Ask any developer or DevOps manager about their first experiences with the public cloud and it’s likely they’ll happily share some memories of quickly provisioning some compute instances for a small project ...

Now that instances of VMware are starting to become available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a DevOps ecosystem is starting to emerge around the management of applications workloads moving into and out ...

More and more businesses nowadays are shifting to mobile. And that’s absolutely reasonable choice: More than 50 percent of digital media consumption accounts for mobile apps; Ninety percent of the time smartphone ...

We discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you ...

No single cloud vendor has the perfect solution for your unique business situation. The only way to maximize the benefits of cloud services to your business is by dealing with several cloud ...

Recent data system breaches at Oracle and Sage reminds us all that the continuous threat of criminal hacking of cloud security systems is not abating. Rather, it’s becoming routine. Business managers, lawmakers ...

When it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, the conventional wisdom is that DevOps is not required if you’re a small or midsized company. The cloud is designed to enable virtually ...

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 ...

I recently had a chance to speak again with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft about his experience in leading the transition for Microsoft Visual Studio to Visual Studio online. In doing so, Sam ...

As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring ...

Myself and the gang have been talking about Cloud a lot recently as we are embarking on a multi-year journey. Cloud is fashionable but is this another cool toy for the techies? ...

In his most recent GigaOm article, "We're finally headed towards autonomous, self-migrating containers for cloud-application automation", David Linthicum discusses the value that containers, such as Docker and CoreOS Rocket, are bringing to ...