Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced this week it will make available instances of its IT infrastructure available in on-premises IT environments, which it will then manage on behalf of customers. The announcement was made at its AWS re:Invent 2018 conference. AWS CEO Andy Jassy said AWS Outposts platforms, scheduled to be available in 2019, will […]
Rackspace Aims to Push VMware Everywhere
Rackspace is expanding its efforts to provide managed services for private clouds based on VMware that can now be deployed anywhere. Peter FitzGibbon, vice president and general manager of VMware at Rackspace, said Rackspace Private Cloud Everywhere, powered by VMware, is making an effort to provide infrastructure services that enable IT organizations to devote more […]
DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship Aimed at Business Success
DevOps and cloud computing are not mutually exclusive, though their relationship has often been uncertain and confusing from a layman’s perspective. While cloud computing relates to technology and services, DevOps is more about processes and process improvement. However, both DevOps and cloud computing are vital in every organization’s journey toward an effective digital transformation. Cloud-centric […]
Why an Enterprise 5-Year Cloud Plan Must Focus on Serverless
While most of us have looked at the beginning of the new year as the time to set our personal resolutions for the next 12 months, enterprises have already started to execute their plans for the year ahead. But, that’s part of a problem. Too often major organizations move from year to year on a […]
Top 3 Challenges of Adopting Microservices as Part of Your Cloud Migration
Many organizations embark on cloud migrations to achieve scalability, cost-efficiency and higher application performance. IDC estimates 60 percent of worldwide enterprises are migrating existing applications to the cloud. With the promise of greater flexibility, a reduction in overhead and the potential for significant cost savings, it’s a logical decision. But instead of performing a “lift […]
Red Hat Survey Sees Broad Adoption of Microservices
A new survey from Red Hat shows the extent to which IT organizations are moving to modernize their IT environments: More than two-thirds of respondents (69 percent) reported they are using microservices for both new applications and re-architecting existing ones. The survey, which includes responses from 168 IT professionals employing either Red Hat JBoss middleware […]
Is Your Company’s IT a Disaster Waiting to Happen?
Recent IT disasters suggest gaps in hardware testing, backup system testing and inadequate disaster recovery plans. Although the summer often is the most profitable season for most airlines, this past summer wasn’t great for several of the largest carriers. In July, Southwest Airlines suffered a 12-hour IT outage, triggered by a router malfunction that quickly […]
Clone your entire IT infrastructure in the cloud at the push of a button
Rapid development and deployment is a hallmark of DevOps. The faster pace doesn’t change the need for testing applications before they’re pushed to production, or QA testing the code and infrastructure, though. The tricky part for many organizations is that different groups need access to the same environment, and creating duplicate environments can be tedious. […]
Simplify and expedite server management
Deploying, managing, and maintaining servers can be tedious. Deploying, managing, and maintaining thousands, or tens of thousands of server instances is overwhelming—bordering on impossible—without the right tools. Thankfully, the right tools exist. The Pain of Doing Things the Hard Way I know I am dating myself, but when I was an IT admin for a […]