By Liz McMillan  "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. 14, 2017 04:15 PM EST Reads: 903 |
By John Rauser  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: 1,013 |
By Stackify Blog  Troubleshooting a problem on a remote server, especially in production, is not an easy task. Sometimes it involves debugging the application code directly on the server.
But the production servers are usually run in a strict environment, where not all convenient developer tools are av... Dec. 14, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 570 |
By Elizabeth White  Data scientists must access high-performance computing resources across a wide-area network. To achieve cloud-based HPC visualization, researchers must transfer datasets and visualization results efficiently.
HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster.... Dec. 14, 2017 01:15 PM EST Reads: 1,002 |
By XebiaLabs Blog  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. 14, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 432 |
By Pat Romanski  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. 14, 2017 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,062 |
By Stackify Blog  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. 14, 2017 08:45 AM EST Reads: 983 |
By Elizabeth White  "NetApp is known as a data management leader but we do a lot more than just data management on-prem with the data centers of our customers. We're also big in the hybrid cloud," explained Wes Talbert, Principal Architect at NetApp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held O... Dec. 14, 2017 08:45 AM EST Reads: 929 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  These days, no matter what task you’re trying to accomplish within your online properties, chances are there’s at least one cloud solution that provides it. However, with so much of our personal and business data living now online, there’s perhaps no functionality more important than c... Dec. 14, 2017 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,237 |
By Don MacVittie  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. 14, 2017 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,202 |
By Liz McMillan  "We're focused on how to get some of the attributes that you would expect from an Amazon, Azure, Google, and doing that on-prem. We believe today that you can actually get those types of things done with certain architectures available in the market today," explained Steve Conner, VP o... Dec. 14, 2017 07:45 AM EST Reads: 894 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  The end of the year is a time for reflection. It’s when most of us are looking back at the choices, accomplishments, and mistakes of the year prior and setting goals to improve the following year. It’s also when businesses analyze the year’s trends and behaviors to determine necessary ... Dec. 14, 2017 07:00 AM EST Reads: 524 |
By Automic Blog  For over ten years, DevOps has been taking the world by storm. It has made organizations step back, evaluate their processes and implement enterprise-wide cultural and infrastructural change. Vendors have followed suite, introducing an abundance of continuous delivery tools to facilita... Dec. 13, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 999 |
By Sven Olav Lund  Today’s hyper-connectivity of both people and things has led to an enormous jump in network traffic. Global IP traffic will increase nearly threefold over the next five years. It’s not going to lessen, nor is it going to get slower. These factors create a need for high-speed networks t... Dec. 10, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,363 |
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... Dec. 8, 2017 07:30 AM EST Reads: 1,178 |
By Simon Hill  Long-term partners Fujitsu Limited and Citrix Systems Japan have announced a new virtual desktop service based in the cloud. Designed to take some of the pain out of digital transformation, the new offering makes it easier to create digital workspaces in a secure manner that’s scalable... Dec. 7, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,285 |
By Pat Romanski  "WineSOFT is a software company making proxy server software, which is widely used in the telecommunication industry or the content delivery networks or e-commerce," explained Jonathan Ahn, COO of WineSOFT, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at ... Dec. 1, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,294 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  The past few years have seen a huge increase in the amount of critical IT services that companies outsource to SaaS/IaaS/PaaS providers, be it security, storage, monitoring, or operations. Of course, along with any outsourcing to a service provider comes a Service Level Agreement (SLA)... Nov. 29, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,466 |
By Derek Weeks  Admiral Calcote - also known as Lee Calcote (@lcalcote) or the Ginger Geek to his friends - gave a presentation entitled Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference.
Okay, he isn't really an admiral - nor does anyone call him that - but... Nov. 23, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,525 |
By Pat Romanski  As you move to the cloud, your network should be efficient, secure, and easy to manage. An enterprise adopting a hybrid or public cloud needs systems and tools that provide:
Agility: ability to deliver applications and services faster, even in complex hybrid environments
Easier man... Nov. 19, 2017 11:45 AM EST Reads: 1,644 |
By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Burley, a Senior Business Development Executive in IT Services at NetApp, described 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 contr... Nov. 18, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,400 |
By Destiny Bertucci  Making informed network investment decisions about emerging technologies such as network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) can help evolve the network to keep pace with the innovations of the devices and people it’s connecting. As you work with busines... Nov. 18, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,625 |
By XebiaLabs Blog  DevOps is good for organizations. According to the soon to be released State of DevOps Report high-performing IT organizations are 2X more likely to exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals. But how do they do it? How do they use DevOps to drive value and differentiat... Nov. 16, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,854 |
By Yeshim Deniz  22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now bein... Nov. 15, 2017 10:45 PM EST Reads: 2,819 |
By Stefan Bernbo  The cloud’s massive success and the growing desire for Big Data analytics are just two of the factors that are making traditional storage architectures obsolete. Organizations cannot afford to scale bygone storage appliances. Even if they could, the time it would take is unacceptable i... Nov. 11, 2017 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,723 |
By Automic Blog  Since the emergence of the Agile Manifesto back in 2001, agile quickly established itself as the prevalent software development methodology. The industry rapidly adopted shorter sprints of work, regular reassessment and so on. So, surely, in 2017 there's no question as to whether we're... Nov. 4, 2017 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,049 |
By Liz McMillan  DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
The wide... Oct. 29, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,645 |
By Elizabeth White  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 configuratio... Oct. 29, 2017 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,047 |
By Dana Gardner  HP today announced the new HP ConvergedSystem 250-HC StoreVirtual, a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance.
Designed to attract customers on a tight budget, the HP CS 250 includes a new three-node configuration that is up to 49 percent more cost effective than comparable configurat... Aug. 14, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,725 |
By Pat Romanski  Data scientists must access high-performance computing resources across a wide-area network. To achieve cloud-based HPC visualization, researchers must transfer datasets and visualization results efficiently.
HPC clusters now compute GPU-accelerated visualization in the cloud cluster.... Oct. 22, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,456 |
By Mark Leake  A common misconception about the cloud is that one size fits all. Companies expecting to run all of their operations using one cloud solution or service must realize that doing so is akin to forcing the totality of their business functionality into a straightjacket. Unlocking the full ... Oct. 11, 2017 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,026 |
By Todd Matters  For most organizations, the move to hybrid cloud is now a question of when, not if. Fully 82% of enterprises plan to have a hybrid cloud strategy this year, according to Infoholic Research. The worldwide hybrid cloud computing market is expected to grow about 34% annually over the next... Oct. 4, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,477 |
By Pat Romanski  With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in the enterprise, security is the highest adoption barrier. Is your organization ready to ... Sep. 27, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,120 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  ‘Trend’ is a pretty common business term, but its definition tends to vary by industry. In performance monitoring, trend, or trend shift, is a key metric that is used to indicate change.
Change is inevitable. Today’s websites must frequently update and change to keep up with competiti... Sep. 24, 2017 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,055 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  A lot has been written and discussed about Domain Name System (DNS) in the past few days. The DDoS attacks on one of the major managed DNS Providers a while ago just made us all take DNS issues seriously once again.
So why so much emphasis on getting DNS Right? Like a lot of other peo... Sep. 22, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,557 |
By Pat Romanski  Trying to improve density, lower costs and run applications faster than before? Today, enterprises looking for a secure cloud strategy are increasingly turning to container-based Platform as a Service solutions for on-premises hosted DevOps. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Alise Cas... Sep. 20, 2017 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,657 |
By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that TechTarget has been named “Media 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. TechTarget storage websites are the best online information ... Sep. 18, 2017 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,038 |
By Sven Olav Lund  Because not everything the internet offers is suitable for all users, organizations use web filters to block unwanted content. However, filtering content becomes challenging as networks speeds increase. Two filtering architectures are explored below, along with criteria to help you dec... Sep. 17, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,728 |
By Elizabeth White  Modern software design has fundamentally changed how we manage applications, causing many to turn to containers as the new virtual machine for resource management. As container adoption grows beyond stateless applications to stateful workloads, the need for persistent storage is founda... Sep. 15, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,018 |
By Pat Romanski  "DivvyCloud as a company set out to help customers automate solutions to the most common cloud problems," noted Jeremy Snyder, VP of Business Development at DivvyCloud, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Sep. 13, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,756 |