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Mar 23, 2023
Edge infrastructure has little in common with traditional data center infrastructure. Whilst data centers have well-defined boundaries, edge has many more variables and challenges to take into account. Many edge deployments have revealed this in the worst possible way, by failing miserably in their first attempts. Edge infrastructure adds several layers of complexity when compared […]
The post CXO Insight: Delivering on Edge Infrastructure appeared first on GigaOm.
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Mar 20, 2023
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our Chief Analyst, Michael Delzer, who passed away earlier this year. Michael's expertise, wisdom, energy, patience, and good humour inspired all of those who worked with him. He was above all a people person, as one work colleague noted: "While Michael is undoubtedly one […]
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Mar 17, 2023
Where did SBOMs spring from? As someone who (let's say) has been around the block a few times, I've often felt confronted by something ‘new', which looks awfully like something I've seen before. As a direct answer to the question, I believe it was US.gov wot dunnit, when in 2021 the White House released an […]
The post Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) appeared first on GigaOm.
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Mar 13, 2023
Jon caught up with Analyst Relations specialists Robin Schaffer and Chris Holscher about their research report, "State of Startups with Industry Analysts," conducted with the University of Edinburgh. Jon: Thanks for joining me Robin and Chris, and thank you for sharing your research! Let's get to it - what does it tell you about the […]
The post How can industry analyst firms work better with early stage startups? appeared first on GigaOm.
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Mar 06, 2023
Last week I attended Edge Field Day 1, a Tech Field Day event focused on edge computing solutions. Some of the sessions really made me think. Edge infrastructures are quite different from anything in the data center or the cloud: the farther from the center you go, the tinier devices become. Less CPU power, less […]
The post CXO Insight: Do We Really Need Kubernetes at the Edge? appeared first on GigaOm.
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Feb 21, 2023
Cisco gave me a chair once. It wasn't just me, you understand - they handed one out to every person that attended their analyst event, at their UK offices at Bedfont Lakes. It was a lovely chair - one of those collapsible ones you might want to take camping, but this one had an extra […]
The post Chairs, towels and GPS devices: where's the line for analyst event swag? appeared first on GigaOm.
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Feb 17, 2023
Hello! To kick things off, please let us express our gratitude for vendor participation in our research last year. We are now researching 1,700 vendors across 120 solution categories. Last year we were briefed by a total of 836 vendors, which is staggering. Whether responding to questionnaire requests or fact checks, or just including us […]
The post GigaOm Research Bulletin #001 appeared first on GigaOm.
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Feb 08, 2023
will.i.am is enthralling, sharp, and, yes, he has technical smarts and a view on the future. At a recent Atlassian ITSM event, at the O2 in London, The Black-Eyed Peas performer had some interesting things to say to Atlassian's Dom Price about his philanthropy, and what he has learned about teamwork. More than this, he […]
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Jan 19, 2023
GigaOm Security Analyst Chris Ray looks at how UEBA is more than a security monitoring tool Over recent years, user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA) has evolved as a new set of tools in the chief information security officer (CISO)'s armory. So, where has it come from and how can today's solutions help? To answer […]
The post To UEBA or not to UEBA? That is the question appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 23, 2022
This week I spoke to a number of GigaOm analysts about how they see 2023. Costs are driving, and consolidation, better architectures and more and governance are following, they told me - while this will cause a wave of uncertainty, you can be taking steps now to get ahead. Let's tune into what they said, […]
The post What do GigaOm analysts see as the big trends in 2023? appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 22, 2022
We all know the adage — "Bad workers blame their tools." But here's five reasons why the software tools involved in DevOps in general, and the CI/CD pipeline in particular, have become part of the problem rather than the solution. 1. They take too long to deploy This, it must be said, is a massive […]
The post Why DevOps is failing: It's Not You, It's The Tools appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 22, 2022
Where is DevOps going? Is it ‘dead' as some are suggesting, to be replaced by other disciplines such as platform engineering? I would proffer that while it was never as simple as that, now is as good a moment as any to reflect on approaches such as those discussed in DevOps circles. So, let's consider […]
The post In Software Development, Address Complexity and the Rest Will Follow appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 21, 2022
Sweat your infrastructure, review your contracts and assess your workloads All mid-market organizations are reviewing how they can make better use of their budgets next year. This starts with the infrastructure you have already paid for and how to get the most out of it. When I talked about sweating assets in a previous article, […]
The post A three-point plan for mid-market technology cost saving appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 20, 2022
We've spoken to over 800 vendors over the past year so that we can get input into our Radar reports, our evaluations of the industry, and the market categories we cover. There is no cost to participate in a Radar report, however it, does take time and effort to brief our analysts, respond to questionnaires, […]
The post The Benefits of Participating in GigaOm Radars appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 20, 2022
GitOps is great, isn't it? What's that, I hear you ask. Simply put, in these days, where all infrastructure can be virtualized, GitOps is about managing information about what that needs to look like (written as a text file), alongside the application that's going to run on it. Hold onto that word ‘managing'. The concept […]
The post How GitOps is Driving Cloud Native at Scale appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 20, 2022
In a previous article, I said how important it was for mid-market organizations to spend on security - "The more you spend, the harder you're going to be able to penetrate, even if the target is ultimately larger." For ransomware gangs for example, ROI is key - they're asking, how do I get the most […]
The post Cybersecurity in the mid-market: Playing catch-up in a cold budgetary climate appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 15, 2022
Email has been around for a while, and I really do mean a while: it was first conceived back in 1971, by US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) programmer Ray Tomlinson. Whilst electronic mail services existed in the 1980s, the internet boom of the 90s really added rocket fuel to the solution, delivering 400 […]
The post Let's kill email! Cybersecurity as a driver to better communication strategy appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 14, 2022
Our CTO Howard Holton offers five pillars of tech success for mid-market organizations as they transition from 2022 to 2023. My recommendations for the mid-market coming up to the end of the year, going into 2023, and doing your annual planning? Cloud strategies are one "big picture" topic that the mid-market really needs to focus […]
The post Hot Topics For The Mid-Market In 2023 appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 08, 2022
One of the most common discussions with users these days is about the cost of public cloud and what they can do to reduce their bills. I visited AWS Re:Invent last week, and there was no exception. What can enterprises do to solve the cost problem? And what is AWS, the biggest of the cloud […]
The post CXO Insight: Cloud Cost Optimization appeared first on GigaOm.
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Nov 30, 2022
Cloud is all, correct? Just as all roads lead to Rome, so all information technology journeys inevitably result in everything being, in some shape or form, "in the cloud." So we are informed, at least: this journey started back in the mid 2000s, as application service providers (ASPs) gave way to various as-a-service offerings, and […]
The post Time Is Running Out For The "Journey To The Cloud" appeared first on GigaOm.
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Nov 15, 2022
Ron Williams explains all to Jon Collins Jon Collins: Hi Ron, thanks for joining me! I have two questions, if I may. One's the general question of observability versus what's been called application performance monitoring, APM - there's been some debate about this in the industry, I know. Also, how do they both fit in […]
The post How APM, Observability and AIOps drive Operational Awareness appeared first on GigaOm.
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Nov 15, 2022
I was lucky enough to sit down with Appian's healthcare industry lead, Fritz Haimberger. Fritz is someone who practices what he preaches — outside of his day job, he still spare-times as a medic and a firefighter in his hometown of Franklin, Tennessee (just outside Nashville). I've been lucky enough to work with various healthcare […]
The post Can low code process automation platforms fix healthcare? appeared first on GigaOm.
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Nov 09, 2022
At the end of last week, I was fortunate to be attending Pluralsight's EXP executive event in London. In case you don't know, Pluralsight is an online courses provider offering cloud computing courses to budding programmers, network and security engineers, cloud architects, and in general, helping people break into tech — the company is also […]
The post A Ray of Hope for Getting Into the Tech Industry appeared first on GigaOm.
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Nov 09, 2022
Sovereign Cloud was one of VMware's big announcements at its annual VMware Explore Europe conference this year. Not that the company was announcing the still-evolving notion of sovereignty, but what it calls "sovereign-ready solutions." Data sovereignty is the need to ensure data is managed according to local and national laws. This has always been important, […]
The post Now's the Moment to be Thinking About Sovereign Cloud appeared first on GigaOm.
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Aug 30, 2022
Inspired by Harley Manning's excellent advice on vendor briefings for evaluations, I thought I would document some of my recent experiences. Let's be realistic: GigaOm is not the gorilla in the analyst market. Plus, we have some curious differences from other analyst firms — not least that we major in practitioner-led evaluation, bringing in an […]
The post Five Top Tips for Radar Briefings appeared first on GigaOm.
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Aug 05, 2022
As we have grown substantially over the past two years. We are often asked who (even) is GigaOm, what the company does, how it differentiates, and so on. These are fair questions—many people still remember what we can call GigaOm 1.0, that fine media company born of the blogging wave. We've been through the GigaOm […]
The post Achieve more with GigaOm appeared first on GigaOm.
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Jul 07, 2022
Traditionally we have taken the approach that we trust everything in the network, everything in the enterprise, and put our security at the edge of that boundary. Pass all of our checks and you are in the "trusted" group. That worked well when the opposition was not sophisticated, most end user workstations were desktops, the […]
The post Pragmatic view of Zero Trust appeared first on GigaOm.
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Jun 19, 2022
I'm not going to lie. As I sit on a plane flying away from Valencia, I confess to have been taken aback by the scale of Kubecon Europe this year. In my defence, I wasn't alone the volume of attendees appeared to take conference organisers and exhibitors by surprise, illustrated by the notable lack of […]
The post Retrospective thoughts on Kubecon appeared first on GigaOm.
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Jun 19, 2022
I'm not going to lie. As I sit on a plane flying away from Valencia, I confess to have been taken aback by the scale of Kubecon Europe this year. In my defence, I wasn't alone the volume of attendees appeared to take conference organisers and exhibitors by surprise, illustrated by the notable lack of […]
The post Retrospective thoughts on KubeCon Europe 2022 appeared first on GigaOm.
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Mar 23, 2022
Over the last couple of years, ransomware has taken center stage in data protection, but very few people realize it is only
The post Ransomware: Why It's Time to Think of it as a Data Management Problem appeared first on Gigaom.
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Feb 01, 2022
The Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) spectrum does not require providers to have a telecommunications license. Being able to operate without a license
The post Long Distance, Low-Power WAN Drives IoT Connections appeared first on Gigaom.
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Feb 01, 2022
When the Skipton Building Society, headquartered in northern England, needed to expand its capacity without adding headcount, it conducted an analysis of
The post British Lender Increases Efficiency with RPA appeared first on Gigaom.
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Jan 18, 2022
Software development teams are increasingly focused on identifying and mitigating any issues as quickly and completely as possible. This relates not only
The post Security Tools Help Bring Dev and Security Teams Together appeared first on Gigaom.
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Jan 18, 2022
For a market segment as stable as application performance monitoring (APM), for individual vendors—even mature established vendors—to stand out requires a unique
The post APM Solutions Venture into AI and DevOps appeared first on Gigaom.
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Dec 10, 2021
Why use a Field Test/Price Benchmark? Over the past few years, the requirement for low-cost cloud solutions has risen, with more organizations
The post How cloud data warehouse vendors can benefit from a price benchmark appeared first on Gigaom.
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Dec 09, 2021
Introduction Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are now the standard infrastructure for communication software. Popular infrastructures, such as containers and Kubernetes, have
The post The Benefits Of A Performance Benchmark For API Management appeared first on Gigaom.
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Dec 08, 2021
Why Price Benchmark Data Storage? Customers, understandably, are highly driven by budget when it comes to data storage solutions. The cost of
The post The Benefits of a Price Benchmark for Data Storage appeared first on Gigaom.
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Dec 06, 2021
Blog Title: Assessing Providers of Low-Power Wide Area Network Technology Companies are taking note of how Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) can
The post Assessing Providers of Low-Power Wide Area Network Technology appeared first on Gigaom.
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Dec 06, 2021
Blog Title: Assessing Providers of Low-Power Wide Area Network Technology Companies are taking note of how Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) can provide long-distance communications for certain use cases. While its slow data transfer rates and high latency aren't going to be driving any high intensity video streaming or other bandwidth-hungry situations, it can provide […]
The post Assessing Providers of Low-Power Wide Area Networks appeared first on GigaOm.
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Dec 06, 2021
It seems like every day the news brings new stories of cyberattacks. Whether ransomware, malware, crippling viruses, or more frequently of late—distributed
The post Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks appeared first on Gigaom.
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Sep 09, 2021
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the management of infrastructure (networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topology) through machine-readable definition files, rather
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Aug 27, 2021
In June we published updated versions of our Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Key Criteria and Radar reports. This year we decided to
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Jul 19, 2021
I love working for Gigaom because we don't settle. Ever. The Gigaom Key Criteria and Radar reports have gotten a lot of
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Jul 13, 2021
The term Observability might come as a conundrum for anyone who has been involved in IT Operations over the years, given how
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Jun 18, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are redefining the enterprise IT landscape, as across verticals see the potential for AI and
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Jun 18, 2021
High-performance object storage is a data storage architecture designed for handling large amounts of unstructured data. It has historically been known for
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Jun 11, 2021
We are seeing increasing numbers of enterprise projects where data is produced, consumed, analyzed, and reacted to in real-time. In this way,
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Jun 02, 2021
In the highly competitive and skilled world of enterprise IT, continued technology training has always been a huge part of career development.
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May 28, 2021
There's a lot of buzz lately around platforms designed to make building, designing, and launching applications easier and more accessible for people
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May 27, 2021
All enterprises were already using cloud computing in one way or the other when the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly accelerated the migration of
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May 27, 2021
All enterprises were already using cloud computing in one way or the other when the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly accelerated the migration of
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May 21, 2021
While the CEO or CTO often drives the digital transformation effort at most companies, last year it was COVID-19, not the executive
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May 20, 2021
In a rapidly changing and unpredictable enterprise technology landscape, flexibility rules the day. That's why businesses of all sizes are embracing hybrid
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May 20, 2021
In the last year, the very concept of the office environment—and how work, collaboration, and communication takes place—changed dramatically. Now that users
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May 06, 2021
Software innovation and delivery are on the top of just about any forward-thinking executive's priority list these days, and businesses are doubling
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May 06, 2021
Figure 1. GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Performance Testing Tools As we noted in a previous article, the market for performance testing tools
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Apr 23, 2021
No organization wants its name in the headlines because of a security incident or data breach, but major security incidents occur globally
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Apr 23, 2021
NoSQL databases store data differently than relational databases and come in several different "types" based on their data model. Because of the
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Apr 23, 2021
NoSQL databases store data differently than relational databases and come in several different "types" based on their data model. Because of the
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Apr 13, 2021
If you're like me and have been around the block in tech more than once, you've seen three-letter acronyms come and go.
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Apr 12, 2021
The number of businesses migrating to the cloud is constantly growing. Hybrid cloud is now considered a standard approach by organizations of
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Apr 09, 2021
Don't look now, but GigaOm, the analyst firm that enables smart businesses to future-proof their decisions, is forging new partnerships to extend
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Apr 09, 2021
What is an edge platform? In a recent report, GigaOm Radar for Edge Platforms, Analyst Chris Grundemann says the term itself remains
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Apr 08, 2021
Flash memory is now the standard for storing active data in the data center. NVMe and NVMe over Fiber (NVMe-oF) are on
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Apr 05, 2021
Data volumes continue to skyrocket and businesses keep working to harness that data for analytics and intelligence, driving innovation and improving business…
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Apr 05, 2021
Inside the GigaOm Key Criteria ReportAny IT leader worth their salt wants to ensure that applications meet their required service levels and…
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Mar 26, 2021
NoSQL databases have seen a lot of growth in the past several years. The realities of the pandemic have exposed how important…
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Mar 25, 2021
What is the legendary creature we call Culture Change? I keep hearing it in DevOps circles as the answer to everything, but…
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Mar 24, 2021
Data volume and complexity has soared in recent years, and so too have transaction volumes. In this environment, the performance of transactional…
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Mar 23, 2021
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde may have been channeling his inner IT…
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Mar 17, 2021
We've all heard the saying "If you want something done right, do it yourself." The well-worn mantra of successful entrepreneurs holds true…
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Mar 17, 2021
The term "edge" emerged back in 2017, but the market for these types of products is still maturing. Edge platforms use distributed…
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Mar 05, 2021
I had the pleasure of producing my first analyst report in one of the hottest categories for GigaOm—cloud observability. Here are my…
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Feb 26, 2021
Getting Started with Value Stream Management Value stream management (VSM) has been one of the hottest buzzwords in DevOps over the last…
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Feb 23, 2021
Santa Barbara, CA - February 18, 2021 - Gigaom, the analyst firm enabling smart businesses to future-proof their decisions, today announces record…
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Feb 19, 2021
In the past, data storage was one of the most conservative areas of IT. Storage system administrators were typically depicted as grumpy…
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Feb 10, 2021
Enterprises are more distributed than ever—and really, a better term now might be dispersed. Large enterprises have operations in multiple sites, regions,…
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Feb 04, 2021
If you've followed my work in the last few years, you know I'm a fan of object storage. I always thought the…
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Jan 18, 2021
I attended the DRYiCE analyst day to look in on the progress of this relatively young part of HCL. Clearly, no moss…
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Jan 18, 2021
The problem is not that testing is the bottleneck. The problem is that you don't know what's in the bottle. That's a…
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Jan 12, 2021
When GigaOm VP of Research Jon Collins published his latest report, "GigaOm Radar for Evaluating DevSecOps Tools," it kicked off a discussion…
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Jan 07, 2021
Here at Gigaom we're looking at how leading-edge technologies impact the enterprise, and what organizations can do to gear up for the…
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Jan 07, 2021
I've been writing a lot lately about NVMe/TCP and other enabling data center technologies. I used the approach taken by Lightbits Labs…
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Jan 07, 2021
I've been writing a lot lately about NVMe/TCP and other enabling data center technologies. I used the approach taken by Lightbits Labs…
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Dec 18, 2020
There is an increasing demand for NVMe devices in enterprise storage. Not surprising at all, NVMe is becoming the standard interface in…
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Dec 17, 2020
The widespread adoption of Agile, coupled with the rise of DevOps, means you'd be forgiven for thinking software development is now an…
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Dec 11, 2020
"In a relatively short time, we've taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters."…
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Dec 10, 2020
Simon Gibson earlier this year published the report, "GigaOm Radar for Phishing Prevention and Detection," which assessed more than a dozen security…
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Dec 10, 2020
So often, technology practitioners can feel like the cobblers' children of tech—we talk about how development and operations can be automated, yet…
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Dec 07, 2020
IT operations (ITOps) has always been rooted in data gathering and analysis. Now artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being…
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Nov 30, 2020
One of the most exciting announcements at VMworld this year was Project Monterey. Long story short, VMware wants to offload some high-demand…
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Nov 17, 2020
GigaOm last week updated a benchmark report we had published in August titled, "Costs and Benefits of .NET Application Migration to the…
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Nov 11, 2020
At Cloud Field Day 9 Netapp presented some of its cloud solutions. This comes on the heels of NetApp Insight, the annual…
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Nov 06, 2020
Yes, much of the world may have moved on from email to social media and culturally dubious TikTok dances, yet traditional electronic…
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Oct 27, 2020
Could we be entering an era of hands-free data centers, where remote software and robotics handle tasks that until now have fallen…
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Oct 26, 2020
DevOps' general aim is to enable a more efficient process for producing software and technology solutions and bringing stakeholders together to speed…
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Oct 23, 2020
"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." It's an old management saw, but one rooted in truth, especially in the…
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Oct 20, 2020
So-called legacy software gets that name for a reason—it's done enough for the organization over the years to earn a legacy enabling…
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Oct 09, 2020
DevOps' Next Level: Value Stream Management Faster isn't better when you're running full speed the wrong way. That's the message coming from…
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Oct 09, 2020
DevOps' Next Level: Value Stream Management Faster isn't better when you're running full speed the wrong way. That's the message coming from…
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