Open-sourced platform Cilium was created by Isovalent Inc. to help address the rising security and networking challenges emerging as cloud-native environments, including Kubernetes, grow in scale and complexity. Recently, Isovalent introduced Cilium Service Mesh, which goes even further by enabling users to now connect workloads and systems across multiple clouds and on-premise locations. “This week ...

In the run-up to Open Source Summit NA in Vancouver next week, I wanted to reflect on what happened a week ago in Amsterdam. A sold-out event with more than 10,500 people showed up in real life at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in the Netherlands. Of those, 58% had never been to a KubeCon themselves, including ...

The RSA Conference 2023 is now in the books, hosting more than 40,000 attendees and hundreds of exhibitors at San Francisco’s Moscone Center and giving chief information security officers and other cybersecurity professionals a mind-numbing shopping list of must-have security gear. My mission: Narrow down the throngs of vendors to a handful of innovative standouts – ...

The first post-Covid KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam this week did not disappoint, as a sold-out crowd of more than 10,000 professionals turned up in person to learn about all things Kubernetes. The signs of maturity of this massive open-source ecosystem were everywhere. Some 58% of attendees were first-timers, illustrating the explosive interest in Kubernetes among ...

Application programming interfaces are modern application architecture solutions that enable digital business by improving connectivity and enabling composable architectures. They are used to support modern user experiences across web, mobile and other channels. They also support internal processes, customer and partner integration and automation. Growth of API deployments has exploded over the past decade, but ...

As data scientist hiring continues to boom, many organizations report sustained difficulty finding, attracting and retaining data science talent. Even as initiatives to upskill quantitative professionals grow, machine learning literacy remains low in many organizations. Chief data and analytics officers, or CDAOs, must build development paths that support budding citizen data scientists with the right ...

When Apache Spark became a top-level project in 2014, and shortly thereafter burst onto the big data scene, it along with the public cloud disrupted the big data market. Databricks Inc. cleverly optimized its tech stack for Spark and took advantage of the cloud to deliver a managed service that has become a leading artificial intelligence ...

Almost any business, large or small, that uses technology typically has a strategic supplier that is, in effect, first among equals. It becomes the platform that drives choices for third-party applications, tools or databases. In small businesses, that strategic platform supplier is likely to be Microsoft Corp. or Apple Inc., with the choice of Google ...

Competitive market dynamics are driving communication service providers or CSPs to build out 5G public cellular networks amidst a great deal of uncertainty on what incremental revenues that investment will drive for them. Although 5G has been the first cellular standard designed with business needs in mind from the start, its industry-specific use cases are ...

It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and the old days look anything but simple. Still, when it came to engineering roles, there was a fairly rudimentary breakdown: ...