post Dockercon some thoughts on functions and serverless and services and containers and complexity
At Dockercon one of the most interesting things for me was the announcement that wasn’t. In his keynote Docker CEO Steve Singh said: “Docker is defining a comprehensive platform, a platform which can run any application on any platform. It needs to support any platform, packaged apps, Windows, Linux, mainframe, for portability and independence. It needs […]
Java ecosystem, 2017
Having appeared on the main stage at Oracle Open World for the Java One keynote this week I have some thoughts. I was introduced by Mark Cavage, VP Product Management at Oracle as “Mr Java Renaissance.” Absurd obviously, but I would accept that RedMonk has done a better job of understanding Java past, present, and […]
Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat
Yesterday I attended Red Hat’s European analyst day at the Tate Modern art gallery. Here are some of thoughts based on what I heard. So it turns out Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat. By that I mean Red Hat sticks to the knitting, carries water and chops wood, and generally just […]
So What’s Up with Oracle Cloud?
I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down I caught up with the Oracle Cloud team recently at the Electricity Showrooms in London. It was interesting to see what’s up. […]
europe-west-2
Check out the optics- there is literally nothing more British than Scalextric – 60 years old this year – except perhaps mince on toast (weird meme that one). So Google today launched its London-based data center today. While not exactly a tightly held secret beforehand, the news was welcome. Google is making a significant […]
That giant sucking sound? Hadoop moving into the cloud
Hadoop was born in the cloud, as a big data project designed to take advantage of Yahoo’s infrastructure, based on a paper from Google about the map/reduce algorithm. It was never originally designed for on prem enterprise deployment. I recently wrote that some of the issues with Hadoop adoption are cultural, but management overheads […]
Why Amazon dominates cloud computing yet should not be your knee-jerk choice
Long known for an expansive set of straightforward yet highly capable Web services backed by a long-term strategic vision, Amazon had a head start from the beginning. But it dominates today for other more subtle reasons that IT leaders must consider.
Microsoft powering more of their Cloud from renewables
We’ve mentioned the issue of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with cloud computing once or twice in the past, and we’ve even ranked cloud computing companies based on their emissions. Obviously not all cloud companies report on their emissions (shame on you Amazon), and consequently those that don’t are at the bottom of the rankings. […]
SAP to power its cloud computing infrastructure from 100% renewable energy
Cloud computing is often incorrectly touted as being a green, more environmentally-friendly, computing option. This confusion occurs because people forget that while cloud computing may be more energy efficient (may be), the environmental friendliness is determined by how much carbon is produced in the generation of that energy. If a data centre is primarily powered […]
Oracle’s Expanding Cloud Ecosystem?
Last week was quite the week in the cloud computing world. At one point in the week, I thought that maybe I should check and see if in fact, hell had frozen over. But in tech never say never I guess. Anyway, as you probably guessed I’m talking about Oracle’s three new partner announcements, which […]
