Microsoft Mobile Developers Moving to Generic Browsers
Over the last two years, the percentage of developers working on Android and iOS apps declined slightly while those targeting mobile browsers rose by 43 percent.
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.
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.
Multicloud Now a Chief Driver for Containers Says Portworx Survey
People claim that avoiding vendor lock-in drives cloud computing choices but don’t actually use multiple providers.
Enterprise Adoption of Kubernetes Is Growing
Kubernetes is increasingly the first choice among container users, with Datadog reporting its use increasing from 22.5 percent in October 2017 to 32.5 percent in October 2018.
Serverless vs. Kubernetes vs. Containers
Experience with FaaS predicts whether or not someone prefers functions. In fact, 63 percent of those with broad production FaaS implementations would standardize on functions.
Topics for CEO, CIO and CISO Conversations
Are you ready for your next elevator conversation about information security? I worked with Argyle Executive Forum to create a short survey about the security-related topics your corporate board, fellow CIOs or CISOs are facing. Your responses will inform the discussions at CIO and CISO […]
Not Another Digital Transformation Survey
I’ve probably read over 100 reports about digital transformation over the last few years. Most had deep flaws, which I hope to have addressed in my most recent IT and Digital Transformation survey. The survey delves into how and why IT organizations are evolving to […]
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 Roadmap: Monitoring, Security, Frameworks, Tools
For serverless monitoring, we found that cloud provider’s own tools were commonly used to monitor apps, with Amazon CloudWatch used by 88% of respondents with live AWS Lambda implementations.