Blog posts written by Kris Sharma

Kris Sharma
7 February 2022

Finserv hybrid cloud strategy – it starts with Linux

Article Financial Services

The future of financial services technology infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Hybrid multi-cloud architecture provides financial institutions flexibility, portability, interoperability, and the control needed to consistently deploy and manage enterprise applications and workloads. By adopting hybrid cloud, finservs...

Kris Sharma
7 February 2022

Kris Sharma
17 January 2022

Canonical Kubernetes for Financial Services

Article Financial Services

To serve today’s on-demand customer, financial institutions must become agile digital enterprises focused on delivering innovative products, services, and customer experiences. Adopting a container-first approach represents an unrivalled opportunity for financial institutions to increase system efficiency and resource...

Kris Sharma
17 January 2022

Kris Sharma
10 January 2022

Kubernetes for Finservs – Unlocking success in digital transformations

Article Financial Services

The global health crisis has accelerated the digital transformation within the financial services industry. A McKinsey report highlights that “In a competitive environment of rising cost pressures, where rapid action and response is imperative, financial institutions must modernise their technology function to support...

Kris Sharma
10 January 2022

Kris Sharma
20 October 2021

Finserv open source security

Article Financial Services

The fintech ecosystem is flourishing and exciting things are happening these days at the intersection of digital technology and financial services – thanks in part to an infusion of global fintech investment that reached US$98 billion across 2,456 deals in H1’21. This far outpaces last year’s annual total of $121.5...

Kris Sharma
20 October 2021

Kris Sharma
9 August 2021

Open source in Banking – Building the bank of the future, today

Article Financial Services

Banking is at a pivotal moment. New regulations like virtual banking licensing frameworks, advances in open banking and big techs rapidly gaining ground in financial services, are dramatically changing the banking landscape, forcing incumbents to reinvent themselves. To be successful, the bank of the future will need to...

Kris Sharma
9 August 2021

Kris Sharma
6 July 2021

Finserv open source infrastructure powers digital transformation

Article Financial Services

Covid-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and opportunities for financial institutions to embrace digital transformation initiatives at pace and scale. Finservs are enhancing their purview of digital transformation initiatives to stay relevant and create a technology foundation that enables them to...

Kris Sharma
6 July 2021

Kris Sharma
4 May 2021

Fintech infrastructure and hybrid clouds

Article Financial Services

The future of Fintech infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Using private and public cloud infrastructure at the same time allows financial institutions to optimise their CapEx and OpEx costs. Why Private clouds? A private cloud is an integral part of a hybrid multi-cloud strategy for financial services organisations....

Kris Sharma
4 May 2021

Kris Sharma
23 April 2021

Fintech AI/ML on Ubuntu

Article Financial Services

The financial services (FS) industry is going through a period of change and disruption. Technology innovation has provided the means for financial institutions to reimagine the way in which they operate and interact with their customers, employees and the wider ecosystem. One significant area of development is the...

Kris Sharma
23 April 2021

Kris Sharma
4 February 2021

What is Elasticsearch and how are enterprises using it?

Article Apps

What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene™, a fulltext search-engine library and developed in Java. Elasticsearch started as a scalable version of...

Kris Sharma
4 February 2021

Kris Sharma
19 January 2021

What is PostgreSQL and why do banking software developers love it?

Article Financial Services

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that is known for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. PostgreSQL is becoming the preferred database for more and more enterprises. It is currently ranked #4 in popularity amongst hundreds of databases worldwide according to the...

Kris Sharma
19 January 2021

Kris Sharma
12 January 2021

PostgreSQL: The PgMiner botnet attacks & Postgres database security

Article Ubuntu

Assuring the security of PostgreSQL and all open source database systems is critical as many learned with the PgMiner botnet attacks in December 2020. Having an understanding of, and visibility into, how these attacks happen and following standard best practices is the best way to make sure that your data is not at risk. This

Kris Sharma
12 January 2021

Kris Sharma
7 October 2020

Cloud-native adoption in financial services

Article Financial Services

The business agility imperative With the economies of many countries heading towards recession, increasing regulations, growing security threats and increasing costs, financial services firms need practical solutions, now more than ever. Many of the financial technology firms (‘fintechs’) and mobile app-based challenger...

Kris Sharma
7 October 2020

Kris Sharma
23 September 2020

A ‘Connected’ Bank – The power of data and analytics

Article Financial Services

The next 10 years will redefine banking. What will differentiate top banks from their competitors? Data and derived insights. Banks across the globe have been immersed in their digital agenda and with customers adopting digital banking channels aggressively, banks are collecting massive volumes of data on how customers...

Kris Sharma
23 September 2020

Kris Sharma
22 September 2020

NoSQL databases: what is MongoDB and its use cases for financial services?

Article Financial Services

Databases like MongoDB, a NoSQL document database, are commonly used in environments where flexibility is required with big, unstructured data with ever-changing schemas. This post explains what a NoSQL database is, and provides an overview of MongoDB, its use cases and a solution for running an open source MongoDB...

Kris Sharma
22 September 2020