2018 The Cloud Computing Year in Review

[For The Cloudcast podcast, we reviewed the
Thoughts on being the Google Cloud CEO

While Google Cloud Platform has been around for many years (going back to the Google App Engine days in 2008),
Virtualization Admin vs. Container Admin

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This past week, while scrolling through...
Evolving Approaches to Hybrid Cloud

For many years, some pundits have argued that it was only a matter of time before all applications ran in the public...
The Top 10 Stories from 2017

It goes without saying that a lot happened in 2017, as tech and politics and culture intersected in many different areas. Before...
The Evolution of the Kubernetes Kommunity and Konformance

This past week the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced their "
Can VMware cross the Cloud chasm?

Around this time every year, prior to VMware's VMworld conference, I write a predictions post. Here's a few from past years...
OpenStack was a pivotal time in IT

This past week, we did some reflection on
Why Containers make Sense for Modern Applications

This past week, I was having a conversation with an industry analyst about some of the fast moving trends...
4 Approaches to a Hybrid Cloud

The concept of "Hybrid Cloud" has gone through many definitions and iterations over the last few years. In 2009, EMC introduced...