There has been a major shift in how applications are developed, tested and deployed in recent years. Such is the need for speed in today's fast-paced product release cycle that in addition to development methodologies, it has also changed the architecture in which they are deployed. Transition to this new development paradigm will be gradual [...]
Object storage is plentiful, durable and cheap. That makes it the ideal storage mechanism for long-term or archive storage. In fact, it's so cost-efficient that many traditional storage appliances, primarily targetted at on-premises environments, also make use of object-based storage to achieve cost-efficiencies. With all this data stored on object storage and on a cloud [...]
This week, I will be attending Cloud Field Day 6. It is one of the Tech Field Day events that is focussed mainly on cloud technologies. I love attending these events as delegates get to meet vendors in an exclusive setting which is ideal for focussed discussions about their products and what customer problems they [...]