So. We’re in the midst of peak AI-angst when every journalist worth her salt is rushing to write articles about how AI is going to decimate the job market and will cause huge societal damage. Well, apart from all…

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Awhile ago I reflected upon my attendance at the recent Cloud Foundry Summit in Basel. In my post, I wrote about what I saw as a very real risk for the commercial vendors (and, in particular, the most successful…

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Kilton Hopkins has spent his career creating technologies for real-world use, most recently around IoT and the edge He was IoT adviser to the most tech-forward city of them all, San Francisco. Farah Papaioannou jumped out of the enterprise…

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So… IBM this weekend confirmed rumors that have been swirling for a few days around its intention to acquire open source services company Red Hat. The deal, one of the largest tech acquisitions of all time (see below) positions…

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Over its lifetime, Mirantis has proved to be adept at changing course to maximize its chances of success. While “pivoting” is a long-appreciated Silicon Valley dark art, Mirantis has taken the idea to even greater heights and its frequent…

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The most interesting thing about technology conferences is that they give the opportunity to hear from real-world technology users. Such was the case at the recent Cloud Foundry Summit in Basel, Switzerland, during which a whole host of large…

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Back in the deep recesses of history (and, given that this is technology, history is a fluid term. I’m speaking here of five years ago), Cloud Foundry was incubated within VMware as an answer to the pretty obvious market…

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We’re all very aware of how Google has used Borg, its internal container orchestration platform, to seemingly effortlessly scale its own infrastructure. And we also know that many cutting-edge organizations are using Kubernetes, the open source project directly descended…

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Large multinational organizations are complex beasts. This is, even more, the case when they are loose aggregations of autonomous regional and national organizations. A case in point if the International Committee of the Red Cross. The ICRC helps people…

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Ahhhh, the technology industry. The home of making stuff that matters and solving the really big problems. While there are some negative aspects of being involved in this industry, it all seems worthwhile when pitches like this hit my…

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