Cloud

Sometime back, we wrote about the need for #consistentAI to accelerate the enterprise digital transformation. To summarize 1) we discussed some trends then – the widespread adoption of Kubernetes, the need to manage the lifecycle of AI using consistent tools, and the need to bring together the…

Over the last few years, we have been participating in a radical transformation of how modern applications are built, deployed and operated. Monolithic applications are being broken down into microservices and serverless functions to exponentially ease development, lifecycle management, increase the…

Enterprises are collecting data at an unprecedented rate whether it is from infrastructure, internal or external applications. The latest and greatest in machine learning allows them to gather meaningful insights from that data and use it for competitive advantage. Depending on where they are in the…

According to Gartner, the Public Cloud market size is projected to be approximately $289.1B in 2021, with $61.9B of that amount spent on IaaS and $27.5B of this amount spent on PaaS. RightScale predicts 35% of the cloud spend is being wasted, i.e. not being used to create actual value.  So, when it…

The last decade has been quite disruptive in terms of the evolution of both applications and infrastructure paradigms. We have moved from monolithic applications to microservices and serverless functions. Equally, on the platform and infrastructure side, we moved from physical to virtual machines to…

Learning never ends, and that’s never been truer for the trusty network engineer. Of late Network Engineers have been moving up the stack, changing the way we deliver network services, becoming programmatic and using new tooling. A not so scientific graph of what network engineers need to be aware o…

Over the past few years, we have seen the rapid growth and maturity of tools and platforms that enable operations teams and software developers to deliver important outcomes for their businesses.  From the explosive growth of services in the public cloud, to a plethora of open source automation…

Our team is headed to San Diego, November 18-21, for what will be our seventh KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference! This is a unique event, ​bringing ​together ​leading technologists from the open source community to further the advancement of Kubernetes and cloud native computing. We’ll be joining o…

We have been talking a lot about containers, Kubernetes, and open source here at Cisco. And we are not the only ones. The entire IT industry is now trying to compete on the “Kubernetes and open-source control plane” battlefield. This relates to a more general mindset shift from investing in siloed t…