The Fabric recently hosted our CXO Council meeting. Our Council consists of CXOs of industry leading companies to discuss and gain private access to the latest breakthrough innovations in next-generation enterprise cloud infrastructure technologies. The theme for the meeting was "Reimagining infrastructure in a distributed era."

In the previous parts of this article series, I had mentioned that we are the advent of a new era of glorious distributed computing of many kinds, and therefore infrastructure has to be reimagined to meet the evolving needs and challenges. To close out the series, let us summarize the ways that infrastructure itself and applications are being decentralized, thereby driving needs to evolve infrastructure to meet the resulting challenges.

In the first post of this series, I mentioned that we are at the advent of a new era of glorious distributed computing of many kinds, and therefore infrastructure has to be reimagined to meet the evolving needs and challenges.  In this article, we will explore how de-centralization via distributing trust across participants using blockchain technology in business transactions is driving some new infrastructure and business model innovations.

Picture this. A hacker uses a VPN to breach into a cloud server (virtual machine hosted within a tier-1 public cloud provider) of a large financial enterprise, through a misconfigured firewall, then executes a small set of commands (injection attack), which gets her the credentials.

In this article, we will explore how de-centralization via micro-services and external services is impacting application development and deployment. Applications have, in the past, had a form of centralization in the form of being a monolithic, tightly bound development and deployment model.  Also, there was an approach of slow and rigid waterfall development, which was holding back the speed of innovation, enterprise digital transformation.