XebiaLabs recently launched a new version of its deployment automation
software. Deployit 3.0 promises to take away the risks associated with manual
or scripted Java deployments, as well as out-of-date procedures. The end
result: more productive DevOps teams.
Coert Baart, CEO, XebiaLabs, rightly points out that the escalating adoption
of virtualization and cloud computing is causing increasingly complex
application deployments -- especially with roles of development and
operations teams crossing over.
“Issues of virtual sprawl, lengthy scripts, and error-prone manual
processes become all the more burdensome for companies tackling deployments
without the right technologies in place,” Baart says. “With Deployit 3.0,
companies can relieve these burdens and achieve the productivity they need in
today’s increasingly dynamic markets.”
Removing the red tape
Deployit 3.0 wor... (more)
HP today fully threw its hat into the public cloud computing ring, joining
the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM, to provide a full range of
infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings hosted on HP data centers.
Targeting enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs), service
providers, and the global HP channel and partner ecosystem, the new HP
Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute (ECS-Compute) bundles server, storage,
network and security resources for consumption as pure services.
ECS-Compute is an HP-hosted compute fabric that's governed via policies for
service, perf... (more)
EMC recently introduced a free Community Edition of the EMC Greenplum
Database, its massively parallel processing (MPP) database, along with free
analytic algorithms and data mining tools.
Building on earlier Greenplum “big data” releases, like the EMC Greenplum
Data Computing Appliance, the Community Edition lowers the cost barrier to
entry for big data power tools for more developers, data scientists, and
other data professionals.
The tools help to developers better understand data and provide new data
uses, as well provide deeper insights and to better visualize those insights. ... (more)
Everyone in the IT industry knows by now that cloud computing is exploding.
Gartner said cloud computing was its number-one area of inquiry in 2010, and
hype for the popular computing movement peaked last summer according to its
2010 Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing.
Regardless of what the media says, cloud is now a real option for delivery of
IT services to business, and organizations of all sizes need to determine how
they can generate real business benefit from using cloud. Industry discussion
about its benefits still tend to be more focused on such IT advantages as IT
capacity ... (more)
SAN DIEGO -- The Open Group 2011 conference opened here yesterday with a
focus on cyber security, showing how the risk management aspects of IT,
architecture, and business stand as a high priority and global imperative for
enterprises.
It's hard to plan any strategy for business and the IT forces that drive it,
if the continuity of those services is suspect. Social media and the
accelerating uses of mobile devices and networks are only adding more
questions to the daunting issues around privacy and access. And, the
Wikileaks affair has clearly illustrated how high the stakes can ... (more)
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