Learning Curve of 2018!

The best way to learn a topic is to write about it, and I experienced it in 2018! The same is true when you are passionate to keep yourself up to speed with the ever-changing world of technology and the tenets thereof. Here are few tidbit 2018 blogs that helped me learn, understand and write and few topics covered in my talks in our TechDays with our partners and customers during events and workshops. Most of the blogs are cross published in other forums, but this summary could help get a good insight!

January

The year started with some IoT solutions and ecosystem study, the very beginning of devices cutting into the dominance of transaction-based systems solely generating data till now! Its reality the IoT has taken significant leap and are key contributors of data expanding the perimeter beyond the ‘known’ boundaries of traditional IT systems and premises.

The Fog computing, the strategic IoT gateway for "Cloud of Things" - fog computing is an advancement to provide logical structure and a model to handle exabytes of data generated by IoT end points, devices, sensors and helps process the data closure to the point of origin and duly solving the challenges of exploding data volume, variety, and velocity. It does helps significant benefit of lowering the response time to events by eliminating a round trip to the cloud for secure on prim analysis thus saving costly bandwidth additions by offloading gigabytes of network traffic from the core network.  

February

The growth of big data and the distributed processing taking over the world by storm raised questions about data protection and the new governance around the same invokes some dialogues and understanding of the risks and accountability. The awareness and acceptance of personal data utilization for commercial gains has now a legal and regulatory consequences to fiduciary. 

What is GDPR? with GDPR, stakes are high and so are the risks emphasizing the need for businesses, organizations and governments to adopt comprehensive data protection practices at all levels is a divine truth. A risk-based approach to data privacy—data protection by design—latest technology solutions can significantly reduce the potential of non-compliance violations, or worse yet, a breach.

March

The AI/ML getting into everyone’s mind required some clarity of the outlook on the Analytics and Intelligence around these concepts thus spoke about some in my TechDays ..

Business intelligence (BI), Simplified! - BI continues the change the way we use and even look at technology that drives business KPIs and help us take informed decisions, fundamentally focuses on data management and transformation which is collecting data, information which is transforming the data, derive knowledge ( Read, Insights) and action , take decisions yield outcomes, it is indeed a fundamental building block in your digital transformation strategy! 

April

The dialogues continued due to Q&A and interesting aspects of the classification of data thus wrote about the same and reinforced the fundamentals of dimensions of the current, near past and historical aspects of data management and strategies..

 Protecting the Active Data – Strategic Insight! - Data governance spans out to availability, usability, integrity and security of the data as a whole, we would touch upon the “active data” of the organization and dwell upon the key challenges of managing this active data, key challenges and strategies around the risk management thereof. 

Data Archival – Strategic Importance! - Managing passive data is a great responsibility as it holds the IP of the organization and becomes historical records for various statutes and references. Having a sound strategy to manage archive data will yield better business value and enhances productivity since this dataset has ability to provide you with meaningful business insights.

GDPR - Clock is ticking! - The regulation is the most sweeping piece of legislation when it comes to data privacy of the last 20 years. It affects any company or organisation that processes the data of any EU citizen - and it applies whether or not that company is based in the EU itself. Under the GDPR, companies will be now be accountable on how well they check the compliance boxes, and safeguard GDPR and DPD ( Date Protection Directives) regulatory obligations. GDPR requires that consumers be given transparency, choice and control over their data.  

May

I strongly believe that the todays businesses must focus on Data. Platform and Algorithms that drive the agenda of an informed and intelligence while solving the data science & serverless computing pieces, the clarity gained by this article was valuable for me.. 

Data Modeling, Simplified! - a critical milestone for organization while embarking journey of Datafication and delivers a strategic goal of specific definition and further analysed for data requirements involving professional data modellers working closely with business stakeholders, thus data model becomes critical reference to all data management and transformation stages, strategies and execution approaches and the process is termed as ‘Data Modeling’.

 Serverless Computing, Simplified! - The serverless is actually not serverless, it certainly needs the underlying infrastructure such as compute, memory and storage but the pains of managing this infrastructure and capacity thereof is totally outsourced and managed by your cloud service provider, It is thus all about compute runtime, used for modern distributed applications that significantly or fully incorporate third-party, cloud-hosted applications and services, to manage server-side logic and state.. 

June

The excitement continued to study the simplification of underlying infrastructure as the world of consolidation and distributed computing workloads demand heavy lifting of processing, the utter difference and positioning on these tow terminologies that continue to exist their legacy and claiming the share of their fate in the dynamically changing technological landscape and newer services from the Cloud computing market..

Hyperscale or Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Simplified! - HCI market is strong and they are solving uses cases of many enterprises winning their mindshare due to ease of manageability and Opex reduction, deployment simplification, storage management simplification, and capex reduction, Whereas Hyperscale is termed Lightweight deployments for app dev, provides greater agility, and heterogeneity for developer's infrastructure requirements. 

FWaaS, Explained! - Firewall as a Service market is segmented on the basis of various parameters and services bundled by Cloud service providers (CSPs), they are reinventing their value proposition to achieve cost savings, network agility, automation along with value proposition to their customers.

July

Looking back few years on the merits of digital evolution and transformation the key tenets of the fourth industrial revolution is a must read for those who want to get a perspective and assess their role, contribution and impact on their domain wrt technologies driving the change.

What is driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)? - World Economic Forum, which describes how this fourth revolution is fundamentally different from the previous three, which were characterized mainly by advances in technology. However, this fourth revolution, impacts our lives much more than before transforming each and every aspect of the digital world.

August

The cloud computing in reality poses so many challenges while migrating the legacy systems, workloads onto the cloud, it warrants a discussion around approach and the key imperatives thereof…

 Cloud Migrations, Simplified! - The digital transformation is driving the cloudification, and cloud migrations are the core activities every enterprise is grappling with, since long time there was a debate about cloud adaptation enough water has passed under the bridge and most enterprises now have some or the other workload footprint in the cloud and others are following the suite to catchup.

September

For those who have already crosses the cloud gateway and migrated most of their systems on the cloud, it is essential to have a quick dip stick on what next and when… 

Looking forward, Beyond The Cloud!! - The cloud adoption is now trivial to almost all business verticals, the trends suggest organizations, OEMs and developer communities are looking way beyond cloud in next five years. In the coming months and years, we will see massive reorganization of the “Cloud”, the future of cloud will be an augmentation of the technological breakthrough that challenges the very assumptions around the cloud stack and the cloud native applications, devices and technologies truly a transformation of the cloud enabled by cloud!

October

The dialogues around blockchains and negativity around cryptocurrency was bit moving the sentiments of the crowd in a direction of moral takes, the choices one makes with technology keeping in mind it’s a strategy and not a mere tool makes the difference, the private and secure by design principle of blockchain will certainly make a mark in the way we do our business and spend considerable amount of money, effort on security and repudiation thereof was a great learning for me…

Hyperledger, Simplified! - Hyperledger isn’t a tool or a platform; it’s the project itself. Often, it’s referred to as the umbrella. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, Hyperledger now has more than 270 members. Various industries are represented, including aeronautics, finance, healthcare, BFSI / NBFCs, supply chain, manufacturing and technology. It was announced and formally named in December 2015 by 17 companies in a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology for cross-industry use in business. 

November

The modern distributed computing era is settling in and the new avenues to manage data storage is evolving at a greater pace never before, the implementation of such distributed frameworks are really solving fundamental issues around availability and unified data management to the core ..

CEPH Unified Storage, Simplified! - Ceph can do all three types of commonly found storage types (object, block, and file) — a flexibility that separates it from the rest of the SDS herd. It’s inherent scale-out support aligns well with horizontal which means you can gradually build large systems as cost and demand require, and it sports enterprise-grade features such as erasure coding, thin provisioning, cloning, load-balancing, automated tiering between flash and hard drives, and simplified maintenance and debugging.

December

During some interactions while exploring the new platforms we stumbled upon thought provoking questions that try and bring a new perspective and inter operatability of services and stacks running our legacy and modern workloads, though its like comparing apples with oranges becomes inevitable to state the differences and integration opportunities and benefits thereof, I tried taking a stab on emerging trends and open source framework enablement bringing in a perspective to help think through..

 Advantages of running Hadoop HDFS over DC/OS .. Businesses are now looking at using DC/OS Mesos because of the reliability, flexibility, and efficiency it brings. Mesos clusters require very few administrators to ensure that even massive fleets of machines remain operational. Frameworks are distributed applications that run on Mesos; for them, Mesos provides infrastructure and execution services.

Hope 2019 offers me similar learning curve and keep you all engaged, who enjoyed these tidbits of 2018 on Technology and provided feedbacks and asks.

Wishing everyone Best of 2019, Thank you for your patronage.

Best regards & Seasons Greetings!!

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