IDG Contributor Network: 20 billion IoT devices. Now what? Expect a computational tidal wave by 2020. By then, data traveling to and from an estimated 20 billion IoT devices will flood datacenters—outpacing data flowing from datacenters to users by a factor of 275. Yet there’s a wealth of computing power in underused devices that often […]
IDG Contributor Network: Why a multicloud strategy is the way to go Cloud adoption continues apace as enterprises embrace the upsides of speed, simplicity, agility, and lower costs. Unless you’re a massive company with near unlimited resources, you likely won’t be able to come close to matching the big data, machine learning, or Internet of […]
What’s new in Prometheus monitoring for Docker and Kubernetes Prometheus, the open source monitoring system for Docker-style containers running in cloud architectures, has formally released a 2.0 version with major architectural changes to improve its performance. Among the changes that have landed since the release of version 1.6 earlier this year: An entirely new storage […]
IDG Contributor Network: Farewell, Frodo: Why we need trustworthy metadata to define our infrastructure I have fond memories of when IT admins would give names to their servers, and even assign them unique personalities. It was a simpler time, before virtualization and the cloud made infrastructure exponentially more complex. My favorites were the The Lord […]
IDG Contributor Network: REST or SOAP in a cloud-native environment Cloud-based API data models have not only enhanced the cloud experience, but also provided a way for developers and administrators to integrate workloads into the cloud using those APIs. For most enterprises, APIs let share information across various on-premises and cloud-based applications. They also play […]
How to shift cloud metrics to measuring agility It’s a constantly evolving science, the ability to understand the exact business benefit of cloud computing. A few years ago, the benefit was largely conceived as “capex vs. opex,” the ability to shift to an on-demand consumption model and thus avoid the capital expenses of hardware and […]
Review: H2O.ai automates machine learning InfoWorld Machine learning, and especially deep learning, have turned out to be incredibly useful in the right hands, as well as incredibly demanding of computer hardware. The boom in availability of high-end GPGPUs (general purpose graphics processing units), FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), and custom chips such as Google’s Tensor Processing […]
Paper tiger? Alibaba Cloud faces a steep challenge outside China Public cloud attention has been so focused on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure for so long that it has been hard for would-be contenders to break into the “two-horse cloud race” narrative. Google Cloud Platform has been a distant third in terms of revenue, […]
Google can read your corporate data. Are you OK with that? On Halloween, Google told its Google G Suite users that “this morning, we made a code push that incorrectly flagged a small percentage of Google Docs as abusive, which caused those documents to be automatically blocked. A fix is in place and all users […]
IDG Contributor Network: Back up your datacenter to the cloud? Why not? If you are currently using the cloud to back up your datacenter, great. If not, perhaps now is a good time to a look at the costs and benefits of this service. Data is doubling every two years, with some projecting that it […]
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