Why is an arrangement of servers—which are constructed of hard metal, tend to run hot and weigh thousands of pounds—called a "cloud"? It only makes sense from the standpoint of an engineering ...

We conflate idealism with naïveté and pessimism with ‘just being realistic’. But to deny the existence of perfection is to deny the evidence of our own lives. Was 2015 a win or ...

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The prior blog Continuous Testing and Monitoring Essentials for SDN and NFV discussed the importance and suggested practices for testing and monitoring complex systems such as software defined networks and network functions ...

We will be shutting down for the Christmas holiday tomorrow and will only publish lightly next week as we get ready to update the site for the new year. But we wanted ...

The ability to ship software quickly is now a competitive advantage for every business. As a result, continuous delivery, distributed microservices, containers and asynchronous computing have become the norm. With these changes, ...

Gameforge is a leading game developer of free-to-play massive online multiplayer (MMO) style games.  It provides over 20 games to 450 million registered users on more than 20,000 servers worldwide.  As Gameforge ...

IDI, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IDI), an information solutions provider, today announced that it is in the process of releasing its beta version of idiCORE™ to select customers. Built upon a cloud-based infrastructure, ...

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The Good: DevOps has been a success for Dev. With higher expectations, better processes, more management focus and new tools like advanced PaaS and containers, developers are churning out more and more ...

DevOps is the default software delivery approach for modern IT organizations and hyperscale startups that have incorporated the culture into their everyday integration and delivery activities. However, over the past year, these ...

Enterprise security and DevOps teams have traditionally operated separately with little to no engagement, often making it difficult to quickly identify and respond to potential vulnerabilities in applications and software. In my ...