Lawrence Hecht

considerations when choosing a FaaS offering

January 17, 2019August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site

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.

Please describe the scope of your current hardware capabilities when it comes to training AI/ML models? Where do you see the scope in 3 years?

January 13, 2019August 4, 2025No longer on TNS site

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.

do you have vulnerable containers deployed in production: by # of containers

January 10, 2019August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

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.

January 3, 2019August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

A Reason to Not Hate Facebook: Open Source Contributions

When it comes to open source contributions, Facebook is above par.

primary reason to run container technologies

December 18, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

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.

orchestration usage at initial container rollout

December 12, 2018August 6, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

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.

desire to standardize on function-based platform increases along with broader FaaS implementations

November 29, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

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.

November 26, 2018February 1, 2025Miscellaneous (professional)

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 […]

November 26, 2018December 16, 2019Miscellaneous (professional)

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 […]