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Is containerization of the network coming? | #IBMOCA
Simplification is certainly among the top factors that make or break a product or service in IT these days. Docker, Inc. has been a huge success, because it makes application development and deployment accessible to people without a ton of expertise. Now some are looking at the container technology that made Docker the darling of ...
The starting line: Figuring out your path to the cloud | #IBMOCA
With more and more cloud services accumulating — public, private, hybrid, etc. — companies that want to move to the cloud may find themselves confused about where to start. Each company’s trajectory is unique, which might seem to further complicate things, but if you take stock of where you stand and what your goals are, ...
The open-source ‘stable’ release: Bringing order to the Wild West of IT | #IBMOCA
If you want to get in on the most nascent technologies, there’s no doubt you should be playing in open source. It’s where the Dockers of tomorrow are right now being tried, tested and perfected. The technology you’re sitting and waiting for in the consumer market might already be happening in open source. Granted, the ...
Cloud 2.0: Get ready to take app development to a new level | #IBMOCA
If speed is the currency in IT these days, then applications are what you purchase with that currency. Bigger, faster, technologically more complex, yet simpler-to-use applications. Every new development, product and service that materializes has just one question to answer ultimately: Can it make my application do what I want it to do? “We are ...
Can your feedback help build a better OpenStack? | #IBMOCA
As organizations strive to make open source and OpenStack more manageable for users, experts, developers and marketers are called in to advise. But one player in open technology has found that there is an excellent R&D source available to them for free: the users themselves; their likes and gripes; and what they would like to ...
A different ballgame: It’s training season for multi-cloud players | #IBMOCA
Open-source is an exciting environment for technological experimenting — it’s also very vast and frequently changing. Luckily, organizations have realized that the open-source world is terrain in need of mapping and tour guides, and some now offer special education and training in open-source and multi-cloud environments. Stormy Peters, VP of developer relations at the Cloud ...
Can pushing DevOps to the edge democratize IoT? | #IBMOCA
Culling meaningful, usable data with predictive power out of the chaff heap is challenging enough; feeding enough of it to AI and machine-learning algorithms to produce intelligence is proving to be even more challenging. Are there any ways we can make data tools smarter about sorting data so we don’t have to? Dr. Sarah Cooper, ...
Navigating the infrastructure market | #NEXTConf
When Nutanix, Inc. started a few years ago, many wondered whether the world really needed another hypervisor. What they may not have realized is that companies and organizations are all unique, and they have different infrastructure needs. On a scale of one to 10, something like security could rank two for some, five for others, ...
Is hyperconverged worth it for your business? | #NEXTConf
Hyper-converged infrastructure is touted as a next-generation solution for businesses that want to scale back on the space and time their IT takes up. Clearly, smaller and simpler are better, but hyper-converged isn’t cheap. The price tag still has some wondering if the investment will pay for itself over time or if it might ultimately ...
Wait, what? We’re at the end of the Digital Age? | #NEXTConf
Technology moves fast; sometimes it moves so fast that beginnings and endings collide with each other at the same time and place. Take digitization. Even as service providers and business consultants are selling ways for customers to enter the digital age, here comes a news flash: We’re actually at the end of the Digital Age. ...
