Understanding and fulfilling customer needs is the key to business success, and customer data is the foundation upon which that success is built. Accessing and analyzing data is almost always dependent on data engineers and other IT staff, while decision-makers wait to receive insights. One way to skip the wait, and deliver data directly to […]
Cloud Computing and Cloud Architecture Trends in 2020
Use of the cloud has grown significantly. Cloud computing has become so popular, many startups are taking a “cloud-first” approach (the deliberate practice of considering use of the cloud first). The cloud offers tools, data, and scalable computing power that would be difficult to access in other ways. Cloud architecture, whether it be public, private, […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Introduces Kubernetes-based Platform for Edge to Cloud
According to a new press release, “Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced the HPE Container Platform, the industry’s first enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container platform designed for both cloud-native applications and monolithic applications with persistent storage. With the HPE Container Platform, enterprise customers can accelerate application development for new and existing apps – running on bare-metal or […]
Pulumi Crosswalk for Kubernetes Accelerates Production-Ready Infrastructure as Code
A new press release reports, “Pulumi today announced the availability of Pulumi Crosswalk for Kubernetes, an open source collection of frameworks, tools and user guides that help developers and operators work better together delivering production workloads using Kubernetes. It supports managing Kubernetes infrastructure across public clouds including AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes […]
IoT vs. Serverless Computing
The Internet of Things (IoT) describes an interconnected network of physical and digital devices, sensors, mechanical components, and communication protocols with the ability to transfer and exchange data machine-to-machine or machine-to-interactions. The serverless computing model is cloud-based and all its resources are managed by the service provider. The client is charged based on the consumption […]
Enterprise Architects are More Than Just Modelers
New opportunities are emerging for enterprise architects (EAs). EAs will work in conjunction with technology innovation leaders to help their organizations select, create, and implement the right business- and technology-based platforms to support their business ecosystems. “By 2021, 40 percent of organizations will use enterprise architecture to help ideate new business innovations made possible by […]
Types of Data Hub Patterns
Click to learn more about author Pete Aven. Data Hubs are the new way to manage data, and there’s a lot of confusion as to where exactly a Data Hub “fits” in an organization’s existing architecture. People generally want to know what a Data Hub will look like in action within their technology landscape for their […]
Alluxio Announces Advanced Cloud Service Integrations on AWS and Google Cloud
A recent press release reports, “Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, today announced at the first Data Orchestration Summit at the Computer History Museum, the availability of a range of cloud offerings and integrations with the latest Alluxio version 2.1, as well as strengthening of partnerships with Amazon AWS and Google […]
Digital Realty Launches PlatformDIGITAL
A new press release reports, “Digital Realty, a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today PlatformDIGITAL™, a first of its kind global data center platform designed to enable customers to scale digital business. With the digital economy set to reshape both private and public enterprises across all industries, organizations recognize […]
Seeing the Database Through a Different Lens
Click to learn more about author Greg Nist. I was frustrated. I’d spent two-and-a-half years as a consultant developing software for a state government agency, and I felt like we were running on a treadmill. Our ability to drive the agency forward to more effectively run its operations was being constrained. Constrained not by the […]