With the support for stateful applications in Kubernetes maturing and enterprises use Kubernetes in production, the day 2 data operations are coming into focus. As organizations use Kubernetes to run databases, big data and ML/AI operations, they have to focus on the data management capabilities like snapshots, backup and recovery, data governance, etc.. Many traditional […]
VMware’s Future Is Tied To Multi Cloud
VMware’s announcements in the recently concluded VMworld 2018 clearly highlights their transformation to focus on the multi-cloud enterprise market. At StackSense, we focus on multi-cloud as the underlying fabric for continuous innovation in the modern enterprise. We have been closely following VMware’s journey ever since AWS ushered in cloud computing and their rapid rise over […]
Multi Cloud Governance: Hard Problem But Essential For Success
Multi-Cloud is fast becoming the norm in the enterprise. At Rishidot Research, we estimate that most organizations will use more than one cloud provider by 2020. A recent survey by RightScale of 1,000 IT professionals found 85% of enterprises now have a multi-cloud strategy, up from 82% in 2016. Multi-cloud is fast becoming the de […]
Multi Cloud: Some Considerations Before You Start
Multi cloud is a reality. Even though not getting locked in and portability advantage are drivers for multi cloud, we see “picking the right cloud services from any provider to meet the application needs” as one of the main reasons for the adoption. The trend is driven by the varied strengths of cloud providers based […]
Swim.ai: AI, Observability and Edge Computing
With IoT becoming the norm across many industries, manufacturing to retail to public utilities to supply chain to many verticals across the spectrum, it becomes important to focus on the intelligence needed to ensure that this truly distributed system of devices are working seamlessly. In fact, we would even claim that the role of IT […]
The Pros and Cons of Multi Cloud
At Rishidot Research, we are convinced that multi-cloud will be the foundation of a modern enterprise. We strongly advise our enterprise clients to hone on a multi-cloud strategy because it is critical to retain the flexibility to innovate rapidly. Our internal research indicates that by 2020, most of the enterprises will adopt a multi-cloud strategy. […]
Multi Cloud Is Inevitable
In the early days of cloud computing, I was hoping for a more federated model of cloud providers because of my strong belief that oligarchy of cloud providers is bad for customers. I was hoping that open source infrastructure software like OpenStack, CloudStack, etc will lower the barrier for service providers to compete with Amazon […]