The most recent evolution of computing can be charted through periods of a dominant abstraction technology. Think virtual machines and the transition to cloud; then containerization, the rise of Kubernetes, and virtualized cloud APIs. Now, according to one CNCF evangelist, we are entering the era of WebAssembly — abbreviated as Wasm (waz-um). “I firmly believe ...

In March 2016, the first-ever KubeCon Europe took place in London, England. Pre-event press from that year anticipated “hundreds” of attendees: Kubernetes was starting to grab the attention of the developer world, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation community was still a niche group of open-source devotees. Today’s ecosystem is very different. Kubernetes has spread ...

The buzz phrase “data is the new oil” isn’t a literal analogy, but it holds true in that data has fast become the economic driver of the digital era. And just as crude oil can be categorized by different types, there are many types of data. One that is critical to the developing field of edge ...

Cloud-native adoption has seen an increase over the past couple of years, paralleling the widely reported upswing in cloud computing. As enterprise-level companies dive into the world of Kubernetes, their IT teams are discovering that DevSecOps initiatives involve more than just vulnerability scanning. “Real DevSecOps requires breaking down silos between developers, operations and security, including ...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe was a sellout show this year, with more than 7,500 attendees, 65% of whom were attending for the first time. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s developer core was there in force, but so were users, executives and a large crowd of university students. Add the thousands more attending virtually, and the ...

Accelerating digital transformation continues to lead the agenda for enterprise in 2022, with a new survey revealing that companies plan a 46% increase in transformation initiative spend for the coming year. But, 81% of the same companies experienced failures, delays or setbacks in their 2021 modernization initiatives, costing them an average of $4.12 million and incalculable ...

Time-series data comes from monitoring changes over time. It’s not a new idea. Changes in rainfall patterns and stock performance figures have been tracked for hundreds of years. Before computers, time-series data was plotted on graphs manually. Then, with the advent of the computing age, relational databases were modified by adding a column to capture ...

Red Hat Summit returned to Boston this week, with announcements of new hardware collaborations that drive cloud-native development ceaselessly forward while still allowing for developers to easily integrate existing setups into cloud hybrid applications. “You’re gonna hear a lot of talk this week about Red Hat’s cloud services portfolio, packaging Red Hat services as managed ...

During the pandemic, digital transformation became an essential survival tactic rather than a nice-to-have competitive advantage. Now, as companies assess the altered business landscape, the work of shaping those hastily created transformations into long-term digital business strategies is taking priority. Eighty-eight percent of information technology professionals say their organization’s digital transformation goals have “fundamentally changed” from before ...

The coming decade is set to be the season of the supercloud, according to enterprise technology analysts. Who will optimize it? Businesses seem to be settling on hybrid models embracing on-premises data centers, multiple public clouds, and any number of edge devices. These are complex environments requiring constant management and fine-tuning. That can be problematic ...