🗂 Kubernetes, what it’s for

> The reason that Kubernetes is successful is because people look at it and they don’t understand why they need it until they see it do stuff. Then they say “Oh my God, I need that!”I can’t say how many talks and presentations I’ve done in front of skeptical audiences where they don’t understand what it’s for. Just by showing short and simple features like “let’s do a rolling update” I watch what happens.

🗂 What's wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm?

> The focus of many security agencies and countries on Huawei’s involvement in 5G systems raises the stakes, too: The next generation of wireless technology is expected to fuel even more connectivity in the “internet of things,” linking smart cars, smart homes and smart cities together. Billions of devices will be involved, all communicating with each other, forming what could become a surveillance web over much of the planet, and exponentially expanding the number of potential targets for spying.

🗂 What's wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm?

> The focus of many security agencies and countries on Huawei’s involvement in 5G systems raises the stakes, too: The next generation of wireless technology is expected to fuel even more connectivity in the “internet of things,” linking smart cars, smart homes and smart cities together. Billions of devices will be involved, all communicating with each other, forming what could become a surveillance web over much of the planet, and exponentially expanding the number of potential targets for spying.

🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle

Still swinging: > “Jeff Bezos gave the command, ‘I want to get off the Oracle database.’ And they’ve been working on this for a few years to try to get off Oracle Database, and get on to the Amazon databases. It’s taken Amazon, which is dedicated to doing this, several years, and they are not there yet. Nobody else is going to go through that forced march, to get onto Amazon databases, if Amazon can’t even get there without this effort.

🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle

Still swinging: > “Jeff Bezos gave the command, ‘I want to get off the Oracle database.’ And they’ve been working on this for a few years to try to get off Oracle Database, and get on to the Amazon databases. It’s taken Amazon, which is dedicated to doing this, several years, and they are not there yet. Nobody else is going to go through that forced march, to get onto Amazon databases, if Amazon can’t even get there without this effort.

🗂 Synergies, industrial example

> Berg said that over the past two years, under the ownership of GE, ServiceMax has been able to get a “jump start” on two fronts. One is simply increased investment in the business, for example, on things such as R