Report: Cloud Expertise Now Superior to University Degree
According to a report by online learning platform A Cloud Guru, 90% of IT leaders expect to expand their cloud services usage over the next one to three years, yet only 56% have an actionable plan to upskill their workforce. The recently released “State of Cloud Learning Report” revealed interesting trends in cloud adoption and […]
The Rise of the Cloud Economist: The Other CFO
The new Cloud Economist job title wrangles runaway cloud costs Have you ever forgotten about a subscription? Maybe it was that Amazon Fresh upgrade you never used, charging you monthly payments. Or, your phone carrier slyly tacked on a feature and it went unnoticed for years. All these charges may seem insignificant, but they mount […]
Cloud Foundry Foundation Updates CLI to Extend DevOps Processes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) today released an update to its command-line interface (CLI) that will enable DevOps teams to build more granular and complex workflows spanning multiple processes across the open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. Announced at the Cloud Foundry North American Summit, version 7 of the Cloud Foundry CLI employs updates to the […]
Why the Success of Edge Computing Relies on a Linux Legacy
At this point you’ve certainly heard rumblings of the promises of edge computing and may wonder if it’s right for your organization and how to assess its viability. The way we think about edge is as a decentralized extension, or evolution, of cloud computing, enabling many of the same technologies and applications to be leveraged […]
Harness Enables DevOps Teams to Rein in Cloud Costs
Harness today unfurled its Continuous Efficiency application, which enables DevOps teams employing its continuous delivery platform delivered as a service to monitor the cost of deploying applications on a public cloud. Company CEO Jyoti Bansal said cloud costs are spiraling out of control within many IT organizations because DevOps teams lack visibility into the true […]
How to Secure the Intangible — Cloud Native Security in the New Age
People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. Companies aren’t interested in managing IT; they’re more interested in results. They want to deliver software quickly and focus on their core product or service. This is where the concept of cloud native computing comes in—and why securing it has become critical. […]
Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Edge Computing?
Like many IT innovations, edge computing began with engineers as a natural extension of technology to address a growing need. The concept isn’t new; distributed computing has been around for decades. But, at the same time standards began to converge and edge hardware started making the rounds at trade shows, the hype machine saw an […]
Extending Cloud to Enable Intelligent Edge
In the last few years, with the emergence of 5G, IoT and AI, cloud providers have recognized the value and the importance of edge, and started building the infrastructure technologies to provide computing and connection between cloud and edge, as well as edge based intelligent services as part of their total cloud value proposition. However, […]
The Cloud Is Booming — But so Is Cloud Waste
Fueled by the growth in cloud spend, cloud waste will exceed $17.6 billion in 2020. Over 90% of organizations will use public cloud services this year. In fact, public cloud customers will spend more than $50 billion on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from providers such as AWS, Azure and Google. This boom is, of […]
vArmour CEO: Cloud Security Needs Simplicity
Cloud computing promised cost savings and simplified IT management, among other things. In many ways, the cloud has lived up to its ideals, and in other ways, such as API security, shadow IT and the securing of clouds across hybrid environments, the cloud has proven challenging. To get a sense of how enterprises and security […]
The Top Six Cloud Computing Trends of 2019
Cloud computing was one of the hottest topics in the technology and business media throughout 2019. This is no surprise as the cloud sector has been growing rapidly for the last few years. Synergy Research Group recently reported a 37% overall growth year-over-year in public cloud. They also note that it has taken just two […]
An Overview of Cloud Migration and Open Source
Most businesses are moving toward making their business processes more user-friendly, through digitization. This shift of business modernization comes with a heavy price for them in terms of money and in terms of time. It is going to take time and a great amount of investment in new innovative technologies. Cloud computing is the biggest […]
The Accelerating Cloud Wars
Enterprises have embraced cloud computing at a phenomenal clip, according to newly-released report, A for Adoption, from cloud access security broker provider Bitglass. Over the past five years, the report found cloud penetration grew from 24% (in 2014) to 86% of organizations today. Last year, that adoption rate was 81%. Yet, while cloud has helped […]
The State of DevOps Report 2019 Is Out
The Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2019 is out like every other year. Now, let’s talk about the key findings of this year’s survey: The Industry Continues to Improve, Particularly Among the Elite Performers: Proportion of high performers have tripled, now comprising 20% of all teams. This shows the improvement is real for those who […]
Making Your Cloud Work For You
Does your cloud work for you, or do you work for your cloud? Given the enormous dependency and costs associated with cloud computing, that is a question more and more DevOps teams are asking these days. After more than a decade of pressure from higher-ups to move workloads to the public cloud, DevOps teams are […]
5 Ways Wireless Technology Will Evolve in 2019
2019 will be a transformative year for the wireless world, with landmark developments in 5G, cloud computing and hardware. From stadiums and retail buildings to airports and even street corners, there’s no place that won’t be affected by the rapid evolution of wireless technology. And if you’re not up on the edge, you’re sleeping on […]
Mainframes: The Cloud Before the Cloud
Here’s something to think about: Despite the fact that IBM stopped manufacturing personal computers in 2005, deciding instead to focus on higher margin business services, the company continues to produce mainframes and by all estimates will continue manufacturing them well into the future. The question is, why? The answer: because there is still significant demand […]
FinOps Foundation to Help Rein in Cloud Costs
A new consortium has been formed to promote best practices for controlling cloud computing costs. Announced at the Cloud Economic Summit, the non-profit FinOps Foundation counts among its founding members Atlassian, Autodesk, Cloudability, HERE Technologies, Just Eat and Nationwide. Cloudability co-founder J.R. Storment said the goal is to bring financial accountability to variable cloud spending […]
Distinguishing Between Cloud Washed and Cloud Native
Don’t fall for the marketing jargon: Running legacy infrastructure on a cloud instance is not actually cloud computing. Unfortunately, “cloudwashing” is common among enterprises as they attempt to jump on the cloud trend. So, how do we dispel the hype to distinguish pure cloud software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and […]
DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship
Most companies want to increase their competitiveness in today’s swiftly changing world, and so they cannot ignore digital transformation. DevOps and cloud computing have become two of the ways companies can achieve this needed transformation, though the relationship between the two is not easily reconciled—DevOps is about the process and process improvement, while cloud computing […]
How Cloud-Native Computing Is Changing IT Job Roles
The cloud native age is upon us. This means not only that infrastructure, application deployment and security strategies look very different than they did just a few years ago, but also that the way companies design and fill IT jobs has changed—or should change, at least, for those seeking to stay relevant in our fast-changing, […]
Cloud Computing and the Concept of DevFinOps
The formation of DevOps brought together two distinct worlds, causing a shift in IT culture that can only be made better (and more cost-effective) by the integration of financial strategy. Enter DevFinOps. I say this only partially in jest. As long as the public cloud remains a utility, everyone should be responsible for controlling the […]