The forecast calls for hybrid computing. Vendors have signaled a truce in the cloud-versus-on-premises marketing war. They’re acknowledging the hybrid reality in most enterprises with products built to combine or straddle both environments. But how do hybrid companies pinpoint where each individual snowflake should fall? How do they know if a workload is happy at home on-prem, ...

What is breach-detection technology good for? Does a police report help if the thief is already out the back door with the sofa, TV and grandfather clock? Getting closer to real time analysis is essential to effectively put out fires before they seriously injure an organization. Cybersecurity officers need to not only detect, but also ...

What is the maturation of the Kubernetes open-source container-orchestration system good for? Open source has kneaded and Karate-chopped the kinks out of the platform for orchestrating containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications). So now what? It runs more reliably in enterprises. There’s that. It might also run a whole stack much the same ...

Here’s an interesting “tech for good” story, and it isn’t a software engineer volunteering at a nonprofit organization. This is actual physical, hyperscale servers directly contributing something to the environment. It’s a European program that captures heat generated in data centers and warms people’s homes with it. Hyperscale cloud providers like Amazon Web Services Inc. ...

Multicloud, artificial intelligence, open source, cloud native — these trending technologies are throwing bricks in the windows of information technology shops everywhere. The shards are scattered all over the place — applications, networks, compute power and operations are in disarray. Personnel are confused about their roles — have they changed? In this state of confusion, ...

Developers and the enterprises they work for don’t always see eye to eye. This is on display right now in companies making the transition from on-premises legacy technology to cloud and cloud-native types. A magic thread that runs through both and eliminates all friction would be ideal. For now, here are tips from a distinguished ...

The amount of labor that goes into machine learning is pretty daunting. And despite the obstacles tackled by open source contributions, some of the most hyped machine learning frameworks merely skim the surface of the work to be done. Does a technology exist that can collapse the sprawling processes of machine learning, from data ingestion to training to edge ...

Network computing is undergoing a frenzied dress rehearsal for the opening multicloud drama. Distributed information technology environments are rendering traditional networking methods too slow and too boxy. Customers hear software-defined networking is the way to go and multiprotocol label switching is out. Then there’s network virtualization, programmable networks, etc. How do they choose? Look before lunging, advises Steve ...

Data is moving out of its old centralized data-center digs. It packs a lot of baggage, which is winding up in cloud computing environments and bundled as serviceable software applications. Many companies are left playing hide-and-seek with all their distributed data, and they find securing it particularly tricky. We asked one company with decades-old data plus a revolving ...

The maturation of the Kubernetes container management platform is bringing relief to enterprises everywhere. They no longer require the biggest brains in information technology to configure clusters on the open-source platform for orchestrating containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications). This is pushing Kubernetes and cloud-native computing further into the mainstream. At the same time, ...