Yesterday at Dockercon EU, Docker announced its support for Kubernetes on the Docker Enterprise Edition, Docker Community Edition as well as its desktop apps as well as the Moby project. This is a significant shift for a company that almost broke the open source community around the then Docker project. They wanted to push the […]
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Briefing Notes: RackN Launches In Beta
RackN, the startup based in Austin, had launched their platform in beta last week. RackN aims to simplify infrastructure provisioning through a layered approach which decouples provision, control, and orchestration, giving users more flexibility without losing simplicity. In this research note, we will analyze their platform. Market Overview Data center infrastructure provisioning is an old […]
Oracle Cloud Strategy – An Analysis
Oracle., the enterprise giant of the legacy era, hosted their annual user conference Oracle OpenWorld last week shed some more light on their cloud strategy. Oracle made some announcements focussed on cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain but it came out more like an organization trying to jumpstart their vehicle to catch up with competition […]
Briefing Notes: Insight Engines Takes AI To Enterprise IT
Insight Engines, the San Francisco based startup focused on making machine data actionable, announced the general availability of Cyber Security Investigator and, also, showcased how Amazon Alexa can be tapped to query from Cyber Security Investigator. In this note, we will do an analysis on this announcement. Market Overview AI in enterprise is relatively new. […]
Virtual Panel: VMworld 2017 Recap
Yesterday, we hosted a Virtual Panel on VMworld 2017 talking about the news that came out of VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas last week. The panelists are: John Allwright, Pivotal Inc Rob Bissett, Virtustream Scott Fulton, The New Stack Bryan Friedman, Pivotal Inc Krishnan Subramanian, Rishidot Research (Moderator) We discussed many topics ranging from the […]
Pivotal Container Service – A Quick Analysis
Yesterday, at VMworld 2017, Pivotal Inc announced Pivotal Container Service and a partnership with Google for Hybrid Cloud. Pivotal Container Service (PKS) is made available based on Kubo project which integrates Kubernetes with BOSH. The infrastructure orchestration plane for CloudFoundry. Pivotal Container Service if the commercial offering for Kubo and the partnership with Google will […]
Abstractions In The Multi-Cloud World
Information Technology is always focussed on abstractions as a way to remove complexity and simplify IT use for end users. IT evolution can be directly correlated to the quest to abstract at higher layers. Whether it is an evolution from binary programming to programming in higher level languages or virtualizing the servers for operations efficiencies […]
Microsoft Joins CloudFoundry Foundation – A Quick Take
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that they are joining CloudFoundry Foundation as a gold member. Here is my quick analysis of this news. This is expected ever since we saw blog posts talking about deploying CloudFoundry on Azure. Now it is official. What does it mean for CloudFoundry Foundation? Anytime a big company joins anOSS Foundation, it […]