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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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Last week I was at Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, and this was my 7th Summit, with three of them as an employee. This year’s summit is by far the largest I have seen in the last several years. One striking part of this year’s summit was how … [Continue reading]
It takes few minutes to setup a Cloud instance and start using it. This is always far faster and easier than provisioning your own hardware. If you look at this as a function of value vs. effort, it may look something like this. It provides limited … [Continue reading]
SummaryThe term Observability is fast moving towards the peak of the hype cycle but it is critical to managing the cloud native architectures in any modern enterprise. In this research brief, we stake out our position on the evolution of … [Continue reading]
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has been active in setting up a working group for Serverless in order to define the standards. The working group has been active in defining a level of abstraction that could both be complementary and … [Continue reading]
Modern Enterprise CIOs are focussed on continuous innovation, enabling their developers to help their business stakeholders in the rapidly changing business landscape. In their quest for agility, many decision makers focus on building cloud native … [Continue reading]
The role of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Observability is one of the focus area of research for us in Rishidot Research. It is our strong belief that using ML and AI on Observability data is absolutely necessary for the next … [Continue reading]
There is quite a bit of chatter around deploying Serverless platforms on-premises either on their traditional virtualized infrastructure or private cloud. Does Serverless on servers in your own data center make any sense? Does it defeat the very idea … [Continue reading]
There is quite a bit of confusion in how the terms CaaS, PaaS, Container Platforms and Application Platforms are used. The confusion exist in the market and we want to use this post to clarify what these terms mean in the context of cloud … [Continue reading]
Functions as a Service (FaaS) has been gaining quite a bit of traction among developers and startups. In our conversations with enterprise decision makers, we see that there is some level of FaaS adoption, in varying stages of maturity, in their … [Continue reading]