Cloud costs too high? It’s your own fault CFOs seem to be fainting at the sight of the cloud bills these days. For many, unpredictable costs are a major issue. Another is the lack of visibility into cloud resource usage. This is so frustrating to me. I’ve been preaching the value of cloud cost monitoring […]
Oracle’s and IBM’s IaaS cloud strategy: Talk big, invest little The cloud may rapidly be moving into serverless computing, but winning the cloud competition requires lots (and lots) of servers. Indeed, if you want to see who is winning biggest in IaaS, you simply need to follow the money to Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud […]
Why use SaltStack for automation and orchestration Thomas S. Hatch released Salt, aka the SaltStack Platform, in 2011 after becoming frustrated with the (slow) speed of the Ruby-based open source configuration management systems available at the time, including Puppet and Chef. Hatch used the open source ZeroMQ messaging library for networking and Python as the […]
IDG Contributor Network: How will data intelligence transform the enterprise? As long as people have been doing business they’ve been looking for ways to improve their products, fine-tune their process, and reach more customers. There have been some truly innovative techniques developed over the years. However, few have been as potentially game-changing as data intelligence. […]
PaaS platforms are dead, thanks to IaaS providers I can see it coming soon in the obituaries: Some time in 2017 or 2018, at a date that is much in dispute, private and public PaaS died of neglect. While once a part of the NIST definition of cloud computing, PaaS lived a wonderful life in […]
Docker tutorial: Get started with Docker networking A common use case for Docker is networked services, and Docker has its own networking model to let containers speak to both each other and the outside world. Originally, Docker containers had to be networked together by hand, or exposed manually to the outside world. The current networking […]
IDG Contributor Network: Cloud migration will drive devops adoption If your company is doing a partial or complete cloud migration, you’ve probably reached that point when there’s something in your current infrastructure that you’re not satisfied with. There are many challenges present in environments that have mixed legacy and cloud applications, even if that state […]
How Arcadia Data brings self-service BI to the data lake Data has evolved over the years. Complex data structures, unstructured data, real-time processing, growing data volumes, and new varieties of data are all part of the evolution. Platforms have changed as well. “Schema-less,” real-time events, “schema-on-read,” and extract/load/discover/transform (ELDT) are now part of our vernacular. […]
How to avoid the coming cloud complexity crisis A cloud complexity crisis is going to happen. We’re adding hundreds of workloads to the cloud on a daily basis, standing up new databases, adding different types of compute and storage, and adding cloud-based networks—and doing all of this without taking down almost no existing on-premises resources. […]
When being cloud-native is a bad idea It’s good to be cloud-native, or at least that’s what everyone is telling you. The idea is that you refactor (meaning partially recode) your applications to take advantage of the native features of the host cloud, such as its native APIs, storage systems, database systems, or security systems, […]
Azure cloud migration guide: The tools to move your datacenter Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has soared to become the No. 2 cloud provider behind Amazon Web Services, and although Microsoft will tell you it’s because of the breadth of Azure’s offerings, an undeniable appeal of the service is that it makes migration from on-premises systems […]
IDG Contributor Network: 3 phases of Prometheus adoption Having assisted hundreds of enterprises in developing a new visibility strategy as they move to Kubernetes, I’ve learned a few things about how organizations learn, evolve and adopt a new method of application observability. Open source is usually essential to developing this understanding. In the cloud-native monitoring […]
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