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 […]
Beyond Kubernetes Storage: Companies to watch for Day 2
With the support for stateful applications in Kubernetes maturing and enterprises use Kubernetes in production, the day 2 data operations are coming into focus. As organizations use Kubernetes to run databases, big data and ML/AI operations, they have to focus on the data management capabilities like snapshots, backup and recovery, data governance, etc.. Many traditional […]
Deploying SwimOS on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is fast evolving as the standard orchestration platform for cloud native deployments. However, Kubernetes is still not mature enough to support stateful applications and distributed applications like those running on IoT and Edge. Clearly, developers are looking beyond Kubernetes for their needs. While Kubernetes can help to orchestrate an application, a complementary solution is […]
#TalkKubernetes – Drone.io
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 […]
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 […]
Red Hat Summit: OpenShift As The Next RHEL
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 OpenShift is the central theme of […]
Research Brief: Observability and Modern Enterprise
Summary The 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 Observability in IT operations and highlight the potential of using machine learning and artificial […]