Data Sharing Key to Success for COVID-19 Data Models
Integrating unstructured data is the top data challenge encountered when developing AI according to 57% of the survey by MIT Technology Review Insights.
Author: LawrenceHecht
COVID-19: IT Spending at a Crossroads
Will IT spending increase or decline because of the COVID-19 economic slowdown? Will IT be hurt by macroeconomic conditions, or will it benefit from the move to remote working? The answer changes day-by-day. Our assessment as of today is that short-term and long-term spending on […]
U.S. Unemployment Surge Highlights Dire Need for COBOL Skills
Faced with high volumes of unemployment insurance claims, state computer systems across the country are facing technical difficulties. Unfortunately, these systems are often running on old mainframes and rely on a programming language, COBOL, that is sixty years old. Faced with dramatic increases in volume, […]
Types of Serverless Compute Platforms
This table was created to support a discussion on social media.
Don’t Forget Viruses, the Computer Kind
While the anti-virus market is passe and mature, security vendors continue to monitor for new threats and have embraced a broader category, endpoint detection and response (EDR), that combines elements of anti-malware with newer tools that provide real-time anomaly detection, forensic analysis and remediation capabilities. Unsurprisingly, EDR is poised for rapid growth.
CNCF Survey Snapshot: Tech Adoption in the Cloud Native World
Container adoption appears to have mitigated the growth of VMs that need to be managed. However, be wary of claims that the raw number of machines being managed will decline.
Tech, Even Big Tech, Is Still Trusted
Most people still trust brands like YouTube and even Facebook.
Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways)
Knative’s popularity hurts installable software alternatives for serverless. Newly added to the survey, Knative is adopted by 17% of respondents that use a hosted platform or installable software for serverless. Kubeless, Apache OpenWhisk, Oracle’s Fn, and Fission all saw sharp drop-offs in adoption and community activity. Among the installable software players, only OpenFaaS maintained its popularity.
Survey Results: Service Mesh Useful for Security, Observability and Traffic Control
Service meshes have yet to become adopted by “early majority” technology adopters, but 46% of the survey are piloting them or have plans to evaluate or implement them in the next 12 months. Stories of successes and failures in production environments may affect these plans.
Problems With Sharing Responsibility for Security
Not everyone believes security is their job, though security professionals will get fired if something goes wrong.
How Much Will App Services Like Service Mesh Grow?
37% of IT professionals expect to start using service meshes in the public cloud in the next year, but actual adoption rates may be significantly lower if the technology’s hype bubble bursts, according to a recent survey from F5 Networks.