CLOUD COMPUTING
CLOUD TECH: Heptio’s Joe Beda – Before Embracing Cloud Computing, Make Sure Your Culture is Ready. Ours is a world enamored with the possibilities unlocked by technological advances. And if we ever update our organizational thinking to account for those advances, we might actually follow through on those possibilities. That issue is at the forefront of Joe Beda’s mind these days. Beda is the co-founder of Heptio, a company that makes tools for developers interested in bringing containers into their development environment. He’s worked at large companies (he helped create Kubernetes and Google Cloud Engine at the search giant) and small (Heptio is up for Startup of the Year at Thursday’s GeekWire Awards), and understands why so many companies struggle with the shift to cloud computing. Read more
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DAILY REPORT: Cloud Computing Asserts Itself. It’s been said before but it bears repeating: If it were not for its cloud-computing business, Amazon.com would have difficulty reaching profitability. Can that last? A.W.S. is far and away the leader in cloud computing services, but Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent of Google, are both investing heavily to close the gap, and both are willing to undercut Amazon on price. Other big tech companies like IBM and Oracle are also aggressively investing to get a piece of the cloud action. Read the rest
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QUESTION: How Do You Define Cloud Computing? New technology that experiences high growth rates will inevitably attract hyperbole. Cloud computing is no exception, and almost everyone has his or her own definition of cloud from “it’s on the internet” to a full-blown technical explanation of the myriad compute options available from a given cloud service provider. Knowing what is and what is not a cloud service can be confusing. Fortunately, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has provided us with a cloud computing definition that identifies “five essential characteristics.” Find out more
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RED HAT: New Products Centered Around Cloud Computing, Containers. Red Hat has made a number of announcements at its user group conference, Red Hat Summit. The announcements ranged from the announcement of OpenShift.io to facilitate the creation of software as a service applications, pre-built application runtimes to facilitate creation of OpenShift-based workloads, an index to help enterprises build more reliable container-based computing environments, an update to the Red Hat Gluster storage virtualization platform allowing it to be used in an AWS computing environment, and, of course, an announcement of a Red Hat/Amazon Web Services partnership. Read more
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