MongoDB’s efforts to get OSI endorsement a more business-friendly SSPL have failed. MongoDB is proceeding anyhow, reflecting a possibly pivotal moment. After all the drama around MongoDB’s change of license from the open source Affero General Public License (AGPL) to the hopefully-but-not-yet-open-source Server Side Public License (SSPL), the company has now decided to retire the effort. No, … Read more
We look at the various factors businesses should consider when looking to solve their cloud management problems. The hybrid cloud management (HCM) market has long been stagnant – but recently, that’s all changed. Companies are starting to solve cloud management challenges, and more than half of infrastructure decision makers at enterprises that have implemented the cloud are … Read more
Cost management is a priority for organisations seeking to use infrastructure and software as a service. Public cloud, where a third-party provider makes computing services available over the internet, is big business, with Gartner predicting a total market size of almost $400bn in 2020. While public cloud can be divided into various elements, the two … Read more
VMware’s NSX-T 2.4 includes network-configuration automation, management and security among 100 new features to better support corporate hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Looking to ease deployments of software-defined networks while reinforcing automation and security for hybrid and multicloud customers, VMware has taken the wraps off of a major release of its NSX-T Data Center software. While the NSX-T 2.4 announcement … Read more
We look at why hybrid cloud can create a tricky infrastructure to manage. It is a universally accepted axiom that the world is moving towards cloud. Even the most hardened skeptics have been converted and are taking their first steps on a cloud journey. The figures back this up. IDC has reported that quarterly spending on … Read more
A Microsoft document offers details on how much it could cost companies to maintain Windows 7 PCs if they don’t migrate to Windows 10 by early next year. Microsoft will charge as much as $200 per Windows 7 PC to deliver a year’s worth of OS security updates after it’s officially retired in January, according … Read more
If you’re using Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 and the subscription lapses, here’s how much time you have to renew — or backup your data and move on. Microsoft’s pay-as-you-go Office 365 is, first and foremost, a subscription. And like other subscriptions – think newspapers (remember them?) or an online storage service – missing a payment … Read more
“Born-in the Cloud” workloads might be designed to be platform-agnostic now, but that doesn’t mean it will always be the case, as hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure continue to add specific and unique functionality to their hosted services. The evolution of the consumer cloud has been tied to the services that the major … Read more
Cisco is moving towards a software-based future. We chatted to Susie Wee, founder and leader of Cisco developer and innovation programme, DevNet, to find out how she is helping to enable this change. As more than one observer was heard to remark at this year’s Cisco Live Europe customer and partner event at Barcelona’s Fira, which has … Read more
Google’s legal chief claims Oracle’s copyright ruling on Java software interfaces will damage software development. Google has asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review its copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of software interfaces in Java. The company’s senior vice-president of global affairs and chief legal officer, Kent Walker, presented Google’s … Read more
