Forbes June 17, 2024
Data is distributed. By its very nature, we work with enterprise-level data across different documents, applications, databases and deeper systems; the fact that we can distribute any single piece of information into a wider orchestrated data entity woven between different aspects of an IT stack is fundamental to how modern technology works.
Cloud computing clouds are also distributed. A proportion of our cloud estate will always be located within the four walls of a business within its own datacenter and this will typically start with instances of private cloud. Clearly there are now major connection pipes to the public cloud and the technology layer that cloud services provider hyperscalers offer. Plus of course there’s the in-between world of hybrid cloud...