James Kobielus
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What are developers looking for in multicloud programming? Simplicity.
Applications live everywhere in the multicloud but nowhere in particular. For developers, this means they need tools and frameworks that help them spread data and business logic across many public, private, edge and other environments. More than that, they need abstractions that can help them nimbly build and maintain the virtual machines, containers, serverless functions ...
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How multicloud cost models are shifting – and what to do about it
Multicloud is an emerging approach for deploying enterprise computing assets. But optimizing the costs of a full multicloud deployment can prove tricky, because there may no unified management plane for deploying, monitoring and governing all distributed information technology assets. Multicloud cost models are shifting because best practices for deploying these distributed environments are in flux. ...
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Regional nursing home operator assures quality care with data analytics
This is a sponsored post commissioned by Hitachi Vantara Corp. Aging populations need care around the clock. Indeed, the clock is a primary tool for determining what constitutes a baseline level of care for each resident in an institutional caregiving setting. For nursing homes such as those run by StoneGate Senior Living LLC, one key ...
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In the multicloud era, is hardware an asset or a liability for tech providers?
Edge computing is driving hardware to the center of the cloud revolution. Devices are central to today’s cloud-to-edge paradigm. They are the hardware platforms into which AI software is being embedded, infusing data-driven intelligence into practically anything and everything. Is hardware a dirty word? Hardware is definitely hip again. Strong hardware engineering and design expertise ...
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Wrapping up Next, Google pushes multiclouds to top of customers’ IT strategies
Google LLC made an impressive showing at its annual Cloud Next conference this week in San Francisco. In the arena for hybrid and multicloud computing, it differentiated its value proposition in several respects: Strong multicloud offering: Google’s general-availability release of Anthos signaled its deep commitment to helping its customers blend on-premises IT assets with the hyperscalable ...
Cloud Next day two wrap: Google makes a strong developer push
Google LLC made even more product announcements on day two of its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco than on the opening day of the event — this time aimed chiefly at software developers. Google is very clearly reaching out to the core enterprise customers that have flocked in greater numbers to its principal public-cloud ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW HYBRID CLOUD
Day one wrap at Next: Multicloud stars as Google Cloud opens up its strategy
Google had been inching into the hybrid cloud market over the past year. As it did so, it scarcely made an attempt to enter the growing multicloud arena. But what a difference a day makes! In the day one keynote today at Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, new Chief Executive Thomas Kurian made several announcements that ...
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The challenge of ensuring effective security across the multicloud
The best security is by design. But that raises a problem when securing a multicloud. Multiclouds rarely originate from a conscious design. More often than not, they are an attempt to bring architectural coherence to disparate systems, networks and applications that were deployed independently and interconnected haphazardly. Securing a multicloud requires that information technology professionals ...
At Flink Forward, Ververica evolves Apache Flink into a unified data platform
Stream computing is a key platform for a growing range of data-rich, low-latency applications. More online apps — such as mobility, the “internet of things,” media, gaming and serverless — require a robust, low-latency data processing backbone. Core features of many streaming apps now include real-time event processing, continuous computation, stateful semantics, publish-and-subscribe messaging, changed ...
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On the verge of Next ’19, Google must double down on cloud applications
Google is deep into the application development ecosystem, if for no other reason than that it created many open-source components that have since become ubiquitous. Google’s DNA is all over modern applications. It would be difficult to find modern web apps that aren’t written for the Chrome browser, mobile apps that don’t work with the ...