IBM, the pioneers of autonomic computing, the concept of creating self-aware systems that automatically optimize their own cost, availability, and user experience (Robert Morris, IBM, Almaden Research Laboratory, 2001) announced their intend to acquire Turbonomic, one of today’s most exciting deep-learning and streaming-analytics driven application resource management plays. “The growing…

UPDATE: Before we jump in, here is the weekly topic relationship map based on the term importance and correlation of Kubernetes topics on Stackoverflow during the week of March 4, 2021. Top 25 Kubernetes Topics of the Week Based on the 325 Kubernetes-related questions asked on Stackoverflow.com, here are the Top 25 developer and DevOps centric topics…

I love playing with the latest and greatest tech. That’s why I became an industry analyst. There is nothing like looking at the latest deep learning prototype cutting 50% of the cost of an EC2 environment just by “playing Tetris” (I stole this analogy from the brilliant Andrew Hillier, but…

Here is an alternative look at Kubecon. This is based on the summaries of the 336 KubeCon sessions, on all 8,490 Tweets from 497 Twitter accounts, receiving a total of 11,116 retweets reaching altogether 131,081,141 Twitter users, and finally of an analysis of the event’s public slack channels. Chart #1: Top 10 Topics — Operations, Developers, and Security “Operations” of…

Any $60B acquisition is big news. The magnitude of the news increases when the acquirer (Broadcom) is a semiconductor (hardware) vendor, and the acquisition target an enterprise software infrastructure company with approximately 500,000 current customers (VMware). Broadcom pays a mere 4.5 times revenue for VMware. …

Today marks the true end of the era of configuration management platforms. Perforce acquired Puppet after the configuration management pioneers had to abandon their IPO plans. After the $220M acquisition of Chef by Progress Software in September of 2020 (see my analysis), Perforce snapping up Puppet was little surprising. Like…

It takes a human about 20–30 hours to learn how to drive a car, while it takes tens of thousands of hours to train a neural network to achieve this same capability. …

Using three different algorithms to cluster the same web search results shows how machine learning can impact our perception of the real world. For this little experiment, I used the excellent Carrot Search 2 platform and entered “Infrastructure as Code” into the search box. Carrot Search 2 retrieves about 100…

In a nutshell, MLOps focuses on addressing the hurdles between planning machine learning projects and deploying, operating, retraining, and scaling these models in production. The lower the cost of creating and rolling out machine learning models across the organizations, the higher the positive impact of machine learning can be. Production…