IBM Looks Toward Cloud Unification
Now that IBM is achieving some critical mass in the cloud, the next major focus will be unifying the management of disparate cloud services. IBM recently reported revenue of $79.1 billion for its most recent fiscal year, a decline of 1 percent year over year. But within that revenue mix, Big Blue also reported that […]
Mirantis CEO Charts Hybrid Cloud Path Forward
Adrian Ionel is back at the helm of Mirantis as CEO at a time when the shift to hybrid cloud computing is tantalizingly close to being an everyday IT reality. Ionel is one of the original co-founders of Mirantis, which provides a curated instance of OpenStack and Kubernetes cluster software alongside a suite of services […]
DevOps in the Cloud: Security’s Groundhog Day
Throughout the internet age, enterprise IT has given security a lower priority than qualities such as speed-to-deployment, scalability, availability and usability. We first saw this in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when IT teams rushed applications onto the web. Amid the glee surrounding the potential of fancy new internet architectures, few thought about the […]
Shippable Extends Scope and Reach of CI Service
One of the attributes of building a continuous integration (CI) platform on top of Docker containers is that it’s highly portable. Shippable is making good on that promise by delivering versions of its namesake CI platform that can be employed on Mac OS X, CentOS and Windows platforms as well as to the Ubuntu distribution […]
DevOps Pro Tips on Cloud Management
In this DevOps Chat we are joined by Andy Richman of Park My Cloud and Samir Mehra of Cloud Health Technologies. Both of these cloud experts give sound advice on how you can best and most efficiently manage your cloud infrastructure, whether it is on AWS, Azure, Google or anywhere else. If you are interested […]
DevOps Chat: IBM’s Cloud Private with Mike Kaczmarski, CTO DevOps and Service Management
In this DevOps Chat we discuss IBM’s Cloud Private. Cloud Private is the new offering from IBM that encompasses much of the different cloud offerings the company has developed over the years. Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Michael Kaczmarksi, an IBM Fellow and CTO of DevOps and Service Management. In his distinguished career […]
Resource Availability: The Missing Piece of the Cloud DevOps Puzzle
Any successful software is effort of five groups: developers, the operations/infrastructure team, QAs or testers, product managers and owners, and the support team. There may be other titles involved, but the majority of work is done by these five groups. AWS describes DevOps as: … the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases […]
5 Reasons AWS Service Catalog is Sexy for DevOps and Cloud
Ok, so you’re probably more excited about topics such as microservices and containers right now, but bear with me. AWS Service Catalog is becoming increasingly necessary as cloud infrastructure evolves, allowing IT and developers to share pre-approved services, which helps tear down silos and encourage DevOps-related practices. If you’re not familiar with Service Catalog, it […]
How DevOps is Vital for SaaS Entrepreneurs
Software as a service (Saas) is widely regarded as the most lucrative and compelling of the three cloud business and operation models. This is because it transfers the most technical support expenses and can be sold directly to the customer. However, despite the inherent value of the business model, many entrepreneurs will be hard-pressed to […]
CloudHealth, ParkMyCloud Partner to Contain Cloud Services Costs
Much of DevOps these days focuses squarely on managing application workloads in the cloud that can easily spin out of control from a cost perspective simply because developers frequently forget to turn functions off when they are not being used. To enable DevOps teams to more proactively manage cloud resources, CloudHealth Technologies, a provider of […]
SolarWinds Acquires Loggly to Add Analytics to DevOps Portfolio
An ongoing SolarWinds effort to drive down the cost of implementing DevOps has been extended by acquiring Loggly, a provider of log analytics software provided as a cloud service. Christoph Pfister, executive vice president of products at SolarWinds, says the Loggly service rounds out a portfolio of DevOps offerings spanning application and infrastructure monitoring, website […]
Legacy On-Premises Apps Got You Down? Cloud DevOps to the Rescue!
With all the buzz around DevOps we tend to assume that everyone is doing it. But the reality is that most companies are not. That’s because organizations using legacy, on-premises applications think that it can’t work for them, and, according to IDC, the vast majority of enterprise apps still reside on-premises. Even in 2018, less […]
HPE Rises to Multi-Cloud Management Challenge
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is making available a suite of tools to unify the management of public and private clouds via a software-as-service (SaaS) applications. Bryan Jacquot, HPE worldwide user experience architect, says HPE OneSphere provides IT organizations with a means to manage a multi-cloud IT environment using a SaaS application they can consume in the […]
Persistent Storage: You’ll be Hearing More
As containers take over the IT environment, a problem that has existed since virtual machines (VMs) became popular has become more urgent: how to keep persistent storage, and keep it consistent. Just as a business designed for foot traffic of 50 to 100 people per hour does not work well when it sees 500 to […]
ZeroStack Advances Self-Service Provisioning on Private Cloud
Many IT organizations have aspired to build a private cloud only to find that they don’t have the granular control over IT infrastructure to deliver on that promise. To solve that problem, ZeroStack unveiled DevOps Workbench, a framework internal IT organizations can employ to present developers with a set of options that can self-select to […]
VMware Adds vRealize Automation to Cloud Platform
At the core of the VMware approach to cloud computing is a VMware Cloud Foundation platform that combines storage and network virtualization software with the company’s core hypervisor platform. Now via the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3, integration with the VMware vRealize portfolio of IT automation software is being added. Matt Herreras, director of […]
Cloud Orchestrators: Beneficial in a Multi-Cloud Environment
Recent outages of leading cloud providers affecting thousands of business worldwide, such as the Amazon Web Services S3 outage that occurred in late February, have forced many CIOs and CTOs to think hard about their cloud strategies, including whether a multi-cloud environment would be of benefit. ROI and Business Impact During AWS’ four-hour disruption, S&P […]
Morpheus Data Advances DevOps Across Hybrid Clouds
Thanks to the rise of multi-cloud computing, the challenges associated with managing DevOps are becoming exponentially greater. Most IT organizations are not likely to be 100 percent sure at any given time which application workload is running where. To address that issue, Morpheus Data has added a Cross-Platform Discovery module to its Unified Ops Orchestration […]
DevOps Chat: ParkMyCloud Saves Wolfpack App Over 50 Percent on Cloud
In this DevOps Chat, find out how the developers of Wolfpack (wolfpack.run) are saving over 50 percent in cloud costs by using ParkMyCloud’s cloud management platform. Though the cloud offers many benefits to app developers and others, controlling the costs can sometimes elude organizations big and small. Cloud sprawl can quickly lead to large cloud […]
Mastering the Art of Cloud Migration
Cloud computing has come a long way over the years. Yet, only a few enterprises have managed to master the art of cloud migration. The secret to a successful migration lies in a well-defined, phased and iterative approach that not only streamlines the process but also accelerates the outcome. Here is one road map to […]
Trend Micro Expands DevSecOps Portfolio
At the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference today, Trend Micro significantly expanded its reach into DevSecOps by announcing it has acquired Immunio, a provider of agent software that can be employed on a central platform engine to execute security policies on a granular level. In addition, Trend Micro announced it is adding support for container image scanning […]
Micro Focus Unfurls Functional Testing Service
The merging of software assets from Micro Focus and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) that occurred earlier this year included StormRunner, a series of load- and performance-testing tools. Micro Focus recently extended that portfolio with the introduction of Micro Focus StormRunner Functional, a suite of functional testing tools delivered as service that can be employed to test […]
SolarWinds Aims to Democratize Monitoring
In a move that has the potential to significantly expand the number of organizations embracing DevOps, SolarWinds announced it has expanded its IT management cloud service to include an integrated application and infrastructure monitoring offering dubbed AppOptics. Pricing for AppOptics starts at $7.50 per host per month. In addition, SolarWinds has updated Papertrail log management […]