Let Your Coders Code Developers want to create things, but instead they’re spending too much time lately on work like IT operations, deploying containers, and orchestrating clusters. Developers need to collaborate effectively with ops engineers, not become sysadmins themselves. Oracle has just recently open sourced two projects to help with that goal by making the Kubernetes container orchestration tool more practical for multicloud, large-scale use cases. Here are seven big ideas behind Oracle’s latest contributions to container-native technology, which should help developers get back to doing what they love, and help companies embrace containers and serverless environments that are enterprise-ready. —Alexa Weber Morales, Oracle director of developer content
Don’t Let the Cloud Lead to an Unconnected Organization Moving to the cloud should let IT reduce the chaos that comes from a legacy of multiple disconnected systems. But organizations need strong, centralized leadership to make sure connections happen, says Chuck Hollis, senior VP of converged infrastructure at Oracle. His advice.
Seven IT Skills That Future-Proof Your Resume One growing technology area IT workers should master: Networks. “Network technology is undergoing major disruption as cloud computing takes hold in enterprises,” says Subramanian Iyer of Oracle Insight, who says new roles will involve software-defined network controllers, OpenFlow, northbound/southbound APIs, compute technologies, hypervisors and more. The other six skills.
Nearly half of companies moving finance and HR to the cloud are seeing better collaboration between the two groups, a new research report finds. Learn more about the collaboration and productivity gains that are possible and what goals organizations have set for their finance and HR cloud efforts.
