Supercloud has been called a “paradigm shift,” a “void filler” and an innovative way to reduce the risk of “shadow IT.” Yet, as theCUBE’s recent Supercloud2 broadcast has demonstrated, whatever label is applied to define supercloud points to the same conclusion. There is a sea change underway in the enterprise cloud world today. “This is ...

A new breed of data applications is emerging in a highly decentralized infrastructure, and this is transforming how major enterprises build engines in the cloud. A prime example of this can be seen in Uber Inc., a global service that provides 15 million rides per day. Uber’s data-driven model relies heavily on offline and online ...

What will the Kubernetes agenda be in 2023? The past year saw significant discussion around security, growing use of open-source tools to run enterprise systems, and how an expanding developer ecosystem may reduce Kubernetes complexity. Within these key topics can be found another important dynamic. There is a great deal of innovation in the container space, ...

VMware Inc. recently took the multicloud concepts embedded in its Cross-Cloud services offering and distilled them into a white paper. The firm’s work represented a first-cut proposal that the technology industry should engage in a conversation around the need for standardized multicloud services. That dialogue has evolved into further discussion on the VMware website about the ...

When Alkira Inc. emerged from stealth mode in April 2020, the startup company’s premise was to make multicloud networking one-click simple. They didn’t label it as such at the time, but Alkira’s founders have come to recognize that their model was built on the foundation of a supercloud. “People are tired of doing individual things ...

Over the past year, supercloud has been described as “an evocative term,” “the next big trend,” “a thing” and “an ontological nothingburger.” Why should customers care? This was the central point of discussion in a power panel of industry analysts convened by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. While supercloud has been defined as an architecture ...

While the rise of supercloud has engendered debate over its meaning and impact within the IT industry, major technology players, such as VMware Inc., are keeping a close eye on those who drive key work in the enterprise. “Some say follow the money; I say follow developers,” said Vittorio Viarengo (pictured, right), vice president of Cross-Cloud ...

Can a five-year old startup with $69 million in funding emerge as the solution of choice in the multicloud management space? This is the key question surrounding Upbound Inc. and its Crossplane open-source initiative. The release of Crossplane in 2018, and its eventual acceptance into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in June 2020, represented a major ...

Salesforce Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Marc Benioff once said, “You must always be able to predict what’s next and then have the flexibility to evolve.” This mantra could easily apply to the panel of industry analysts assembled by SiliconANGLE Media a year ago to discuss how data management was evolving and what listeners could expect ...

On the same day that Intel Corp. unveiled its 4th Gen Xeon scalable processors, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. also introduced an expansion of its HPE ProLiant Gen11 next-generation portfolio powered by the Xeon chip platform. The timing of Tuesday’s announcements underscored interest among major server and processor suppliers in meeting the workload-driven needs of enterprise ...