Britain was, obviously (arguably), mislead and misguided enough to vote positively for Brexit by a small but unfortunate margin. In what may be something of a continued move to reaffirm what open values the nation still has, OpenUK continues its obviously (perhaps inarguably) positive work to promo... Read more
2 months ago
Storage needs a makeover. Often thought of as back-office donkey/grunt work, we all recognise the need and importance of storage, but not many of us want to focus on it as a computing discipline in and of itself. Which is wrong, obviously. Notwithstanding the fact that one Australian tech news p... Read more
2 months ago
DevOps happened before DevOps. That is, we had operations teams working with developers on relatively sophisticated workflow methodologies long before the technology industry decided to formalise this ‘workplace culture approach’ and give it a name. As we know, DevOps has now extended to bec... Read more
2 months ago
Data moves. While some data will inevitably come to rest and reside in a storage repository with one or other level of accessibility (depending on mission-criticality, cost of storage or other factors), data mostly moves between application workloads, analytics engines and more. This core cade... Read more
2 months ago
Knowledge is power. But further than any mere level of learning by rote understanding, we use the term ‘savvy’ to denote a particular level of practical knowledge and ability. Coming out of the post-pandemic period of preparation for the ensuing recession will (arguably) require more savvine... Read more
2 months ago
Think back for a moment, remember when cloud first happened? Keep your company’s data and applications (and all manner of digital services) off-site, away from the organisation’s home premises and in some Cloud Services Provider (CSP) datacentre, located at goodness knows where right? The... Read more
3 months ago
Low-code is on the high. The new-age automation shortcuts, reference architectures, templates and wider tooling offerings that form the low-code universe of software application development are in high gear in terms of their current ascendancy. Looking upwards, low-code is also now being charged... Read more
3 months ago
Technology nomenclature evolves. Perhaps nowhere more prevalently than in cloud computing and data science. Where we once thought of operations as nothing more than the Ops element of sysadmin and DBA database administration that eventually morphed into DevOps, we now have new notions of opera... Read more
3 months ago
Kubernetes orchestrates. That’s what it does. Also ‘cutely’ known as K8s, Kubernetes is an open source software tool designed for automating the deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications. Deeper here, as many will know, containerised applications are smaller (than a ... Read more
3 months ago
Real-time, if you will excuse the obvious expression, is real. The ubiquity of mobile connectivity, the breadth and depth of cloud, the always-on nature of new intelligent machines, the presence of autonomous automation advantage(s) and the birth of RPA bots (plus a litany of other major paradig... Read more
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