Rational exuberance drives IT spending
Enterprises seem to recognise that the flexibility and other benefits of cloud (machine learning, IaaS) are even more critical in uncertain times.
Stories by Matt Asay
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Google blew it with open source layoffs
The decision to cut people who built the foundation that supports Google’s open source and cloud successes seems incredibly shortsighted.
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Why 2023 is all about analytics
Data by itself isn’t very useful. Data only becomes useful as it’s understood and as it infuses application experiences.
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Why don’t cloud providers integrate?
Enterprises will never be single-vendor IT shops. Cloud providers and other technology vendors that don’t play well with competitive products are harming their customers.
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Open source security fought back in 2022
One year after the Log4j disaster, open source community efforts and new developer toolchains are addressing the challenges of software supply chain security.
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What open source gets wrong with Mastodon
The open source alternative to Twitter is forgetting the customer experience in its rush to make a political statement about decentralisation.
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Microsoft-ing your way through a recession
To survive and even thrive through this downturn, Microsoft offers some lessons. Yes, I’m talking about “embrace and extend,” among other things.
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Some rain in the clouds for top 3 vendors
The cloud is starting to leak some rain. But with recession at the gates and cloud growth slowing, the big three cloud vendors still find ways to succeed.
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Why cloud has a people problem
Cloud skills are complicated and in high demand. Smart enterprises need a practical approach to the staffing shortage, and smart employees need multi-cloud skills.
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Google Cloud kicks up 'openness’ a notch
Creating an open cloud ecosystem has moved Google Cloud into a position of power. But the vendor's ambitious goals may be difficult to deliver.
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Why Mozilla is looking for a scapegoat
Mozilla recently released a 60-page report calling on regulators to take action to give consumers a “meaningful opportunity to try alternative browsers.”
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Which cloud is for you?
Despite all their commonalities, the big three cloud providers have some important personality differences that should factor into your choices.
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When openness doesn’t matter
We can argue about the choices tech companies should or shouldn’t make, but at the end of the day, we keep buying what they’re selling.
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If the Heroku platform is so special, why is it dying?
Once the darling of application deployment, Heroku has been starved of investment and doesn't offer as many alternative deployment options.
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The cloud is coming for customer mainframes
Moving off dead-end mainframes to the more nimble cloud is a slow process but one worth pursuing for businesses, one workload at a time.
