If you can`t win them - lead them
Probably that’s how Amazon decided to make its ElasticSearch fork. Challengers of open source businesses face new challenges that their ancestors (like Red H...
AWS
Quantity does not always mean quality
During Re:Invent were announced another dozen of AWS services. Now cloud provider has almost 200 of them. And among the basics, always necessary services suc...
AWS Re:Invent 2019 announcements caught my attention. Part 2
In the second part, I will focus on the general direction of AWS and various announcements.
AWS Re:Invent 2019 - announcements caught my attention. Part 1
The main AWS event for the year - Re:Invent 2019 has ended. I`d like to divide all announcements and strategy moves into two parts: official statements and p...
AWS as a legacy
AWS has its long history as a public cloud — more than ten years. Over the years, about 100 services covering all possible use cases have been launched. The ...
ARM
Why 1st appearance of ARM servers failed, but can succeed the second?
In a previous note, I mentioned HPE servers running the ARM platform, which after a couple of years, without much publicity, transferred to x86. While server...
RISC vs x86. Round 2
The release of the Apple M1 CPU caught a lot of attention from all kinds of media and blogs except myself. The processor was pictured in X-ray from all sides...
Server`s milestone
The arrival of 5G networks, the continuous evolution of ARM architecture, and the miniaturization of specialized solutions have caused a rise of a very inter...
analysis
And let no one go offended
FTC probably read Roadside Picnic authored by genius soviet writers Arkadiy and Boris Strugatsky and used the core idea of the poem while prepared a case aga...
Cloud comitio
The end of the year is debriefing time. The other day Maxim Ageev (De Novo CEO, Ukrainian cloud provider) published his vision of the results of the year, to...
Kubernetes
Will Kubernetes repeat OpenStack’s fate?
Openstack is de-facto dead. Loudly launched in 2008 with the support of NASA and RackSpace by 2019 the project remained in demand in a very narrow niche like...
DellEMC
Big - doesn’t mean successful
Some articles speculate about the consideration of Dell to sell RSA and Google to shut down its cloud completely in few years if it will reach certain market...
Microsoft
Customer zero
Every enterprise has its own curse related to optimization which most often spills into big problems for users.
internet
Internet is broken and what to do about it is unclear
The fact that globally the Internet is “broken” known for a long time and is not a special secret for anyone.
IBM
Shadow of the blue colossus
In the cult game Shadow of Colossus, the protagonist defeated a tremendous majestic colossus. Seeing one for the first time it is difficult to estimate what ...
cloud
Word in defense of OVH
Last week OVH data centers in Strasbourg burned down. Some discussions were produced more heat than the fire itself. Opinions were different: some claimed th...