Couchbase says the new column store that it officially launched today on AWS will streamline analytics on “dormant” JSON data residing in its NoSQL database. The company also launched vector search capabilities in the mobile version of its database and the new free tier in the cloud. Couchbase historically sought to split the difference between…
Cloud portability once seemed like a groundbreaking advancement in the digital infrastructure landscape. Initial expectations were high with the launch of Amazon S3 in 2006 and similar services. Providers promised the ability to migrate workloads across different service providers seamlessly. Oh, what a lovely world it would be. The services suggested a future where enterprises…
All IT projects go through phases and generative AI is no different in that respect. Initial pilot projects are used to test out how technology or software works, and determine whether you get the results that you want to achieve or what the vendor or developer promised. Once these pilot phases are complete, it is…
For the past decade, Kubernetes has been the dominant force in cloud-native computing and in enterprise software generally, as cloud providers and their customers have turned toward running their applications and services in clusters of containers instead of in tiers of virtual machines. And yet, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s 2023 annual survey (conducted from…
The big news in the open source world last week was Elastic’s return to open source. As the Elastic founder and CTO Shay Banon announced, “We never stopped believing in open source at Elastic” and so Elastic “will be adding AGPL [GNU Affero General Public License] as another license option next to ELv2 [Elastic License 2.0] and SSPL…
The world is a messy place. Buildings rise. Buildings fall. Roads wash out. Homeowners add cottages to properties. One location becomes home to two businesses. Roadside business stands spring up in the morning and disappear at night, but still need deliveries and maybe even electricity. How to track it all? To date, the best mapping…
