Better understanding of Events and Services can enable different deployment and operational architectures in the Cloud-Edge continuumIn his blog “Five Facets of Flow Strategy”, James Urquhart identifies potential hurdles to overcome for the … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Robin Hoodization of OSS and Commons Clause License
Recently Redis Labs announced Commons Clause License that caused quite a bit of uproar among the open source communities. One reason for the uproar was a marketing spin implying it is an open source license. Even though the license applies only for … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
FaaS In The Enterprise: Lacks Maturity But AWS Is Ahead
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: Few Considerations For Enterprise Decision Makers
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 – Extreme Positions & False Dichotomies
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]
Revisiting Google Serverless Strategy: Will It Slow Down AWS Lambda?
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]
Google Next 2018: Google Cloud Comes Of Age
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]