COBOL alive and kicking, Elastic and Elasticsearch drama, Nutanix and VMware rivalry, the hyperscale effect, and more.
Feb 28, 2021
No, COBOL Is Not a Dead Language - While there may not have been enough COBOL programmers to fix New Jersey s unemployment system, the language still runs the world s economy.
The Pros and Cons of Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud - Whether to use Kubernetes as the basis is one of the biggest questions any journey to hybrid cloud begins with today.
Autopilot: Google Cloud’s Managed Kubernetes With More Management - The cloud provider’s new managed service for the container orchestration engine it created promises customer node management by its own SREs.
The Pros and Cons of Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud - Whether to use Kubernetes as the basis is one of the biggest questions any journey to hybrid cloud begins with today.
Data Center Podcast: Stack Infrastructure’s Tim Hughes on the business of hyperscale computing facilities.
Tim Hughes got his start in the data center industry when his friend offered him a contract position at Facebook’s first data center. The social network was leasing space at a DuPont Fabros Technology (now part of Digital Realty) facility in Ashburn, Virginia. The job wasn’t glorious. It entailed pulling pallets, sweeping floors, racking and stacking.
“Everybody that has worked inside of a data center knows, that’s some of the manual labor associated with building the internet,” he said.
He rose through the ranks and eventually became part of Facebook’s site selection team. By that point, in 2014, Facebook had been building its own data centers in addition to leasing them, designing and operating some of the world’s largest and most advanced computing facilities.
The five-element suite is designed to “elevate” the experience of both operations and application end users.
Juniper Networks has introduced a new suite of WAN automation software designed to help telcos, large enterprises, and cloud providers ensure good application performance and quality of service.
Juniper Paragon Automation is a set of five integrated software tools (four by Juniper and one by a partner) that the company says eliminates manual tasks and processes.
It allows organizations to model and test new services to verify that their networks can handle the load before deploying them. The software automatically deploys and activates those services, monitoring the network continuously. If it spots potential network problems, it automatically remediates them before customers see a degradation in service, Juniper said.
They have changed how cables are funded, where they land, and how they’re designed.
A couple weeks ago a new submarine cable linking US and Europe came online. The system, called Dunant, set a new record for data transmission capacity on a subsea cable, and that record has everything to do with one of its primary investors and users, Google, and a trend the company started more than a decade ago, which has since reshaped the submarine cable industry.
The tech giant was first of the big four US-based hyperscale cloud platforms to start investing in its own slices of these transcontinental data highways. The group, which also includes Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, has invested roughly $20 billion in new cables all over the world, Alan Mauldin, research director at TeleGeography, told us in an interview for