Better than VMs & Co-Pilots

Are Virtual Machines finally dead yet?

The whole license changes around VMware and the insanely increased costs are like a horrible accident. You know you shouldn't look at it, but you also can't look away. tl;dr After the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, the customers experienced a drastic price change, making many challenging their position. On the other hand, multiple corporations report that they can't just use something different as they are too dependent on the technology stack. Well, if you just had to invest five more minutes to be a little bit more cloud native, I'm not saying that it is the solution for everything, but at least it decreases the number of chains you are putting on your IT.

We hopefully can move on now to overcome VMs and focus on more lightweight solutions. Better for your pocket money and for the planet. But it doesn't look like people think at least one step ahead - the common discussion out there in the WWW is which hypervisor to choose instead of thinking about how to build and ship your software so that you can use whatever you want...

Thinking of the 1:1 replacements:

• I see here a few chances for cloud providers and their rapid adoption. If AWS, Azure, and Co. are too expansive, you should test Scaleway, OVH, and DigitalOcean! (no advertisement)

• The FOSSlers, on the other hand, are screaming PROXMOX, but I think that is not an option except if you want to double or triple your current infrastructure team.

• OpenShift or OKD would be more elegant than that. Here, you would get a full powerhouse for your transition. Run VMs, run containers, and host a Serverless platform on-prem or in the cloud. You see where this is going.

Whatever option you choose, first, you should invest in the way your teams develop, build, and ship software. As an example you could use Packer to create from the same software VM images or container images. With the focus on the pipeline you are going to be prepared for future changes and enable your organization to take on any challenges without having such minor blockers.

Co-Pilots and why you have to stay the captain

The age of co-pilots is here. But maybe we are just at the level of kinder garden. As BusinessInsider (yeah, I know BI...) reported about a Pharma company throwing out Microsoft Co-Pilot because it is only able to create PowerPoint slides, which also could be from a child. How much meat we have on this stake is difficult to say, but to find relevant success stories is also almost impossible. I think we should turn down the heat of the AI flame to not burn all the fuel at once and see the whole industry going down because, surprisingly, the technology isn't ready yet.

What most people forget is that we are in the middle of a huge, big-fat hype. And the wave we are riding is still strong, constantly pushed by new companies, new products, and billions of dollars invested by people who actually play Monopoly.

Obviously, technology will need some more years to become really helpful. The results of the report from BCG and Harvard are good. "Completed 12% more tasks; completed 25% more quickly; increased performance by 17% with AI".