In the era of soaring use of public cloud by companies, software delivery is moving away from an on-premises install approach to a cloud-based subscription model through software as a service (SaaS). Customers expect a lot when it comes to SaaS products and services. Whether they are investing in SaaS-first offerings or shifting workloads to […]
IBM Adds Cloud Foundry PaaS to Cloud Private
As IT organizations are being asked to provision and support an ever-growing number of platforms, they increasingly require an approach that abstracts away as much of that complexity as possible. With that goal in mind, IBM created IBM Cloud Private, an on-premises platform that automates the deployment of a private cloud based on Kubernetes container […]
With a Multicloud Infrastructure, Control is Key
Ask any developer or DevOps manager about their first experiences with the public cloud and it’s likely they’ll happily share some memories of quickly provisioning some compute instances for a small project or new app. For (seemingly) a few pennies, you could take full advantage of the full suite of public cloud services—as well as […]
LogicMonitor Extends Reach to the Cloud
LogicMonitor has been making available performance monitoring tools as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for several years now. At the Microsoft Ignite conference this week, the company announced it is adding a module through which IT organizations can gain similar insights into public cloud computing services. Steve Francis, founder and chief evangelist for LogicMonitor, says LM Cloud […]
Digital Transformation: Thrive, Not Just Survive
My conversations about innovation and the enterprise have afforded me an intimate understanding of the technological challenges companies are facing. Chief among these concerns, regardless of industry or sector, is digital transformation. Just the other day, a C-level financial executive came to me seeking guidance on this topic. He said his company was on a […]
VMware Cloud on AWS Will Bring DevOps Issues to a Head
Now that instances of VMware are starting to become available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a DevOps ecosystem is starting to emerge around the management of applications workloads moving into and out of AWS. Among the more than 4,500 applications that VMware claims already support VMware Cloud on AWS are those from Blue Medora, CA […]
IBM: DevOps Challenges Require Managed Services
The DevOps complexity associated with determining which classes of application workloads are best-suited to run on certain platform types will push an increasing number of IT organizations to embrace managed services. That’s the premise put forth by IBM, which provides such a service. Steve Robinson, general manager for IBM Cloud Platform Services, says it’s becoming […]
Pivotal Enlists Rackspace to Advance DevOps in Cloud Foundry Environments
In a sign of the level of complexity now associated with managing DevOps, Pivotal has partnered with Rackspace to create a managed services practice for its distribution of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. Ian Andrews, vice president of product for Pivotal, says that at least half of the company’s customers have a least one […]
Barracuda Networks Enhances API to Advance DevSecOps
Recognizing that DevOps teams deploying applications in the cloud need a more sophisticated approach to security, Barracuda Networks at the Microsoft Inspire 2017 conference unveiled an enhanced REST API for its Web Application Firewall (WAF), in addition to providing integration with the IT automation framework developed by Puppet Labs. At the same time, Barracuda Networks […]
Data Science Industry Perspectives in the Cloud
In principle, the cloud is becoming a commodity. Google, Amazon and other companies are trying to commoditize almost everything, including the instruments for data gathering, data storage and data transformation. In the near term, we should expect that platform engineering, which today is overly complex, will become simpler. With data engineering, however, the prospects of […]
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