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Latest doesn’t always mean greatest for keeping storage costs low
Change is good, but only in measured doses and for well-defined goals. At least, in the world of enterprise storage arrays where the latest is rarely the greatest, according to Randy Arseneau (pictured, left), chief marketing officer of Infinidat Inc. “We never shy away from the concept of general purpose storage. That became very unfashionable about five ...
Hype hunters: Researchers put DevOps tools and tricks under microscope
Can an academic approach to analytics predict the best efficiencies for developer operations? Fact: Seventy-one percent of businesses have adopted some form of DevOps to streamline software development and deployment, according to VersionOne Inc.’s 2017 “State of Agile Report.” The most popular DevOps tool is container technology from Docker Inc., according to a separate report from ...
SD-WAN routes a path out of multicloud muddle
Multicloud — is it the logical evolution of infrastructure or a barely-feasible fantasy? In theory, when multiple clouds link and interoperate with each other, the resulting mesh is “multicloud.” How is this hybridized monster managed? A motley mix of vendors — from hyperconverged infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. to specialized software providers — have attempted an answer. MarketsandMarkets Research Ltd. ...
Automated OS greases the wheels of distributed DevOps
Automation not only cuts costs by abstracting away undifferentiated labor, it’s also grease on the wheels that keep developer operations rolling along in the technology sector. Elements stuck in manual mode can cause hiccups. That’s why information technology customers are “looking for the operating system to be a little more automate-able,” according to Matt Micene (pictured), senior evangelist, ...
Kubernetes for dummies: CNCF tries to make container orchestration easy
Kubernetes — a hot orchestration management platform for containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) — typically gets lots of hurrahs at developer conferences. Then a small voice in the crowd asks, Have you guys actually tried using this thing? Kubernetes’ complexity is forgivable once users realize that it’s still under construction. “We [the Cloud ...
Need for speed unites open-source and corporations for new serverless tech
The open-source community used to thrive on rebellion against profitable proprietary corporations like Microsoft Corp. and others. All have since reconciled, and are now joining forces to fight common enemies holding back agile development. “Open-source doesn’t have that enemy anymore. It’s the standard,” said John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, right), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. “So the ...
In wake of Equifax breach, Linux Foundation unveils open source CHAOSS
“An unmanageable mess” is how Paul Gillin, senior editor for Wikibon Inc. and SiliconANGLE Media Inc., described the open-source software community last year. Both proprietary legacies and open-source-native companies have since tried to bring order to the confusion. Now, the open-source community has resolved to pull itself together. “We take seriously that that code runs modern ...
Corporations in open-source free-code commune could help sustain coders
In the beginning, there was open source. Then, various foundations and for-profit businesses evolved from the primordial goo of freely contributed code. Will these powers feed the meritocratic ecosystem that birthed them — or feed upon it? Probably both, according to Christine Corbett Moran, Ph.D. (pictured), NSF astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of ...
No country for old code: Open source keeping corporate presence in check
Non-proprietary, open-source software code is now preferred by most types of businesses and organizations. Inevitably, corporate vendors eyeing this bull market want to make gravy from it. If they play by open source rules, they might succeed; if they try to simply buy their way in, they’ll have to contend with the open source public and its people’s pitchforks. ...
Dell EMC data protection’s overpopulation solution for VMs
VMware Inc. virtual machines run in an enviable 500,000 data centers. Sometimes their profusion is also their problem; glut can make it hard for information technology administrators to track and protect virtual machines, according to Sal De Masi (pictured, left), director of the data protection practice at Teknicor Corp. “The largest challenge customers face — not only in the ...