The IBM Domino environment was mostly replaced by Microsoft on-premises technology, then later replaced by the Microsoft Cloud Services. One thing that hasn’t been replaced is the need for administrators to have control and visibility of service delivery to end users. Whether you’re using IBM applications, Microsoft on-premises servers or Microsoft Office 365, as the […]
Deep Art of Scaling for Cloud Environments, Part 2
In Part One of our two-part series on scaling for cloud environments, we looked at some of important factors for scaling and best practices for code storage. Let’s continue the discussion. Auto Scaling for Next-Generation Applications There are a few very good-looking cloud hosting service providers that provide the features mentioned in Part One: AWS, […]
Deep Art of Scaling for Cloud Environments, Part 1
The number of resources to scale an application are abundant, but every application has its own challenges to scale successfully, and the solution to this problem doesn’t come handy. This two-part article focuses on the best approaches to build a scalable application, software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, mobile app, or WordPress-, Drupal- or Magento-based website. The scope […]
Software Defined Data Centers Enable True DevOps
I have been talking a lot recently about the bleeding edge technologies that are offloading the complexity of DevOps management, and software quality. My last post on service virtualization is the latest example. Not lets talk about the software defined data centers. A dense topic, but a massive leap into automating, and unshackling a previously […]