The original ITIL framework definition was published in the 1980s, but contrary to many opinions, it has evolved since then, provided one takes a more flexible view.   Fast forward to ITILv3, and ...

Organizations today rely more and more heavily on mobile apps to drive their business. In fact, many companies are already seeing more than half of their web traffic coming in via mobile ...

Untangle develops and designs security software and appliances that protect computers and enterprise networks. By synthesizing enterprise-grade capabilities with consumer-oriented simplicity, our company creates products that are both powerful and intuitive to ...

Today Couchbase, the creator of an Enterprise NoSQL database server, announces N1QL ( pronounced Nickle) at their user conference. N1QL is designed to ease the pain for SQL developers when considering NoSQL, by ...

We’re all familiar with the story of the tortoise and the hare, where a plodding tortoise wins a race against a speedy hare because the over-confident hare takes a nap midway through ...

As your IT infrastructure grows, it becomes increasingly important to be able to identify where bottlenecks, performance problems, or outages are occurring so that you can quickly act to fix any issues ...

***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. The aptly named DevOps practice of Continuous Testing synchronizes Testing/QA with Dev and Ops ...

It’s a fast-paced world. Recent research from Microsoft suggests that the attention span of the average human is about 8 seconds now. That means if your application doesn’t work as expected your ...

If that sounds vaguely like UDDI (which dealt with discovery and search of WSDL then you're on the right track. Glue is this week, and preceding the conference was the 2015 API ...

What is Ansible? Ansible is an IT automation engine, and a trouble-free model-driven configuration management and command execution framework. Made for multi-tier deployments, it designs your IT infrastructure by describing how all ...

Software development has undergone a massive transformation in the last two decades. From the first wave of breakthrough do-it-all PC applications such as Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Office, to the launch of ...

This is 4th part of the multi-part series covering Automation, provisioning and Configuration Management. In this article best practices for Puppet shall be covered. Puppet, one of the most well-liked configuration management tools, ...