By Yeshim Deniz  In his general session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Demcsak, a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC, showed how to create the continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change. Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal f... Mar. 11, 2018 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,125 |
By Flint Brenton  I love the beginning of the year. It is always enjoyable to see people's predictions for trends in the coming year. Publications like Fortune, CNN Money, Washington Post and the Atlantic speculate about what gadgets and technologies are going to take off in popularity this year, psychi... Mar. 11, 2018 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,187 |
By Elizabeth White  delaPlex is a global technology and software development solutions and consulting provider, deeply committed to helping companies drive growth, revenue and marketplace value. Since 2008, delaPlex's objective has been to be a trusted advisor to its clients. By redefining the outsourcing... Mar. 11, 2018 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 17,337 |
By Pat Romanski  "Infoblox does DNS, DHCP and IP address management for not only enterprise networks but cloud networks as well. Customers are looking for a single platform that can extend not only in their private enterprise environment but private cloud, public cloud, tracking all the IP space and ev... Mar. 11, 2018 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,237 |
By Elizabeth White  "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... Mar. 11, 2018 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,033 |
By Jason Bloomberg  I believe that this may finally be the year that the CIO role ‘crosses the Rubicon,' leaving behind its traditional, IT-focused orientation. But I don't believe that either of the previous predictions of this outcome — fading into oblivion or rising to a business executive level — is c... Mar. 11, 2018 01:00 AM EST Reads: 1,439 |
By Jason Bloomberg  The rise of the market for No-Code platforms and tools has given rise to a burgeoning population of ‘citizen developers’ – non-technical business personnel who can use these platforms to build an increasingly powerful set of business applications without writing a line of code.
As t... Mar. 10, 2018 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,562 |
By Dean Madison  Our cities have been connected since the dawn of urbanization in the Indus Valley and on the plains of Mesopotamia nearly ten millennia ago. Cities exist to gather and connect people, bringing us together into communities and joint ventures that need complex networks of communication. ... Mar. 10, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 5,639 |
By Elizabeth White  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Carl J. Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1, will objectively discuss how DNS is used to solve Digital Transformation challenges in large SaaS applications, CDNs, AdTech platforms, and other demanding use cases. Carl J. Levine is the Senior Te... Mar. 10, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 4,454 |
By Tim Hinds  The cloud provides two major advantages to load and performance procedures that help testing teams better model realistic behavior: instant infrastructure and geographic location. Cloud-based load testing also lowers the total cost of ownership, increases flexibility and allows testers... Mar. 10, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 6,739 |
By Ayman Sayed  As we head into a new year, IT improvements and management should be top of mind for any business looking to amp up their customer experience, delivery and service in 2018. Recently, at CA World ‘17, I talked about how every business strategy is now an IT strategy. With that in mind, I... Mar. 9, 2018 10:00 PM EST Reads: 2,775 |
By Liz McMillan  "Cloud Academy is an enterprise training platform for the cloud, specifically public clouds. We offer guided learning experiences on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and all the surrounding methodologies and technologies that you need to know and your teams need to know in order to leverage th... Mar. 9, 2018 10:00 PM EST Reads: 3,732 |
By David H Deans  What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities. How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage? Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologi... Mar. 8, 2018 11:00 PM EST Reads: 6,877 |
By Automic Blog  We've all read the dystopian fiction, watched those apocalyptic movies and heard a myriad of prophetic warnings heralding our obsolescence. Surely now we're just a couple of years from flipping the switch on a Skynet of our own making and condemning mankind to the annals of history.
A... Mar. 8, 2018 01:00 AM EST Reads: 4,343 |
By Yeshim Deniz  All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the concept of the Lean Cloud comes in - resting on the idea that you... Mar. 7, 2018 10:45 AM EST Reads: 4,240 |
By Stackify Blog  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... Mar. 7, 2018 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,340 |
By Otto Berkes  Every year about this time, we gaze into crystal balls to divine the future of our industry – or at least where it’s headed over the next 365 days. The result is often a triumph of incrementalism: we predict that we will get more of what we already have. The truth is, technology isn’t ... Mar. 7, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,130 |
By Stackify Blog  How is DevOps going within your organization? If you need some help measuring just how well it is going, we have prepared a list of some key DevOps metrics to track. These metrics can help you understand how your team is doing over time.
The word DevOps means different things to diffe... Mar. 6, 2018 08:15 PM EST Reads: 3,592 |
By Pat Romanski  In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with “legacy” technology forming the backg... Mar. 6, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 10,568 |
By Simon Hill  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... Mar. 6, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,025 |
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 ... Mar. 6, 2018 11:15 AM EST Reads: 2,997 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  Websites are no longer just simple HTML pages with static content—they’ve evolved into a dynamic interface with features and content that are updated regularly. Website administrators use different techniques to ensure the user is viewing the latest version of the page or content. When... Mar. 5, 2018 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,495 |
By Liz McMillan  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?... Mar. 5, 2018 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,633 |
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... Mar. 5, 2018 01:00 PM EST Reads: 6,251 |
By Angsuman Dutta  In preparation for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance, a global 100 financial services organization embarked on a journey to assess its core information processing environments with the objective of identifying opportunities to strengthen its data privacy protection p... Mar. 5, 2018 09:15 AM EST Reads: 4,625 |
By Elizabeth White  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... Mar. 5, 2018 09:15 AM EST Reads: 3,430 |
By Elizabeth White  When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is... Mar. 5, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,587 |
By Pat Romanski  "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,... Mar. 5, 2018 05:30 AM EST Reads: 3,297 |
By Dalibor Siroky  How often is an environment unavailable due to factors within your project's control? How often is an environment unavailable due to external factors? Is the software and hardware in the environment up to date with the target production systems? How often do you have to resort to manua... Mar. 5, 2018 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,132 |
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... Mar. 5, 2018 03:45 AM EST Reads: 3,262 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Loom Systems, the leading end-to-end AI-powered log analysis solution, announced the launch of its new 6-part Playbook, which provides organizations with a roadmap to easily introduce AI into existing IT infrastructure.
"The biggest problem with new AI technology is failure to adopt... Mar. 5, 2018 02:00 AM EST Reads: 1,102 |
By Pat Romanski  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a w... Mar. 5, 2018 12:45 AM EST Reads: 4,216 |
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... Mar. 4, 2018 05:45 PM EST Reads: 4,365 |
By Dalibor Siroky  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... Mar. 4, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,134 |
By Dalibor Siroky  Development cycles are being squeezed into tighter timeframes than ever before - days, hours and even minutes. Organizations that fail to keep up will find themselves behind and struggling to keep pace. However, DevOps isn’t the hurdle that it may initially seem, and if an organization... Mar. 4, 2018 12:00 AM EST Reads: 684 |
By Kelly Burford  Some journey to cloud on a mission, others, a deadline. Change management is useful when migrating to public, private or hybrid cloud environments in either case. For most, stakeholder engagement peaks during the planning and post migration phases of a project. Legacy engagements are f... Mar. 3, 2018 09:15 PM EST Reads: 3,369 |
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... Mar. 3, 2018 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,757 |
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... Mar. 3, 2018 08:15 AM EST Reads: 6,555 |
By Liz McMillan  Coca-Cola’s Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed instantly based on what the operator wants to communicate or s... Mar. 3, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 4,498 |
By Jason Bloomberg  It’s conference season and, as you might expect, Jason and I have been on the road covering a bunch of them. It’s always great to see what the disruptive players in the market are doing — and this year did not disappoint. But there is one thing that repeatedly happens that just gets un... Mar. 3, 2018 02:00 AM EST Reads: 4,952 |