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Cloud Cloning: A new approach to infrastructure portability

When it comes to cloud infrastructure portability, the reigning solutions just don’t live up to their promise. Infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions like Terraform shoehorn nuanced infrastructure into too-broad terms. Cloud provider offerings like Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Services, and Google Cloud Migrate generally don’t translate native workloads into competitors’ clouds. And governance tools are…

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Why cloud migration needs a new approach

Multicloud is having a crisis. Gartner predicts that over 50% of multicloud or cross-cloud efforts won’t deliver on expected benefits by 2029, with poor interoperability and fragmentation serving as key culprits. While these numbers don’t speak to cloud migration directly, from my own experience as an IT leader, plus from my field research in developing…

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Open source maintainers are being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’

AI agents able to submit huge numbers of pull requests (PRs) to open-source project maintainers risk creating the conditions for future supply chain attacks targeting important software projects, developer security company Socket has argued. The warning comes after one of its developers, Nolan Lawson, last week received an email regarding the PouchDB JavaScript database he…

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What DOE’s 26 AI Challenges Reveal About Building a National Science Engine

At BigDATAwire we outlined the key data challenges that will define the Genesis Mission. There is a growing acknowledgment that scientific AI often breaks down at the data layer. Fragmented datasets and uneven metadata introduce friction that no model alone can overcome. Federated access rules and mismatched computing environments add to the challenge. While the…

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