I have a passion for technology and gadgets--with a focus on Microsoft and security--and a desire to help others understand how technology can affect or improve their lives. I also love spending time with my wife, 7 kids, 2 dogs, 5 cats, 3 rabbits, 2 ferrets, pot-bellied pig and sulcata tortoise, and I like to think I enjoy reading and golf even though I never find time for either. You can contact me directly at tony@techspective.net. For more from me, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook.
Organizations have struggled for years with the problem of too much information. IT professionals can only address so many issues at one time, but many are faced with an overwhelming volume of ...
Google revealed a few weeks ago that it is acquiring Apigee for approximately $625 million. The deal demonstrates both the increasing demand for APIs (application programming interfaces) and Google’s desire to remain ...
HashiCorp, a DevOps infrastructure company known for its Atlas platform that combines a variety of powerful open-source tools, recently announced Vault Enterprise. HashiCorp describes Vault Enterprise as a comprehensive security solution for ...
The rapid pace of application development today can be hard to keep up with, especially when it comes to security. Combining the benefits of continuous testing with the incentives of a crowdsourced ...
The cloud is not new. The virtues of the cloud have been proclaimed incessantly for years, and most businesses have embraced cloud servers and services on some level. The realities of data ...
In many organizations, IT resources are pushed to the breaking point while users increasingly demand new technologies, features and capabilities. Users who know a thing or two—often just enough to be dangerous—sometimes ...
Open-source software has a number of significant benefits. For starters, it’s both free, which is hard to beat, and open, which means developers can customize or modify it to fit their needs ...
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but the pace of the world seems to continue accelerating. Organizations—and the developers and IT teams that work in them—need to be able to adapt and ...
“We’re all developers now. Citizen developer activities will accelerate.” That’s what Gartner predicted back in 2012. Fast forward more than four years and we’ve seen the DevOps movement explode, while the rise ...
One of the key mantras of DevOps is “continuous.” Effective DevOps relies on automating routine tasks. Any step in the process that requires human intervention or manual input becomes a roadblock that ...
