FaaS Selection Criteria: Little Desire for Multicloud
Portability and control are being sacrificed as serverless users make gains with speed of development and flexibility of scaling.
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Whose Hardware Will Run Analytics, AI and ML Workloads?
42% of respondents exclusively rely on third-party cloud providers’ hardware built to build AI/ML models, but only 12% will do so three years from now. Instead, a majority will use a combination of both on-premises and public cloud. Many companies may have gone first to cloud providers because they wanted to quickly launch AI/ML activities. These same companies may migrate to on-premises environments for specialized workloads to reduce costs as they scale-up into production or use proprietary data.
Security Worries Rise as Container Adoption Increases
Infosec pros were often not consulted before container adoption occurred. Furthermore, over 40 percent of companies have delayed or limited container adoption because of security concerns.
A Reason to Not Hate Facebook: Open Source Contributions
When it comes to open source contributions, Facebook is above par.
China Uses Open Source to Deliver Cloud Services
With Kubecon China in the books, we have more proof that Chinese companies are a strong second to the United States in open source cloud computing.
Serverless and Hosted and Installable Platforms
The leading hosted platforms are the big three cloud providers’ FaaS offerings. AWS Lambda has twice as many users as Azure Functions and more than three times as many as Google Cloud Functions.
IBM’s Red Hat Buy Aims to Bring the ‘Hybrid Cloud’ to the Enterprise
“Hybrid cloud” has already reached its peak in the hype cycle, with “multicloud” being a more popular term these days. A RightScale survey in February showed that Hybrid Cloud was dropped from 58 percent to 51 percent as the dominant strategy. In a different survey from Virtustream, 86 percent said they are using a multicloud strategy.
Business Logic Is a Leading Technical Use Case for Serverless
REST APIs, batch jobs and scheduled tasks, and business logic are the most common use cases for serverless architecture, according to 278 real serverless adopters surveyed by The New Stack. Many of these web applications have written-in logic that executes events such as sending an email […]
Reality Check on Automated Security Testing
Limited automation and ineffectiveness are two problems facing the application security testing market.
FaaS ≠ Serverless
54 percent of FaaS users without production deployments say their organization does not utilize a serverless architecture.
Prepare for an Onslaught of Go Language Serverless Functions
Over a quarter of people with serverless architectures in use or in plan expect to write a function using the Go language (Golang) in the next 18 months.
Open Source Culture Starts with Programs and Policies
More than anything, open source programs are responsible for fostering “open source culture,” according to a survey The New Stack conducted with The Linux Foundation’s TODO Group. By creating an open source culture, companies with open source programs see the benefits we’ve previously reported, including […]