By Jason Bloomberg  "This all sounds great. But it's just not realistic."
This is what a group of five senior IT executives told me during a workshop I held not long ago. We were working through an exercise on the organizational characteristics necessary to successfully execute a digital transformation, ... Dec. 14, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,455 |
By Madhavan Krishnan, VP, Cloud Solutions, Virtusa  The cloud revolution in enterprises has very clearly crossed the phase of proof-of-concepts into a truly mainstream adoption. One of most popular enterprise-wide initiatives currently going on are “cloud migration” programs of some kind or another. Finding business value for these prog... Dec. 14, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,329 |
By Gopala Krishna Behara; Sridhar Chalasani; Tirumala Khandrika  The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase system safety as scale increases. Microservices being modular these are faster to change and enables an evolutionary architecture where systems can change, as the business needs change. Microservices can scale... Nov. 26, 2017 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,204 |
By Don MacVittie  Our work, both with clients and with tools, has lead us to wonder how it is that organizations are handling compliance issues in the cloud. The big cloud vendors offer compliance for their infrastructure, but the shared responsibility model requires that you take certain steps to meet ... Nov. 25, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,767 |
By Derek Weeks  Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT Disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His talk, Organically DevOps: Building Quality an... Nov. 24, 2017 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,274 |
By Elizabeth White  "We started a Master of Science in business analytics - that's the hot topic. We serve the business community around San Francisco so we educate the working professionals and this is where they all want to be," explained Judy Lee, Associate Professor and Department Chair at Golden Gate... Nov. 21, 2017 11:38 AM EST Reads: 1,499 |
By Automic Blog  With continuous delivery (CD) almost always in the spotlight, continuous integration (CI) is often left out in the cold. Indeed, it's been in use for so long and so widely, we often take the model for granted. So what is CI and how can you make the most of it? This blog is intended to ... Nov. 14, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,088 |
By Amy Eager  Companies have always been concerned that traditional enterprise software is slow and complex to install, often disrupting critical and time-sensitive operations during roll-out. With the growing need to integrate new digital technologies into the enterprise to transform business proce... Nov. 12, 2017 02:15 AM EST Reads: 3,938 |
By Kong Yang  Hybrid IT is today’s reality, and while its implementation may seem daunting at times, more and more organizations are migrating to the cloud. In fact, according to SolarWinds 2017 IT Trends Index: Portrait of a Hybrid IT Organization 95 percent of organizations have migrated crucial a... Nov. 6, 2017 03:30 PM EST Reads: 4,927 |
By Liz McMillan  As people view cloud as a preferred option to build IT systems, the size of the cloud-based system is getting bigger and more complex. As the system gets bigger, more people need to collaborate from design to management. As more people collaborate to create a bigger system, the need fo... Nov. 2, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,450 |
By Elizabeth White  Nordstrom is transforming the way that they do business and the cloud is the key to enabling speed and hyper personalized customer experiences. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ken Schow, VP of Engineering at Nordstrom, will discuss some of the key learnings and common pitfalls of la... Oct. 31, 2017 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,071 |
By Elizabeth White  Today most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall.
As with most new architectures, this dream takes significant work to... Oct. 31, 2017 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,893 |
By Elizabeth White  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, will describe how NetApp designed a three-year program of work to migrate 25PB of a major telco's enterprise data to a new STaaS platform, and then secured a long-term c... Oct. 28, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,130 |
By Pat Romanski  DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die... Oct. 27, 2017 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,117 |
By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Academy has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct. 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Academy is the leading technology training platf... Oct. 26, 2017 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,273 |
By Pat Romanski  The last two years has seen discussions about cloud computing evolve from the public / private / hybrid split to the reality that most enterprises will be creating a complex, multi-cloud strategy. Companies are wary of committing all of their resources to a single cloud, and instead ar... Oct. 14, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,871 |
By Elizabeth White  Many organizations adopt DevOps to reduce cycle times and deliver software faster; some take on DevOps to drive higher quality and better end-user experience; others look to DevOps for a clearer line-of-sight to customers to drive better business impacts. In truth, these three foundati... Oct. 13, 2017 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,542 |
By Cameron Van Orman  DevSecOps – a trend around transformation in process, people and technology – is about breaking down silos and waste along the software development lifecycle and using agile methodologies, automation and insights to help get apps to market faster. This leads to higher quality apps, gre... Oct. 11, 2017 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,682 |
By Karthick Viswanathan  These days, APIs have become an integral part of the digital transformation journey for all enterprises. Every digital innovation story is connected to APIs . But have you ever pondered over to know what are the source of these APIs? Let me explain - APIs sources can be varied, interna... Oct. 4, 2017 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,295 |
By Flint Brenton  The nature of the technology business is forward-thinking. It focuses on the future and what’s coming next. Innovations and creativity in our world of software development strive to improve the status quo and increase customer satisfaction through speed and increased connectivity.
Yet... Oct. 3, 2017 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,662 |
By Stackify Blog  It has never been a better time to be a developer! Thanks to cloud computing, deploying our applications is much easier than it used to be. How we deploy our apps continues to evolve thanks to cloud hosting, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and now Function-as-a-Service.
FaaS is the conc... Oct. 2, 2017 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,299 |
By Elizabeth White  21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced b... Sep. 24, 2017 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,386 |
By Elizabeth White  Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing c... Sep. 24, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,836 |
By Jason Bloomberg  Many organizations are now looking to DevOps maturity models to gauge their DevOps adoption and compare their maturity to their peers. However, as enterprise organizations rush to adopt DevOps, moving past experimentation to embrace it at scale, they are in danger of falling into the t... Sep. 24, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,734 |
By Elizabeth White  There is a huge demand for responsive, real-time mobile and web experiences, but current architectural patterns do not easily accommodate applications that respond to events in real time. Common solutions using message queues or HTTP long-polling quickly lead to resiliency, scalability... Sep. 24, 2017 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,311 Replies: 1 |
By Elizabeth White  Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility... Sep. 21, 2017 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,528 |
By Pat Romanski  DevOps at Cloud Expo – being held October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you c... Sep. 20, 2017 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,095 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, was first introduced by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. The initial version HTTP/0.9 was designed to facilitate data transfers between a client and server. The protocol works on a request-response model over a TCP connection, but it’s evolved over the yea... Sep. 17, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,001 |
By OnPage Blog  Digital transformation will come from increased investments in technology. But, at the same time, it will also come from increased scrutiny and commitment to quality of the existing services. To ensure this outcome, companies must be committed to the quality spelled through common acro... Sep. 17, 2017 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,074 |
By Liz McMillan  "As we've gone out into the public cloud we've seen that over time we may have lost a few things - we've lost control, we've given up cost to a certain extent, and then security, flexibility," explained Steve Conner, VP of Sales at Cloudistics,in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud... Sep. 15, 2017 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,414 |
By Stackify Blog  DevOps sees the coming together of practices, philosophies, and tools that allow you to create services and applications very quickly. This means that you can improve on your apps and evolve them at a much faster rate than those developers who are using traditional software development... Sep. 14, 2017 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,717 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  In our first installment of this blog series, we went over the different types of applications migrated to the cloud and the benefits IT organizations hope to achieve by moving applications to the cloud. Unfortunately, IT can’t just press a button or even whip up a few lines of code to... Sep. 13, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,580 |
By Stackify Blog  Like so many other IT solutions, cloud computing services have long been promoted from a standpoint of administrative efficiency. As the rationale goes, if you get your cloud services from a single provider, you'll enjoy the reduced hassle of consolidating third party business relation... Sep. 9, 2017 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,956 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a common and reliable transmission protocol on the Internet. TCP was introduced in the 70s by Stanford University for US Defense to establish connectivity between distributed systems to maintain a backup of defense information. At the time, TCP wa... Sep. 9, 2017 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,650 |
By Liz McMillan  Most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall. As with most new architectures, this dream takes a lot of work to become a r... Sep. 6, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,100 |
By Mamoon Yunus  API Security is complex! Vendors like Forum Systems, IBM, CA and Axway have invested almost 2 decades of engineering effort and significant capital in building API Security stacks to lockdown APIs. The API Security stack diagram shown below is a building block for rapidly locking down ... Aug. 31, 2017 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,700 |
By Stackify Blog  Web services have taken the development world by storm, especially in recent years as they've become more and more widely adopted. There are naturally many reasons for this, but first, let's understand what exactly a web service is. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines "web of s... Aug. 30, 2017 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,491 |
By Liz McMillan  IT organizations are moving to the cloud in hopes to approve efficiency, increase agility and save money. Migrating workloads might seem like a simple task, but what many businesses don’t realize is that application migration criteria differs across organizations, making it difficult f... Aug. 29, 2017 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,405 |
By Liz McMillan  Enterprise architects are increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies as they seek to utilize existing data center assets, leverage the advantages of cloud computing and avoid cloud vendor lock-in. This requires a globally aware traffic management strategy that can monitor infrastruct... Aug. 29, 2017 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,759 |
By Harry Trott  There are several reasons why businesses migrate their operations to the cloud. Scalability and price are among the most important factors determining this transition. Unlike legacy systems, cloud based businesses can scale on demand. The database and applications in the cloud are not ... Aug. 27, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,460 |