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Dec. 26, 2017
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 The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this ...Dec. 27, 2017 03:45 PM EST Reads: 1,047 |
 While walking around the office I happened upon a relatively new employee dragging emails from his inbox into folders. I asked why and was told, “I’m just answering emails and getting stuff off my desk.” An empty inbox may be emotionally satisfying to look at, but in practice, you shou...Dec. 27, 2017 03:30 PM EST Reads: 949 |
 Following a tradition dating back to 2002 at ZapThink and continuing at Intellyx since 2014, it’s time for Intellyx’s annual predictions for the coming year.
If you’re a long-time fan, you know we have a twist to the typical annual prediction post: we actually critique our predictions...Dec. 27, 2017 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,209 |
 We seem to run this cycle with every new technology that comes along. A good idea with practical applications is born, then both marketers and over-excited users start to declare it is the solution for all or our problems. Compliments of Gartner, we know it generally as “The Hype Cycle...Dec. 27, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,031 |
 Defining the term ‘monitoring’ is a difficult task considering the performance space has evolved significantly over the years. Lately, there has been a shift in the monitoring world, sparking a healthy debate regarding the definition and purpose of monitoring, through which a new term ...Dec. 27, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 696 |
 DevOps failure is a touchy subject with some, because DevOps is typically perceived as a way to avoid failure. As a result, when you fail in a DevOps practice, the situation can seem almost hopeless. However, just as a fail-fast business approach, or the “fail and adjust sooner” method...Dec. 27, 2017 09:00 AM EST Reads: 747 |
 "Grape Up leverages Cloud Native technologies and helps companies build software using microservices, and work the DevOps agile way. We've been doing digital innovation for the last 12 years," explained Daniel Heckman, of Grape Up in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held O...Dec. 26, 2017 03:15 PM EST Reads: 976 |
 The Toyota Production System, a world-renowned production system is based on the "complete elimination of all waste". The "Toyota Way", grounded on continuous improvement dates to the 1860s. The methodology is widely proven to be successful yet there are still industries within and tan...Dec. 26, 2017 12:15 PM EST Reads: 926 |
 DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNati...Dec. 26, 2017 10:30 AM EST Reads: 856 |
 The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time. CD is an especially great option for projects that require multiple and frequent contributions to be integrated. But… securing CICD best practices is an emerging, essential, yet little understood pract...Dec. 26, 2017 08:30 AM EST Reads: 822 |
 It’s “time to move on from DevOps and continuous delivery.”
This was the provocative title of a recent article in ZDNet, in which Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate at Google Cloud Platform, suggested that “software shops should have put these concepts into action years ago.”
...Dec. 22, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,059 |
 Let's do a visualization exercise. Imagine it's December 31, 2018, and you're ringing in the New Year with your friends and family. You think back on everything that you accomplished in the last year: your company's revenue is through the roof thanks to the success of your product, and...Dec. 21, 2017 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,405 |
 "Opsani helps the enterprise adopt containers, help them move their infrastructure into this modern world of DevOps, accelerate the delivery of new features into production, and really get them going on the container path," explained Ross Schibler, CEO of Opsani, and Peter Nickolov, CT...Dec. 21, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,089 |
 Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes to accelerate the development and the delivery of cloud-native applications. However, sharing a Kubernetes cluster between members of the same team can be challenging. And, sharing clusters across multiple teams is even harder.
Kubernetes offers sev...Dec. 21, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,100 |
 Cavirin Systems has just announced C2, a SaaS offering designed to bring continuous security assessment and remediation to hybrid environments, containers, and data centers. Cavirin C2 is deployed within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features a flexible licensing model for easy scalabi...Dec. 20, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,393 |
 We just came off of a review of a product that handles both containers and virtual machines in the same interface. Under the covers, implementation of containers defaults to LXC, though recently Docker support was added.
When reading online, or searching for information, increasingly ...Dec. 18, 2017 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,521 |
 The nature of test environments is inherently temporary—you set up an environment, run through an automated test suite, and then tear down the environment. If you can reduce the cycle time for this process down to hours or minutes, then you may be able to cut your test environment budg...Dec. 17, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,495 |
 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...Dec. 17, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,327 |
 identify the sources of event storms and performance anomalies will require automated, real-time root-cause analysis.
I think Enterprise Management Associates said it well:
“The data and metrics collected at instrumentation points across the application ecosystem are essential to per...Dec. 17, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,241 |
 The benefits of automation are well documented; it increases productivity, cuts cost and minimizes errors. It eliminates repetitive manual tasks, freeing us up to be more innovative. By that logic, surely, we should automate everything possible, right? So, is attempting to automate eve...Dec. 17, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,187 |
 Many enterprise and government IT organizations are realizing the benefits of cloud computing by extending IT delivery and management processes across private and public cloud services. But they are often challenged with balancing the need for centralized cloud governance without stifl...Dec. 16, 2017 03:45 PM EST Reads: 1,547 |
 "Codigm is based on the cloud and we are here to explore marketing opportunities in America. Our mission is to make an ecosystem of the SW environment that anyone can understand, learn, teach, and develop the SW on the cloud," explained Sung Tae Ryu, CEO of Codigm, in this SYS-CON.tv i...Dec. 16, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,315 |
 High-velocity engineering teams are applying not only continuous delivery processes, but also lessons in experimentation from established leaders like Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook. These companies have made experimentation a foundation for their release processes, allowing them to try...Dec. 16, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,358 |
 "CA has been doing a lot of things in the area of DevOps. Now we have a complete set of tool sets in order to enable customers to go all the way from planning to development to testing down to release into the operations," explained Aruna Ravichandran, Vice President of Global Marketin...Dec. 16, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,362 |
 While some developers care passionately about how data centers and clouds are architected, for most, it is only the end result that matters. To the majority of companies, technology exists to solve a business problem, and only delivers value when it is solving that problem. 2017 brings...Dec. 15, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,431 |
 DevOps teams have more on their plate than ever. As infrastructure needs grow, so does the time required to ensure that everything's running smoothly. This makes automation crucial - especially in the server and network monitoring world. Server monitoring tools can save teams time by a...Dec. 15, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,216 |
 While we understand Agile as a means to accelerate innovation, manage uncertainty and cope with ambiguity, many are inclined to think that it conflicts with the objectives of traditional engineering projects, such as building a highway, skyscraper or power plant. These are plan-driven ...Dec. 14, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,230 |
 "We're developing a software that is based on the cloud environment and we are providing those services to corporations and the general public," explained Seungmin Kim, CEO/CTO of SM Systems Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa ...Dec. 14, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,439 |
 Digital transformation has changed the way users interact with the world, and the traditional healthcare experience no longer meets rising consumer expectations. Enterprise Health Clouds (EHCs) are designed to easily and securely deliver the smart and engaging digital health experience...Dec. 11, 2017 11:01 AM EST Reads: 887 |
 DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration. But in real terms, how do you: Integrate activities across diverse teams and services? Make objective decisions with system-wide visibility? Use feedback loops to enable learning and improvement?
With technolog...Dec. 11, 2017 07:30 AM EST Reads: 2,590 |
 "We are an integrator of carrier ethernet and bandwidth to get people to connect to the cloud, to the SaaS providers, and the IaaS providers all on ethernet," explained Paul Mako, CEO & CTO of Massive Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017,...Dec. 9, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,577 |
 From our perspective as consumers, perhaps the best thing about digital transformation is how consumerization is making technology so much easier to use. Sure, our television remote controls still have too many buttons, and I have yet to figure out the digital display in my Honda, but ...Dec. 9, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,610 |
 "I focus on what we are calling CAST Highlight, which is our SaaS application portfolio analysis tool. It is an extremely lightweight tool that can integrate with pretty much any build process right now," explained Andrew Siegmund, Application Migration Specialist for CAST, in this SYS...Dec. 9, 2017 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,232 |
 We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your custom...Dec. 8, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,602 |
 "Cloud4U builds software services that help people build DevOps platforms for cloud-based software and using our platform people can draw a picture of the system, network, software," explained Kihyeon Kim, CEO and Head of R&D; at Cloud4U, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo,...Dec. 8, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,644 |
 Is advanced scheduling in Kubernetes achievable?Yes, however, how do you properly accommodate every real-life scenario that a Kubernetes user might encounter? How do you leverage advanced scheduling techniques to shape and describe each scenario in easy-to-use rules and configurations?...Dec. 7, 2017 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,690 |
 As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance. How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget...Dec. 7, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,505 |
 "CHEETAH is not just a training company. What we are trying to do is something fun – how to learn the cloud in a fun way. So you can learn Docker, Cloud Foundry, a lot of complex technologies but in a fun way," explained Etienne Cointet, CEO of App2Cloud, in this SYS-CON.tv interview a...Dec. 7, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,497 |
 DevOps is not just a hot topic for Development and Operations teams: it brings huge benefits to everyone in the software delivery pipeline—including security. That’s because DevOps, and more specifically DevOps Management tools, helps to prevent security vulnerabilities in the delivery...Dec. 6, 2017 03:45 PM EST Reads: 639 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Synametrics Technologies will exhibit at SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Synametrics Technologies is a privately held company based in Plainsboro, New Jersey tha...Dec. 5, 2017 11:30 AM EST Reads: 2,857 |
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