The above is from a recent IDC white paper.
Container use is growing. Even then, VMs still run everything. Most of those containers run in VMs:
IDC forecasts that 85% of containers will run in VMs in 2028. Meanwhile, there is a huge installed base of traditional applications in VMs that will be around for a very long time.
And:
nearly all public clouds continue to run their containers in VMs for reasons of multitenant isolation, scalability, and utilization maximization.
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I liked Jana’s book The Octopus Organization, and there were so many more questions I had.
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Enassholeification.
Consumer tech focuses on the process, enterprise tech on the outcome.
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Labor vs. AI
Automation creates a temporary rent for whoever controls the remaining bottleneck. Whether workers keep that rent is a power question, not a technology question.
ChatGPT summary of this paper on automation and wages.
And I would add:
The firm is seeking to get rid of human workers as much as possible. So once that high value, bottleneck job is automated, labor is fucked.