Reliable Support Inhibits Open Source Growth
Open source lags behind proprietary software in reliable support and availability of consulting services.
Author: LawrenceHecht
Research Shows Open Source Program Offices Improve Software Practices
Using open source software is commonplace, with only a minority of companies preferring a proprietary-first software policy. Proponents of free and open source software (FOSS) have moved to the next phases of open source adoption, widening FOSS usage within the enterprise as well as gaining […]
One Toolchain to Manage All Development Is a CI/CD-Vendor Obsession
Measuring CI/CD adoption is difficult for many reasons, but one of them is the choice between all-in-one bundled software or best-of-breed tooling.
Constructive Open Source Citizenship Produces Results
A year after its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM is benefiting from its association with the legendary OSS brand.
Measuring CI/CD Adoption Rates Is a Problem
Marketers are keen to define any tool that addresses an area of CI/CD as part of this market or a larger DevOps tooling segment.
Data Center Management: Self-Healing Shifts to Self Optimization
According to Vertiv’s survey, high bandwidth will be the primary data requirement for edge applications in 2025.
Hello Kubernetes Operators (and Vendors), Few People Know What You’re Selling
As organizations move into production with Kubernetes, they become less likely to use scripts and legacy configuration management tools but no more likely to use a product like the one Canonical offers.
Organizations Running on More Clouds Less Likely to See Security Threats
Several approaches aim to address the complexity of managing the security of multiple cloud environments, but one metric actually shows security improvement for organizations with more cloud providers.
Capital One’s Cloud Misconfiguration Woes Have Been an Industry-Wide Fear
Misconfigurations have long been the top cloud security concern. A new StackRox survey of IT decision-makers supports this finding.
Wasting Money on Public Cloud Storage
A Cohesity survey found that 47% of IT executives are worried about blowing their organization’s IT budget on unnecessary storage.
IT Ops Assumes a Greater Role in Container Management
Research from Kubernetes provider Diamanti corroborates three trends we’ve seen in recent market research about containers adoption: 1) IT operations teams have taken the lead; 2) security, not state, is the biggest obstacle to increased adoption; and 3) performance, not cost, is the reason to run containers on bare metal.
Why Salesforce and Google Bought Tableau and Looker
Salesforce is buying Tableau and Google Cloud is adding Looker to its family. After reviewing a panoply of studies about business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data warehousing, we found it evident that both acquisitions will provide best-in-class functionality addressing the needs of both business analysts and the IT department, as well as leadership in high-growth markets that are only tangentially related to artificial intelligence and machine learning.