In technology, we're always looking for "the next big thing." In the past, this has been social media, e-commerce, and even the very Internet itself. Maybe I'm getting old, but it doesn't seem like that long ago that virtualization was the next big thing.... Read More...

Predictions tend to focus a lot on the cutting edge and what's new. And while it's important to look at how developing technologies will shape the year ahead, we must not forget the importance of where our consistently faithful platforms are headed. For instance some have made claims that Kubernetes... Read More...

The term "observability" became a buzzword in 2017, perhaps due in part to its ambiguous definition in the world of IT Operations. But observing computer systems is a solved problem. Observability was a problem 10 years ago when Datadog, Prometheus, and so many other tools didn't exist, but today th... Read More...

2018 will bring some important changes in the way enterprises manage infrastructure and applications. Open source technology will continue to provide the building blocks for modern data center and development teams. Here are five predictions from our vantage point.... Read More...

In 2017, there was a palpable shift in the IT industry and you likely felt the world moving around you as cloud-focused technologies gained momentum and more IT practitioners leaned into the world of containers, orchestration and software-defined technologies.... Read More...

As businesses continue to adopt both infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud platforms, Security and risk pros struggle to protect their organization's valuable data while minimizing the threat surface of cloud and hybrid cloud workloads.... Read More...

There has been a noticeable disconnect between the conversations happening in the cloud-native camp and the Java EE camp in recent years. Java EE is basically a poor specification for cloud-based deployments.... Read More...

Virtually all enterprises will have a container project in production by the end of 2018. However, most of these will be small deployments used to first explore the technologies, and then refine the pipeline from there. Larger issues around processes, people, and automation will prevent many enterpr... Read More...