December 2017 - Posts
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Although we have been talking about the future of cloud for what seems like many years, there is still a huge debate around what's to come in the 2018. The choice to embrace or not embrace the cloud provides a plethora of new and different challenges and factors IT infrastructures face. Industry exp... Read More...
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2017 was yet another important year for the open source community with the rise of new projects related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, or other existing projects where participation and adoption have increased significantly. ... Read More...
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The year 2018 will see Windows 10 coming of age, moving from the planning stage for many organizations, to actual deployment. Organizations spent much of 2017 trying to understand the minefield of updates, multiple deployment rings, and what Microsoft would and would not support, and for how long. ... Read More...
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Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been around for a while. (In fact, if you want to read more about this, check out this great post titled "FPGAs, what's old is new again"). Thanks to the perfect storm of complex use cases like computer vision (fueled by machine learning), and an explosi... Read More...
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The past year has been a big one for the big data and analytics market. Major events included IPOs from Cloudera and MongoDB, further validating the market. And, we're seeing enterprises continuing to recognize the fact that traditional solutions, such as relational databases (RDBMS), cannot meet al... Read More...
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Big Data is evolving in a way that resembles the growth of the cloud. At the beginning of 2017, people were still navigating the basic Big Data ecosystem, technologies like Hadoop or Spark or Kafka. As 2017 ends, those conversations have finally been settled, and the industry is ready to move to a n... Read More...
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The days during which IT companies around the world experienced drastic growth quarter-to-quarter may soon come to an end. IT providers today are going through a phase of their plateauing growth. The writing is on the wall - the stocks of these major IT companies indicate a slowdown in growth, mirro... Read More...
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2017 brought the enterprise IT industry chip innovations, commodity hardware deployments, the rise of Server SAN and new open consortia like Open 19. Hold on to your hats in 2018, though. Old, tired architectures will fade away even if incumbents struggle to keep them relevant. NVMe Flash and softwa... Read More...
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This year saw massive attacks and breaches. We expect nothing less in 2018. What needs to change most, however, is the industry's response to the continuing barrage of threats and what that means in the cybersecurity marketplace.... Read More...
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In 2017, the rapid growth and uptake of machine learning within enterprise software was impressive to say the least, with adoption accelerating in speed from initial research to implementation. Even as machine learning was predicted by many to be impactful this year, the speed of innovation is what ... Read More...
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Enterprises are deploying more cloud services, embracing DevOps, leveraging on-premises applications and exploring other productivity and cost optimization solutions. As a result, it is becoming harder for them to know who within the organization has access to what and how that access is being used ... Read More...
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Based on insights that we have received from our customers, partners, industry analysts we have worked with, and our internal SME team, here are Uila's predictions for 2018:... Read More...
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As 2018 begins, we will see the rapid expansion of cloud services and all things related to moving applications, infrastructure and services to the cloud, as organizations scramble to remain competitive, take advantage of artificial intelligence, IOT and big data for improved data processing and dec... Read More...
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Today's business and security landscapes have changed over the years, especially in the wake of countless data breaches. We've gone from one device per user to four or five devices per user, multi-cloud environments and a diversity of security threats that includes intractable malware, malicious ins... Read More...
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While network functions virtualization (NFV) has been widely embraced by major telcos throughout the world, its adoption has been much slower among enterprises. In 2018, we predict that will begin to change as enterprises recognize the operational and business benefits that NFV can offer.... Read More...
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In 2018, corporate password policies will become far more strict. The recent rise in breaches has shown how easily cyber criminals can acquire credentials and access sensitive data.... Read More...
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In 2017, data became the new oil, and in 2018 that statement couldn't ring more true. Data is the underlying foundation for the future of machine learning, social media regulations, and government ordinances. In 2018, companies' and governments' ability to collect, transform, and manage data will be... Read More...
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Pay-per-use is going to get more precise in 2018. Customers are tired of having to pay for things they don't use. Car insurance companies seem to be the first to adopt pay-per-mile insurance, and pay based on driving habits. This is just the start, more and more services will have to get a lot more ... Read More...
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Ah, December. Time for holiday cheer, time spent with family and friends, and last, but not least, new cloud predictions! This year saw continued cloud growth, teeing up new trends we can expect to see in 2018, including:... Read More...
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If you were to take a snapshot of the cloud landscape today, you would see that enterprise adoption of cloud platforms is accelerating. In the US, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure dominate the public cloud market and are commonly referred to as "The Big Thr... Read More...
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