Earlier this week, a significant portion of the internet was down due to an Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) S3 outage. While AWS blames the problem on the removal of a couple of servers, the real question is why have we created such a dependency on services like AWS? Won’t it get worse with the coming...
Serverless computing is the latest buzz, driven by the digital economy’s demand for instant results without the hassle. The serverless concept is a prepacked flavor of modern cloud-native architecture which decomposes applications to multiple stateless and elastic micro-service tiers. Micro-services shrink or grow to satisfy demand; they are restarted in case of a resource failure...
The IT industry is still in flux and in 2016 we saw some tectonic shifts. Setting aside noise and hype, lets analyze the trends and predict what will likely happen in 2017. Rapid Growth of Enterprise Cloud Adoption It doesn’t take a prophet to notice the public cloud is growing and Enterprise IT is shrinking....
After this week at re:invent, it is clear that Amazon is unstoppable. AWS announced many more products, all fully integrated and simple to use and if you thought infrastructure companies are its competition, think again. The new Amazon offering competes with established database vendors, the open-source big data eco-system and container eco-system, security software and...
Last month Amazon and VMware announced a partnership which will enable VMware software to run on a dedicated space within Amazon cloud. This unnatural act is mainly due to Azure which is getting stronger, it is the only cloud provider with a real hybrid cloud story. The same exact software stack which was initially limited...
iguazio announced its revolutionary Enterprise Data Cloud platform on September 27th, designed with a modern approach from the ground-up. iguazio's platform serves millions of requests per second, scaling to petabytes and managed as a PaaS with extreme simplicity. We built an end to end IoT application for monitoring and controlling smart connected cars to demonstrate...