How managed open source cloud can drive business growth: A guide

Over the last year, businesses have been challenged with maintaining growth during a period of unprecedented change. Now, many are looking to the future and preparing for life after Covid-19, assessing the impact of the pandemic, and working out how to stay ahead of the competition as we move towards a ‘new normal’.

Adopting new business strategies or implementing new technology is a proven route to growth. Increasingly, it’s open source technology that is being chosen as...

21 May 2021 | Infrastructure

IBM opens up finance industry cloud with Red Hat OpenShift support

IBM has announced the general availability of its finance industry cloud, bolstered with the support Red Hat OpenShift alongside other cloud-native services.

The company's IBM Cloud for Financial Services, which was designed in collaboration with Bank of America and debuted in 2019, allows clients and partners to build applications with OpenShift, migrate virtual machine workloads, as well as establish compliance profiles across their workloads to help support continuous...

7 April 2021 | Industry

IBM makes Cloud Satellite generally available: Hybrid cloud for all – and an evolution for Watson

IBM has announced the general availability of IBM Cloud Satellite, joining the hyperscaler party in enabling its hybrid cloud services across any environment.

The announcement 'brings a secured, unifying layer of cloud services for clients across environments, regardless of where their data resides', in the words of the press materials. Edge is key to this process. "As workloads shift to the edge, IBM Cloud Satellite will help clients deliver low latency, while still enabling them...

5 March 2021 | Applications

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian touts open manifesto in latest missive

Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian has said he is 'proud' of his company's leadership in advancing open source technologies for an 'open cloud.'

"Our open cloud philosophy is grounded in the belief that customers need autonomy and control over their infrastructure," Kurian wrote in a blog post. "Giving customers options to build, migrate and deploy their applications across multiple environments both in the cloud and on-premises allows them to avoid vendor lock-in and...

19 November 2020 | Google Cloud

How Greater Manchester has utilised cloud-based low-code development for its Early Years app

Sponsored The benefits of low-code, which enable companies to build custom applications in the cloud, are primarily three-fold: speed of innovation, reduced costs, and a faster time-to-market.

By using low-code functionality, organisations can adapt to changing market trends enabling quicker speed of innovation - as well as faster time-to-market, while also creating a better user experience by quickly making adjustments to their products as users' needs grow and change. This also...

9 November 2020 | Case Studies

Understanding XGVela: Bringing more power to 5G with cloud-native telco PaaS

A platform as a service (PaaS) model of cloud computing brings lots of power to the end users. It provides a platform to the end customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an application.

In the roadmap to building a 5G network, telecom networks need these breakthrough models that help them focus more on the design and development of network services...

26 October 2020 | Architecture

Progress acquires Chef for $220m to add more automation and open source to its sauce

Application development firm Progress is to acquire DevOps and automation software provider Chef in a $220 million (£168.6m) cash deal.

The acquisition of Chef, which has more than $70m in annual recurring revenue, will 'bolster Progress' core offerings', as well as aligning with its 'growth strategy through accretive acquisitions… [adding] both scale and cash flow', Progress said.

The company added that the combination of Chef's 'vibrant' developer community, as well...

8 September 2020 | Developers

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty to step down: Analysing the cloud strategy and in-tray for the new boss

Analysis IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty is to step down in April after more than eight years at the helm, with senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software Arvind Krishna taking over.

Krishna, who was a contributing factor in IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat in 2018, will become only the 10th CEO in the Armonk giant’s 106-year history. Jim Whitehurst, chief executive of Red Hat, will...

31 January 2020 | Economy

Melissa Di Donato, CEO, SUSE: On cloud journeys, hyperscaler complexity, and daring to be different

When Melissa Di Donato joined SAP in 2017, having counted Salesforce, IBM and Oracle among her previous employers, she told this publication it was like ‘coming home.’ Now, as chief executive of Linux enterprise software provider SUSE, it is more a step into the unknown.

Yet it is not a complete step. Working with a proprietary software company means your experience is primarily in selling...

6 January 2020 | Containers

Google Cloud launches Cloud Dataproc on Kubernetes in alpha

Google Cloud has announced the launch of Cloud Dataproc on Kubernetes, adding another string to the bow for the product which offers a managed cloud service for running Apache Spark and Hadoop clusters.

Google – which originally designed Kubernetes before handing it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) – is promising ‘enterprise-grade support, management, and security to...

10 September 2019 | Developers