Day: November 15, 2023

KubeCon 2023: GlobalData’s Top 10 Open-Source Technologies Enabling App Modernization

by Charlotte Dunlap, posted in IT Leader
C. Dunlap
Research Director

Summary Bullets:

• The advent of GenAI is driving important new OSS technologies including little known PyTorch, as well as LF AI & Data

• eBPR received serious buzz during KubeCon for its claims of revolutionizing the observability/security arena

Burgeoning open-source software (OSS) supporting app modernization and GenAI (respectively) dominated during last week’s KubeCon in Chicago. KubeCon is a twice annual Kubernetes conference, hosted by CNCF, attracting DevOps-related personas looking to gauge the latest trends, technologies, and OSS methods. These technologies are most closely aligned with enterprise projects enabled through Kubernetes containers/environments, microservices/serverless computing, observability, application (API) security, FinOps (cloud cost management), and a slew of various developer tools which complement popular application platforms and ease development/deployment efforts.

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eSIMs Should Fuel Growth in Cellular IoT for the Enterprise

by John Marcus, posted in Internet of Things
J. Marcus

Summary Bullets:

• eSIMs first emerged in 2016, with strong potential for adoption in both consumer applications and industrial IoT.

• A new standard was published earlier in 2023, which will make using eSIMs for IoT easier for device makers and enterprise users, likely prompting growth in cellular IoT market opportunities.

SIM cards have long been a tool for mobile operator control of user devices. Dedicated to and often issued by an operator, once inserted in a device, there is a good chance the device would remain subscribed to the operator’s service as long as it was being used. ‘Control’ may be too strong of a word, but plastic SIMs certainly helped maintain a high level of customer ‘stickiness.’ Swapping out SIM cards – which provide user identification and authentication for network access – is a slow and clunky process whether there is one device or 10,000 devices involved.

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