All enterprises were already using cloud computing in one way or the other when the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly accelerated the migration of…
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GigaOm CEO: Cloud’s Hidden Complexity
While the CEO or CTO often drives the digital transformation effort at most companies, last year it was COVID-19, not the executive…
Read MoreComprehensive Observability
I had the pleasure of producing my first analyst report in one of the hottest categories for GigaOm—cloud observability. Here are my…
Read MoreApplication Modernization: A GigaOm Field Test
So-called legacy software gets that name for a reason—it’s done enough for the organization over the years to earn a legacy enabling…
Read MoreNetApp Fabric Orchestrator, One More Step in the Right Direction
NetApp has made a huge strategy shift a few years ago and has been transitioning from being a traditional storage company to…
Read More5 questions for… ADLINK. Edge-Fog-Cloud?
One of the most interesting and dynamic areas of technology today is also one of the hardest to define: that is, the…
Read MoreLambda is an AWS internal efficiency driver. So why no private serverless models?
I’ve been in a number of conversations recently about Functions as a Service (FaaS), and more specifically, AWS’ Lambda instantiation of the…
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Where We’re Going With Unified Communications
A business is not an island. Businesses must be in constant communication with customers, clients, vendors, contractors, employees, partners, and more —…
Read MoreITW 2017: Visualization is the Key to Understanding Connectivity
Today’s REITs have to explore the connectivity question to remain competitive.…
Read MoreITW 2017: Webair Offers Some Advice on Ransomware Protection
at what point did my data go bad?…
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Know Your Embedded Database Cost
This post is sponsored by NuoDB. All thoughts and opinions are my own. In the move of a software vendor to a SaaS…
Read MoreACID is instrumental in the move to SaaS
This post is sponsored by NuoDB. All thoughts and opinions are my own. When moving an on-premises app to the cloud, software vendors…
Read MoreMoving to SaaS: Scale With True Elasticity
This post is sponsored by NuoDB. All thoughts and opinions are my own. The database needs to be able to scale out…
Read MoreAWS meets the enterprise head on
Amazon Web Services must have been a very interesting company to work for over recent years. My conversations with AWS senior executives have…
Read MoreMoving to SaaS: Start with SQL Functionality
This post is sponsored by NuoDB. All thoughts and opinions are my own. To leverage existing SQL tools and skills when moving…
Read MoreBusinesses Must Get Better at Breach Detection
Information system breaches are bad enough. However, breaches that go undetected prove to be much worse. Take for example Yahoo’s revelation that…
Read MoreNaaP (Network as a Platform) is the Latest Acronym to Spell Growth
For the enterprise and service provider crowd, that means riverbed is looking to bring the agility of the cloud to existing infrastructure, by adding a new abstraction layer, which automates and simplifies thorny tasks, such as provisioning, scaling, and overall services management.…
Read MoreShould Service Providers Turn DDoS Prevention into a Service?
DDoS attacks are on the rise, and are becoming more successful and widespread.…
Read MoreData Centric Computing is Driving the Next Revolution in Cloud Storage Alternatives
The biggest issue is that the public cloud may not offer the level of security and speed needed by organizations that are transforming their intellectual property into actionable data sets.…
Read MoreIt’s hard being HPE these days
I’m sitting here in the blogger lounge at HPE Discover 2016, in London (while also keeping an eye on the news coming…
Read MoreThe Specter of Performance and the Adoption of Hybrid Clouds
One of the biggest challenges comes in the specter of performance, a poltergeist that adds latency to transactions and is further empowered by physical distances.…
Read MoreSurvey Shows Cloud Becoming Mission Central for IT Transformation
This statistic may be a sign of trouble for IT…
Read MoreIs iBPMS the Secret Ingredient for Agile Digital Transformation?
intelligent Business Process Management Suites are the future of agility…
Read MoreReview: SmartDraw Helps to Tame Wild IoT Networks
Comprehending the intricacies of the emerging IoT world takes more than looking at a static Visio diagram, it takes a tool that is designed to deal with both virtual and physical devices and the ability to visualize those complex interconnections dynamically.…
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