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Can your feedback help build a better OpenStack? | #IBMOCA
As organizations strive to make open source and OpenStack more manageable for users, experts, developers and marketers are called in to advise. But one player in open technology has found that there is an excellent R&D source available to them for free: the users themselves; their likes and gripes; and what they would like to ...
A different ballgame: It’s training season for multi-cloud players | #IBMOCA
Open-source is an exciting environment for technological experimenting — it’s also very vast and frequently changing. Luckily, organizations have realized that the open-source world is terrain in need of mapping and tour guides, and some now offer special education and training in open-source and multi-cloud environments. Stormy Peters, VP of developer relations at the Cloud ...
Can pushing DevOps to the edge democratize IoT? | #IBMOCA
Culling meaningful, usable data with predictive power out of the chaff heap is challenging enough; feeding enough of it to AI and machine-learning algorithms to produce intelligence is proving to be even more challenging. Are there any ways we can make data tools smarter about sorting data so we don’t have to? Dr. Sarah Cooper, ...
Navigating the infrastructure market | #NEXTConf
When Nutanix, Inc. started a few years ago, many wondered whether the world really needed another hypervisor. What they may not have realized is that companies and organizations are all unique, and they have different infrastructure needs. On a scale of one to 10, something like security could rank two for some, five for others, ...
Is hyperconverged worth it for your business? | #NEXTConf
Hyper-converged infrastructure is touted as a next-generation solution for businesses that want to scale back on the space and time their IT takes up. Clearly, smaller and simpler are better, but hyper-converged isn’t cheap. The price tag still has some wondering if the investment will pay for itself over time or if it might ultimately ...
Wait, what? We’re at the end of the Digital Age? | #NEXTConf
Technology moves fast; sometimes it moves so fast that beginnings and endings collide with each other at the same time and place. Take digitization. Even as service providers and business consultants are selling ways for customers to enter the digital age, here comes a news flash: We’re actually at the end of the Digital Age. ...
What’s the hold-up with Nutanix’s IPO? | #NEXTConf
With strong opinions and a penchant for adventure, Nutanix, Inc. CEO shares the details behind his decision to shelve an IPO. In Silicon Valley, business plans are like screenplays in LA — everyone has one. But the world is mostly followers, and to break ground and introduce something new and valuable to the market, you ...
Back to the future: How do you bring an old company into the new IT era? | #DockerCon
With entire companies being founded in and operated from the public cloud, using all-digital Software-as-a-Service, an established company can start to feel like a lame duck. Will a new disruptive innovation come in and make them obsolete any day? Luckily for the older companies, along with their years of experience and name recognition, there are ...
Friends and foes: Where is the DevOps synergy taking us? | #DockerCon
To gauge the growth of the Docker software containerization platform’s popularity in the development community, look at attendance to the three DockerCon events that have happened so far. The first event two years ago hosted 200 attendees. The second event drew a crowd of 2,000. This year, 4,100 people attended DockerCon. Docker, Inc. has successfully democratized ...
Currency exchange: Docker trades on speed in the IT marketplace| #DockerCon
What you may not know about container technology is that it’s been around for decades. However, in its raw form, it was too complicated for all but a few highly skilled developers to utilize. Docker, Inc. didn’t invent containers; it democratized their use so that now even novice developers can build impressive applications quickly. Suffice to ...