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Is a cloud-native crash course the smarter, cheaper answer to developer shortage?
Finding and hiring talented developers is difficult and expensive; hiring cloud-native enterprise application developers, specifically, is even tougher, according to Abby Kearns (pictured), executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, a nonprofit, open-source project that aims to make Cloud Foundry the leading application platform for cloud computing worldwide. Scaling back feverish headhunting, some savvy companies are ...
Can Amazon cloud charm stiff public-sector budgeteers?
In 2013, the Central Intelligence Agency awarded a $600-million contract to Amazon Web Services Inc., seriously ticking off competitor IBM Corp., which took it all the way to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. “The judge in the ruling actually said, ‘Amazon has a better product.’ That was what I call the shot heard around the ...
Is Cloud Foundry more enterprise-ready than Docker despite (or because of) baggage?
Pivotal Software Inc.’s open-source development platform Cloud Foundry might be more enterprise-ready than Docker Inc.‘s virtualized container method for running distributed applications. But do its extra parts make it harder to assimilate? “I’m struck again by some similar messaging about developer experience and agile,” John Troyer (@jtroyer) (pictured, right) told Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left), as the co-hosts ...
Can an agile cloud plug the ‘brain drain’ in public service?
Do stacks of paperwork detailing security and compliance regulations keep talented innovators out of government agencies that badly need them? “There’s a lot of great people in the public sector who love their job. If they don’t give them the tools, you’re going to continue to see what I call a brain drain go on ...
Can dressing up as cloud save a storage company from irrelevance?
The Internet of Things. Edge computing. Artificial intelligence. Invoking all those trends during a keynote presentation today, Pure Storage Inc. sounded more like a cloud provider than a storage company. It’s no coincidence, thinks Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio. “That legacy change to new distributed architectures has been ...
Can in-memory compute jumpstart IoT analytics?
Despite the kinks still tying up Internet of Things maturation — slow networks and inadequate compute at the edge, for instance — apparently, some companies are already finding success with the right mix of technologies. “Ten years ago we had about 80,000 meter reads we did a day, and it took 400 people to do that; ...
Can NVMe storage fix IoT edge computing before the 5G network can?
Keynote speakers at Pure//Accelerate 2017 in San Francisco, California, waxed on topics far beyond the humble storage array — namely artificial intelligence and edge computing — claiming advanced storage can bring them out of techies’ dreams and into enterprise applications. “The confluence of massive sensor deployments and the incredible power of GPU-enabled deep learning is truly ...
Is agile cloud DevOps feasible for hypersecure .GOVs?
Can government agencies use cloud technology to spiff up service applications and speedily cut bureaucratic red tape (without accidentally hitting the big red button in their haste)? “You’ve got, obviously, this treasure trove of an asset in public data that can be used to improve any number of services; at the same time, you’ve got ...
Can a single, versatile tool tame the hybrid cloud jungle?
The term “hybrid cloud” may bring to mind a single entity, crossbred but whole — the infrastructure equivalent to a liger. Yet the reality of hybrid cloud is closer to a large, diverse zoo, according to William Fellows (pictured, right), founder and vice president of research at The 451 Group LLC. “When they say ‘hybrid cloud,’ it ...
Is SimpliVity worth the lump of cash HPE paid to acquire it?
Last February, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. plunked down $650 million in cash to buy hyperconverged server and storage systems provider SimpliVity Corp. How did SimpliVity command that price from the hardware legacy with its own portfolio of servers and storage? SimpliVity is not like other hyperconverged infrastructure for sale today, according to Paul Miller (pictured, left), vice president of software defined ...