News Cisco Unveils HyperFlex Application Platform, Dubbed Container-as-a-Service By David Ramel 01/30/2020 A new Cisco HyperFlex Application Platform (HXAP) was unveiled this week at the Cisco Live show in Barcelona, designed to simplify the provisioning and ongoing operations for Kubernetes across cloud, datacenter and edge. Dubbing the new offering as a Container-as-a-Service option, the company […]
IBM Taps Cisco Tech for New Managed Private Cloud Service
News IBM Taps Cisco Tech for New Managed Private Cloud Service By David Ramel 01/27/2020 IBM announced a new fully managed private cloud service based on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), which combines datacenter server hardware, virtualization support, switching fabric, storage access and management software. Cisco UCS will power the new Managed Private Cloud-as-a-Service that […]
Cloud Job Trends: How AWS, Azure and GCP Compare
News Cloud Job Trends: How AWS, Azure and GCP Compare By David Ramel 01/22/2020 New research exploring jobs trends in the cloud computing industry shows continuing — if slowing — growth in both the supply and demand sides of the market, but with some interesting changes lately. For example, Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform has made […]
Research Shows Cloud Workloads Vary by Platform, but Data Rules
News Research Shows Cloud Workloads Vary by Platform, but Data Rules By David Ramel 01/17/2020 TECHnalysis Research’s new report on cloud computing finds that workloads vary across platforms — AWS, Azure, GCP — but databases are at the forefront. Furthermore, those database workloads are spread across a cloudscape fairly evenly divided among the top enterprise […]
What’s New at GCP: IBM Power Systems Service, Premium Support, Kubernetes Engine Benchmark
News What’s New at GCP: IBM Power Systems Service, Premium Support, Kubernetes Engine Benchmark By David Ramel 01/16/2020 Often playing third fiddle to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has been busy lately trying to catch up, announcing a new IBM Power Systems service, an enterprise Premium Support plan […]
Masergy Adds ‘Shadow IT Discovery’ to SD-WAN for Finding Unauthorized SaaS Apps
News Masergy Adds ‘Shadow IT Discovery’ to SD-WAN for Finding Unauthorized SaaS Apps By David Ramel 01/14/2020 Masergy has boosted its managed software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) service by adding a Shadow IT Discovery solution to help enterprises track unauthorized applications — often Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps — on their networks. The software-defined network and cloud platform […]
Careers Site: ‘Cloud Computing and Containerization Skills Are Booming’
News Careers Site: ‘Cloud Computing and Containerization Skills Are Booming’ By David Ramel 01/10/2020 Careers site Indeed.com combed internal data to report on major trends in the tech skills market, finding that “cloud computing and containerization skills are booming.” “Docker, Kubertnetes, and other containerized tech tools allow software engineers to isolate the environment in which […]
VMware Sees ‘Dawn of Hybrid Apps’
News VMware Sees ‘Dawn of Hybrid Apps’ By David Ramel 01/09/2020 Virtualization kingpin VMware is big on making new-year technology predictions, authoring many blog posts and videos on what it sees in store for various tech niches, including one by VMware exec Chris Wolf that forecasts “the dawn of hybrid apps.” “A hybrid app is […]
flexiWAN Claims First with Open Source SD-WAN Now Generally Available for Production
News flexiWAN Claims First with Open Source SD-WAN Now Generally Available for Production By David Ramel 01/08/2020 Israeli company flexiWAN claimed an industry first with yesterday’s introduction of what the company says is the first open source software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) offering. The company emerged from stealth in the spring of last year with a […]
First Certified MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Technology Vendors Announced
News First Certified MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Technology Vendors Announced By David Ramel 01/08/2020 Industry association MEF announced the first three software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) technology vendors certified to meet a new standard for supporting MEF 3.0 SD-WAN services. First to earn the certification are: Nuage Networks from Nokia, Versa Networks, and Infovista. The association introduced […]