R. Danes, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Is a cloud-native crash course the smarter, cheaper answer to developer shortage?

By R. Danes Jun 16, 2017

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…

Cloud

Can Amazon cloud charm stiff public-sector budgeteers?

By R. Danes Jun 14, 2017

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…

Cloud

Is Cloud Foundry more enterprise-ready than Docker despite (or because of) baggage?

By R. Danes Jun 14, 2017

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…

Cloud

Can an agile cloud plug the ‘brain drain’ in public service?

By R. Danes Jun 14, 2017

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.…

Infra

Can dressing up as cloud save a storage company from irrelevance?

By R. Danes Jun 14, 2017

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…

Big Data

Can in-memory compute jumpstart IoT analytics?

By R. Danes Jun 13, 2017

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.…

Infra

Can NVMe storage fix IoT edge computing before the 5G network can?

By R. Danes Jun 13, 2017

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’…

Cloud

Is agile cloud DevOps feasible for hypersecure .GOVs?

By R. Danes Jun 13, 2017

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…

Cloud

Can a single, versatile tool tame the hybrid cloud jungle?

By R. Danes Jun 12, 2017

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,…

Infra

Is SimpliVity worth the lump of cash HPE paid to acquire it?

By R. Danes Jun 12, 2017

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…

R. Danes

Can in-memory compute jumpstart IoT analytics?

Can a single, versatile tool tame the hybrid cloud jungle?

Is SimpliVity worth the lump of cash HPE paid to acquire it?

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