The last few months saw the emegence of industry standards on containers and container orchestration, leading to initiatives like Open Container Project and Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Red Hat’s OpenShift became the first application deployment platform on top of Docker based Containers and Kubernetes. There are many other vendors planning to offer platforms using Docker […]
Think Big: Composable Enterprise and the need for Open Architecture
As we move from traditional IT to a world of services, we are forced to rethink IT services in all layers of the stack, from infrastructure to higher order business functions. As enterprise IT moves to a service dominated world, open architecture becomes a critical part of IT thinking. In this post, I will briefly […]
When Open Source Foundation Makes Sense
Ever since open source took off in the enterprise market, we are seeing more and more vendors using open source as a marketing tool. One of the recent marketing strategies is to talk up the idea of open source foundations. Let me make it clear before I get beaten up on this statement. I am […]
Modular Architecture And Coopetition
Recently, I had a discussion on Twitter with my good friends from Apprenda, a PaaS vendor supporting .NET and Java, about a blog post they published. In the blog post, Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda, has argued that a vendor who has had success in the app server market cannot effectively offer a PaaS solution with a […]