IBM Cloud Code Engine Accelerates Customers’ Move to the IBM Cloud
By Jean S. Bozman
IBM is looking to accelerate the migration of application code – no matter how it was developed – by speeding its delivery into the IBM Cloud.
The IBM Cloud Code Engine offer, announced last fall, is an open-source-based runtime environment that supports rapid deployment onto the IBM Cloud. It became generally available this spring (March, 2021).
IBM Cloud Code Engine is designed to allow developers to rapidly deploy both existing applications and new applications into the IBM Cloud.
Cloud Code Engine Accelerates Customers’ Move to the IBM Cloud
AI Technology to Implement Secure End-To-End Elections
Wintergreen Research: AI provides the technology to implement secure end-to-end elections. Modern secure systems depend on new technology, new ways of conducting elections, new approaches to getting voters registered, new ways of casting votes, and new ways of getting votes counted. AI has the ability to implement secure systems that go end-to-end to protect the will of the voters and mitigate fraud by making it detectable.
AI Voting Systems - Wintergreen Research
Unpacking the Intel Unleashed Video
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger packed a lot of information into the Intel Unleashed – Engineering the Future video. Packed into the first 11 minutes of the Intel Unleashed presentation is a wide-ranging vision of a new and emerging pattern for Intel investments, partnerships and product focus.
Unpacking the Intel Unleashed Video
IBM POWER10 is on the Near Horizon
by Jean S. Bozman
Even in the teeth of the pandemic, IBM is expected to deliver its POWER10 processors in calendar 2021, continuing its drive to place a new generation of POWER microprocessor engines in the world’s cloud data centers. Cloud migrations, accelerated by the pandemic’s impact on business worldwide, are making it possible to deploy many types of CPUs and GPUs in the cloud infrastructure, which is dominated by servers based on Intel x86 processors.
IBM POWER10 is on the Near Horizon
POWER10 processors are aimed at running in the hybrid cloud, supporting AI/ML analytics applied to enterprise applications and scalable enterprise workloads (e.g. SAP, SAS). That strongly aligns the POWER10 processors with IBM’s strategic marketing priorities for hybrid cloud and AI/ML.
IBM Delivers Block Storage to the Edge with a Thin Pizza Box
by Jean S. Bozman
During a refresh of IBM’s FlashSystem storage product line, the company revealed that the new entry-level model supports block storage at the Edge. Although it is part of a much broader IBM Storage launch, this ability of the new IBM FlashSystem 5200 to support edge block storage strongly aligns with IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy.
IBM Delivers Block Storage to the Edge with a Thin Pizza Box
IBM Storage Expands Container Support for Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Clouds
RFG Perspective: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the New Normal work environment, customers are accelerating their move to cloud-native applications in the hybrid cloud and in private clouds leveraging cloud infrastructure inside corporations.
IBM Storage Expands Container Support for Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Clouds
Cloudera Builds on Its CDP Data Platform, Embraces Private Cloud, Streaming
RFG Perspective: Cloudera Inc. is expanding its total available market (TAM) by building on its Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) – by entering the market for managed streaming and by making CDP available for private clouds, multiple public clouds and hybrid cloud deployments.
Cloudera Builds on Its CDP Data Platform, Embraces Private Cloud, Streaming
Nutanix Focusing on Enterprise Customers’ “New Normal” Migrations to the Hybrid Cloud
RFG Perspective: Nutanix Inc.'s strategy to change the company’s marketing emphasis from ‘hyperconverged’ software to 'hybrid cloud' enablement software is linked to an acceleration of enterprise customers' cloud migrations due to COVID-19.
Nutanix Research Note
Oracle Expands Its Oracle Gen 2 Cloud with Dedicated Region On-Premises Cloud Offer
By Jean S. Bozman
On July 8, 2020, Oracle announced the new Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud
Customer private cloud service. It provides automatic management of Oracle Cloud Gen 2 services that scale up and down, depending on customer demand.
Oracle Expands Its Oracle Gen 2 Cloud with Dedicated Region On-Premises Cloud Offer
IBM’s Distributed Data Security for the Edge
IBM is extending highly secure data from customers’ IBM z Systems mainframes, across IBM Cloud – and out to remote edge locations. Edge locations now covered by core-to-edge data security links include sites like retail stores, factories, bank branches, regional insurance offices, and oil/gas refinery locations.
IBM's Distributed Data Security for the Edge