Big Switch Networks, the Santa Clara–based software-defined networking company, has just released a new version of the Big Cloud Fabric product. Big Cloud Fabric, a software-defined networking product that has been on the market for over four years, is heavily integrated into VMware. For the uninitiated, its core pitch is that with its product, you …
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I keep hearing, “Do you have a container for that, or are containers are the only way to move to the cloud?” and many other phrases of that ilk. So, the questions I have to ask are “When is the best time to use containers? Can you use them for everything, and should you?” Those …
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Veeam has dug its hand down the back of its corporate couches and handed over a tidy $42.5 million to N2WS, a provider of cloud-native enterprise backup and disaster recovery services for AWS. Who, you might ask? N2WS is the company that powered Veeam’s AWS backup solution. To paraphrase Victor Kaim, Veeam liked the product …
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Edge processing seems to be the new hotness. Combined with the Internet of Things (IoT), edge processing is a vision of smart devices reporting data to local compute resources where real-time reaction and control occurs. There may be local analytics—possibly with artificial intelligence (AI), to hit all the buzzwords—to provide local control of something and …
Multicloud is the concept of consuming resources from differing public and/or private cloud providers to deliver your computing needs. There now many public clouds, including Azure, AWS, GCP, and OVH, which operate at a global level, while others, including Interoute in Europe, Alibaba in China, and Dimension Data in Australia, have a regional footprint. Specialist …
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My last article of 2017 was a recap of AI World, and my first article of 2018 was about the developments in AI technology that have been achieved so far. Now I’d like to close out my conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) by recapping some of the notes from the presentations and talking about where …
