Insights from data analytics help ShopBack offer the best deals
In 2017 ShopBack described how the Elastic Stack and X-Pack sped up its product search, cut monitoring complexity and supported expansion into Indonesia and Taiwan.
Traffic, mobiles and cyberattacks test web content delivery, Akamai co-founder said
In 2012 Akamai co-founder Tom Leighton set out how mobile traffic and cyberattacks were testing web content delivery, as he prepared to become CEO.
Failure Fridays: how PagerDuty practised breaking its own systems
In 2016 PagerDuty’s engineering chief explained Failure Fridays, the weekly controlled-failure sessions begun in 2013 and inspired by Netflix, and how the practice has evolved.
Are new IETF switching, routing specs needed? TRILL, LISP and the vendor alternatives
In August 2010 the IETF was developing TRILL and LISP while Cisco and Juniper pushed FabricPath and Virtual Chassis. A look at the debate and how it played out.
Leading information security associations: who they were and what they offered
A look at the leading information security associations of 2004, including ISACA, (ISC)2, ISSA, SANS and CIS, what each offered security managers, and how they stand today.
Companies increasingly perceive data as a strategic resource
In 2016, surveys from Microsoft, PwC and Strategy& showed Asian and global firms treating data as a strategic resource, while many lacked a strategy to use it.
Predictions: AI, IoT and blockchain to dominate headlines in 2018
In December 2017, vendors forecast that AI, IoT, blockchain, cloud and security would shape 2018 in Asia-Pacific IT. Here are their predictions and what later reports showed.
Cloud computing trends for 2019: what analysts and vendors predicted
Predictions for cloud computing in 2019: hybrid cloud, Google Cloud, service mesh, serverless and open source deals, and what Forrester later said happened.
8 Enterprise Software Predictions for 2015: What Was Forecast and What Followed
Enterprise software predictions for 2015 on hybrid cloud, subscription pricing, mobile CRM and in-memory ERP, and how the cloud and ERP market moved afterwards.
Multi-cloud is the modern tenet of the digital age: Nutanix’s Dheeraj Pandey in 2018
In 2018 Nutanix chief Dheeraj Pandey argued multi-cloud would hide behind virtualisation and called for HCI as a service. His argument, and his 2020 exit, in context.