Tag: Cloud Computing

Four Steps to Avoiding a Cloud Cost Incident
The recent Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report found that organizations waste 32% of their cloud spend, up from 3o% last year. This can be due to cloud cost incidents triggered ...

Could Buying VMware Bring Broadcom Hybrid Cloud Bona Fides?
Rumors are swirling that Broadcom wants to buy its way into the growing hybrid cloud market by acquiring VMware. The deal won’t come cheap—after news of the potential deal surfaced, VMware’s market ...

How DevOps is Revolutionizing Embedded Development
There’s something curious happening on the desktops of embedded developers around the world. From home offices to cubes to labs, in lamp-lit rooms late at night and sun-lit rooms early in the ...

Top Nine Skills for SREs to Master
It’s easy to talk at a high level about what site reliability engineers do: They ensure that IT systems achieve availability and performance requirements. But which skills, exactly, do SREs need to ...

AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?
Canaries were once sent into coal mines as an early warning sign against danger—for me, it was my Roomba failing to automatically search out dog hair and clean the floor under my ...

NetApp Survey Shows Hybrid Cloud is Maturing
A small survey of 79 midsized to large enterprises conducted by NetApp suggests enterprise IT organizations might finally be embracing hybrid cloud computing beyond use cases involving backup and recovery. The survey ...

What Developers Need to Know About Edge Computing
More and more companies are living “on the edge” as they move from “I’ll think about edge computing” to “I don’t think our business can optimally grow and compete without edge computing.” ...

Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Even as technology continues to move into the cloud, a simultaneous shift is already underway in the opposite direction as computing increasingly moves to the edge. One key reason: by 2025, the ...

What It Will Take To Bring Cloud Gaming to Fruition?
The gaming industry is booming. There are 211 million people gaming in the U.S., and it's one of the fastest-growing forms of entertainment on the planet. In the age of Twitch streaming, ...

No-Nonsense Guide to Distributed Databases
I got my first DBA job 15 years ago, and quite a few things have changed since then. The amount of data exploded, we saw the rise of NoSQL, and business logic ...

IBM Unifies Cloud Services to Simplify App Dev
IBM announced today that an IBM Cloud Code Engine service that unifies the cloud platforms on which applications are built and deployed is now generally available. Built on top of a serverless ...

What Amazon’s New CEO Means for IT’s Future
Amazon is placing its bets on the future of cloud. The announcement that CEO Jeff Bezos will be stepping down and passing the torch to Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Andy Jassy ...