NTT Upgrade 2023: The true nature of R&D
Japanese cloud and telco company NTT chose San Franciso as the venue to host the North American leg of its user, developer, customer, partner event this month. NTT Upgrade may not be the most recognised enterprise technology vendor event on the circuit, but the parent company behind a whole number ... Read more
“Subscription model is an aberration, we need to move to Usage-Based Pricing”
The above words are from Puneet Gupta, founder and CEO of the start-up Amberflo. Usage-Based Pricing (UBP), according to him, is needed to make business models more fair and transparent. We visited the company during the 48th edition of the IT Press Tour to hear more about it.
These days, when ... Read more
Dynatrace Perform live report: Re-mapping software intelligence
Software intelligence company Dynatrace used its annual ‘Perform’ conference this February 2023 to clarify and explain its company vision and define the direction of its automation observability roadmap. The overall message from the company is one of intelligent automated observability across t... Read more
Civo Navigate 2023: Live show report
Tampa has a beach. There's no spoiler alert needed for that insight, obviously. But this modestly sized city nestled on the West Coast of Florida that is much-loved for its Gulf of Mexico sunsets also has a city... and so it was that Kubernetes platform specialist Civo hosted its first user, develo... Read more
Expert talks
EU Digital Sovereignty and the Cloud
All nations, organisations, and individuals are interconnected and interdependent, following almost a century of globalisation. One area where this rings especially true is the digital economy, which relies on American processors such as Intel or AMD, and chips from TSMC in Taiwan. The question of ... Read more
Paessler PRTG monitoring increases relevance by cloud and enterprise focus
At Paessler, the development of a monitoring tool with a variety of use cases is in full swing. Additional focus on the cloud, enterprises and industries shows PRTG is working on further relevance.
Paessler exists 25 years this year and in that time it has made network monitoring its specialty. ... Read more
‘Zero trust high on agenda due to cloud, potential untapped’
The security world has been under the spell of zero trust for some time. Zscaler research now confirms that organizations also see the framework as an ideal tool for securing users, workloads and devices. Cloud migration contributes to this: 91 percent of the organizations have implemented or are i... Read more
ScaleFlux: Computational storage, mainstream is no daydream
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
HYCU bridges clouds, bridge to SaaS under construction?
Recently in Silicon Valley, we were guests of HYCU, a company generally characterized as yet another backup vendor. During HYCU's presentation, the goal was clear: to convince us that the company is more than a backup vendor. HYCU bridges the gap between different clouds for data protection, disast... Read more
Software’s post-pandemic recessionary lag factor
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
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022: Eight ‘bits’ of cloud-native
Eight years ago, at GOTO Berlin, John Wilkes announced the first release of Kubernetes.
It was like giving the flux capacitor to datacentre platform teams - the cluster management kernel that powers Google's internal Borg system ("Borg for the rest of us", was a common refrain at that time) and ... Read more
50 percent of your data will soon come from the Edge
Managing infrastructure is a headache for more and more companies. In addition to their own data center, there are often multiple clouds and edge locations in use. The platforms differ from one another. It takes a lot of expertise to manage it all. Finding the right people is also difficult, which ... Read more
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