In this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm.
Cloud Growth and Other 2020 Trends
Growth continued this year as even the COVID pandemic could not slow down the cloud The rise of COVID-19 defined 2020 for nearly every industry. Cloud computing is no exception, though growth in the sector continued this year. Gartner estimates that $257.9 billion will be spent on public cloud services in 2020, up 6.3% from […]
6 Tips to Survive the World’s First Holiday Lockdown Gaming Crunch
‘Tis the season to be jolly … especially if you’re a gamer. The upcoming holiday gaming release schedule is a joy to behold for locked-down, socially distanced or just plain pandemic-fatigued game enthusiasts. For game studios and game developers, however, holiday releases have an entirely different connotation—the infamous crunch time. While views differ on the […]
WFH No More
DevOps Chats: Easing WFH with strongDM
strongDM wasn’t founded to help with remote workers forced out of the office by COVID-19. They have been around for five years now. But, the company does excel at allowing you to manage and audit remote access to all of your assets including DBs, servers and clusters (as well as apps and services) anywhere from […]
Work from Home: Changing Enterprise Risk and Careers
In recent weeks, there have been a slew of organizations announcing that their work from home policies will be extended through the end of the year such as is the case with Google and Facebook, or perhaps indefinitely such as Twitter and Square. It’s good news to many technology workers who, according to a recent […]