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Massachusetts Open Cloud: creating an ‘open mall’ of cloud
Perhaps one of the most intriguing ideas in cloud computing is the model of an Open Cloud Exchange, where many stakeholders, rather than a single provider, can participate in implementing and operating the cloud. Based on a partnership between academia, industry, nonprofits and government, The Massachusetts Open Cloud was created to develop an open, production-quality cloud computing ...
Kubernetes the future of OpenStack, says tech and strategy exec
One of the original ideas behind OpenStack’s launch in 2010 was to give enterprises an open-source alternative to the public cloud hyperscalers and VMware Inc. in private cloud environments. While many concepts and their attendant technologies have worked out as planned, just as many plans have fallen by the wayside for various reasons. However, within ...
Women in tech break barriers, mentor others
There have been a string of unfortunate stories recently regarding the role of women in the technology field, as well as studies that confirm a deep-seated bias around hiring women in science, technology, engineering, and math careers. Yet many technological organizations realize things could be better, providing outlets for networking and mentoring in an effort to expand ...
OpenStack: preparing telcos for a 5G world
In the not-too-distant past, telecommunication companies were comfortable in a stodgy, hardware-driven world where they had the luxury of time to test services and introduce them to the public. The past 20 years, however, completely changed the world of telecom, with the amount of services and apps that are handled on the ubiquitous “smart” phones, ...
Businesses search for balance in multi-cloud environments
While a hybrid cloud approach uses two different types of clouds, public and private, a multi-cloud environment uses a mix of public, private or hybrid cloud solutions, but does not necessarily use different cloud types. Many experts view hybrid cloud as a stepping-stone to a multi-cloud future, and as its advantages are touted, multi-cloud is ...
The enterprise’s appetite for open-source software continues to grow
Development organizations face an infinite supply of open-source tools in today’s tech ecosystem. There are a thousand new open-source projects a day, with 10,000 new versions and 14 new releases each year, according to Matt Howard (pictured), executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Sonatype Inc. The supply is massive, and consumption is equally ...
Getting software developers into network … and vice versa
This week’s Cisco DevNet Create event in San Francisco, California, represents the company’s outreach to a new community of developers; namely, an audience that may not have thought about Cisco Systems Inc. in the past. They may have believed that Cisco was just a hardware company that does routers and switching and not one that ...
Striving for freedom of choice in a multi-cloud world
While the relatively new maxim “Every company should be a software company” and variants thereof are repeated many times a day, few organizations really understand exactly what this will mean for them. The ability to deploy software dozens of times per day — having a continuous integration and a continuous deployment pipeline — this is ...
The new kingmakers of IT: maximizing DevOps for enterprise
In today’s world of open-source software, developers are considered to be the “new kingmakers” of information technology — the brains and the imagination that drives software and application program interfaces, and thus organizations. It can be a phenomenon not well understood by business leaders, however, where developers influence many technology infrastructure decisions, but they are not ...
‘You talking to me?’ Rise of the conversational bots
Whether it’s ‘Hey, Cortana,’ ‘Hey, Siri’ or ‘Alexa, play Mozart,’ consumers are becoming quite comfortable having conversations with smartphones, computers and even cars via personal intelligent data assistants. “Over the next five or 10 years, almost all software will have some sort of conversational element built in,” said Ben Brown (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of ...