DevOps Lessons from the Dyn Attack Fiasco
Dyn’s DNS servers suffered a major DDoS attack last week, slowing a host of major websites. Does the drive for DevOps automation increase the risk of similar attacks? Maybe, but it doesn’t have to. As almost every geek knows by now, a DDoS attack on Oct. 21 overwhelmed Dyn’s DNS servers, and websites that depended […]
Fog Computing Meets Cloud Computing, and the Forecast Is Sunny
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 storage, processing and analysis. One thing all new technologies share is the lack of a consensus on what exactly defines the technology. Ask […]
Vivint Meets Smart Home IoT Challenges Using DevOps
Smart home technology vendor Vivint serves more than 1 million U.S. and Canadian consumers with services including broadband internet, cloud storage, home automation products, home security services and energy automation controls. The company, which got its start in home security, leverages door and window sensors, motion detectors and glass-break sensors, as well as those that […]
Top 10 Emerging Technologies Enterprises Should Know
The momentum behind the adoption of new technologies underway is no less than astounding. Those enterprises that not only adopt, but learn to master, emerging technologies will be the clear winners in the years ahead as they learn their customers’ needs better, rapidly develop new and successful products and services, optimize their use of business […]
5 Development Trends Reshaping Testing
There’s no shortage of new development trends, but virtual reality, containers, big data, hyperconnected apps and IoT are affecting testing the most today. If you like change and challenge, it’s a fun time to work in software. Some technology developments, such as cloud computing, have been gaining speed slowly over many years. That steady progression […]
DevOps and ITaaS: Two Sides of the Same Coin
It seems IT practitioners haven’t realized yet the scale of digital disruption. Mired in the old IT thinking, they firmly believe that sophisticated tools are all businesses need to survive the ongoing digital disruption waves. Most of them warn, “Digital transformation is changing the way we do business, the way we deliver IT services must change, […]
4 Tech Imperatives in 2016 to Prepare for Tomorrow
Around the start of every new year come a bevy of predictions about what’s coming (or what someone, or some vendor, or some analyst hopes is coming) in the year ahead. Rather than do that, based on recent conversations with many CIOs, I’ve collected what I think are imperative to-do’s for CIOs and IT leaders […]
The Internet of Things
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The Internet of APIs
The Internet moves at the speed of light. Not only that, but the terminology used when describing The Internet seems to change with the tides. One of the newest phrases to start making the rounds is “The Internet of APIs.” In an attempt to understand exactly what it is, I went looking for a definition […]
DevOps + IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is part marketing hype and partly a real movement. After low power WiFi chips have allowed small devices to connect to the web for a long time. Remember Eye-Fi founded in 2005? But there is no denying it is BIG. Service revenues rooted in micro-controller-based IoT are expected to reach […]
Internet of Things (IoT) poses challenges for DevOps and security
One of the hottest things in tech today is the Internet of Things (IoT). Everything will be connected including every gadget, kitchen appliance, wearable device and vehicle. But one of the biggest areas for IoT are controllers embedded into just about everything. These controllers will report back, generating reports and information that can be analyzed […]
Automation versus Orchestration
Yes, Virginia, there is a difference. One of the things devops practitioners are tasked with is the provisioning and configuration of all sorts of infrastructure. Application servers, web servers, load balancers, proxies and database servers are among the lengthy (and no doubt growing) list of “boxes” devops needs to get up and running to support […]