What to expect from RAN in 2024
2024 is likely to be a challenging year for radio access network revenues. However, despite declines in certain segments, it will also be an eventful year
Industry Views - Open Source
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How Will Open Source Deal With Success?
“Part of winning is that with great power comes great responsibility,” noted Red Hat CTO Chris Wright at this year's Open Source Summit event. -
OpenStack Keeps One Eye on the Prize, One Over Its Shoulder
The OpenStack Foundation needs to keep pushing innovation because the rest of the ecosystem is not letting up. -
What Does the Future Hold for Cloud Foundry?
The open source organization is tightening its embrace of Kubernetes, which could solidify its future or make it redundant. -
KubeCon Showed Kubernetes’ Power and Challenges
CNCF claimed 8,000 attendees and an additional 2,000 that were on a waitlist to attend this week's event. I think those on the waitlist snuck in. -
VMware’s Heptio Deal Shows the Open Source Water Is Warm and Inviting
Some expect the open source M&A wave to hit its apex next year. I say "why wait?" -
IBM’s $34B Bet on Red Hat Will be Fun to Watch
If IBM does what it says it’s going to do with the assets, then it becomes a more formidable competitor against Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. -
Deploying Secure Kubernetes Containers in Production: Thwarting the Threats
Once you have containers in production certain security measures must be put in place to cover network filtering, container inspection, and host security. -
How to Balance Cloud-Scale Efficiencies Against Business Realities
The widespread deployment of cloud infrastructure has led IT teams to demand freedom of choice, but that might not always be what’s best for the organization as a whole. -
Making Cloud Native a Reality for Financial Services
Cloud-native architectures are already impacting data science, IoT, and other areas and will provide both the threat of being disrupted and the opportunity for innovation. -
Composability: Are We There Yet?
When full composability is achieved, data centers will be defined by the needs of applications. This will require simple, open, standards-based, and scalable solutions. -
There’s a Group Working on an Open Source Silicon Instruction Set
The RISC-V initiative is creating a free and open instruction set architecture for the next generation of chipsets. -
Monolithic Data Center Interconnect Is Not Always the Best Bet
Monolithic compact DCI boxes are like a race car. But why buy a high-performance race car when all you really need is a flexible, rock-solid daily driver? -
Time-Saving Techniques for Deploying and Managing Kubernetes Applications
DevOps teams face a steep learning curve with best practices related to deploying, running, and managing the lifecycle of a containerized application. -
Europe Embraces Network Virtualization, Time Zones Become a Pain Point
There seem to be a lot more European vendors, emerging from anonymity, that are having success in network virtualization. -
Orchestration and Automation: The One-Two Punch for Multi-Cloud Simplicity
Success in multi-cloud environments will be characterized by the adoption of an operational framework that can exploit all the advantages of a multi-cloud world. -
How to Get to the Cloud Computing 'Goldilocks Zone'
Borrowing from the astrological meaning, the Goldilocks Zone refers to the space where organizations have the right amount of resources and combination of components to support network life. -
Knative, Red Hat Remind Us That Names Are Hard
The Knative GitHub page begins with a pronunciation guide because no one understands how to pronounce the platform's name. -
Containers and Serverless: It’s Not an Either/Or
The rise of Kubernetes has made containers a “have to have” at least in terms of future cloud plans, and serverless has quickly taken on the role of promising -
Deploying Secure Kubernetes Containers in Production: Understanding the Threats
Inadequate container security is increasingly leading to strikes related to ransomware, cryptomining, data theft, and service disruption attacks. -
Let’s Not Forget European Operators in Open Source Networking
Deutsche Telekom joins The Linux Foundation. -
Is OpenStack Used by Enterprises, or Is It Mainly for Service Providers?
It depends whether an enterprise uses "Wall Street IT" versus "webscale IT." -
Is There a Security Crisis in the Open Source Software Supply Chain?
Following the Equifax breach, which exploited an open source framework library, many organizations increased their security postures, but that doesn't mean that open source is safe to use again. -
Containers Climb the Hype Cycle, as AT&T and Google Attest
AT&T, Google, and Microsoft highlighted significant progress for the ecosystem, but an enterprise survey showed most remain on the sidelines of actual deployment. -
Get Ready for Real Disruption: The State of NFV
During the last five years, the NFV market has been heating up, but in order to reach the next steps of innovation and growth the market must fill a