Like many events, Ansible’s community meetups have had to go virtual during the past year. While it was certainly an adjustment, this remote collaboration proved helpful for the Ansible community. “Most of last year, we actually saw a slight rise in the median number of attendees at these meetups because it’s more accessible,” explained Carol ...

As businesses become increasingly reliant on data, storage needs become a more prevalent concern. Ensuring flexible, efficient and affordable file storage is no easy undertaking, so many companies have turned to managed services like Amazon Elastic File System, or EFS. “What we’ve found in talking to customers … they’re not typically storage specialists,” explains Duncan ...

Data has become an indispensable part of business operations. As organizations look to expand their data’s quantity and value, they need to simplify how they manage the relevant cloud infrastructure, according to Kevin Miller (pictured), vice president and general manager of S3 at Amazon Web Services Inc. “Nine or 10 years ago, when we talked about ...

Digital transformation is becoming the norm across industries, so technology alone is no longer enough to stand out. As businesses look to get ahead of the competition, building trust and loyalty with clients is more crucial than ever, according to Piet Bil (pictured), managing director for American Express at IBM. “A lot of parties will deliver ...

As more processes move to the cloud, managing cloud ecosystems becomes increasingly complex. If companies hope to provide the agility their clients need, they must look for a consolidated, comprehensive solution, according to Jeremy Wilmot (pictured), chief product officer of real-time payment software company ACI Worldwide. “Our previous database solution was complex … we leveraged multiple ...

As more companies embrace the cloud, the role of the developer has changed. Coding is no longer a siloed operation, but a broad, highly collaborative and complex group effort. “No application is built in a closet,” said Donnie Berkholz (pictured), vice president of products at Docker Inc. “Every single application that is built is built in ...

As businesses have accelerated their digital transformation, some have found sustaining this growth to be challenging. Automation has emerged as the solution, especially if companies can look at it as more than a substitute for workers. “In its simplest form, automation … is about applying technology … to perform tasks that were once exclusively done ...

The automation market has been thriving in the wake of COVID-19. Experts have suggested that businesses embrace artificial intelligence and automation for years, and the pandemic gave the world a concrete reason why.  “Companies that invested ahead of time in automation technology … flourished,” said Ed Lynch (pictured), vice president of IBM Business Automation. “Companies ...

The volume and velocity of data necessary for cloud monitoring can make the task a major challenge for any organization. Maintainers of tools such as Prometheus and OpenMetrics are working to make real-time monitoring as practical as possible, even as cloud operations scale. Real-time analytics is also becoming increasingly important, as analysis after the fact may ...

The COVID-19 pandemic drove major organizations to adopt cloud native computing and solutions. Now, enterprises are finding ways to give back to the cloud community — by supporting and actively participating in the development of open-source projects. “We see banks and financial organizations that are looking to adopt open source, but more importantly, they’re looking ...