ITIL has actually been around since the 1980s, and has matured substantially in the intervening time. Today it belongs to AXELOS, a joint venture betw...Dec. 13, 2015 12:15 AM EST
Put the word continuous in front of many things and we help define DevOps: continuous delivery, continuous testing, continuous assessment, and there i...
We talk a lot about what it means to do DevOps here at VictorOps, and a lot of what we talk about comes out of real practice. In some organizations, t...Latest Articles from @CloudExpo
 Cloud computing is unquestionably one of the driving forces of DevOps, as the automation of operations transforms enterprise software development. DevOps, however, is more than a technology trend, as it represents a move toward silo-busting, self-organizing horizontal teams that drive ...Dec. 12, 2015 11:00 PM EST Reads: 341 |
 In recent years, at least 40% of companies using cloud applications have experienced data loss. One of the best prevention against cloud data loss is backing up your cloud data.
In his General Session at 17th Cloud Expo, Sam McIntyre, Partner Enablement Specialist at eFolder, present...Dec. 12, 2015 11:00 PM EST Reads: 440 |
 The new mantra at IBM is speed, speed and speed. The design-oriented approach is promised to yield the agility they need in re-inventing themselves. Being 104 years old, IBM has changed course and re-invented itself may times. Now the focus seems to be cloud computing, analytics, and b...Dec. 12, 2015 10:45 PM EST Reads: 372 |
 The revocation of Safe Harbor has radically affected data sovereignty strategy in the cloud.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Jeff Miller, Product Management at Cavirin Systems, discussed how to assess these changes across your own cloud strategy, and how you can mitigate risks pre...Dec. 12, 2015 10:30 PM EST Reads: 354 |
 Actifio is powering new application development and testing services from Net3 Technologies (N3T), a managed cloud services provider. N3T's new Symmetry DevOps™ service builds on its existing Palmetto Virtual Data Center (PvDC) Cloud services for data backup and disaster recovery (DR) ...Dec. 12, 2015 08:15 PM EST Reads: 392 |
 "What we see what happens when you have a completely networked society and the potential to now drive the value creation and the collaboration and the ecosystems that are possible when you start to be able to connect people and industries together in ways that have never been possible ...Dec. 12, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 351 |
 "We are the first enterprise class data virtualization platform. We help organizations become more resilient in the area of backup disaster recovery," explained Chak Singamsetti, Senior Solutions Architect at Actifio, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5, ...Dec. 12, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 202 |
 Today, organizations have so much data at their disposal. This data includes company, customer, product, employee, and more… much more. The problem is that without the proper tools, mid-market companies often struggle with turning this information into meaningful and actionable insight...Dec. 12, 2015 05:45 PM EST Reads: 430 |
 "Open source is a very powerful thing and lies at the heart of most modern technology. It's useful to a lot of people and a lot of companies invest in it," stated Alex Gorbachev, President of Intelligent Systems Services Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held Novem...Dec. 12, 2015 05:30 PM EST Reads: 255 |
 Most of the IoT Gateway scenarios involve collecting data from machines/processing and pushing data upstream to cloud for further analytics. The gateway hardware varies from Raspberry Pi to Industrial PCs. The document states the process of allowing deploying polyglot data pipelining s...Dec. 12, 2015 04:45 PM EST Reads: 411 |
 You may have heard about the pets vs. cattle discussion – a reference to the way application servers are deployed in the cloud native world. If an application server goes down it can simply be dropped from the mix and a new server added in its place. The practice so far has mostly been...Dec. 12, 2015 04:30 PM EST Reads: 466 |
 Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty ...Dec. 12, 2015 04:15 PM EST Reads: 728 |
 Cybersecurity and the security of the data in the cloud is a hot topic. The number of companies hacked and the magnitude of losses have been growing at an alarming rate. Earlier this year, an international hacking ring stole as much as $1 billion from over 100 banks in 30 countries in ...Dec. 12, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 266 |
 Using any programming framework to the fullest extent possible first requires an understanding of advanced software architecture concepts. While writing a little client-side JavaScript does not necessarily require as much consideration when designing a scalable software architecture, t...Dec. 12, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 475 |
 In demand-intensive mobile and web applications, an emerging pattern is to host the Systems of Engagement in the cloud (for maximum responsiveness) but keep the Systems of Record with the other important business systems in the company datacenter, often on a tightly secured mainframe. ...Dec. 12, 2015 03:00 PM EST Reads: 402 |
 The broad selection of hardware, the rapid evolution of operating systems and the time-to-market for mobile apps has been so rapid that new challenges for developers and engineers arise every day. Security, testing, hosting, and other metrics have to be considered through the process. ...Dec. 12, 2015 03:00 PM EST Reads: 332 |
 This IBM Redbooks® Point-of-View publication discusses cloud workloads on the mainframe. A cloud built on a mainframe, such as IBM® zEnterprise® or others in the IBM System z® family, has several distinct advantages. Dec. 12, 2015 02:45 PM EST Reads: 190 |
 In his General Session at DevOps Summit, Asaf Yigal, Co-Founder & VP of Product at Logz.io, explored the value of Kibana 4 for log analysis and provided a hands-on tutorial on how to set up Kibana 4 and get the most out of Apache log files.
He examined three use cases: IT operations, ...Dec. 12, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 559 |
 Electric power utilities face relentless pressure on their financial performance, and reducing distribution grid losses is one of the last untapped opportunities to meet their business goals. Combining IoT-enabled sensors and cloud-based data analytics, utilities now are able to find, ...Dec. 12, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 283 |
 Countless business models have spawned from the IaaS industry – resell Web hosting, blogs, public cloud, and on and on. With the overwhelming amount of tools available to us, it's sometimes easy to overlook that many of them are just new skins of resources we've had for a long time.
...Dec. 12, 2015 01:15 PM EST Reads: 418 |
 The annual holiday shopping season, which started on Thanksgiving weekend and runs through the end of December, is undoubtedly the most crucial time of the year for many eCommerce websites, with sales from this period having a dramatic effect on the year-end bottom line.
Web performan...Dec. 12, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 409 |
 In today’s pharmaceutical supply chain, counterfeit activity is thriving. As pharma companies have expanded target markets and outsourced production over the last decade, the supply chain has become increasingly global, virtual, and vulnerable. Illicit activity has thrived, and patient...Dec. 12, 2015 12:45 PM EST Reads: 485 |
 "Security starts very simply at home when you're on your PC. At DataClear we thought 'How do we make a secure desktop for people and for corporations,'" explained Tony Teora, CEO of DataClear, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara ...Dec. 12, 2015 12:30 PM EST Reads: 152 |
 How is cloud computing bringing society and its ideas closer together?
This got me thinking. Last week the President of the United States started following me on Twitter. Now I realize that it's not really President Obama on the other side of that virtual table, but the event brought ...Dec. 12, 2015 12:15 PM EST Reads: 284 |
 As more intelligent IoT applications shift into gear, they’re merging into the ever-increasing traffic flow of the Internet. It won’t be long before we experience bottlenecks, as IoT traffic peaks during rush hours. Organizations that are unprepared will find themselves by the side of ...Dec. 12, 2015 12:15 PM EST Reads: 355 |
 With containerization using Docker, the orchestration of containers using Kubernetes, the self-service model for provisioning your projects and applications and the workflows we built in OpenShift is the best in class Platform as a Service that enables introducing DevOps into your orga...Dec. 12, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 279 |
 Naturally, new and exciting technologies and trends like software defined networking, the Internet of Things and the cloud tend to get the lion’s share of attention these days, including when it comes to security. However, it’s important to never forget that at the center of it all is ...Dec. 12, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 436 |
 U.S. companies are desperately trying to recruit and hire skilled software engineers and developers, but there is simply not enough quality talent to go around. Tiempo Development is a nearshore software development company. Our headquarters are in AZ, but we are a pioneer and leader i...Dec. 12, 2015 11:30 AM EST Reads: 1,195 |
 "We've made it easy for customers that want to build their own cloud infrastructure by delivering a fully integrated software and hardware in a rack," explained Stefaan Vervaet, Director of Strategic Alliances at HGST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 17th Cloud Expo, held November 3-5,...Jan. 31, 2015 01:45 AM EST Reads: 180 |
 It’s a given that employee access to corporate systems should be both as secure and simple as possible. However, time-strapped CIOs under pressure from demanding staff and challenged with authenticating users all over the world on multiple devices, have been torn between relying on the...Dec. 12, 2015 10:30 AM EST Reads: 168 |
 Consumer IoT applications provide data about the user that just doesn’t exist in traditional PC or mobile web applications. This rich data, or “context,” enables the highly personalized consumer experiences that characterize many consumer IoT apps. This same data is also providing bran...Dec. 12, 2015 09:45 AM EST Reads: 181 |
 Today, most enterprises have some type of cloud-based solutions or are looking at cloud-based infrastructure for some of their enterprise applications. What is lacking in many organizations is the strategic design focus and sophisticated implementation for very secure infrastructure wh...Dec. 12, 2015 09:45 AM EST Reads: 269 |
 "eFolder does a lot of different things but we protect data and we are focused on protecting data no matter where it resides," explained Carlo Tapia, Product Marketing Manager at eFolder, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention...Dec. 12, 2015 09:45 AM EST Reads: 326 |
 As the Internet of Things gains further ubiquity, data on consumer lifestyles and habits will take on increased value to IoT manufacturers and their ecosystem of partners. In today’s era of digital user empowerment ought not users have the ability to control how their data is shared, w...Dec. 12, 2015 09:45 AM EST Reads: 326 |
 Lately I have been reading the excellent book Digital Apollo. It explores the evolution of digital control systems and the man-machine interface that evolved during the development of space flight and ultimately the Apollo missions. It’s a fantastic book – more technical than most – bu...Dec. 12, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 322 |
 Monitoring Node.js Applications has special challenges. The dynamic nature of the language provides many “opportunities” for developers to produce memory leaks, and a single function blocking the event queue can have a huge impact on the overall application performance. Parallel execut...Dec. 12, 2015 08:45 AM EST Reads: 300 |
 The web app is agile. The REST API is agile. The testing and planning are agile. But alas, data infrastructures certainly are not. Once an application matures, changing the shape or indexing scheme of data often forces at best a top down planning exercise and at worst includes schema c...Dec. 12, 2015 08:15 AM EST Reads: 332 |
 So you want to centralize your enterprise? Smart choice – but it’s important to take some factors into consideration if you want to have success.
Developers need to ensure representation from each geographic location; understand current development processes and tools; and comprehend...Dec. 12, 2015 07:30 AM EST Reads: 380 |
 Here's a bold claim: Cloud computing has the potential to be as transformative as the advent of the automobile. Before the age of cars and buses, everything was undertaken at a fraction of the pace it is now-transport, distribution, socializing. The automobile revolutionized all of tha...Dec. 12, 2015 04:00 AM EST Reads: 420 |
 An edge gateway is an essential piece of infrastructure for large scale cloud-based services.
In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Mikey Cohen, Manager, Edge Gateway at Netflix, detailed the purpose, benefits and use cases for an edge gateway to provide security, traffic management and...Dec. 12, 2015 03:00 AM EST Reads: 206 |
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