Cloud, Compiled - Issue #47

Cloud enabled the world to avoid the worst economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and nearly every company has some sort of cloud presence. But despite its size and success, cloud remains a market where competition is difficult.

Good afternoon! In today’s Braintrust, we asked the experts about how they make multicloud decisions and weigh options as they consider services and providers. Want more on multicloud strategy? Check out the event our Enterprise team put on last week here.

In the latest Agents of Transformation report, Agents of Transformation 2021: The Rise of Full-Stack Observability, 77% of global technicians report experiencing a higher level of complexity as a result of accelerated cloud computing initiatives during the pandemic.

Boeing engineers huddle over a computer to work on an aircraft design. (Boeing Photo / Bob Ferguson)The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split.

Ah, the halcyon days of developers as kingmakers, of developers calling all the shots, of developers turning to open source and cloud to route around barriers to productivity (like Legal! Purchasing! Security! Operations!). Of course, those days never existed.

Managing datacentre computing located at the edge of the corporate network is becoming as important as the management of centralised IT systems.

Every couple of years, Google puts out a paper that makes everyone in the IT industry stop and think. The Google File System in 2003. The MapReduce analytics platform in 2004. The BigTable NoSQL database in 2006. Warehouse-scale computing as a concept in 2009.