DevOps decoded: Guru explains what it is and why you should care
Anyone working in IT has heard of DevOps. It’s a phrase associated with giant cloud companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Salesforce. But DevOps also seems obscure, like a secret handshake that’s hiding in plain sight. To demystify DevOps, I invited one of the world’s most prominent DevOps figures to join me on CXOTalk. Gene Kim […]
Interview With an AWS Cloud Champion
Allow me to introduce a good friend, Peter Sankauskas, who I met through the AWS cloud community. Our level of cloud experience evolved with the expansion of the cloud, Amazon in particular, and we have both become prominent members of the AWS community. Having learned more about open source and development, I’d like to focus on the […]
Why Multi-Cloud? Evolution, Freedom
What drives the creation of countless apps, tools and platforms in the IT market today? The ever-growing web as well as the `consumerization of IT` provide end users with an abundance of options and full discretion. We now understand the vital need to internalize the concept of spreading knowledge and information across a variety of […]
Cloud, DevOps and Herding Cats
The conventional wisdom is that 2014 is that year that enterprise IT finally “rolls up the sleeves” and gets serious about cloud adoption. But what does this really mean? Basically we’re seeing the era of cloud pilots and proof-of-concepts in the enterprise drawing to close, especially around IaaS and to a certain extent PaaS. CIOs […]
The Perceived Risk of The Purely Cloud Deployment
In this post series, I will raise some basic questions and will delve deeply into this topic to debate the common resistance to what I call “pure cloud deployment”. Let’s begin with a leading question: Can’t the hybrid economy model live within the public cloud? From the enormous number of conversations with top cloud thought leaders, CIOs, […]
Do you really want your IT department to define your application stack?
The term “Platform-as-a-Service” or PaaS is gaining widespread popularity. The PaaS promise is that either a hosted solution or a private cloud solution gives your enterprise all you need. You just write an application and post it to the Cloud. “Cloud Magic” will run and scale it for you. There is no lack of competition in […]
Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS
When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of the princely $10M funding round the company had just raised. As I said at the time: […]
VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future
News recently that VMware, fresh from spinning out most of its developer focused non-virtualization assets in the Pivotal Initiative, has put a huge $30M finding into Puppet Labs. As part of the deal, VMware and Puppet will team up to produce a new IT management solution for VMware customers to use that leverages the automation […]
New Meme: Business Users Are The IT
For the past two years, I have been advocating PaaS as the future of cloud services and how developers are the face of the IT in the PaaS era. I have long argued that as PaaS takes over the IT infrastructure in the organizations, we will see a shift in who holds the key to […]
The Basho Riak News Keeps Coming – Get to Distributing All The Things!
I mentioned earlier this week on Twitter that there was a deluge of software releases, additions and other goodies that would be released in the coming days. Earlier this week Jeremiah @peschkaj & OJ @TheColonial released the CorrugatedIron .NET Client for Riak. Big news for my .NET cohorts out there! It makes life uber easy …
Amazon Cloud and the Enterprise – Is it a love story? (Free Infographic Included)
As befitting any great online vendor, Amazon cloud product guys listen carefully to their market targets and ensure fast implementation and delivery to satisfy their needs. It is clear that Amazon cloud is eager to conquer the enterprise market, as I already mentioned in my past post, “Amazon AWS is the Cloud (for now anyway)“. […]
Boundary Delivers Application Monitoring–For Free
Boundary, the application monitoring company that promises super-quick implementation time is today announcing a bunch of new capabilities that it is hoping will see it increase uptake for its offering. Included in this release is an interesting new tool that creates visual representations of application topology and tracks changes in
BMC Acquires VaraLogix, Releases Version 3.0 of CLM
BMC software the IT service management vendor that is arguably best known for producing the Remedy ITSM product, also has an interest in providing a broad set of tools for the management of enterprise’s IT assets – it’s cloud life management (CLM) and cloud operations management (COM) toolsets are platforms
CollabNet and the Enterprise Cloud Development Perspective
A growing trend over the past few years in this industry has been towards providing tools for developers working within enterprise. The growth of enterprise awareness of agile methodologies, along with the rise of Cloud computing generally and Platform as a Service specifically has given such vendors as Atlassian, PivotalLabs
Cloudsoft Makes DevOps Approach To PaaS Seamless
Cloudsoft Corporation, UK based consulting company turned multi cloud application management provider, today announced that they are open sourcing Brooklyn multi-cloud application management platform under Apache license. In short, Brooklyn is an autonomic policy driven control plane for distributed applications. Seeing it from another angle, it can also be seen as a DIY PaaS platform. […]
