DevOps in the Cloud
Wavefront by VMware Extends Monitoring Reach
The gap that exists between the DevOps tools typically made available to traditional enterprise IT sites that have standardized on VMware and what’s typically employed by web-scale companies continues to close. The ...
HPE Extends IT Management Reach with OneSphere
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today extended OneSphere, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for IT management, to include support for Microsoft Azure public clouds and the Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) that serve as the foundation ...
Don’t Forget to Automate Cloud Security
Cloud has been around long enough, and we’ve had enough breaches stemming from unsecured cloud (mostly data objects, but other items, too) that we should know better. I cringe whenever I see ...
Has DevOps Caused the Re-emergence of Shadow IT?
Shadow IT is back, and this time, it's in the DevOps toolstack "One of our clients conducted an audit and found more than 10,000 Jenkins instances across their IT landscape!" This remark ...
Complementary Technologies: Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL
For enterprises in search of a relational database service that will effectively and consistently meet their requirements, Amazon RDS is probably worth a hard look. By making cloud-based relational databases straightforward to ...
More App Dev Models Increase DevOps Pressure
A bifurcation in types of developers will become more pronounced in the years ahead as more application code moves to the network edge. As that transition continues occurring, the pressure on IT ...
Red Hat Positions PaaS as Cure to Heal DevOps Divide
Red Hat is making a strategic bet that IT organizations increasingly will rely on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments to make a broad range of distributed services available to developers, which would eliminate friction ...
The Reality of Cloud Migration: It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better
The IRS dominated headlines last month when a computer glitch arose—on Tax Day—that prevented the agency from collecting millions of tax returns and forced a deadline extension. But beneath the bevy of ...
Rackspace Aims to Push VMware Everywhere
Rackspace is expanding its efforts to provide managed services for private clouds based on VMware that can now be deployed anywhere. Peter FitzGibbon, vice president and general manager of VMware at Rackspace, ...
DevOps’ Contribution to UK’s Digital Sector
The UK's G-Cloud is a national initiative that helps the public sector find and use cloud-based services. This is basically a DevOps initiative that combines cultural tools, practices and philosophies to help ...
Cloud Foundry at the Crossroads
At the time the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment was constructed, the only form of infrastructure abstraction available consisted of virtual machines. Flash forward to today and there now exists multiple layers ...
Cloud Computing and the Concept of DevFinOps
The formation of DevOps brought together two distinct worlds, causing a shift in IT culture that can only be made better (and more cost-effective) by the integration of financial strategy. Enter DevFinOps ...

