Scot Petersen

LAS VEGAS—Dell Technologies this week celebrated its place as the leading enterprise technology provider here in a unified event that CEO Michael Dell proclaimed was “34 years in the making.”  He was referring to the fact that Dell’s big annual event, Dell Technologies World, has now shed the “EMC” label left over from the 2016 […]

BOSTON—Things are moving fast in cloud application development, in more ways than one. The key pieces needed to build and deploy modern cloud-native applications—Docker and Kubernetes—have become de facto standards for container formats and container orchestration, respectively, in just a few years of existence. A third de facto standard, the open-source developer platform Cloud Foundry, […]

LOS ANGELES—AT&T and the world’s largest telecommunications providers are accelerating their move into open source networking software, pushing the mantra of software-hardware disaggregation and modern DevOps practices based on Kubernetes and containers.  Here at the Linux Foundation’s Open Networking Summit, the telecommunications giant affirmed it is the leading voice for putting open source software-defined networking […]

LAS VEGAS—Artificial intelligence and machine learning were everywhere here at the giant HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) 2018 Conference. It’s still early days for AI, but despite the industry’s history of struggles adopting new technologies, AI is getting into real products and starting to deliver tangible results.  Health care providers and insurance companies […]

NEW YORK—In the technology world, you either want to be the Killer App or the Killer App Killer. In that respect, collaboration platform upstart Slack is in a pretty good position.  Slack is already replacing legacy collaboration tools like email and instant messaging in many enterprises. The 4-year-old company is striving to become the online […]

Just as we are starting to get comfortable with the concept of hybrid cloud with real products and platforms, another cloud paradigm is upon us: the multi-cloud. Like AI in the news, “multi-cloud” announcements are everywhere these days. This week multi-cloud was invoked on two key IT news announcements. The first was private cloud provider […]

LAS VEGAS—Every year about this time Gartner Inc. convenes its data center analysts and clients at its Data Center Infrastructure and Operations Conference. Here at Gartner’s longest-running conference, now in its 36th year, the discussion always has a sense of urgency, since the data center is the heart of enterprises’ business operations and central to […]

LAS VEGAS—Back when Microsoft ruled the computing world, it was in large part because a huge number of partners and developers committed to the Windows operating system platform. These days that power resides with Amazon Web Services and its growing army of technology and consulting partners, which AWS feted during Tuesday’s Partner Day, before the […]

LAS VEGAS—Amazon Web Service’s announcement of a Kubernetes-based container service at the AWS Re:Invent conference this week was not unexpected, but that did not lessen the impact of the move. The Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) marks a milestone in the life of Kubernetes, the container orchestration software that was hatched at […]

As expected, artificial intelligence was front and center at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. The company announced it has integrated its “Einstein” technologies throughout its platform, making it easier than ever to gain new insights from customer data. But in a twist from Salesforce’s usual hype about its cloud customer relationship management platform, CEO Marc Benioff made […]