An award-winning freelance writer, Ericka Chickowski covers information technology and business innovation. Her perspectives on business and technology have appeared in dozens of trade and consumer magazines, including Entrepreneur, Consumers Digest, Channel Insider, CIO Insight, Dark Reading and InformationWeek. She's made it her specialty to explain in plain English how technology trends affect real people.
New survey results released last week shows just how thoroughly DevOps has captured the mindshare of enterprises. Commissioned by Rackspace, the global Vanson Bourne survey showed that more than three-quarters of IT ...
DevOps, flexible cloud architectures and continuous delivery have all simplified a lot of equations in IT today, but there is one element that's grown infinitely more complex: capacity planning. With the ability ...
The next few weeks are busy ones for the DevOps conference circuit. In just a week, DevOps.com will kick off another one of its intimate Camp DevOps gatherings in Houston, with talks lined ...
When news broke earlier this month about the nation's largest bond insurer exposing sensitive account information to Google's indexing spiders due to a server misconfiguration, many an IT professional wondered how such ...
As increasingly more organizations run into unique challenges around extending the continuous delivery development model to mobile applications, vendors are coming out of the woodwork to start helping organizations revamp their mobile ...
Increasingly, the C-suite is finding that the speed with which companies today are able to take advantage of new technology and exploit their IT operations determines the success of the entire business ...
As federal agencies face budgetary pressures that drive them toward more agile IT pushes around cloud deployment and DevOps practices they must first tackle big perceptual and cultural roadblocks. Case in point ...
As the global mobile app market begins to swell, many consumer-focused developers inexperienced in the ways of enterprise development will soon follow the money to become better initiated, a new report out ...
The numbers are in and it seems that growing demand for greater speed and more line-of-business control over application development has pushed platform as a service (PaaS) to a tipping point of ...
As the IT job market heats up following a long lull, enterprises will increasingly need to cope with the difficulty of maintaining operational continuity in the face of personnel churn. Whether the ...
