It’s Monday morning. You’ve scheduled a call with key teams to prepare for a busy week. From around the world, your team joins one by one. Well, they try to anyway. Some can’t find the invitation link. Or can’t get the tool to launch. Others don’t receive a calendar notification. Several find that their mobile device can’t connect; a few join without audio or video. One person tries to join on the wrong platform and…

After its purchase of cloud storage automation specialist Spot for $450 million this past June, NetApp is releasing its first new product under the brand. Called Spot Storage, it’s a “storageless” solution that’s designed to enable automated administration of cloud-native, container-based applications. NetApp describes Spot Storage as a cloud-based, serverless offering for application-driven architectures that run microservices-based applications in Kubernetes containers. “Serverless computing” is a bit of a misnomer. Your application and data still reside…