Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
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 […]
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, […]
This table was created to support a discussion on social media.
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.
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,
