Salvatore Salamone

Many vendors used this week’s KubeCon and CloudNativeCon to announce offerings. These items complemented a busy week on the product news front.

Event-driven architectures and event meshes enable today’s modern distributed, cloud-native applications that are responsive to state changes.

IBM updates its Cloud Pak portfolio, Dell Technologies offers integrated HPC systems to accelerate AI in manufacturing and genomic research, and more.

Businesses are striving to develop digital transformation solutions that increase customer satisfaction, retention, and long-term profitability.

Enterprise architecture is no longer just about technology assets. It is also about business capabilities, application data flows, and customer experiences.

Containers offer many benefits but introduce cyber risks and lifecycle issues. Sound security and DevOps practices can avoid these problems.

The Pope weighs in on AI, Amazon Web Services rolls out instances based on next-gen GPUs, software and tools make access to quantum computing easier, and more.

Organizations need transparency into real-time applications to understand inter-dependencies, prevent unexpected problems, and avoid incorrect results.

As businesses strive to be more responsive and react in real-time, they must incorporate events data and develop and deploy applications based on microservices and cloud-native architectures.

In the news this week: digital twins, processor market consolidation with implications for AI, and solutions that make it easier to deploy to any platform.

5G and edge go hand-in-hand because of 5G’s lower latency and the higher bandwidth. Together they will enable a new class of applications across industries.

Using a microservices-based architecture offers the flexibility to add new data sources and use new analysis engines without rewriting entire applications.