What is NoSQL? NoSQL databases explained One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an application is whether to use a SQL or NoSQL database to store the data. Conventional SQL (i.e. relational) databases are the product of decades of technology evolution, good practice, and real-world stress testing. They are designed for reliable […]
Pivotal will bring serverless computing to Cloud Foundry Serverless computing is coming to the Pivotal Cloud Foundry cloud computing platform, in the form of Pivotal Function Services. There’s no firm release date, but Pivotal says it’s aiming for early 2018. With serverless computing, events happen only in response to events in an on-demand manner; Amazon […]
IDG Contributor Network: Taking hybrid IT from accident to strategy Most enterprises have an accidental hybrid IT reality, rather than a strategy. As various groups and geographies in enterprise organizations procure their own cloud services independently of the IT organization, conflict emerges between the use of traditional computing infrastructure and of cloud options. As this […]
AWS’s Kubernetes support is a step in the right direction Kubernetes is open source technology originally built by a Google team that has received support from several enterprises, including Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. This containers orchestration layer has many advantages, including the ability to process an application on any public cloud. This makes it easy […]
IDG Contributor Network: How in-memory computing drives digital transformation with HTAP In-memory computing (IMC) is becoming a fixture in the data center, and Gartner predicts that by 2020, IMC will be incorporated into most mainstream products. One of the benefits of IMC is that it will enable enterprises to start implementing hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) […]
AWS and Azure dominate the cloud. Neither should win As we close out another AWS Re:Invent conference, it’s become apparent that we have the AWS ecosystem and the Azure ecosystem. Although there are a few others in the marketplace, Google and IBM to name two, most investment and interest have been focused at the Amazon […]
IDG Contributor Network: Are you treating your data as an asset? It’s a phrase we constantly hear, isn’t it? Data is a crucial business asset from which we can extract value and gain competitive advantage. Those who use data well will be the success stories of the future. This got me thinking: If data is […]
Open source innovation is now all about vendor on-ramps In the enterprise world, open source has long been a bit tentative. Starting in the early 2000s, various vendors started contributing bits and pieces of code, careful not to give away anything too valuable, all while hoping for positive marketing effect. It was, as Stephen Walli […]
Hybrid cloud is a necessity. Here’s how to start We’re not all going to the public cloud overnight. That’s why the hybrid cloud is a critical concept for enterprises. The idea of a hybrid cloud is that you keep your server farm and massive investment in VMware, Oracle, and whatever else you bought over the […]
When it comes to the cloud, don’t start with technology It’s easy to get caught up in the technology of cloud computing. We’ll certainly see that occur at the annual AWS Re:Invent show this week, where hundreds of providers will show off new and shiny technology. But don’t get stuck in the weeds. I’m […]
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