Good read: Europese cio-verenigingen luiden noodklok over gedrag Broadcom.
Daar lusten de honden geen “broad” van. Vier Europese belangenverenigingen van cio’s, waaronder het CIO Platform Nederland, uiten in een open brief aan de Europese Commissie hun zorgen over het gedrag van Broadcom na de overname van VMware. Volgens de organisaties leidt dit gedrag tot een verstoring van de virtualisatiemarkt. Ze roepen de commissievoorzitter op om in te grijpen om Europese bedrijven te beschermen tegen dergelijke praktijken.
Good read: Google stopt met kosten voor verhuizing naar andere cloud
Google stopt per direct met het rekenen van kosten aan klanten die hun data willen overzetten van Google Cloud naar een andere provider of on-premise datacenter. Organisaties die gebruikmaken van Googles cloudopslag en/of datamanagementdiensten, kunnen kosteloos migreren. Ze moeten Google wel eerst om toestemming vragen en vervolgens binnen zestig dagen migreren.
Good read: 5 Drivers Behind the Growth of the GPU Cloud Computing Market
Infographic on the Rise of the North American GPU cloud market.
Good read: How Infrastructure as Code Is Evolving Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is evolving the principles of DevOps, a methodology that breaks down the silos of IT operations and software development so organizations can deliver applications more quickly. In fact, 68 percent of organizations that have used platform engineering report that it improved their development velocity, according to a January report from configuration software maker Puppet.
Good read: Cloud in 33 vragen
Over de cloud bestaan nog altijd veel vragen. Wij zetten de belangrijkste op een rij – 33 wel te verstaan:
Good read: Nederlandse datacenterindustrie nauwelijks voorbereid op snelle opmars AI
“De datacenterindustrie in Nederland is nauwelijks voorbereid op de snelle opmars van artificial intelligence (AI) binnen de IT-wereld.” Robbert Hoeffnagel, hoofdredacteur van diverse IT-vakbladen en dagvoorzitter tijdens het IT Infra event, windt er geen doekjes om.
Good read: How SaaS architecture impacts pricing and profitability
A poorly designed SaaS architecture creates limitations in setting the pricing strategy for the offerings and impacts new customer acquisition. Conversely, a good architecture sets the appropriate pricing model and accommodates special architecture-design requirements, while enabling scalability and customizability.
Good read: A comeback for private clouds
Enterprises facing high cloud costs are taking a more balanced look at where workloads should reside and considering repatriation to a cloud in their own data center or fully managed on Edge locations.
Good read: WTF Is a Vector Database: A Beginner’s Guide!
In the age of burgeoning data complexity and high-dimensional information, traditional databases often fall short when it comes to efficiently handling and extracting meaning from intricate datasets. Enter vector databases, a technological innovation that has emerged as a solution to the challenges posed by the ever-expanding landscape of data.
Good read: How Cloud FinOps Aim To Rein In Cloud Spending
Migrating to the cloud has long been seen as a way for organizations to save money. The whole point of implementing this practice, after all, is to reduce operational costs. But these promised savings from migrating workloads to the cloud have failed to appear. In fact, many face the opposite problem: surging costs.
