Enterprises are looking at a future of multiple clouds and hybrid clouds where they can run not only their new cloud-native applications but also migrate many of their legacy workloads and take advantage of cost savings and the agility that comes with cloud computing. …
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. …
As one of the first hyperscalers in the world, Yahoo, part of the Oath conglomerate that also includes AOL and that is owned by telecom giant Verizon, knows a thing or two about running applications at extreme scale. …
If operating systems or server firmware had better isolation and workload scheduling software, the last decade of server virtualization in the datacenter might never had happened. …
In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. …
As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply believes that all applications should, in the fullness of time, move to the public cloud. …
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater operational agility, especially in developing customer-facing applications and getting the code into production with greater speed. …
It is safe to say that VMware would have been perfectly happy if Docker containers had never been invented. …
Linux has gradually grown in importance along with the Internet and now the hyperscalers that define the next generation of experience on that global network. …
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