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Beyond Chaos Monkey The modern day operations, pioneered by Netflix and other modern enterprises, taught us the concept of Chaos Monkey for operations to stay ahead of potential problems and to add resiliency to the underlying infrastructure. As … [Continue reading]
The cloud industry has debated for a long time on SLAs and they have standardized on service credits as the compensation for IaaS when the service provider fails to meet the promised SLA. For example, AWS EC2, EBS, Fargate and ECS offer 10% service … [Continue reading]
As we talk to enterprise decision makers wanting to modernize their IT to compete in today’s market, one key message we push hard is about keeping the flexibility to innovate. Once you lock yourself in architecturally, you cannot change rapidly. The … [Continue reading]
As organizations reinvent themselves into a Modern Enterprise, building the right culture is more important than embracing modern stacks and new tools. Without the change in culture, the newer set of tools will have a suboptimal impact. Yesterday, we … [Continue reading]
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. … [Continue reading]
Portable APIs, the APIs that allow you to write the code once and run on multiple clouds, doesn’t get the same kind of attention like the platform abstractions like Red Hat OpenShift and Pivotal CloudFoundry receive among the media and pundits. But … [Continue reading]
The Multi Cloud hype is increasing every day with both legacy vendors and public cloud providers (more specifically, Google which is lagging behind both AWS and Azure) talking about Multi Cloud, there is quite a bit of confusion on whether Multi … [Continue reading]
Information Technology is always focussed on abstractions as a way to remove complexity and simplify IT use for end users. IT evolution can be directly correlated to the quest to abstract at higher layers. Whether it is an evolution from binary … [Continue reading]
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, … [Continue reading]