Businesses are increasingly developing software solutions that can drive innovation and digital transformation. As the number of developers increases in the organization, the ratio of developers to IT also increases over time. The net result: more dynamic and complex dev/test infrastructure requirements and slower support from IT. Developers and testers often cannot get their hands […]
Q&A: Michael Beckley, CTO/CCO, Appian
Recently I had the chance to speak with Michael Beckley, chief technical officer and chief customer officer at Appian, about his company’s move to go public and the DevOps space in general. For those of you who don’t know Michael, he is a founder of Appian and leads the company’s technology vision and oversees customer […]
New Relic Extends Monitoring Reach
New Relic this week at its Future Stack 2017 conference extended the reach of its monitoring services via the release of a software development kit (SDK) that makes it possible for IT teams to monitor custom applications. In addition, New Relic unveiled Health Map, which makes it much easier for IT administrators to correlate data […]
Boots and Sandals: Know the Market
Boots and sandals are basically the same thing—something to protect your feet while you walk about. The thing is that they are intended for slightly different purposes. You wouldn’t wear sandals outside in the middle of a Wisconsin winter*, and you wouldn’t wear boots to your day off, hanging at the beach. The thing is […]
Protecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for more than 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional solutions were designed for the world of on-premises infrastructure and structured applications and relational databases. But the world is changing. In the last […]
Azure vs. AWS for the Enterprise
In a previous post we discussed Azure & OpenStack, the less-explored hybrid cloud, and we thought we’d segue on the hybrid cloud theme, and follow up with an additional post focusing on a question we’re often asked … Azure or AWS? It’s one of the most common questions enterprise customers today face as they look […]
Health Care’s Shift to the Cloud via the Hybrid Cloud, Part 2
In part one of this series, we looked at how the healthcare industry has changed, requiring integrations and interoperability that were not previously needed. Having established that the cloud is the way to go and that the hybrid cloud is the stepping stone hospital CIOs are comfortable with, we must ask how DevOps can help. […]
Health Care’s Shift to the Cloud via the Hybrid Cloud, Part 1
The changing healthcare scene is dragging hospital systems into the cloud to enable the interoperability necessary for the industry to send electronic medial records (EMRs) and other data to outside systems such as registries that enable bundled payments. Because health insurance companies and Medicare only pay for patient episodes rather than for each subsequent treatment […]
User Identity in Focus as Cloud, Device Use Grows
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending SailPoint’s Navigate ’16 identity management conference. I’ve always been interested in the identity management aspect of security. Many of the first wave of identity management vendors launched around 1999, when I started covering information security as a full-time focus. These vendors dealt with all of the identity challenges […]
Best Practices for Cloud Deployment
When it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, the conventional wisdom is that DevOps is not required if you’re a small or midsized company. The cloud is designed to enable virtually anyone to set up the infrastructure they need, quickly and easily, without a lot of experience in the intricacies of managing data center […]