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 predictable, “embarrassing government snafu” stories lies a greater, more systemic problem: IT modernization. Specifically, the potential consequences of not modernizing. The advantages of modernization are […]
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, said Rackspace Private Cloud Everywhere, powered by VMware, is making an effort to provide infrastructure services that enable IT organizations to devote more […]
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 increase the ability of an organization to provide services and applications at high speeds, which helps them provide better services to their customers. […]
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 of abstraction, some of which potentially obviate the need for functionality built into Cloud Foundry. The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) is now in […]
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. I say this only partially in jest. As long as the public cloud remains a utility, everyone should be responsible for controlling the […]
Morpheus Data Extends DevOps Reach
Morpheus Data signaled it will pursue a more open strategy when it comes to enabling DevOps teams to manage multiple cloud platforms. Brad Parks, vice president of marketing and business development for Morpheus Data, said updates to the company’s namesake platform will make it possible for DevOps teams to swap in third-party modules and components […]
Reliance on Cloud Foundry PaaS Increases
A survey of 383 IT professionals published April 18 suggests the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment is gaining traction across the enterprise. The survey conducted by the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) finds one-third of companies now have at least 100 developers using Cloud Foundry. The number of companies with more than 50 developers […]
VMware Extends vSphere Hybrid Cloud Reach
VMware this week extended its campaign to automate IT environments based on its hypervisors by adding a link capability that enables the VMware vCenter platform to manage instances of VMware vSphere running on-premises and in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM Cloud from the same console. Mike Adams, senior director of […]
DevOps Chat: The CEO’s View with Derek Langone, XebiaLabs
This DevOps Chat features “the CEO’s view” as seen by XebiaLabs CEO, Derek Langone. Derek is one of my personal favorite CEOs in the DevOps space because he is very articulate, to the point and sharp. I think all of these characteristics come through in this DevOps Chat. As CEO of XebiaLabs, Derek is leading […]
DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship Aimed at Business Success
DevOps and cloud computing are not mutually exclusive, though their relationship has often been uncertain and confusing from a layman’s perspective. While cloud computing relates to technology and services, DevOps is more about processes and process improvement. However, both DevOps and cloud computing are vital in every organization’s journey toward an effective digital transformation. Cloud-centric […]
IBM Unfurls Cloud Platform for Building Microservices
IBM has unveiled a new development environment in the cloud designed to make it easier to build microservices. John Duimovich, IBM CTO for Java, said Microclimate provides a complete framework building applications based on microservices written in Java, Node.js or Swift. Microclimate runs on an instance of IBM Cloud Private, a private cloud based on […]
A Saner Way to Build a DevOps Cloud
There’s a popular definition of insanity: doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting different results. Yet, too many enterprises implementing digital services and apps in the cloud fail to heed this warning as they turn to point-to-point integration of their cloud components. In the process, they’re introducing tremendous complexity that looks eerily similar to the […]
3 Ways to Minimize the Impact of High Severity Incidents
According to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting Research, 98 percent of organizations report that a single hour of downtime can cost upwards of $100,000. That doesn’t take into consideration the long-term effects on brand, potential loss of trust with existing customers and engineering time. This is why making sure high severity incidents are resolved quickly and […]
NATS Messaging Entering Cloud Native Purview
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has expanded the scope of its purview by adding open source NATS messaging software to an expanding list of technologies it now oversees. NATS messaging software has been commonly employed in environments such as platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments. But with the rise of microservices, a campaign to make NATS a […]
How the Cloud is Reshaping IT
The cloud has been rapidly reshaping and redefining IT as we know it, from the language we use to describe it to the management models and infrastructure itself. Providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure have transformed cloud computing, giving businesses access to IT resources anytime, anywhere. At the same […]
VMware Adds More DevOps Depth to Cloud Strategy
VMware today added a bevy of services to its portfolio that make managing instances of its software running in a public cloud easier. Additions to the VMware cloud portfolio include VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension Service for Private Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that enables IT organizations to employ a self-service portal to move workloads between […]
How a Visual Cloud Management Platform Can Address DevOps Woes
DevOps and cloud are a match made in heaven. However, the advantages of the cloud are apparent only when continuous deployment, development, operations and other DevOps tasks can be performed and automated seamlessly on the cloud. Moreover, many of today’s cloud management platforms do not offer much cross-functional visibility, something DevOps engineers require. A visual […]
‘Software is Eating the World,’ and DevOps Needs a New Infrastructure to Keep Up
Every Fortune 1000 company should expect to face Uber-like competition in the next decade. These digital disruptors are software companies; they are basing their business models on software platforms, and development of these software platforms is much more agile than in the past. To compete effectively, every company must essentially become a software company, and […]
Why an Enterprise 5-Year Cloud Plan Must Focus on Serverless
While most of us have looked at the beginning of the new year as the time to set our personal resolutions for the next 12 months, enterprises have already started to execute their plans for the year ahead. But, that’s part of a problem. Too often major organizations move from year to year on a […]
SAP Cloud Price Changes Reflect DevOps Realities
To foster more application development in the DevOps era, SAP at the Mobile World Congress 2018 conference announced it is adding a consumption-based pricing option to its SAP Cloud Platform environment. Based mainly on the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) overseen by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the SAP Cloud Platform provides a way for SAP customers […]
Is DevOps Ready for a ‘Steam’ Moment?
It’s hard to believe we live in a world where a game such as “Goat Simulator” can manage to find an audience in an industry brimming with AAA titles including “Destiny 2,” “Overwatch” and “Call of Duty,” but we do. “Goat Simulator” was a massive success, but none of that would been possible in a […]
Top 3 Challenges of Adopting Microservices as Part of Your Cloud Migration
Many organizations embark on cloud migrations to achieve scalability, cost-efficiency and higher application performance. IDC estimates 60 percent of worldwide enterprises are migrating existing applications to the cloud. With the promise of greater flexibility, a reduction in overhead and the potential for significant cost savings, it’s a logical decision. But instead of performing a “lift […]
Manage Cloud Clutter with Better DevOps Hygiene
One of the core principles of DevOps is automation. Continuous development, deployment, monitoring, security and every other element of a continuous DevOps life cycle depends on as much of the underlying tasks and actions being automated as possible. Although the provisioning, scaling and decommissioning of most DevOps resources in the cloud are handled by automated […]