Matt Asay

The Linux community works, it turns out, because the Linux community isn’t too concerned about work, per se. As much as Linux has come to dominate many areas of corporate computing – from HPC to mobile to cloud – the engineers who write the Linux kernel tend to focus on the code itself, rather than their corporate […]

Despite all the bluster about $11 trillion Internet of Things opportunity, most companies are still struggling to get even $1 of value from IoT. As software developer Alan Cohen argues, “When it comes to the Internet of Things, it’s both particularly easy to get something magical working a little bit, and particularly difficult to get […]

Public cloud services have been called the “most proprietary lock-in in the history of technology,” but Amazon Web Services sees it differently. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated backup is scalable, flexible and provides peace of mind. Cobalt Iron’s enterprise-grade backup and recovery solution is known […]

MongoDB doesn’t think small. Filing for a $100 million IPO that could value MongoDB above $1.6 billion, MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria didn’t mince words on his top target: “We believe Oracle is incredibly vulnerable because they’ve lost the developer’s heart and soul.” Oracle, sovereign ruler of the $40 billion database market, may be vulnerable, but […]

For those who think we’re near saturation point for enterprise DevOps adoption, Puppet founder Luke Kanies has news for you: we’re nowhere close. “The concepts are ubiquitous, as are the job titles,” he concedes. “But the actual practices are still barely present around the market.” Don’t hold your breath for 2018 to be the Year […]

Kubernetes, the darling of the container world, seems set to dominate the next decade of container orchestration. That is, if containers last that long. While it seems obvious that containers, the heir apparent to virtual machines, should have a long shelf life, the serverless boom may actually serve to cut it short. Though serverless offerings […]

Legacy data infrastructure may finally be dying out. As Cloudera co-founder Mike Olson has declared, “No dominant platform-level software infrastructure has emerged in the last ten years in closed-source, proprietary form.” Despite this obvious shift toward new-school open source data infrastructure (MongoDB, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, etc.), the old-school data infrastructure giants, from Oracle to […]