Many companies are fumbling through low-yield digital transformation experiments. Transformation is a vague target anyway. Is it big data? Is it artificial intelligence? Is it developer operations? Some are fatigued by the hype around the term. Is there an exact outcome or particular technology we can point to as representing true DX? “The bigger point from ...

Multiple forces came together to make 2018 the year of Kubernetes. The open-source platform for orchestrating containers saw critical maturation in enterprise-readiness as a favored method for running distributed software applications. As adoption of hybrid and multicloud environments in enterprises grew, businesses increasingly came to see containers as the means to operate across them. Kubernetes wouldn’t be ...

Two University of Washington students were messing around with the rough beginnings of cloud infrastructure in the mid-2000s. They quickly surmised that managing resources and security across multiple clouds would the biggest infrastructure challenge for years to come. They were correct. “It’s over 10 years later, and it is the problem that enterprises are hitting ...

Founding a startup and investing in one are both shaky undertakings. The rapidly changing market chews up new businesses and spits them out. But what about the Apples and Googles of the world? They were startups once. Why are they still roaring? What did they do differently as fledglings? What they did differently — and ...

Cloud-native technologies are infiltrating stately old enterprises. Leading the ingress is Kubernetes, the open-source platform for orchestrating containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications). The Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Kubernetes’ homebase — has been playing up its enterprise readiness lately. It’s getting help now from one company evangelizing Kubernetes to curious enterprises. “We ...

Radical changes to computing infrastructure are ripping the rug out from under software application development. The old model of lugging an app from one department to another and finally to production is changing. A new development philosophy and new technologies are cranking up development velocity. “The new model is, break it into small problems and ...

It’s tough to go back to on-premises data centers after a jaunt through the burgeoning world of cloud computing. Companies today can test and deploy new software in much more rapid cycles. There is a trend toward even greater openness. Some envision fluid information technology where data leads process. It’s beyond agile; it’s plastic. “Openness ...

If cloud is just someone else’s data center, what’s the point of moving there anyway? Companies that see cloud computing simply as a place to park software stuff are indeed missing the point. Cloud operating and pricing models differ from the on-premises models they may be used to. They can make friends with them and score ...

For all the performance gains of flash over disk storage, it was traditionally designed for low cost-per-bit. A brand new breed of flash that prioritizes performance is coming. Its low latency and high capacity might provide the jolt of immediate processing that edge applications demand. High-density flash storage that packs and compacts data into small ...

Most enterprises are embracing hybrid cloud computing setups. But isolated islands of cloud and on-premises infrastructure does not make for smooth running of software applications. The true measure of hybrid success is the ability to blend older infrastructure to new cloud technology. The result allows companies to hold on to oldies-but-goodies on-prem, and benefit from ...