Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Throwing money at a problem is not the best way to get things done, whether in business, charity, or the open source economy. Two recent studies prove the point. Non-monetary reasons for contributing topped the list when over a thousand contributors to free and open […]
Spending on information security continues to increase, but those gains may decelerate as companies become more confident in their security posture. Maybe too confident. Although many reports show that cybersecurity is a top driver of technology spending, Scale Venture Partners’ recent survey of 300 executives […]
The blockchain and cryptocurrency world provides quantifiable proof that open source can both help and hurt a project’s likelihood of financial success, according to Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market, which quantifies the success of 776 initial coin offerings (ICOs) […]
Have you ever read a survey report that claims that a certain percentage of companies use open source? We think those findings are almost always misleading. Practically every company in the world is using an open source component in their software stack. A better approach […]
Developer concerns about Internet of Things (IoT) interoperability have declined at the same time that more attention is being paid to IoT data. Along with its partners, the Eclipse Foundation’s Internet of Things (IoT) Working Group received 502 responses for its annual survey conducted from January through March 2018. […]
Just like everyone else, NetOps and DevOps want to save time and money while reducing human error. Yet, a recent survey by F5 Networks of 884 professionals indicates that networking and DevOps still don’t agree about automation’s importance in relation to priorities like security, performance and reliability. […]
If you were developing a minimal viable product (MVP) for the consumer software market, would it be for Windows PCs, Macs, Linux machines, iOS and Android devices? No, that would be foolish. Yet, it appears that developers are refusing to choose between CPUs, GPUs and […]
Amazon Web Services continues to be the 800-lb gorilla in the public cloud space, with 41 percent of container users saying they deploy containers most frequently to AWS. Among this group, only a quarter say AWS EC2 Container Service (ECS) is the method of container deployment used most often. […]
Is Ansible really heads and shoulders about Puppet and Chef in the world of container orchestration? Several readers asked this question after reading our recent survey’s results. The answer is maybe, but there are reasons to believe the data. After the Red Hat’s acquisition of Ansible […]
Scheduling, cluster management, and service discovery are widely acknowledged to be part of container orchestration. However, over half of the respondents also consider provisioning and monitoring to be part of orchestration. Configuration management was the functionality least likely to be associated with container orchestration, although […]
Twenty-five percent of those that deploy containers to AWS use its container service.
Of course, Docker is the darling of Silicon Valley, but how global is the container phenomenon? To judge from the attendance of Docker meetups around the world, we can see the technology’s influence growing. Our research was conducted in Summer 2015. Since then, repeat attendance […]