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SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Analysis: New Global Accelerator is part of AWS strategy to move up the stack
One of the many announcements made by Amazon Web Services Inc. at the kickoff of re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas on Monday evening was a network service that automates traffic routing through edge locations. The AWS Global Accelerator will route customers’ network traffic across multiple cloud regions. “What you’re seeing is Amazon recognizing that internet ...
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Follow the footprints: Customer zeal for Kubernetes fuels Cisco’s hybrid deal with AWS
Enterprise customers vote with their feet, and both Cisco Systems Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are following footsteps into the hybrid world. This month’s announcement that Cisco would introduce a new hybrid deployment option for joint customers with AWS signified the continued importance that Kubernetes’ container orchestration technology has played in the information technology infrastructure. ...
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Containers drive networking as code, and Kubernetes shows the way
The Kubernetes container orchestration tool has redefined how software today is designed and deployed in enterprise computing — changing not only the software world, but the very notion of networking. Prior to the introduction of Kubernetes, containers were already gaining in popularity as a method to more easily deploy software applications. Yet as microservices became ...
Boomi views cloud-native as key differentiator while expanding products and partnerships
In the increasingly crowded space for “as a service” platforms, differentiation can be a challenge. There’s software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, monitoring as a service, and even anything as a service. It’s a big-aaS list. Amid the acronym jungle is integration platform as a service, or iPaaS, and a ...
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Open-source and cloud-native, Kubernetes paves the way for new companies to bring DevOps to data
With less than two months left, 2018 is poised to go down in tech history as the coming of age for open-source software. Need evidence? Over the past 10 months, notable open-source enterprises MuleSoft Inc., Magento Inc., GitHub Inc. and Red Hat Inc. have been purchased for a combined $50 billion. Yet before jumping on the ...
InfluxData bets the company on a market for its time series data platform
The time series data market used to be a province for weather statistics and stock price averages. But as the wave of data generated from “internet of things” devices continues to escalate, one company is betting that the market for time series technology will become much more significant in a wide range of uses beyond ...
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From Yahoo to Google and beyond, John Hennessy witnesses Silicon Valley’s historic ride
Before it reached a $125 billion valuation, before it grew to 345 million users, before its stock hit $500 per share, Yahoo Inc. was nothing more than a cramped, donated space strewn with empty pizza boxes and soda cans, occupied by students David Filo and Jerry Yang on the campus of Stanford University. “It was a ...
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Open-source software will eat everything in its path, and this VC wants a bite
Technology entrepreneur Marc Andreessen once famously declared that software will eat the world. Joseph Jacks (pictured), founder and general partner of OSS Capital, has a different twist on Andreessen’s opinion: He believes open-source software will simply eat everything. Developments in open source over the course of 2018 alone could lead some to agree with Jacks’ point. In ...
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Could AI go rogue? Debating the obstacles for enterprise machine intelligence
Fei-Fei Li is a world-renowned expert in the field of artificial intelligence, having risen to become head of Stanford University’s AI Lab and the chief scientist for AI at Google Cloud. But when Google LLC began an internal debate last year over how to publicly discuss its AI contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, ...
Blockchain entrepreneurs dream of scale, security tokens, Wyoming – and crypto beer
In the ongoing soap opera that is the cryptocurrency revolution, entrepreneurs have been trying to jump multiple hurdles, like Olympic sprinters heading down a long track. Getting the blockchain to scale up and figuring out how to turn real assets into tokens without winding up in jail are just a couple of the many obstacles ...
