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CIOs commit random acts of cloud in 2021 as adoption becomes mission-critical

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:59:12 +0000

The race to cloud adoption has elevated the role of chief information officer from systems maintenance to critical strategist. True, the virtualization of the datacenter has relieved some of the CIO’s traditional burdens, but it’s hardly a fair exchange as decentralized hybrid cloud models become the norm. CIOs are now tasked with delivering strategies that […]

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Decentralization and a data deluge: TheCUBE on Cloud reveals the future of cloud

Dave Vellante — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:49:43 +0000

The next 10 years of cloud will differ dramatically from the past decade, in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. The early days of cloud deployed virtualization of standard off-the-shelf components to scale out and build a large distributed system. The coming decade will see a much more data-centric, real-time, intelligent, […]

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Continued cloud growth will offer new opportunities for entrepreneurs to build on top

Mark Albertson — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:45:35 +0000

The evolution of the public cloud over the past 15 years has been all about building — creating infrastructure to power enterprises of any size on a global basis. That has set the stage for another chapter in the cloud story. It’s one in which new businesses will be built on top of cloud platforms […]

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CTO power panel: Shaping the future of cloud at the edge

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:53:58 +0000

Edge computing is an adolescent market just starting a growth spurt. Its predicted surge from $3.6 billion in 2020 to $15.7 billion by 2025 comes from the enormous diversity of potential use cases. But like any talented teen, edge technology has to decide exactly what it is, where it belongs, and how it’s going to […]

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Big shifts are coming in the new era of the distributed cloud

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:09:11 +0000

Nothing in the tech industry stays the same as products and technologies are constantly evolving, and the cloud is a living example. The cloud started as a place where enterprises could run key applications off-premises in secure environments. That transformed to a cloud native model where applications were built and run on the cloud platform. […]

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Security ‘shifts left’ to debug critical code before software deployment

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 04:50:18 +0000

The cybersecurity world is a race against time: Organizations have a finite amount of resources and limited runway to find and fix bugs in code before malicious actors can discover and exploit them with damaging results. The way to best minimize this exposure is to fix bugs before software has been deployed into cloud native […]

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Aisera’s Muddu Sudhakar looks beyond compute and storage for new opportunity

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 04:30:40 +0000

After serving in senior-level executive positions over the past two decades for influential enterprise technology companies such as VMware Inc., Splunk Inc., EMC and ServiceNow Inc., Muddu Sudhakar has developed a sense of where the tech industry is headed. From his perspective, that next wave will not involve simply compute or storage but service delivery models […]

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Constellation’s Holger Mueller on Salesforce, Oracle, AWS and the future of cloud software

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 04:10:57 +0000

Holger Mueller has the tricky job of deciphering the future performance of a car while it moves at 140 miles per hour down the technology highway. That’s the nature of the cloud industry, which has seen a constant stream of new product offerings, shifting customer needs and key acquisitions. Take the headline-making purchase of Slack Technologies […]

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The new data paradigm: Embrace decentralization

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 03:50:28 +0000

There are times when a centralized data source may not always be a good idea. In a paper published in May 2019, Zhamak Dehghani (pictured), director of Next Tech Incubation NA at ThoughtWorks Inc., uncovered the trouble with data lakes. Despite hefty investments by major enterprises, such centralized reservoirs have created failure modes in deriving […]

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Vertical clouds help enterprises correct chaos caused by ‘random acts of cloud usage’

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 03:20:38 +0000

Hidden amongst other raging trends such as edge, artificial intelligence and automation, the rise of vertical clouds seems like an obvious prediction to dominate in 2021. But cloud adoption is complex. And as cloud becomes a business imperative rather than a nice-to-have, enterprises need help to make smart and strategic choices when it comes to cloud […]

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Dheeraj Pandey foresees new computing and cloud challenges, faster digital change

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:50:52 +0000

He came to the United States with only $900 in his pocket and is now retired from the company he built into a $1.6 billion hyperconverged infrastructure software juggernaut. Dheeraj Pandey (pictured) stepped down from his role as co-founder and chief executive officer of Nutanix Inc. last year after an 11-year run building the company […]

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Cloud has handed developers new power, and they’re using it to shape the future

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:20:05 +0000

Cloud computing and open-source software have given developers the upper hand when it comes to decision-making. With customers and employees hopping up and down impatiently demanding apps like baby birds demanding worms, the approvals process has been discarded in the pressure to get up and running fast. “Enterprise developers have a lot more practical authority […]

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Pandemic’s economic impact doesn’t deter prominent investor from major stake in Nutanix

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:50:42 +0000

Companies undergoing a major transition don’t generally see major investment, as venture capitalists often prefer to take a cautious approach before diving in. That’s why Bain Capital’s investment of $750 million in Nutanix Inc. last year received a great deal of attention in the tech world. Nutanix, a key player in the hyperconverged infrastructure or HCI […]

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Data processing unit offers new architectural solution for cloud data center networks

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:20:15 +0000

One of the maxims in the technology world is that much of what powered innovation over the past decade will likely be replaced by something new in the current decade. The rise of the data processing unit provides a prime example of this reality. By more efficiently executing data-centric computations within server nodes, the DPU […]

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Automation is an essential driver of post-pandemic business value

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:50:27 +0000

Robotic process automation was already experiencing strong growth in 2019. By the middle of 2020, the pandemic had accelerated the automation mandate, pushing adoption up 27%. And the trend is not slowing anytime soon, with Allied Market Research forecasting a compound annual growth rate of 36.4% over the next seven years. If cloud adoption is […]

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Facing down the data onslaught with stateful architecture

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:20:29 +0000

The age of big data taught us that there is a timeline to data management: Store the data, analyze it, then model predictions. Unfortunately, that time-consuming process just doesn’t cut it with the staggering amounts of data currently being generated. Petabytes of data flow from edge devices daily, and the amount is growing rapidly thanks […]

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Solving the CIO dilemma: How to keep pace and control spend under new pressures

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:50:50 +0000

A chief information officer is responsible for meeting the information technology needs of an organization and driving value from said technology. Once an underappreciated fix-it role, today’s demand for technological solutions has put mission-critical operations under the CIO’s charge and made their voice prominent in the boardroom. That has placed increased pressure on technology executives […]

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The era of the citizen developer is dawning, says Google Cloud’s Amit Zavery

Mark Albertson — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:20:17 +0000

Interest in low-code no-code application development continues to grow, and major enterprise companies are positioning for a central role in what is turning into a promising business. Gartner has predicted that in two years, more than 50% of medium-sized to large enterprises will have adopted some form of a low-code/no-code platform. Expansion of new tools […]

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Companies: Lead us to the cloud, then get out of the way

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:50:09 +0000

What is the perfect cloud strategy? Decades after cloud computing entered the business lexicon, enterprises are still a long way from agreeing on a definitive model. The evolving workplace, proliferation of edge devices, and increasing complexity of hybrid and multicloud options continue to make the question problematic. “All companies are still in that same mindset […]

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It’s time for a data architecture do-over

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:20:57 +0000

As Moore’s Law becomes less relevant, technological innovation is entering a new age. Instead of ever tinier and more powerful computing hardware, the next wave of value creation will come from the mixing of big data, machine learning/artificial intelligence, and cloud. “The coming decade will be one where customers start to unlock outsize value out […]

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CIOs face new challenges as cloud adoption becomes a critical imperative

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:50:09 +0000

2020 took cloud operations from a business advantage to a business imperative, and that has propelled chief information officers into the spotlight, as chief executive officers look to implement cloud strategies ASAP. Fueling the increased importance of the role is the fact that unlike the departmental focused viewpoints of other executives, CIOs have observation and […]

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Time to take aim at storage and edge by expanding block capabilities to network protocols

Mark Albertson — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:20:26 +0000

It’s high time to re-engineer the storage stack to enable storage area network or SAN performance in the cloud, a growing trend reflecting what information technology departments could expect on-premises. This represents an important move worth watching as it signals interest by a major provider in leveraging the power of the cloud to enhance performance levels […]

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By leveraging joint data assets, cloud-linked ecosystems bridge experience gap, create agile value chain

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:50:10 +0000

Cloud computing is transforming not only business but the role of chief information officers. From fighting the endless battle of keeping the lights on, CIOs and their counterparts in other information technology executive roles have been elevated to rank among the highest decision-makers in a company. This new role requires a new kind of leadership: […]

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Competition, edge computing, developers and deplatforming all forge cloud’s future

Mark Albertson — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:20:35 +0000

In the highly competitive technology world, most businesses strive for complete domination of a market by driving out serious competition, a strategy known as “winner take all.” But when it comes to the public cloud landscape and the evolving role of its three largest players – Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC […]

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Watch live: TheCUBE on Cloud rides the next wave of computing Jan. 21

Mark Albertson — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:18:27 +0000

As the year kicks off in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, the technology world faces an inescapable truth: The cloud is a journey, not a destination. This journey will be explored in depth Thursday, Jan. 21, when SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio theCUBE will launch theCUBE on Cloud, SiliconANGLE’s first virtual editorial event of 2021. […]

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Where’s cloud computing headed this year? The experts lay down their cards

Paul Gillin — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:54:48 +0000

Edge computing, vertical clouds, a profusion of multicloud options and the end of on-premises backup. Those are a few of the prognostications being put forward by cloud computing pundits and information technology providers amid the flood of predictions that jam our inbox at this time each year. Here are a few of them, along with […]

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By 2025, the cloud will be the key driver of business innovation

Andrew Lerner — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:09:56 +0000

Today, most organizations think of the cloud as merely a technology platform. This perspective will shift markedly by 2025. Cloud will not only be a technological approach for delivering applications but will also serve as the key driver of business innovation. The increasingly digital enterprise depends on technology to deliver competitive services and strong customer […]

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What’s coming next in cloud? Tune into the experts Jan. 21 at theCUBE on Cloud event

Mark Albertson — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:41:39 +0000

It took a global pandemic for the world to realize an inescapable truth about cloud computing: It’s a journey, not a destination. That journey will be explored in-depth on Jan. 21, when SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio theCUBE will launch theCUBE on Cloud, SiliconANGLE’s first virtual editorial event of 2021. The program will include interviews with […]

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Cloud momentum and CIO optimism point to a 4% rise in 2021 tech spending

Dave Vellante — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:07:26 +0000

A range of new data now suggests that tech spending will be higher than we previously thought for 2021. COVID-19 learnings, a faster-than-expected vaccine rollout, productivity gains and broad-based cloud leverage lead us to raise our outlook for next year. We now expect a 3% to 5% increase in 2021 technology spending, roughly double our previously […]

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Cloud and ‘internet of things’ spur new rise in edge computing

Bob Gill — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:00:51 +0000

The rise of edge computing will come as no surprise to anyone following computing architectures during the past 40-plus years. Although the topological concept of edge computing is decades old, it was only recently pushed into the limelight because of the limitations imposed by the centralized implementation of hyperscale cloud and the growing investment in […]

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