Review: The best Linux distros for Docker and containers Over the past six months I have reviewed five minimal Linux distributions that are optimized for running containers: Alpine Linux, CoreOS Container Linux, RancherOS, Red Hat Atomic Host, and VMware Photon OS. Generically known as “container operating systems,” these stripped down, purpose built Linux distributions are […]
NoSQL standouts: The best key-value databases compared Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a slow and unwieldy way to solve the problem. A full-blown database provides a […]
Moving to the cloud? Don’t make these 3 big mistakes Most of the success with your cloud deployments comes from avoiding the errors that have cratered several cloud projects. I don’t want those of you reading this blog to repeat the same mistakes. Here are three common mistakes in cloud deployments that you can, and should, […]
Apache PredictionIO: Easier machine learning with Spark The Apache Foundation has added a new machine learning project to its roster, Apache PredictionIO, an open-sourced version of a project originally devised by a subsidiary of Salesforce. What PredictionIO does for machine learning and Spark Apache PredictionIO is built atop Spark and Hadoop, and serves Spark-powered predictions […]
R tutorial: Learn to crunch big data with R A few years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can optimize everyone’s time. Too often, office visits are scheduled to […]
Cloud lockin is here to stay, so learn to love it With all the gleeful finger-pointing over which cloud provider is the least (or most) generous with open source code, it’s worth remembering that all cloud providers essentially fail when it comes to open source. Why? Because the very nature of their platforms means that […]
4 extra-strength container security tools for Docker and Kubernetes Docker-style containers aren’t just a way to deploy software more quickly or flexibly. They can also be a way to make software more secure. Automatic analysis of the software components that go into containers, behavioral policies that span container clusters and multiple application versions, and innovative […]
Get started with Microsoft’s Azure IoT DevKit A key use case for Azure is as a place for working with the internet of things. A selection of IoT-focused services handle working with streams of data from any number of devices, adding machine learning and stream analytics. Most of the features you’ll need come as part […]
3 emerging cloud technologies for enterprise Enterprises are paying a lot more attention to the cloud these days—particularly to Amazon Web Services, which still leads the thinking in the public cloud. AWS’s Re:Invent conference is next month, and I expect to see three new types of cloud offerings emerge that will be of strong interest to […]
IDG Contributor Network: Your analytics strategy is obsolete In the information age, it’s the data-driven bird that gets the worm. Giant companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple hoard data, because it’s the information equivalent of gold. But merely hoarding data isn’t enough. You need to be adept at sifting through, tying together, and making sense […]
CoreOS review: Linux for containers and Kubernetes CoreOS Container Linux is an open-source container operating system designed to support Kubernetes. The CoreOS flavor of container infrastructure management uses the Rocket or Docker container engine, Etcd for service discovery and configuration, Flannel for networking, and Kubernetes for container management. Unique among container operating systems, CoreOS offers […]
To succeed with the cloud, you need real governance Most enterprises don’t have a well-developed governance approach for the cloud, not even an idea of a technology solution. Enterprises are overwhelmed these days with other technology changes, including not just the move to cloud but devops, machine learning, and whatever other shiny objects pop up […]
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