Torsten Volk

Denver

Managing Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

Principal Analyst, Application Modernization at Tech Target

I love enterprise technology and consumer tech. Data analytics and machine learning are the answer to enhance the user value for both.

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Top 10 Enterprise Technology Trends in 2025 (Part 2): Simplifying the Software Development Lifecycle

Jan 6, 2025 | torstenvolk.medium.com | Torsten Volk

Torsten Volk·Follow10 min read·--Part 2 of the Top 10 predictions for 2025 (you can find part 1 here) focuses on technologies and trends that aim at radically simplifying the software development lifecycle. Topics range from revolutionary new concepts, such as infrastructure from code (IfC) all the way to ‘old friends’ with a twist, such as observability for dev and ops.
The 5 Pillars of IBM’s App Development and Modernization Strategy

Oct 28, 2024 | torstenvolk.medium.com | Torsten Volk

Torsten Volk·Follow6 min read·--Using some GenAI magic (by GPT4o), we find the following 5 topics in the 103 developer-centric sessions at the IBM TechXchange conference. All of these topics focus on demonstrating IBM’s ability to make application developers more productive by eliminating overhead tasks, while at the same time optimizing performance, compliance, and security. Stepping through these five topics one-by-one shows the key pillars of IBM’s developer strategy.
Application Modernization and the Role of Platform Engineering

Sep 30, 2024 | techtarget.com | Torsten Volk

This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the impacts of microservices, cloud-native application challenges, containers, multi-cluster and multi-namespace deployments, serverless deployments, infrastructure-as-code, open source tools for cloud management and automation, DevOps practices, and platform engineering. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log in to read the full report.
RedHat OpenShift Virtualization Expands Enterprise Capabilities

Aug 13, 2024 | techtarget.com | Torsten Volk

RedHat’s OpenShift 4.16 adds several strong enterprise-grade features that aim to enable OpenShift Virtualization to allow organizations to modernize at their own pace by running legacy apps and modern microservices apps side-by-side on the same platform. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log in to read the full report. If you are not yet a Subscription Client but would like to learn more about accessing this report, please contact us.
Platform Engineering Rules the Day: Eight Key Themes

May 16, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Torsten Volk |Jon Udell |Oladimeji Sowole |Eric Newcomer

Platform engineering has definitely taken flight. Indeed, platform engineering was the big topic at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris a couple of months ago. There were 60 sessions related to platform engineering, almost twice as many as sessions on large language models (LLM). Unsurprisingly, we find “developers” all the way at the top of the 20 most important topics at the event, with data and security following close behind.
WebAssembly, Large Language Models, and Kubernetes Matter

Apr 30, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Torsten Volk |Linpeng Tang |Jeffrey Burt |April E. Cho

WebAssembly (WASM) makes it dead simple to develop, build, run, and operate the exact same code on any piece of hardware you can find under your desk, in your data center, in your AWS account, or on the control unit of a 30-ton harvester in a corn field. While I had talked with Fermyon’s CEO Matt Butcher about this vision back at KubeCon 2022 in Detroit, today there are actual production-ready use cases that bring tangible value.
A Walk Through HashiCorp’s History from 2012 until Today

Apr 29, 2024 | torstenvolk.medium.com | Torsten Volk

Over the past decade, Terraform has become the standard platform for defining infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and making it part of the GitOps lifecycle. Hardware and software vendors make their products available through Terraform providers, as this will make them easier to consume for developers and platform engineers. Even AWS, Azure, and GCP maintain their own Terraform providers for easy consumption of most of their products.
Why OpenAI GPT Is Still Ahead

Apr 27, 2024 | faun.pub | Torsten Volk

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, touting the one million token context window of the latest Gemini LLM reminds me very much of the age when makers of digital cameras tried to beat the competition by advertising higher and higher numbers of megapixels. Product marketers conveniently left out the fact that their cameras' lenses were not capable of truly resolving the detail that those high megapixel counts suggested.
Google Gemini 1.5

Apr 22, 2024 | torstenvolk.medium.com | Torsten Volk

Google’s new Gemini 1.5 Pro Large Language Model (LLM) touts a context window of 1 million tokens, eight times more than the 128,000 tokens currently supported by OpenAI’s GPT4, and 5 times the 200,000 tokens handled by Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus can currently process in response to user input. One token can stand for one or multiple letters or an entire term.
KubeCon 2024 Insights: Spotlight on Platform Engineering, Large Language Models, and WebAssembly

Mar 29, 2024 | medium.com | Torsten Volk

Kubernetes was ‘born’ on June 6, 2014 and it has been on a wild ride ever since. KubeCon 2024 in Paris, almost, marks the platform’s 10ths anniversary, a great time to look back and connect the dots between then and now.