When the Cloud and the Edge Are the Same Thing
Edge computing remains a growing and exciting new architecture for enterprises across multiple industries. Distributing computing power across a decentralized network gives new opportunities for AI- and IoT-based applications. Demand is such that Gartner predicts by 2025, 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed on the edge. However, the cost and latency of […]
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing.
More Choices, More Problems: The Double-Edged Sword of Multi-Cloud
Multi-cloud environments can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there are clear benefits to using whatever cloud or tool is best for your particular needs, regardless of vendor – in theory. In practice, however, the more choices you have, the more complex and expensive your environment becomes. In fact, Andreessen Horowitz postulates that […]
Oracle Enables Partners to Reuse Cloud Platform
At its CloudWorld event, Oracle today announced it will enable IT teams to deploy the same platform it uses to independently deliver cloud services anywhere they see fit. Leo Leung, vice president of products and strategy for Oracle, said an Oracle Alloy offering will enable organizations to provide a full set of cloud services they […]
Google Looks to Secure Software Supply Chains
At the Google Cloud Next ’22 conference, Google today launched a managed Software Delivery Shield (SDS) service to enable DevOps team to store, manage and secure the build artifacts in Artifact Registry. At its core, SDS is based on a trust-based policy engine to establish, maintain and verify a chain of trust across the software […]
GitLab Allies With Google to Improve Developer Productivity
GitLab Inc., in collaboration with Google, today launched an open source Cloud Seed tool that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to consume Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources. The Cloud Seed tool, announced at the virtual Google Cloud Next ’22 conference, is integrated within the GitLab web UI to make it simpler for developers to […]
What’s Next for Cloud Computing? Distributed Cloud
The public cloud has greatly advanced IT by allowing teams to interact with their data and write new applications in a cloud-native way. The cloud simplifies the application development process, provides services on demand and allows you to pay as you go. There has been phenomenal growth in public cloud use and all estimates show […]
EvolveWare Further Automates App Modernization Tasks
EvolveWare today announced it has added an Agile Business Rules Extraction capability to its Intellisys application modernization platform. EvolveWare CEO Miten Marfatia said the Agile Business Rules Extraction capability eliminates the need to freeze code development while applications are either being shifted to the cloud or refactored. Instead, the Intellisys platform will now keep track […]
Cosmonic Previews Deployment Platform for Distributed Wasm Apps
Cosmonic has made available a preview of a platform for deploying applications built using the portable WebAssembly (Wasm) binary format that enables applications to be deployed on any platform. Cosmonic CEO Liam Randall said the company is providing early access to the Cosmonic Platform Developer Preview platform to enable developers to experiment with a new […]
Alleviating Developer Workflow Headaches by Moving to the Cloud
Leaders in tech make one common mistake when it comes to serverless and cloud computing: They want to migrate their current environment exactly as it is to the cloud. That’s about as limiting as planning a flight path along the road network and deciding the route based on street-level traffic. You can do it, but […]
Aligning Cloud Spend Management With Cloud Transformation
The cloud transformation movement is well underway, with more than half of enterprise organizations moving to a cloud-native approach this year, according to Forrester Research. Spending on cloud infrastructure is rising accordingly – more than $21 billion in Q4 2021, up 13.5% from Q4 2020, according to IDC. The cloud offers economies of scale and […]
Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes. As part of this momentum, new roles are emerging to oversee cloud financial operations. Amid rising cloud costs, FinOps is emerging as a […]
How to Go Multi-Cloud: A Simple Three-Step Approach
Odds are your business already uses cloud technology for automation, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure updates and other purposes. But you don’t have to stick to a single cloud server or provider. In fact, you can take advantage of multi-cloud strategies for your organization and reap the benefits for years to come. That said, multi-cloud adoption and […]
90% Of Orgs Say Multi-Cloud Helps Achieve Business Goals
Multi-cloud is the new normal. And thankfully, this new normal isn’t just happenstance—it’s driving positive outcomes. New findings show that most organizations benefit from using multiple cloud providers. Multi-cloud adoptions are helping achieve business goals, such as improving reliability and scalability and increasing overall security and governance. However, nearly all organizations (94%) admitted that they […]
VMware Embraces Graph Technology to Manage Multiple Clouds
At the VMware Explore 2022 conference today, VMware launched a portfolio of multi-cloud management tools, dubbed VMware Aria, based on a graph-based data store that captures the resources spanning multiple clouds and their relationship to one another. Accessed via a VMware Aria Hub platform previously known as Project Ensemble, VMware Aria Graph provides a common […]
Overcoming Multi-Cloud Management Challenges
We’ve long talked about how the cloud is the future. But with the vast majority of corporate data now stored in the cloud, it’s clear that most businesses now realize this is a must-have in today’s increasingly demanding and agile business environment. The cloud has been the backbone of the remote restructuring of the workplace […]
Learn Something New Every (Cloud-Native) Day
Being the new guy at Techstrong Group, the first couple of weeks was spent trying to find things. Like the bathroom when I’m at HQ in Boca Raton or the login to the SurveyMonkey account so I could check on the status of our various in-flight research projects. I also realize I have to learn […]
Orgs Struggle to Get App Modernization Right
A survey published today found 93% of IT leader respondents admitted that application modernization efforts are either extremely or somewhat challenging. The survey, which polled 150 IT leaders at organizations with at least 1,000 employees, was conducted by Asperitas, an IT services provider. The survey found the primary issues respondents identified were identifying the right […]
Techstrong TV: The Future of Cloud Security
Check Point Software has announced the acquisition of Spectral, an Israeli start up specialized in automated code security. This further reinforces Check Point’s commitment to cloud security. The video is above and a transcript of the conversation is below. Interviewer: Hey everyone, welcome to another segment here on Techstrong TV. I’m really […]
A Guide to Cloud Migration Trends and Strategies
For several years, we have witnessed widescale cloud adoption as a software infrastructure growth and maintenance strategy. Spending on cloud application services (SaaS) continues to grow as monolithic applications are replaced by microservices-based apps and monoliths become relics of the past. In 2021 alone, companies spent $410.9 billion on public cloud services, and Gartner expects […]
API Gateway Vs. Service Mesh: What’s the Difference?
In the average microservices architecture, app programs trade the stability and rigidity a call stack offers for the network’s flexibility. Consequently, latency, security and traceability issues that were previously absent become a service call concern. Service mesh is the resulting solution to eliminate these issues and allow developers to focus on more important business solutions. […]
How 5G Will Change the Public Cloud as We Know It
When it comes to realizing the promise of 5G, we’re still a few years away. Under the hood, though, the rollout of 5G infrastructure and the new applications 5G will enable—from AR and VR to new drone capabilities and beyond—will drive dramatic changes in infrastructure demands, starting with the public cloud. In the 5G era, […]
Reducing Energy Consumption With Cloud Cost Efficiency
A new study from Stanford University found that it takes 75 gigajoules per year of energy for a person to have a good, long life, but the average American uses nearly four times that amount: 284 gigajoules/year. In fact, the U.S. consumes 17% of the world’s energy while accounting for only 4% of the population. […]