When Scott Fulton looks the data center, HPC, infrastructure and next gen architecture, he focuses on the big picture.
Where the relocation of application intelligence from a client-side device to a centralized cloud sounds so much like a good idea that telecommunications engineers begin to ponder: Is this something we could have been doing with every mobile or embedded device all along?
Where the world's network operators debate what benefits there may be from relocating network functions from their base stations to cloud data centers. NFV can achieve many goals, yet stakeholders are far from agreement over which goals take precedent.
In the cities and municipalities of America, people's fears and misunderstandings about the onset of 5G wireless come to a head. Now, lawmakers and public officials are being prompted to make sudden moves that could change everything.
The world may not be prepared for microwave mirrors, street light hot-spots, and towers visible from every backyard. But if 4G's business model keeps heading the way it's heading, 5G may be the only alternative.
Where we re-introduce ourselves to the two types of rules that are typically considered "business logic" in an organization, and gauge whether there's time to translate them both into modern data streams before another orchestrator comes charging in.
Where a component described simply enough as a "messaging queue" strikes at the nerve center of organizations' long-standing three-tier applications, and calls into question whether certain of their principal functions still matter.
Where the database market's equivalent of a commando raid brings a new actor to center stage, with the incentive and the opportunity to upset the balance of power and rewrite the rules of the data center.
Where an IBM engineer who helped steer her company away from locked-in, proprietary, vendor-driven data platforms, steers a new course for herself, not only building a new model for live, streaming data but possibly setting a new precedent for vendors.
Where data warehouses establish the patterns that business models follow for decades, and the need for scalability makes obvious the case for obsolescence.
Where we take stock of the long journey into the eye of the DevOps storm, and examine the truths that emerged during our travails.
Where the fellow who introduced DevOps to a generation of enterprises finds his services exclusively acquired by one of them, and the challenges to modernizing the business suddenly look very different.
Where one of the world's most recognized broadcasters makes a technological breakthrough that could save it from obsolescence, and the facilitators of that breakthrough discuss whether it did so the right way.
Where the ideal of automation itself seems capable of being automated, packaged, and marketed, and a debate ensues over whether such processed packages of processes can retain their innate humanity.
Where a post-war college researcher witnesses the birth of IT job silos two decades before the jobs themselves would be invented, and triggers a revolution whose objectives are literally all over the map.
We review the sweeping success of the orchestrator platform in 2017, and ponder what directions hyperscale data center development may take this year.
5G
5G
Data Centers
The drive-thru data center: Where an appliance runs your local cloud
Digital Transformation
With the fullest measure of courage, DevOps holds true to its objective
Digital Transformation
The dawn of automation and the promise of a formula for business success