Cloud platforms have established themselves across the enterprise space as an important part of doing business. Whether private, public, or hybrid, many large-scale enterprises have a plan in place ...

Much has been made of the quickening pace of digital transformation globally, as IT departments feel increasingly empowered to boost organisational agility, efficiency, and innovation. Yet less has ...

Networking, observability, and security for Kubernetes and container networks involve substantial processing overhead. eBPF promises more efficiency, visibility, and control. “No man is an island,” ...

For the past decade, Kubernetes has been the dominant force in cloud-native computing and in enterprise software generally, as cloud providers and their customers have turned toward running their ...

Linux Containers (LXC) are a lightweight virtualization technology that allows you to run multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single host. Unlike traditional virtual machines, containers ...

A deep dive into securing containerized environments and understanding how they present unique security challenges. Containers are self-contained pods representing complete, portable application ...

Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of technical infrastructure at Google, believes that open source and container technology will drive the future of cloud infrastructure. In a keynote today at Interop ...

As human beings we like analogies. Admittedly, we sometimes overextend them and end up obfuscating rather than clarifying. Such is arguably the case with cloud computing and the electric grid. However ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serial technology CEO covering all things IT & Tech. This article is more than 2 years old. The dynamic realm of cloud computing ...

The World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) recognizes ten basic cloud types. Ranging from cirrus to nimbostratus to our favorite here in gray and rainy Oregon, plain ol' stratus, these clouds come ...