We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
Hyperconverged infrastructure has been with us for a while now, and it looks like the technology is still a growing market, if analyst figures can be believed. …
The history of digital computing is to provide increasing levels of abstraction to get programmers further and further away from directly manipulating the ones and zeros. …
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …
In one fell swoop that is going to cost Big Blue a whopping $34 billion, IBM is going to become a modern software powerhouse in the datacenter that has to be contended with in an entirely different way. …
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. …
The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past couple of decades shook the industry as Intel and other chip makers scrambled to mitigate the risk of the threats in the short term and then implement plans to incorporate the mitigation techniques into future versions of the silicon. …
At some point, every company that has equity, venture, or public investors, has to start being profitable. …
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. …
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
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