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 its troubles monetizing their platform, despite their huge success with developers. Just a few […]
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 modern enterprise. We have been closely following VMware’s journey ever since AWS ushered in cloud computing and their rapid rise over […]
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 of these messages (by the respective advocates or critics) are not helping […]
Knative Project Should Move To CNCF Now
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 Kubernetes. Google along with Pivotal, SAP, IBM, Red Hat and others have […]
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 […]
Kubernetes Platforms: Stay Close To The Edge Or Not
The long-held belief in the IT industry is that enterprises are risk averse and they prefer battle tested versions of software over bleeding edge latest release. Traditional enterprise software companies have, in fact, built their business based on this belief and it continues even today. One of the interesting conversations that are happening among the […]
Let Us Just Retire The Term Serverless
Tech industry loves to create terms that confuse people more than adding any value. Terms like Private Cloud, NoOps, etc. are marketing terms invented by vendors without adding any meaningful value to the industry conversation. The term Serverless falls into this category. Initially, used by Ken Fromm as a way to describe on-demand elastic infrastructure […]
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 […]
Containers Are Not The Shiny Objects Anymore?
Containers, after Docker made the user experience seamless for developers, not only captivated developers and garnered their mindshare, it also made deployment of applications into production much more easy. It completely altered the developer workflow, pushing the CI tools into oblivion. When Kubernetes came into the market and made the deployment part of applications friction […]
Is IBM Going Multi Cloud?
IBM Think 2018 conference was held in Las Vegas and this is a Rishidot Research trip report. IBM has finally got a more unified message across Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and other technologies that are part of the modern enterprise stack. IBM Services is talking about multi cloud as their main message.
