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Supercloud enables holistic management of entire IT infrastructure

Brian Njuguna — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:00:00 +0000

Supercloud is a significant architectural evolution that will revamp the technology industry, according to one prominent cloud analyst. Since the supercloud or metacloud exists above a multicloud, it is an architectural pattern that leverages the best-of-breed technology for business prosperity, says David Linthicum (pictured), chief cloud strategy officer of Deloitte Consulting. Supercloud has also been dubbed […]

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What Black Hat 2022 reveals about securing the supercloud

Dave Vellante — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:08:14 +0000

Black Hat 2022 was held in Las Vegas last week, at the same time as theCUBE’s supercloud event. Unlike AWS re:Inforce, where words are carefully chosen to put a positive spin on security, Black Hat exposes all the warts of cybersecurity and openly discusses its hard truths. It’s a conference attended by technical experts who […]

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Three insights you might have missed from the Supercloud 22 event

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:10:09 +0000

On Aug. 9, the lights came up on a new era of cloud computing. The location was theCUBE’s Palo Alto studios, and the occasion was the Supercloud 22 event. TheCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante moderated an energetic debate as cloud computing experts and thought leaders discussed a trend that has grabbed the […]

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Why data fragmentation is the No. 1 concern for today’s cloud-focused enterprises

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:20:47 +0000

The ubiquity of ransomware attacks has become such a scary scenario for enterprises that the issue has escalated to a board-level one. With data as the uber-valuable commodity it is today — and given the rate at which it’s sprawling — an inevitable fragmentation has created fertile ground for ransomware actors to operate. “Every year […]

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Supercloud simplifies cloud architecture while leveling up automation

Brian Njuguna — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:33:08 +0000

The supercloud concept goes beyond hybrid cloud and multicloud because it’s a bid to offer a seamless experience across clouds and on-premises data centers. Since supercloud is emerging as one place to build, develop and deploy, it intends to eradicate the troubles of maneuvering through different clouds, and this can be attained through an abstraction […]

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Supercloud expansion: Cloud influencer Sarbjeet Johal assesses market impact

Mark Albertson — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:33:01 +0000

The rise of supercloud has raised an intriguing question about the cloud market’s future: How will the major cloud providers react to having companies such as Snowflake Inc., Zscaler Inc. and Databricks Inc. building highly successful businesses on top of hyperscale platforms? On one hand, Amazon Web Services Inc. generates a handsome profit from its […]

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Clouds to infinity and beyond: Predictions paint a prolific future for cloud computing

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:09:16 +0000

Ten years ago, Netscape Communications Corp. founder and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen observed developments in Silicon Valley and said, “Software is eating the world.” Today his prediction has become reality. Andreessen didn’t have a crystal ball or tarot cards. He used his industry knowledge to look at the trends he saw emerging and joined the […]

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Supercloud is the perfect storm for enhanced simplicity, says AI expert

Brian Njuguna — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:43:34 +0000

Supercloud is now a hot topic, so those that want to leverage it are looking for a seamless operational model. Through a higher-level abstraction, supercloud eradicates complexities, according to Howie Xu (pictured), vice president of machine learning and artificial intelligence at Zscaler Inc. This triggers seamless execution and less friction, he adds. “If you just consume […]

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Application delivery drives Prosimo’s strategy for brewing supercloud services

Mark Albertson — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 20:45:37 +0000

The growth of superclouds, abstraction layers above and across hyperscale infrastructure, is leading to the creation of firms specifically designed to provide such services. One of these is Prosimo.io, a company that built its business around supporting a multicloud infrastructure strategy for delivering applications. It is a prime example of how the supercloud is filling […]

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Supercloud at the edge: Ensuring a seamless user experience

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 20:14:03 +0000

Enterprise adoption of “internet of things” devices is increasing at 14.8% year on year, according to the most recent International Data Corp. “Worldwide Edge Spending Guide.” IDC also estimates a worldwide 2022 spend of $176 billion on edge computing, increasing to $274 billion by 2025. With supercloud also on the rise, theCUBE looks at how the […]

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Supercloud offers a consistent developer experience across clouds, analysts say

Brian Njuguna — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 19:41:46 +0000

Supercloud seeks to be a next-generation framework that will enhance developers’ productivity. Based on a lot of heated debate about how to develop the next modern computing model, supercloud intends to fill the void by driving some of the complexities endured away, according to In Sik Rhee (pictured, right), general partner at Vertex Ventures. Furthermore, developers […]

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Harnessing supercloud: Experts weigh in on enablers and blockers

Victor Dabrinze — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:53:51 +0000

As new enterprise cloud paradigms bloom into maturity, there has always been discussion within the information technology and developer communities about the components that could make it sink or swim. Supercloud is a new idea, and thought leaders recently got together to discuss those factors. “They’d try things out, they’d go to the cloud, they’d spin things […]

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Top takeaways and analyst insights from the Supercloud 22 event

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:30:27 +0000

The Supercloud 22 event brought together some of the biggest names in cloud computing, up-and-coming startups, venture capitalists and industry analysts to weigh in on the emerging trend. From establishing whether the concept of supercloud is real or hype to in-depth discussions on the technical changes enabling organizations to abstract above and across hyperscale infrastructure, […]

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Brainstorming supercloud with tech leaders VMware, Snowflake, Databricks and more

Dave Vellante — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:44:33 +0000

At our inaugural Supercloud22 event this week, we sought community input to evolve the concept of a supercloud by iterating on the definition, the salient attributes and examples of what is and is not a supercloud. We asked several technologists, including experts from VMware Inc., Snowflake Inc., Databricks Inc., HashiCorp, Confluent Inc., Intuit Inc., Cohesity Inc. and […]

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Securing the supercloud requires an ecosystem effort, say industry experts

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:50:01 +0000

Cloud computing has security issues. The problem is underscored by the complexity of cloud and the lack of visibility into what’s happening with workloads inside software containers that host the components of modern applications. Securing the cloud is a never-ending game of cat and mouse with sophisticated criminals in an expanding attack surface that has […]

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Snowflake kickstarts supercloud concept with Snowgrid cross-cloud connectivity

Brian Njuguna — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:34:08 +0000

With simplicity being a key concept in organizations, the supercloud idea is anticipated to continue gaining steam. By creating a single system with cloud regions superimposed on top of the cloud provider layer, Snowflake Inc. is already laying the groundwork for the supercloud concept, according to Benoit Dageville (pictured), co-founder and president of products at Snowflake. […]

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Forget ‘shift left,’ there’s another shift currently underway: It’s called supercloud

Victor Dabrinze — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:12:28 +0000

When cloud vendors engage with organizations, one recurring pain point is the complexity that accompanies distributed infrastructures that are oftentimes vastly heterogeneous. At the same time, companies need these heterogeneous multicloud environments for scale and efficiency. Supercloud architectures bridge these trade-offs and allow mostly win-win situations for enterprises, according to Kit Colbert (pictured), chief technology […]

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Alteryx uses supercloud powers to smash data silos and democratize data access

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:56:44 +0000

Being able to leverage data resources to drive value has become a key definer of enterprise performance in the digital era. The truth of this has been backed up by industry studies, academic reports and anecdotal evidence. And for any companies that hadn’t yet got the message, the COVID pandemic made it crystal clear. While […]

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Does the world need supercloud? Expert panel weighs in during Supercloud 22 fireside chat

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:55:30 +0000

As theCUBE hosted the Supercloud 22 event Aug. 9 in its Palo Alto studios, the focus was on an idea that has been generating a lot of buzz as a potential solution for the disorganized multicloud environments encountered in most of today’s digital companies. That would be the building of an abstraction layer that resides […]

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Oracle shares the recipe for how it built a supercloud on top of Microsoft Azure

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 21:00:29 +0000

As theCUBE’s industry analysts traveled the enterprise technology conference circuit this year, they spoke with a lot of companies in the process of developing a service or sets of services, built on hyperscale infrastructure, aimed at abstracting the underlying complexity to create a continuous experience across more than one cloud. Or as theCUBE likes to […]

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As supercloud operating model emerges, Nutanix lays out future plans

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:21:41 +0000

It can often seem like the tech space is on a constant hunt for the next trending buzzword, but those catchphrases often point to meaningful ideas. In covering the convergence between hybrid and multicloud, SiliconANGLE and theCUBE coined the term “supercloud.” Subsequently, enterprises, companies and solutions providers alike are nearing the consensus that it’s the […]

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Every enterprise will need to ‘key into’ supercloud, and here’s why

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:43:32 +0000

The enterprise solutions and technology business isn’t slowing down, even in the midst of a downturn that many have preemptively termed a recession. Cloud spending, in particular, has stood firm and is soaring to unprecedented highs. Supercloud architectures promise to be a more seamless, cohesive and agile operating model that integrates on-premises, public cloud and […]

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Is supercloud aspirational or achievable? VMware VP discusses managing multicloud through abstraction

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:44:41 +0000

The history of information technology has seen a series of abstractions building on top of each other to create the complex computing environments that we operate in today. As the fundamental theorem of software engineering goes: “We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.” The humorous flip side is the addition “… except […]

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‘Clouderati’ panel of industry experts assesses future of supercloud in a multicloud world

Mark Albertson — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:15:53 +0000

Despite the cloud’s numerous benefits, enterprise frustration is building over challenges compounded by the embrace of multicloud. This was one of the conclusions documented by F5 Inc. in its annual “State of Application Strategy” report that was released this year. With nearly every business invested in a muticloud model, employing 2.16 different environments on average, […]

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Supercloud may be the eventual solution to multicloud problems, say industry analysts

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:41:53 +0000

Most enterprises currently use multiple clouds. But these multiclouds have been built up over time, resulting in a collection of siloed cloud services rather than a coordinated and cohesive strategy. Or, as Chuck Whitten, co-chief operating officer of Dell Technologies Inc., called it during Dell Technologies World “multicloud by default” rather than by design. So, […]

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Supercloud debate: Is open-source standardization the way forward? Databricks CEO weighs in

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:03:53 +0000

Supercloud is an emerging trend in enterprise computing that is predicted to bring major changes to how companies build out their cloud architecture. Over the past six months, SiliconANGLE Media has been following the increase in companies considering supercloud as a way to get rid of multicloud complexity and help their customers monetize data assets. […]

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How industry cloud platforms will transform the next decade of cloud services

Gregor Petri — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:57:49 +0000

Hyperscale cloud providers are increasingly making headlines with the launch of new “industry cloud” platforms. Industry clouds platforms create value for enterprises by bringing together traditionally separately purchased cloud services in a pre-integrated, but adaptable way. Industry clouds offer not just technical but also business capabilities that are specifically relevant to identified vertical industries. Leaders […]

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Complicated rivalry between Snowflake and Databricks spotlights key trends in enterprise computing

Mark Albertson — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:51:12 +0000

There have been legendary rivalries among tech companies over decades: Amazon versus Microsoft and Google in cloud, Salesforce versus Oracle and SAP, Twitch versus YouTube, Tesla versus the tech divisions of an entire automotive industry. Now there’s a growing contest between enterprise heavyweights Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. that promises to deliver its own fireworks. […]

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Inside the rush to build ‘superclouds’

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:51:07 +0000

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. is in the midst of a massive cloud migration that will affect more than 40,000 systems and applications across the globe running on everything from Windows servers to mainframes. The company has already moved 68% of its workloads to the public cloud and aims to slim down from three data centers […]

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What we hope to learn at Supercloud 22

Dave Vellante — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 06:34:34 +0000

The term supercloud is relatively new, but the concepts behind it have been bubbling for years. Early last decade when the National Institute of Standards and Technology put forth its original definition of cloud computing, it said services had to be accessible over a public network — essentially cutting the on-premises crowd out of the […]

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