Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
By one measure, it seems obvious that the migration of workloads to the public cloud has accelerated. In last year’s study, only 33% of workloads were in the public cloud, while today the figure is 57%.
Integrating unstructured data is the top data challenge encountered when developing AI according to 57% of the survey by MIT Technology Review Insights.
While the anti-virus market is passe and mature, but 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.
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.
Most people still trust brands like YouTube and even Facebook.
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.
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.
Not everyone believes security is their job, though security professionals will get fired if something goes wrong.
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.
62% of information security professionals surveyed believe privacy concerns have not stopped or slowed down adoption of cloud services,
Open source programs (also known as OSPOs) are now largely driven by engineering teams instead of attorneys — and created to refine engineering practices and attract developer talent rather than simply comply with licensing requirements, according to a new analysis of the open source survey […]
