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Everybody wants a SaaS app, but do they know how to get one?
Demand for software as a service is insatiable; companies want to serve it, and customers want to devour it. No wonder technology providers have to remind aspirants to catch their breath, look at what goes into SaaS business models and move ahead in doable steps. “There’s no one size fits all for SaaS,” said Craig ...
First cloud SAN among AWS storage announcements for migrating masses
At tech companies that pledge to listen to customer feedback, the lines were jammed in 2020. COVID-19 rushed a lot of companies to migrate applications to cloud, acquainting them briskly with the complexities of data migration and storage. Many have chimed in with preferences on storage performance, cost, etc. How has cloud leader Amazon Web ...
Open-source observability all over the place? Platform brings it all together
What’s not to love about cloud native applications? Well, all those small pieces that make agile iteration possible are hard to manage with traditional monitoring tools. Open-source observability tools have become many engineers’ go-to software for troubleshooting these apps. The downside is that they may have to use several different tools without an easy way to ...
Next-gen edge IT may mean a return to local data centers, sort of
If you think information technology is distributed now, watch as companies opt to move it further out to the edge of the computing networks. Many enterprises may need to set up clouds all over the globe for advanced analytics, the internet of things and even compliance. The COVID-19 pandemic and remote-everything trend have shown us ...
After-the-fact data governance is too much trouble too late
Latest dispatch from big data: Randomly stuffing things in a receptacle, digging them out to label them, and then putting them back: Not good. Labeling them first and then putting them in their proper place: Better. Guess we should have thought of that in the first place. Thinking of things in the first place is ...
See future of user experience with code-level observability
With all-remote, software-first business models, digital end-user experience is everything. Consumers will flock to providers who keep the keenest watch on their experience, fix glitches quickly — or, even better, prevent them. Some are finding the means to do these things in the new class of observability tools for cloud applications. “Brand loyalty really is ...
AWS, Salesforce democratize cloud tech skills COVID-19 has put in demand
COVID-19 has caused a jump in the adoption of cloud technologies for software-led business and all-remote delivery. This in turn has led to higher demand for professionals skilled in working with them. Some in the industry are meeting the increased need with tech-enabled remote learning programs. Amazon Web Services Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. have partnered ...
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CNCF founding member explains why customers are as crucial as tech in agile IT
Even a company with no plans to go cloud native, if it’s modernizing, is probably embracing basic cloud native tenets. That means realizing that change is good, as well as adopting practices for implementing it without breaking stuff. So we asked a founder of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation for tips on how businesses — ...
Service providers need telco-grade network architecture for 5G, says F5
We’ve been hearing for years how 5G networking will smash bottlenecks and boost the performance of all sorts of technologies. Do businesses and vendors have the groundwork laid for when 5G finally arrives in their domains? They might have a head start if they’ve containerized their networking infrastructure. In order for service providers to tap ...
Devs are now telling vendors what to do – why that’s good news for backup, data mobility
Information technology is going application centric, and it’s making developers heads of the house. They’re influencing procurement decisions in organizations and also how vendors engineer technology from the start — and not just dev tools. With developers largely opting for containers that live fast and die young, how will that shape their offerings? “The application ...