Cloud

If you are not interested in the detail, at least browse the post and watch the amazing video recordings embedded.   🙂 We have already discussed the value of automation in the deployment of software applications. It is also clear that collecting telemetry data from systems and applications into anal…

OK, I’ll cop to this right up front: I called my most recent guest “Vekler.” On tape. The problem with that is that his name is not Vekler. It’s Voelker. Sounds like “Velker.” With the L before the K. He patiently explained this to me prior to the recording, when I asked him how to pronounce his nam…

The world is being transformed by the recent and rapid proliferation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) from directly improving our personal lives to enterprise applications around security, business intelligence, automation, analytics, spam filtering, conversational interface…

Online criminals are constantly gaining entry into business environments through phishing attacks or exploit kits, then applying ransomware. Bad actors are compromising popular websites and bringing up new domains to host malware and botnets. The unfortunate truth is attacks of this nature are lucra…

What do you know about CNCF? You probably hear people in the industry mention the acronym fairly often—generally in connection with Kubernetes—but do you know what it is, when it started, or why it exists? I didn’t, and I suspect that at least some of you don’t either, so this week I invited Dan Koh…

Recently, you may have noticed Cisco discussing Kubernetes quite a bit.  Back in October we announced our partnership with Google to bring joint hybrid cloud solutions to market that include GKE, Google’s managed Kubernetes offering and in February there were a number of articles here on the Cisco C…

Orchestrating an IT infrastructure and all the applications running on it has never been easy, even when all of that ran in a single environment fully under your control behind the firewall in your data center. Keeping track of what applications are running where and on what systems has always been…

Organizations worldwide are on an irreversible march towards embracing multiple clouds, drawn by the greater agility and flexibility, the specific functionality each one offers, as well as improved efficiencies and the ability to adapt to the fast-moving digital way of doing business. Numbers from I…

Do you ever wonder how other companies are dealing with cloud implementation? Are they struggling with the same things you are, or have they figured it out? Do they all use AWS, or are more moving to Google? And what about Azure? What’s the play there? When does that make sense? Are other companies…