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Kubernetes As The Kernel For Data Center or Application Infrastructure Operating System

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 and Kubernetes. The momentum around Open Container Project and Kubernetes got me thinking about potential correlation to the other open source movement that completely reshaped enterprise IT, Linux Operating System. Though both belong to different technical categories, we can model the current platform landscape using … [Read More...]

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 not saying that all the open source foundations are meaningless but I am arguing that more and more vendors are using the idea of a foundation as a way to gain open source credibility in today's enlightened world. There is nothing wrong with what they are doing. In a free market, anything is acceptable as long as it is not illegal. At the same time, free market works well when there is no information … [Read More...]

MBaaS and PaaS: Different Dance On The Same Data

For a long time I have been advocating that a good Platform as a Service offering should have MBaaS component. I have got push back from folks saying that it is not the case. I never argued that MBaaS is a feature of PaaS but it complements PaaS to make a complete application platform. There are some misconceptions that MBaaS abstracts away PaaS just like PaaS abstracts away IaaS. Rather, I see PaaS and MBaaS as peer services and together they make a good enterprise developer platform. MBaaS is fast becoming a hot market segment with more and more players jumping in to compete with upstarts like Parse, Kinvey, Appcelerator, etc.. Part of the reason for this boom is the mobile first … [Read More...]

Modern Enterprise Podcast: Episode 1 – Services as a Platform by James Urquhart

September 8, 2015 by Krishnan Subramanian 2 Comments

As a part of my advocacy to help modernize enterprise IT, I am pushing the idea of Modern Enterprise Model as a framework for enterprise IT managers to plot their modernization strategy. As a part of this effort, I will be doing a podcast series where I talk to my colleagues in the industry on […]

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Kubernetes As The Kernel For Data Center or Application Infrastructure Operating System

September 1, 2015 by Krishnan Subramanian 2 Comments

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 […]

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Continuous Delivery – Reduce The Damn Friction

July 14, 2015 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

If a CIO went into a coma 5 years back and wakes up today, he/she will see a world that is drastically different from the time he/she slipped into coma. The very approach to IT has changed over the past few years, enabled by various tools and cultural adjustments. Cloud became the canvas on top […]

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Beyond Container Orchestration | PaaS Is Full Choreography

November 25, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

When I talk to end users in my role as industry observer, I see confusion between container orchestration and PaaS. Some people seem to wrongly assume that the only thing PaaS does is orchestrate application containers. While PaaS takes care of container orchestration, it goes way beyond that to offer a developer interface similar to […]

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Microservices, Containers, PaaS and DevOps

November 19, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

Microservices is fast emerging as a modern way for building applications inside many organizations. It is a trend that had its initial roots in startups wanting to avoid the “legacy quagmire” that has negatively impacted many large enterprises to this today. Recently, it has started gaining more steam as organizations are realizing that reimagining their IT with […]

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A Simple Formula For Modern Enterprise Success

August 13, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

As I talk to enterprise customers about DevOps and Modern Enterprise, I hear lots of confusion about how trends like agile, DevOps, PaaS, etc. fit into the idea of the Modern Enterprise. In this post, I will try to connect these trends and show a simple formula to maximize the productivity and agility gains in […]

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Your DevOps Journey Starts With Business

July 30, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

DevOps is fast becoming an important term in the industry. DevOps, enabled by the success of cloud computing, is transforming organizations of all sizes. As these organizations become more nimble and efficient they are transforming how IT happens. DevOps is About Culture and Tools The early days of DevOps focused on pure cultural change without […]

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Modern Enterprise: Slaying the Silos with Data Virtualization

June 30, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

There’s a belief that cloud computing breaks down silos inside enterprises. Yes, the use of cloud and DevOps breaks down organizational silos between different teams but it only solves part of the problem. The bigger problem is silos between data sources. Data silos, as I would like to refer the problem, is the biggest bottlenecks […]

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DevOps, PaaS and Modern IT

June 17, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

Introduction One of the biggest selling points of cloud is agility. Cloud on it’s own doesn’t make organizations agile. Organizations must look beyond the marketing hype to maximize agility when adopting cloud technologies. If organizations embrace cloud technology without changing traditional IT practices or processes the return on investment and iterative improvement is minimal. This […]

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Future-proofing Enterprise Platforms

June 4, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

The Modern Enterprise Model motivates IT to meet the needs of today’s technology and also anticipates future innovation. How do IT managers building modern enterprise platforms future-proof their organizations to cope with the needs of the fast changing technological revolution? This question should be on the minds of all CIOs and IT managers as they […]

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My name is Krish Subramanian. I am the founder of Rishidot Research, an research and advisory firm focussed on Modern Enterprise. AllThingsPlatforms is a blog to talk about the platforms to build next generation services.

Recent Posts

  • Modern Enterprise Podcast: Episode 1 – Services as a Platform by James Urquhart
  • Kubernetes As The Kernel For Data Center or Application Infrastructure Operating System
  • Continuous Delivery – Reduce The Damn Friction
  • Beyond Container Orchestration | PaaS Is Full Choreography
  • Microservices, Containers, PaaS and DevOps

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