Think of it as ETSI NFV's cousin.
30% annual growth is the long-term target.
Warning, some philosophy may have unintentionally slipped into this post…
There are few things in life that ever really change; rather, we are held captive to what appears to be a surprisingly small set of rules that have lasted at least as long as writing seems to have been around, and—if the history of humanity described in writing is any guide—as long as humans have existed (regardless of your thoughts on that particular topic). One of them, for instance, is that there’s nothing truly new; take these few lines, for instance—
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south
and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.
All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what Continue reading
About 800 of the job cuts will occur in R&D.
According to ISG’s inaugural Automation Index, the first data-driven research to quantify the impact of automation on IT outsourcing (ITO) and business processing outsourcing (BPO), automation may cause future-mode costs to decrease as much as 66 percent and cause productivity to increase 30 percent, depending on the IT tower in scope.
If that is the case, why are incumbent ITO and BPO providers showing resistance to these new technologies?
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Linux container technology is IT’s shiny new thing. Containers promise to ease application development and deployment, a necessity in a business environment where getting ahead of application demand can mean the difference between staying in business or not. Containers offer many benefits, but they are not a panacea, and it’s important to understand why, where and when to use them.
Most IT pros recognize that application containers can provide a technological edge, one that translates into a clear business advantage. Containers unify and streamline application components – including the libraries and binaries upon which individual applications depend. Combining isolation with …
Making The Case For Containers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.