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4 Ways to Give DevOps Teams the Support They Need

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If it weren’t hard enough for IT infrastructure teams to innovate and keep the lights on, a host of technologies designed to drive efficiencies are introducing new levels of complexity across the data center. Virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined storage and digital are making it much more difficult for the infrastructure team to control, manage and […]

Pivotal Enlists Rackspace to Advance DevOps in Cloud Foundry Environments

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In a sign of the level of complexity now associated with managing DevOps, Pivotal has partnered with Rackspace to create a managed services practice for its distribution of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. Ian Andrews, vice president of product for Pivotal, says that at least half of the company’s customers have a least one […]

Microsoft Woos Development Partners

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If Microsoft has its way, many more DevOps processes will revolve around the cadence at which the company upgrades its applications. At its Inspire 2017 conference, the tech behemoth announced an ISV Cloud Embed initiative designed to entice more developers to add value by extending application functionality it has already developed and deployed in the […]

Data Science Industry Perspectives in the Cloud

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In principle, the cloud is becoming a commodity. Google, Amazon and other companies are trying to commoditize almost everything, including the instruments for data gathering, data storage and data transformation. In the near term, we should expect that platform engineering, which today is overly complex, will become simpler. With data engineering, however, the prospects of […]

Tips to Optimize the Cloud for Scaling

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When I first started migrating companies to the cloud (about seven years ago), companies would ask me, “How come the app isn’t scaling? How come users are still complaining about the slowness?” I would explain that the cloud enables auto-scaling, but you still have to make sure your app can scale in the cloud. In […]

Salesforce Moves Compliance to the DevOps Left

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Compliance is one of those tasks that trips up developers multiple times over. More times than anyone cares to admit developers finish an application only to discover there are any number of compliance controls that were overlooked. Sometimes, bringing that application into compliance is trivial. Other times, it can delay the rollout of the application […]

DevOps Needs a New Cloud Solution for Best Practices

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Imagine this scenario: You are a company building modern software which is a key driver of your business. To support this, you have grown your infrastructure organically over time by adding servers, storage, networks, security, virtualization software, monitoring, alerting and analytics tools. You have also added a plethora of other middleware, databases, messaging and operating systems that your developers need […]

Database Bottlenecks: The Hidden Cause of App Slow Downs?

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Performance problems can cripple mission-critical business apps. If you are lucky enough, your solution could be as easy as adding more WAN bandwidth, a few extra servers or a content delivery network, but the real problem arises when your database becomes your biggest bottleneck. When performance issues adversely impact the applications that keep your business […]