Ever since cloud computing came into prominence since late 2000s, there is more focus on the cost savings in the industry and customer conversations. Cloud costs is a much more complex discussion than a simple statement on cost savings. We have heard tons of stories from organizations savings money on the cloud but we have […]
Multi Cloud Happens But Not Necessarily By Design
Even though some pundits push back against multi cloud, it is happening. This is not just some speculation by a clueless analyst or hallucination of a multi cloud marketing person but the real data on the ground points towards multi cloud. While it is easy to dismiss the use of multi cloud as long as […]
Busting The Multi Cloud Drumbeat
There is a constant drumbeat about multi cloud among the pundits, especially the ones who are fans of AWS. Most of them are dismissive of multi cloud and talk about using one cloud provider (and it is mostly AWS for them). While it might serve as good chatter on social media, it is not going […]
Introducing Service Semantics To Enable Flow Architectures
Better understanding of Events and Services can enable different deployment and operational architectures in the Cloud-Edge continuum In his blog “Five Facets of Flow Strategy”, James Urquhart identifies potential hurdles to overcome for the latest Computing Paradigm: Asynchronous, event-driven “serverless” computing. Briefly, they are scale (in terms of number/types of events & services), agility, quality, optimization and […]
The Dilemma Of Enterprise IT Vendors
Enterprise IT market is tough for startups. We recently saw Redis Labs moving to a more restrictive license to fend off competition from the cloud providers. This difficulty results from both open source and public cloud services. Look at Docker and its troubles monetizing their platform, despite their huge success with developers. Just a few […]
SpotInst Could Change The Way We Consume Cloud
SpotInst, the Israel based startup focussed on streamlining the use of spot instances in the cloud, today announced their Series B funding of $35 Million. This round is led by Highland. Existing investors, Leaders Fund, Vertex Ventures, and Intel Capital are part of this round. SpotInst is a company that has been under my radar […]
Autonomic Computing Will Happen Much Sooner Than You Expect
The term autonomic computing is nothing new. Ever since IBM used this as a marketing term in 2001, this term has been on the periphery of most people focussed on the future IT trends. Clearly, the term has been suffering from overzealous IBM marketing for a long time and, every time I bring this up […]
Different Flavors Of Serverless Marketing
Yesterday, I wrote a post about retiring the term Serverless in favor of more specific terms like Functions Compute or FaaS, Data Services, etc.. As I expected, this was met with pushbacks on Twitter from people who are in the AWS camp (as in applying the term for services like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, etc.) […]
Let Us Just Retire The Term Serverless
Tech industry loves to create terms that confuse people more than adding any value. Terms like Private Cloud, NoOps, etc. are marketing terms invented by vendors without adding any meaningful value to the industry conversation. The term Serverless falls into this category. Initially, used by Ken Fromm as a way to describe on-demand elastic infrastructure […]
On The Need For Red Hat To Enter The Database Space
In response to my post on Red Hat’s blind spot on databases, Redmonk Analyst Steve O’ Grady posted explaining why Red Hat couldn’t (or shouldn’t) enter the database market. He posed a set of 5 questions he expects in any response. In the spirit of good natured debate (with utmost respect to Steve’s views), I […]
OpenShift Is Kubernetes Fork?
Yesterday, there was a conversation on Twitter after Janakiramm wrote an article in which he refers to some analysts calling OpenShift a fork of Kubernetes. As someone who has been part of open source since the early Slackware days and as someone who has seen the forking process in many communities in the past, I […]