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By Elizabeth White  Adding public cloud resources to an existing application can be a daunting process. The tools that you currently use to manage the software and hardware outside the cloud aren’t always the best tools to efficiently grow into the cloud. All of the major configuration management tools ha... Jun. 22, 2018 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,977 | By Liz McMillan  Cloud computing delivers on-demand resources that provide businesses with flexibility and cost-savings. The challenge in moving workloads to the cloud has been the cost and complexity of ensuring the initial and ongoing security and regulatory (PCI, HIPAA, FFIEC) compliance across priv... May. 30, 2018 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,180 | By Pat Romanski  DevOps tends to focus on the relationship between Dev and Ops, putting an emphasis on the ops and application infrastructure. But that’s changing with microservices architectures. In her session at DevOps Summit, Lori MacVittie, Evangelist for F5 Networks, will focus on how microservic... May. 29, 2018 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 13,025 | By Ravi Rajamiyer  Not very long ago, in my IT consulting career, I used to be responsible for the launch of mission-critical applications that help enterprises leap into the cutting edge of the digital business revolution. There were a lot of hard skills required for leading such a mission that involved... May. 29, 2018 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,925 | By Pat Romanski  Organizations planning enterprise data center consolidation and modernization projects are faced with a challenging, costly reality. Requirements to deploy modern, cloud-native applications simultaneously with traditional client/server applications are almost impossible to achieve with... May. 25, 2018 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,178 | By Elizabeth White  Traditional IT, great for stable systems of record, is struggling to cope with newer, agile systems of engagement requirements coming straight from the business.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, William Morrish, General Manager of Product Sales at Interoute, will outline ways of ex... May. 25, 2018 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,538 | By Pat Romanski  Fact: storage performance problems have only gotten more complicated, as applications not only have become largely virtualized, but also have moved to cloud-based infrastructures. Storage performance in virtualized environments isn’t just about IOPS anymore. Instead, you need to guaran... May. 24, 2018 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,872 | By Zakia Bouachraoui  When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale, it’s important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures. In order to do that, you must be tolerant of failures, even in light of failures in other areas of your application. “Fly two mistakes ... May. 24, 2018 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 16,606 | By Elizabeth White  Virtualization over the past years has become a key strategy for IT to acquire multi-tenancy, increase utilization, develop elasticity and improve security. And virtual machines (VMs) are quickly becoming a main vehicle for developing and deploying applications. The introduction of con... May. 19, 2018 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,366 | By Pat Romanski  Many private cloud projects were built to deliver self-service access to development and test resources. While those clouds delivered faster access to resources, they lacked visibility, control and security needed for production deployments. In their session at 18th Cloud Expo, Steve A... May. 17, 2018 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 9,393 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Claude Remillard, Principal Program Manager in Developer Division at Microsoft, contrasted how his team used config as code and immutable patterns for continuous delivery of microservices and apps to the cloud. He showed how the immutable patterns hel... May. 15, 2018 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 12,585 | By Pat Romanski  You have great SaaS business app ideas. You want to turn your idea quickly into a functional and engaging proof of concept. You need to be able to modify it to meet customers' needs, and you need to deliver a complete and secure SaaS application. How could you achieve all the above and... May. 14, 2018 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,739 | By Liz McMillan  The essence of cloud computing is that all consumable IT resources are delivered as services. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Yung Chou, Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, demonstrated the concepts and implementations of two important cloud computing deliveries: Infrastructure as a... May. 10, 2018 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 13,889 | By Liz McMillan  "We want to show that our solution is far less expensive with a much better total cost of ownership so we announced several key features. One is called geo-distributed erasure coding, another is support for KVM and we introduced a new capability called Multi-Part," explained Tim Desai,... May. 8, 2018 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,966 | By Elizabeth White  Without a clear strategy for cost control and an architecture designed with cloud services in mind, costs and operational performance can quickly get out of control. To avoid multiple architectural redesigns requires extensive thought and planning. Boundary (now part of BMC) launched a... May. 6, 2018 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 9,278 | By Pat Romanski  You are moving to the Cloud. The question is not if, it’s when. Now that your competitors are in the cloud and lapping you, your “when” better hurry up and get here. But saying and doing are two different things.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Robert Reeves, CTO ... May. 5, 2018 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,949 | By Elizabeth White  You often hear the two titles of "DevOps" and "Immutable Infrastructure" used independently. In his session at DevOps Summit, John Willis, Technical Evangelist for Docker, covered the union between the two topics and why this is important. He provided an overview of Immutable Infrastru... May. 3, 2018 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,802 | By Flint Brenton  Don’t go chasing waterfall … development, that is. According to a recent post by Madison Moore on Medium featuring insights from several software delivery industry leaders, waterfall is – while still popular – not the best way to win in the marketplace. With methodologies like Agile, D... May. 3, 2018 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,510 | By Elizabeth White  Creating replica copies to tolerate a certain number of failures is easy, but very expensive at cloud-scale. Conventional RAID has lower overhead, but it is limited in the number of failures it can tolerate. And the management is like herding cats (overseeing capacity, rebuilds, migrat... May. 2, 2018 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,114 | By Pat Romanski  "This week we're really focusing on scalability, asset preservation and how do you back up to the cloud and in the cloud with object storage, which is really a new way of attacking dealing with your file, your blocked data, where you put it and how you access it," stated Jeff Greenwald... May. 2, 2018 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 16,894 | By Liz McMillan  New competitors, disruptive technologies, and growing expectations are pushing every business to both adopt and deliver new digital services. This ‘Digital Transformation’ demands rapid delivery and continuous iteration of new competitive services via multiple channels, which in turn d... Apr. 30, 2018 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,718 | By Pat Romanski  For better or worse, DevOps has gone mainstream. All doubt was removed when IBM and HP threw up their respective DevOps microsites. Where are we on the hype cycle? It's hard to say for sure but there's a feeling we're heading for the "Peak of Inflated Expectations." What does this mean... Apr. 30, 2018 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 11,139 | By Harry Trott  The developments in Google’s Cloud Computing segment, especially the Cloud Machine Learning service, have been so rapid that Google calls it one of its fastest growing product areas. Google has been ramping up their Cloud Platform quite aggressively in recent months. Just a few weeks a... Apr. 27, 2018 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,803 | By Pat Romanski  The now mainstream platform changes stemming from the first Internet boom brought many changes but didn’t really change the basic relationship between servers and the applications running on them. In fact, that was sort of the point.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Gordon Haff, se... Apr. 27, 2018 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,081 | By Amit Gupta  Containers are the future of web development, in large part thanks to Docker’s explosive growth. According to DataDog, 15 percent of hosts run Docker, which is significantly up from the 6 percent of hosts running it at this point in 2015. LinkedIn has also seen a 160 percent increase i... Apr. 25, 2018 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,065 | By Elizabeth White  I think DevOps is now a rambunctious teenager - it's starting to get a mind of its own, wanting to get its own things but it still needs some adult supervision," explained Thomas Hooker, VP of marketing at CollabNet, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 20th Cloud Expo, hel... Apr. 25, 2018 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,283 | By Liz McMillan  "Software-defined storage is a big problem in this industry because so many people have different definitions as they see fit to use it," stated Peter McCallum, VP of Datacenter Solutions at FalconStor Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at t... Apr. 24, 2018 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,431 | By Liz McMillan  CIOs and those charged with running IT Operations are challenged to deliver secure, audited, and reliable compute environments for the applications and data for the business. Behind the scenes these tasks are often accomplished by following onerous time-consuming processes and often th... Apr. 24, 2018 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,601 | By Yeshim Deniz  Without a clear strategy for cost control and an architecture designed with cloud services in mind, costs and operational performance can quickly get out of control. To avoid multiple architectural redesigns requires extensive thought and planning. Boundary (now part of BMC) launched a... Apr. 24, 2018 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,948 | 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... Apr. 22, 2018 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,269 | By Pat Romanski  What's the role of an IT self-service portal when you get to continuous delivery and Infrastructure as Code? This general session showed how to create the continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change. Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization P... Apr. 21, 2018 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,483 | By Dana Gardner  JetBlue Airways uses virtual environments to reduce software development costs, centralize performance testing, and create a climate for continuous integration and real-time monitoring of mobile applications.
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer performance engineering case ... Apr. 20, 2018 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,473 | By Pat Romanski  Between the mockups and specs produced by analysts, and resulting applications built by developers, there exists a gulf where projects fail, costs spiral, and applications disappoint. Methodologies like Agile attempt to address this with intensified communication, with partial success ... Apr. 15, 2018 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,595 | By TJ Randall  At its core DevOps is all about collaboration. The lines of communication must be opened and it takes some effort to ensure that they stay that way. It’s easy to pay lip service to trends and talk about implementing new methodologies, but without action, real benefits cannot be realize... Apr. 13, 2018 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 19,192 | By Lori MacVittie  When we talk about the impact of BYOD and BYOA and the Internet of Things, we often focus on the impact on data center architectures. That's because there will be an increasing need for authentication, for access control, for security, for application delivery as the number of potentia... Apr. 12, 2018 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,501 | 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... Mar. 19, 2018 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,384 | 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: 5,795 | 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.... Mar. 8, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 4,520 | 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: 3,630 | 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: 4,032 |
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