Action Item: Journey to Multicloud

On 1 November 2018 we conducted an Action Item digital community event to discuss the journey to multicloud. In a digital community event, we gather practitioners to a Crowdchat, present our ideas in video form, and catalyze conversation by pondering a few questions to the smart folk that assemble. We’ll be conducting online Action Items […]

Microsoft and IBM Come to the Center of All Things Open Source

Open-source software used to be a community that defined itself by who it didn’t include. For many open-source developers of long standing, who it didn’t include was two established IT vendors whose headquarters were (and remain) nowhere close to Silicon Valley. I’m referring, of course, to Microsoft and IBM. If you’ve been following industry news […]

Looking ahead to AWS re:Invent, public clouds keep gaining momentum

Amazon Web Services Inc. continues to dominate the public cloud market. As its seventh annual re:Invent conference approaches, it’s clear that AWS, along with Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC, are the clear leaders in this arena, with strong differentiation in AI, containerization, serverless, edge and other innovative approaches for standing up production-grade enterprise applications in their respective […]