Author: Alastair Cooke

Platform as a Service for Resilient Geo-Distributed Applications, Akka 3 Release, and Lightbend Trading as Akka
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on releasing version 3 of the Akka framework and rebranding Lightbend as Akka. Resilient geo-distributed applications have never been easier to build and operate.
Competing With Microsoft Copilot AI, Tabnine Covers More of the Software Development Life Cycle and Simplifies the Role of a Software Engineer
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day event lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Tabnine’s comprehensive vision of AI for the software development life cycle.
OpenStack-based Private Cloud Management Service with Migration Tools to Move Virtual Machines from VMware vSphere
Alastair Cooke, Event Lead at Tech Field Day, shares his insights on the Platform9 launch of Private Cloud Director for on-premises private cloud as a service and migration from an existing virtualization platform.
Shimon Ben David, CTO at WEKA, joins Dave Nicholson and Alastair Cooke to share his insights on how WEKA's innovative solutions, particularly the WEKApod Data Platform Appliance, are revolutionizing storage for AI workloads, setting a new benchmark for performance and efficiency.
Morpheus Data Cloud Management Platform Unifies AWS, Azure, and On-Premises Virtualization with the Promise of HCI in a Near Future Release.
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Morpheus Data’s Cloud Field Day 20 presentation. Morpheus enables multi-cloud platform choice for large enterprises.
Reference Architectures, Customer Innovation Labs, and Industry-Standard Ethernet Enable Cost-Effective Ethernet for AI Training
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares insights from the Juniper Networks presentation at Cloud Field Day 20 on 800GB Ethernet for AI training and the Juniper AI Innovation Lab.
The Oxide Cloud Computer Platform is a First-Principles Redesign of On-Premises Cloud Infrastructure.
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Oxide Computer’s multi-rack-scale on-premises cloud infrastructure and the innovative approach Oxide brings to tightly integrated server infrastructure hardware design.
Luke Norris, CEO at Kamiwaza.ai, joins hosts Alastair Cooke & Lisa Martin to share insights on leveraging AI with private data to power the 5th Industrial Revolution. An insightful conversation on the future of enterprise AI.
Google Cloud Platform Presentation Covering Running Enterprise Applications on GCP With Hardware Offload for Efficient Performance
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the Titanium architecture and hardware offload for efficient performance in the Google Cloud. Customers get more CPU for their code and less overhead from the infrastructure.
In a recent exchange, Paul Nashawaty discussed with Alastair Cooke the dynamics and Intersection of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SREs.
A 400% Increase in VMware Licensing Cost Prompted Migration to an Alternative Hypervisor and Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor and Paul Nashawaty, Practice Leader and Lead Principal Analyst at The Futurum Group, share their insights on what size of client might successfully migrate from a vSphere cluster to a Nutanix AHV cluster without experiencing significant business disruption.
Building Business Applications with LLM AI Is Complex and Running Those Applications Is Expensive—LLM Inference Needs Big Changes to Enable Widespread Use
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the changes needed for organizations to overcome the complexity and cost of LLMs and finally get tremendous business value from them.

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