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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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Functions as a Service (FaaS) is fast gaining developer adoption. We have already talked about the maturity of FaaS and the noise around the term. In this post, we are going to discuss the performance benchmarks on the three of the top four cloud … [Continue reading]
AIOps is fast becoming the next big buzzword and is about using AI as the driver for operations. The early use of machine learning is in the area of observability while some vendors like Swim.ai use deep learning to offer intelligence at the edge. We … [Continue reading]
Serverless is driving passionate debate in social media just like how public cloud ramped up the discussions circa 2008. We are once again seeing patterns in discussions that mirror what we saw in the early days of cloud. The increasing pitch of some … [Continue reading]
At StackSense, we were skeptical about Google Serverless strategy and even advised readers not to use Google Functions because it was left languishing for quite some time.We rank Google Cloud Functions on the bottom among the four major cloud … [Continue reading]
Last year for Google Next 2017, I was invited to check it out for free. I paid for travel, hotel, but got a free conference ticket. At that point, I was negative about Google Cloud. What I saw last year was a genuine passion and interest by Googlers … [Continue reading]
This week at GoogleNext 2018, Google and some other partners announced the launch of a new open source project called Knative. Knative is a higher level abstraction that offers some of the primitives needed to build and deploy the code on top of … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
The two sweeping trends in Modern Enterprise today are Machine Learning and Cloud Native. Our research shows that by 2020, most modern enterprise decision-makers will be focussed on scalable machine learning systems to meet their needs. Scalability … [Continue reading]
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. … [Continue reading]