Over the past five years, applications have undergone a paradigm shift. They now require more agility, scalability and availability. The key trends in this era are driven by the use of social platforms, mobile ...

There’s DevOps. And then there’s Big DevOps. DevOps is a set of disciplines that accelerates time-to-value for digital deliverables. It is being embraced by all kinds of companies, from pure-play digital market ...

Fog computing is more than just cloud computing meeting edge networks, but for practitioners more interested in results than in new buzzwords, the question is whether fog’s IoT promise deliver real-time data ...

Have you heard of Panzura? If not, you are probably not alone. The company is relatively new to the DevOps market. But it's not some new startup that grabbed some VC money ...

Deployment is where Dev meets Ops. The glue that binds the two is orchestration, which places operations guidelines in the application itself. Here’s how to avoid trouble when deploying your apps to ...

Few activities are more perilous than predicting the future of the tech industry. That goes double for cloud computing forecasts. Yet, with thoughtful deliberation and the appropriate amount of caution, you can ...

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 ...

According to the 2016 State of DevOps Report by Puppet and DORA, the mean time to recover when a service incident occurs ranges from less than one hour for high IT performers ...

Regardless of how enthusiastically you embrace the cloud, unless you’re a brand new business, you have already have an infrastructure running your applications. Odds are, you’re either renting space in one or ...

We’ve been thinking about the maturing cloud a lot lately. In fact, we’re participating in a panel discussion on the topic at the upcoming OpenStack East in August in New York. As ...

Monitoring of systems, networks and applications has been around since the inception of computing. However, in the last five years there have been dramatic changes and innovations in the computing, networking and ...

A couple weeks ago, I gave a talk titled, “DevOps: The Cloud Enabler” at a conference. As I was putting together some requisite materials previewing my session, I made a few mistakes ...