By Roger Strukhoff  IT professionals are also embracing the reality of Serverless architectures, which are critical to developing and operating real-time applications and services. Serverless is particularly important as enterprises of all sizes develop and deploy Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives.
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By Elizabeth White  In his keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Sheng Liang, co-founder and CEO of Rancher Labs, discussed the technological advances and new business opportunities created by the rapid adoption of containers. With the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and various open source technologies used t... Mar. 9, 2019 02:00 PM EST Reads: 20,161 |
By Andreas Grabner  DevOps is speeding towards the IT world like a freight train and the hype around it is deafening. There is no reason to be afraid of this change as it is the natural reaction to the agile movement that revolutionized development just a few years ago. By definition, DevOps is the natura... Mar. 9, 2019 01:00 PM EST Reads: 26,570 |
By Zakia Bouachraoui  Artifex Software began 25-years ago with Ghostscript, a page description language (PDL) interpreter software prevalent in printing and related applications requiring rendering and/or conversion from one software language to another. Founded by renowned computer scientist Dr. L. Peter D... Mar. 9, 2019 11:45 AM EST |
By Sematext Blog  Containerized software is riding a wave of growth, according to latest RightScale survey. At Sematext we see this growth trend via our Docker monitoring adoption and via Sematext Docker Agent popularity on Docker Hub, where it crossed 1M+ pulls line. This rapid rise of containers now ... Mar. 8, 2019 11:15 PM EST Reads: 7,128 |
By Zakia Bouachraoui  Most organizations are awash today in data and IT systems, yet they're still struggling mightily to use these invaluable assets to meet the rising demand for new digital solutions and customer experiences that drive innovation and growth. What's lacking are potent and effective ways to... Mar. 6, 2019 08:30 PM EST |
By Elizabeth White  Concerns about security, downtime and latency, budgets, and general unfamiliarity with cloud technologies continue to create hesitation for many organizations that truly need to be developing a cloud strategy. Hybrid cloud solutions are helping to elevate those concerns by enabling the... Mar. 5, 2019 03:45 PM EST |
By Elizabeth White  DSR is a supplier of project management, consultancy services and IT solutions that increase effectiveness of a company's operations in the production sector. The company combines in-depth knowledge of international companies with expert knowledge utilising IT tools that support manu... Mar. 5, 2019 02:00 PM EST |
By Yeshim Deniz  Kubernetes as a Container Platform is becoming a de facto for every enterprise. In my interactions with enterprises adopting container platform, I come across common questions: - How does application security work on this platform? What all do I need to secure? - How do I implement sec... Mar. 5, 2019 12:45 PM EST |
By Elizabeth White  Eggplant, the customer experience optimization specialist, announced the latest enhancements to its Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite. The new capabilities augment Eggplant’s continuous intelligent automation by making it simple and quick for teams to test the performance and... Mar. 3, 2019 06:00 PM EST |
By Liz McMillan  After years of investments and acquisitions, CloudBlue was created with the goal of building the world's only hyperscale digital platform with an increasingly infinite ecosystem and proven go-to-market services. The result? An unmatched platform that helps customers streamline cloud op... Mar. 3, 2019 01:00 PM EST |
By Liz McMillan  Kubernetes is a new and revolutionary open-sourced system for managing containers across multiple hosts in a cluster. Ansible is a simple IT automation tool for just about any requirement for reproducible environments.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Patrick Galbr... Mar. 1, 2019 11:00 PM EST Reads: 6,794 |
By Elizabeth White  Applications with high availability requirements must be deployed to multiple clusters to ensure reliability. Historically, this has been done by pulling nodes from other availability zones into the same cluster. However, if the cluster failed, the application would still become unavai... Mar. 1, 2019 06:45 AM EST |
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... Feb. 28, 2019 04:00 PM EST Reads: 19,197 |
By Zakia Bouachraoui  This month @nodexl announced that ServerlessSUMMIT & DevOpsSUMMIT own the world's top three most influential Kubernetes domains which are more influential than LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Medium, Infoworld and Microsoft combined.
NodeXL is a template for Microsoft® Excel® (2007, 201... Feb. 28, 2019 01:15 PM EST |
By Elizabeth White  In 2014, Amazon announced a new form of compute called Lambda. We didn't know it at the time, but this represented a fundamental shift in what we expect from cloud computing. Now, all of the major cloud computing vendors want to take part in this disruptive technology.
In his session... Feb. 27, 2019 05:00 PM EST |
By Elizabeth White  Because Linkerd is a transparent proxy that runs alongside your application, there are no code changes required. It even comes with Prometheus to store the metrics for you and pre-built Grafana dashboards to show exactly what is important for your services - success rate, latency, and ... Feb. 27, 2019 04:00 PM EST |
By Liz McMillan  "There is a huge interest in Kubernetes. People are now starting to use Kubernetes and implement it," stated Sebastian Scheele, co-founder of Loodse, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,... Feb. 27, 2019 12:45 PM EST Reads: 6,028 |
By Liz McMillan  In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Mike Johnston, an infrastructure engineer at Supergiant.io, will discuss how to use Kubernetes to setup a SaaS infrastructure for your business. Mike Johnston is an infrastructure engineer at Supergiant.io with over 12 years of experience designing, d... Feb. 27, 2019 12:15 PM EST Reads: 6,129 |
By Pat Romanski  Skeuomorphism usually means retaining existing design cues in something new that doesn’t actually need them. However, the concept of skeuomorphism can be thought of as relating more broadly to applying existing patterns to new technologies that, in fact, cry out for new approaches.
I... Feb. 27, 2019 09:45 AM EST Reads: 3,932 |
By Elizabeth White  Signs of a shift in the usage of public clouds are everywhere
Previously, as organizations outgrew old IT methods, the natural answer was to try the public cloud approach; however, the public platform alone is not a complete solutionThe move to hybrid, custom, and multi-cloud will b... Feb. 24, 2019 05:30 PM EST |
By Liz McMillan  Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project... Feb. 23, 2019 03:00 PM EST Reads: 6,583 |
By Yeshim Deniz  As you know, enterprise IT conversation over the past year have often centered upon the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. In fact, Kubernetes has emerged as the key technology -- and even primary platform -- of cloud migrations for a wide variety of organizations. ... Feb. 23, 2019 01:00 PM EST |
By Pat Romanski  Signs of a shift in the usage of public clouds are everywhere. Previously, as organizations outgrew old IT methods, the natural answer was to try the public cloud approach; however, the public platform alone is not a complete solution. Complaints include unpredictable/escalating costs ... Feb. 20, 2019 06:45 PM EST |
By Pat Romanski  10ZiG Technology is a leading provider of endpoints for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environment. Our fast and reliable hardware is VMware, Citrix and Microsoft ready and designed to handle all ranges of usage - from task-based to sophisticated CAD/CAM users.
10ZiG prides itself... Feb. 20, 2019 06:00 PM EST |
By Liz McMillan  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... Feb. 19, 2019 09:45 AM EST Reads: 4,338 |
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 ... Feb. 17, 2019 11:45 AM EST Reads: 5,595 |
By Elizabeth White  In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand usin... Feb. 16, 2019 04:45 PM EST Reads: 14,062 |
By Zakia Bouachraoui  Today, Kubernetes is the defacto standard if you want to run container workloads in a production environment. As we set out to build our next generation of products, and run them smoothly in the cloud, we needed to move to Kubernetes too! In the process of building tools like KubeXray ... Feb. 14, 2019 08:00 AM EST |
By Pat Romanski  There has been a movement recently about finding security-related issues earlier in the development and deployment pipeline. It's about catching security issues before things hit the fan. :)In this talk, we will talk about what it means to shift left from the container security point o... Feb. 11, 2019 05:00 AM EST |
By Elizabeth White  As software becomes more and more complex, we, as software developers, have been splitting up our code into smaller and smaller components. This is also true for the environment in which we run our code: going from bare metal, to VMs to the modern-day Cloud Native world of containers, ... Feb. 4, 2019 10:15 PM EST Reads: 15,592 |
By Yeshim Deniz  On-premise or off, you have powerful tools available to maximize the value of your infrastructure and you demand more visibility and operational control. Fortunately, data center management tools keep a vigil on memory contestation, power, thermal consumption, server health, and utiliz... Feb. 1, 2019 06:15 PM EST |
By Yeshim Deniz  David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company that delivers fast, low-cost, and reliable cloud storage. Prior to Wasabi, David co-founded Carbonite, one of the world's leading cloud backup companies. A successful tech entrepreneur for more than 30 year... Nov. 9, 2018 12:45 PM EST |
By Liz McMillan  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... Nov. 9, 2018 08:00 AM EST Reads: 6,614 |
By Pat Romanski  Everyone wants the rainbow - reduced IT costs, scalability, continuity, flexibility, manageability, and innovation. But in order to get to that collaboration rainbow, you need the cloud! In this presentation, we'll cover three areas: First - the rainbow of benefits from cloud collabor... Nov. 8, 2018 04:00 PM EST |
By Yeshim Deniz  In this presentation, you will learn first hand what works and what doesn't while architecting and deploying OpenStack. Some of the topics will include:- best practices for creating repeatable deployments of OpenStack- multi-site considerations- how to customize OpenStack to integrate ... Nov. 7, 2018 06:45 AM EST Reads: 2,138 |
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. 3, 2018 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,910 |
By Liz McMillan  ClaySys Technologies is one of the leading application platform products in the ‘No-code' or ‘Metadata Driven' software business application development space. The company was founded to create a modern technology platform that addressed the core pain points related to the traditional ... Nov. 3, 2018 02:45 PM EDT |
By Yeshim Deniz  Crosscode Panoptics Automated Enterprise Architecture Software.
Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping. Automatically generate a powerful enterprise-wide map of your organization's IT assets down to the code level.
Enterprise Impact Assessment. Automatically analyze the imp... Nov. 2, 2018 10:00 PM EDT |
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 ... Nov. 2, 2018 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,609 |