idea that an organization may have investments in more than one environment – the relevance…
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Link: Oracle OpenWorld 2018 – making the cloud friendly for enterprises that distrust cloud
Good summary and analysis. Original source: Oracle OpenWorld 2018 – making the cloud friendly for enterprises that distrust cloud
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