News What’s New in VMware Horizon 8 v2106 & v2103 By Tom Fenton 07/28/2021 VMware released Horizon 8 version 2106 on July 15, 2021, and v2103 on March23, 2021. Usually, I like to write an article about each VMware release but as these are rather minor releases, I will combine them into a single article. […]

News Cybersecurity Threatscape: Ransomware Reigns, Accounting for 63% of Malware By David Ramel 07/15/2021 You need only look at recent news headlines to see how costly ransomware attacks are plaguing enterprises these days, but a new report puts some data behind the troubling accounts. Positive Technologies this week published its Cybersecurity Threatscape Q1 2021 research […]

News IBM Open Sources Framework to Quicken AI on Hybrid Clouds By David Ramel 07/08/2021 IBM Research has open sourced a new framework for working with Big Data/AI/ML projects on hybrid cloud implementations. Specifically, the new CodeFlare framework simplifies the integration and efficient scaling of Big Data and AI workflows onto the hybrid cloud. It […]

News Skills Dearth Hinders Enterprise Kubernetes/Cloud Native Adoption By David Ramel 06/30/2021 Canonical published a new cloud native tech report with a focus on Kubernetes, finding that the growing ecosystem has yet to achieve full enterprise adoption, with a lack of in-house skills a primary challenge. While Canonical is widely known for its Ubuntu Linux […]

News Azure VM Image Builder Goes GA for Windows and Linux By David Ramel 06/28/2021 Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images — with associated workflows and pipelines — for Windows and Linux. Building VM images is key […]

News Report: Data Warehouses/Lakes Converge, Go Mainstream in the Cloud By David Ramel 06/25/2021 The data warehouse architecture and the data lake design pattern have converged to form a new, richer data architecture, a new report says, and both have already gone mainstream in the cloud. Published May 28 by TDWI, the “Building the Unified […]

News Surveys Show COVID-19 Stresses on Cloud Costs, Security By David Ramel 06/23/2021 The COVID-19 pandemic may be lessening in the U.S., but its effects on enterprise cloud computing costs and security concerns may well linger for a while, new surveys suggest. On the cloud computing costs front, a survey conducted by Anodot, “2021 State […]

News Cloud Computing and Open Source: It’s Complicated By David Ramel 06/22/2021 The years-long friction between the open source camp and cloud computing platforms still lingers, a recent report reveals. The friction is caused by cloud vendors using open source software as the foundation of for-pay managed services. That can rile companies that serve as […]

News VMware Study: Kubernetes Thrives, But Expertise Is Top Challenge By David Ramel 06/17/2021 VMware’s new Kubernetes study shows the fast-growing open source project continues to thrive, though a lack of expertise is a big challenge for enterprise adoption. “The State of Kubernetes 2021” says, “Companies are quickly figuring out how to operationalize Kubernetes, some […]

News Azure Spreads its Wings at Build 2021 Paul Schnackenburg takes an IT view of the developer conference, focusing on two main themes and several releases. By Paul Schnackenburg 06/01/2021 Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build, took place last week. In this article I’ll cover two main themes that I think will affect more IT folks […]