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8 Insights from AWS re:Invent 2022–Staying the Course for 10 Years
The article analyzes the top 8 key insights and announcements at AWS re:Invent 2022 in Las Vegas and includes my thoughts on the strategic direction of AWS. → Read More
KubeCon 2022: 3 Product Highlights
There was something different about KubeCon 2022 in Detroit. The conference had replaced part of its ‘nerd factor’ with a brand new ‘enterprise vibe’. Approximately half of the about 8,000 attendees… → Read More
Most Ambitious Software Deal in 2022: Broadcom Swallows VMware for $60B
Any $60B acquisition is big news. The magnitude of the news increases when the acquirer (Broadcom) is a semiconductor (hardware) vendor, and the acquisition target an enterprise software… → Read More
Unlocking MLOps as the New Superpower for the Enterprise
In a nutshell, MLOps focuses on addressing the hurdles between planning machine learning projects and deploying, operating, retraining, and scaling these models in production. Production use of… → Read More
VMWorld 2021 — The 3 Top Announcements
When Pat Gelsinger, now CEO at Intel, delivered his first VMworld keynote I was not optimistic that “Pat gets it”. But Pat did get it and so do Raghu and Sumit. Both of VMware’s new helmsmen… → Read More
Continuous Security for App Modernization— Why Red Hat Snapped up StackRox
“We cannot go faster than we already are, as compromising compliance and security could and probably would sink our company,” said the CIO of a large global telecommunications firm. His customers… → Read More
Big Topics in Video Gaming in 2020 and 2021 — A Data Driven View
As a former gamer and someone with two kids that often need ‘surgical separation’ from their gaming consoles, I have preserved some level of interest in the current gaming culture. To see what was… → Read More
Starting Left — A Major Paradigm Shift in DevOps
“Start Left” is not the evolution of today’s popular “Shift Left” paradigm but constitutes a brand new approach toward software development and DevOps as a whole. This new approach aims to prevent… → Read More
The 3 Pillars of DevOps: Or DevOps Explained through Data Science
As an industry analyst, I spend a ton of time talking to developers, admins, devops guys, and higher level IT people to figure out what matters most for DevOps success. The biggest challenge is to… → Read More
AWS Re:Invent in 3 Charts
I created the following 3 charts to capture the focus of AWS Re:Invent 2019 last week from the perspective of 6.673 (mostly) attendees tweeting about the event. This quantiative analysis looks at… → Read More
Is Tableau the New Excel? What Machine Learning and Refrigerators Have in Common
Tableau's annual conference is focused on how enterprises can provide data access and analytics capabilities wall to wall across the organization. → Read More
Demystifying Splunk's Data-to-Everything Vision
At SplunkConf19 in Las Vegas, Splunk presented its Data-to-Everything platform strategy. This article presents and analyzes the Top 4 product annnoucements. → Read More
The Plight of a Dungeon Keeper — How Electronic Arts Destroys Video Games
Personally, I place Dungeon Keeper (Bullfrog: 1997, see link to the original game at the bottom of this article) at the same level as ground breaking video games such as Populous (Bullfrog: 1989)… → Read More
What We Can Learn from the Docker Data Breach
Potentially 190,000 out of approximately 1 million user records from DockerHub breached. Attackers are suspected to have obtained tokens that gave them the ability to alter or disrupt GitHub-based… → Read More
Top 4 Highlights of RHEL 8
Top 4 Highlights of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 → Read More
Serverless Technologies in the Enterprise
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted a major research project into adoption patterns, bottlenecks, and best practices for adopting serverless technologies within an enterprise context. The EMA serverless framework identifies 30 products in 10 categories such as Observability, DevSecOps, and serverless application deployment. → Read More
Compare 5 categories of container management tools
As more and more container management tools enter the fray, enterprise IT and development teams need to carefully define their requirements, and consider their backgrounds, before committing to one. → Read More
Prevent AI bias in predictive applications before it starts
Developers tempted to embrace the capabilities of artificial intelligence need to know how to spot AI bias in a model. Otherwise, the project won't turn out strong and insightful predictions. → Read More
Common mistakes in container adoption
The container adoption and deployment process can be fraught with challenges for IT and dev teams. Explore 12 common mistakes that enterprises make -- ranging from a lack of sufficient security to poor configuration management practices -- as well as advice to avoid them. → Read More
3 Key Lessons from DockerCon 2018: Strategic Analysis of the Container Market Place
Today, where there are almost as many approaches to digital transformation as there are enterprise software vendors, Docker refocuses its strategy on providing the best unified container management platform for DevOps. Docker’s key value proposition is to enable developers to build an application... → Read More