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Four insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s Supercloud2 event

Mark Albertson — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:09:28 +0000

What constitutes a supercloud is certainly generating a great deal of debate. That was made clear when theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, hosted its Supercloud2 event last week, a follow-up event of theCUBE’s first supercloud conference last August. Enterprise executives, practitioners and analysts engaged in wide-ranging discussion around the impact of a growing number of […]

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Analysts anticipate next wave of innovation from new breed of data applications

Mark Albertson — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:00:28 +0000

Supercloud has been called a “paradigm shift,” a “void filler” and an innovative way to reduce the risk of “shadow IT.” Yet, as theCUBE’s recent Supercloud2 broadcast has demonstrated, whatever label is applied to define supercloud points to the same conclusion. There is a sea change underway in the enterprise cloud world today. “This is […]

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The supercloud paradigm: Where do developers fit in?

Victor Dabrinze — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:21:51 +0000

The developer role is invaluable to the modern enterprise’s digital-focused existence. As masons of the global digital empire, another challenge has been brought to them: that of aiding in the realization of the supercloud. “You want to keep them happy; you want to hug your developers,” said Sarbjeet Johal (pictured, left), cloud researcher and consultant. “The […]

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The supercloud debate: A platform, architecture or operating system?

Brian Njuguna — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:25:47 +0000

With the supercloud concept gaining steam, some people believe it’s an architecture that holds various complexities, whereas others think that it’s a platform offering programmatically consistent services. Nevertheless, supercloud should be regarded as an operating system that houses both architectural and platform traits, according to David Flynn (pictured, left), chief executive officer of data solutions […]

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OpenAI, ChatGPT and the intensifying competition for data management within the supercloud

Victor Dabrinze — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:30:19 +0000

One central point of agreement among industry experts so far is the crucial role artificial intelligence has played in not just our internet-controlled world, but also in advancing enterprise computing trends such as supercloud. This movement is perhaps best encapsulated by the rise of ChatGPT, an OpenAI LLC tool whose prototype launched in late 2022. […]

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Uber, Walmart and others set out to redefine the modern cloud data stack

Mark Albertson — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:43:44 +0000

A new breed of data applications is emerging in a highly decentralized infrastructure, and this is transforming how major enterprises build engines in the cloud. A prime example of this can be seen in Uber Inc., a global service that provides 15 million rides per day. Uber’s data-driven model relies heavily on offline and online […]

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Data mesh is the killer app for supercloud, says Zhamak Dehghani

Brian Njuguna — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:37:18 +0000

The data mesh concept continues to take the world by storm, because it incorporates a domain-oriented and self-serve design, enabling end users to easily access vital data without transferring it to a data warehouse or data lake. Since data mesh entails sharing data across boundaries responsibly, it is a prerequisite for supercloud, according to Zhamak […]

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Supercloud analysis points to the dawn of the multicloud services era

Mark Albertson — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:51:20 +0000

VMware Inc. recently took the multicloud concepts embedded in its Cross-Cloud services offering and distilled them into a white paper. The firm’s work represented a first-cut proposal that the technology industry should engage in a conversation around the need for standardized multicloud services. That dialogue has evolved into further discussion on the VMware website about the […]

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Supercloud in the modern enterprise world: A paradigm shift as a unifying layer

Brian Njuguna — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:16:48 +0000

Based on the proliferation of services in the cloud, major bottlenecks, such as computing on demand, have emerged. The supercloud concept seeks to turn the tables through a common layer, according to Brian Gracely (pictured), head of marketing at Solo.io Inc. “Supercloud … whether it’s a Snowflake or a MongoDB Atlas or maybe what Cloudflare is doing at the […]

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The state of data mesh and what the future holds: Warner Bros. Discovery weighs in

Ryan Stevens — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:12:50 +0000

Every company has its data needs. But imagine you’re balancing the latest results during election season, while you’re managing the season premiere of “Game of Thrones”? Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery. During the Snowflake Summit last June in Las Vegas, Ash Naseer (pictured), senior director of data engineering at Warner Bros. Discovery, explained how the […]

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When data moves, money moves: Western Union analyzes cloud data technologies

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:42:12 +0000

Calling data the 21st century’s predominant currency couldn’t be more accurate, as it governs multibillion-dollar corporate decisions driving unprecedented profits across several industries. However, data plays a role in society’s actual monetary and financial systems, helping organizations such as Western Union Financial Services Inc. with efficiency, practicality and value delivery as the arteries of global finance. […]

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The future of data and cloud within healthcare and pharmaceutical research

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:46:49 +0000

The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccinations demonstrated how artificial intelligence and machine learning are powerful tools to speed the drug development process. As the pandemic wanes, these technologies continue to drive a new wave of breakthroughs in healthcare, with new drugs and improved treatments directly benefiting individual patients and leading the way toward a healthier […]

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ETR analysts: Supercloud is an inevitable, natural evolution in enterprise technology

Brian Njuguna — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:20:08 +0000

The supercloud concept aims to enhance resilience, scalability and security in cloud computing, with the goal of taking the cloud to the next level. That’s key because the annual spend on cloud infrastructure is expected to grow at almost 70% compound annual growth rate over the next three years, according to Erik Bradley (pictured, right), chief strategist […]

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Oracle collaborates with Azure on blueprinting the mission-critical supercloud

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:45:50 +0000

In the time since the inaugural Supercloud22 event last year, many industry insiders have pointed to improved collaboration between the big hyperscale cloud players as the key to supercloud flourishing. During this year’s Supercloud event, analysts dug deeper into such unique partnerships as Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, as well as going in-depth into […]

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Nextdata launches to transform a vision of ‘data mesh’ into reality

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:21:22 +0000

Nextdata quietly emerged from stealth mode today, providing a glimpse of a company that intends to build technology to help organizations decentralize data at large scale. The goal of the firm is to realize the concept of the “data mesh” and its promise of revolutionizing how information is consumed. Nextdata founder and Chief Executive Zhamak Dehghani (pictured), […]

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Supercloud plugs hyperscaler holes triggered by heightened capabilities

Brian Njuguna — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:00:12 +0000

Hyperscalers have played an instrumental role in enhancing scalability and elasticity in the cloud. Nevertheless, as hyperscalers continue to rapidly innovate on underlying capabilities, new gaps spring up. This is one of the challenges that supercloud seeks to address, according to Ramesh Prabagaran (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Prosimo Inc. “I would say […]

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Supercloud forecast: the new data architecture requirements

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:30:13 +0000

Last year’s inaugural Supercloud event shed light on the accelerating popularity of multicloud infrastructures as a default enterprise standard and the eventual emergence of an eponymous supercloud paradigm. A major reason for organizations coming to terms with these trends is the unwavering data sprawl. Thus, a prominent part of dissecting the cloud-data intersection within this […]

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Supercloud debate offers insight into key choices confronting enterprise IT

Mark Albertson — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:30:34 +0000

Over the past year, supercloud has been described as “an evocative term,” “the next big trend,” “a thing” and “an ontological nothingburger.” Why should customers care? This was the central point of discussion in a power panel of industry analysts convened by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. While supercloud has been defined as an architecture […]

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Supercloud aims to fill the void of an absent security architecture through zero-trust concept

Brian Njuguna — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:00:04 +0000

Zero trust continues to make airwaves in the enterprise information technology world because it triggers the ideology of securing everything without having room for assumptions. In cybersecurity, the lack of a security architecture continues to be a major pain point, but the supercloud concept seeks to be a game-changer because it embeds zero trust, according […]

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Supercloud panelists discuss how data applications will change the future of enterprise technology

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:45:26 +0000

Wikibon’s Supercloud Definition 3.0 provides a comprehensive description of the architectural model evolving out of today’s sprawl of multi and hybrid clouds. The paper was written after the first Supercloud event hosted by theCUBE and provides a definition that incorporates the opinions and technological nuances discussed by experts during that event. While it is informative, […]

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Walmart’s supercloud: a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based platform

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:10:11 +0000

As part of enterprise digital transformation, companies often have to take a few technologies and customize them to suit an intended set of business-critical use cases or end goals. But as these company-specific cloud tools advance in complexity, a trend is emerging where they fit the “supercloud paradigm.” An apt example of this is the […]

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Moving to the supercloud means rethinking data management

Paul Gillin — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:00:28 +0000

In becoming the largest privately held freight transportation company in North America, Estes Express Lines Inc. created a lot of data silos. Following years of acquisitions, diversification and geographic expansion, by 2021 the data fragmentation picture across the company was “pretty bad,” said Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, business intelligence and analytics. Core […]

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How to demonstrate the business value of data

Rita Sallam — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:22:23 +0000

Extreme business disruption, uncertainty and economic headwinds demand that organizations place their bets on investments that create opportunity and value. In the past, many technology investments were made on a leap of faith. Now, information technology leaders are being asked to explain the value of what they do to other executives. When it comes to data and analytics […]

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Supercloud2 explores cloud practitioner realities and the future of data apps

Dave Vellante — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 15:34:40 +0000

Enterprise tech practitioners, like most of us, want to make their lives easier so they can focus on delivering more value to their business. To do so, they want to tap best-of-breed services in the public cloud, but at the same time connect their on-premises intellectual property to emerging applications that drive top-line revenue and […]

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Analysts forecast key enterprise data trends for 2023

Mark Albertson — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:23:01 +0000

Salesforce Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Marc Benioff once said, “You must always be able to predict what’s next and then have the flexibility to evolve.” This mantra could easily apply to the panel of industry analysts assembled by SiliconANGLE Media a year ago to discuss how data management was evolving and what listeners could expect […]

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CIOs are in a holding pattern – but ready to strike at data monetization

Dave Vellante — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:06:47 +0000

Recent conversations with information technology decision-makers show a stark contrast between the period exiting 2021 and the mindset leaving 2022. Chief information officers are generally funding new initiatives by pushing off or cutting lower-priority items. While security efforts are still being funded, those that enable business initiatives that generate revenue take priority over cleaning up […]

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TheCUBE’s Supercloud 2 event in January will offer insight into a new era in cloud computing

Mark Albertson — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:31:28 +0000

Technology providers and customers have embraced a model for building applications using resources from private and public cloud platforms. The result has been a multicloud world that made sense from a business standpoint, yet has brought new headaches to IT shops as well. “Going cloud-first was deliberate and strategic in most cases, and this caused […]

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Cloudflare’s supercloud: This is what multicloud should have been

Dave Vellante — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:01:00 +0000

Over the past decade, Cloudflare Inc. has built a global network that has the potential to become the fourth U.S.-based hyperscale-class cloud. In our view, the company is building a durable revenue model with hooks into many important markets. These include the more mature distributed-denial-of-service protection segment, but also extend to growth sectors such as […]

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