Sparkhound, a provider of managed IT services, has launched a Pop-Up Service Desk designed to augment the existing capabilities of internal IT teams during a major transition. Chris Kimmel, managing director for managed services at Sparkhound, said the new service was created to help organizations cope with transitions such as migrating to Windows 10 or […]
HPE Adds Control Plane to Greenlake Managed Service
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today it has added a cloud platform to its managed Greenlake service, through which DevOps teams will be able to manage deployments of applications alongside HPE. Scott Yow, vice president and general manager for GreenLake Hybrid Cloud Software at HPE, said HPE Greenlake Central provides a control plane that makes it […]
CloudBees Allies with Atos to Accelerate DevOps Adoption
In a move that should accelerate adoption of best DevOps practices in the enterprise, CloudBees and Atos announced this week that the two are collaborating to advance adoption of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms on the Google public cloud. Announced at the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, the alliance will result in the IT services […]
The Truth Behind DevOps on the Cloud
DevOps on the cloud may seem simple enough, but in reality it can be very complex The ultimate goal of a DevOps administrator is to make sure that everything is running properly and seamlessly—so much so that management is convinced that the DevOps administrator is playing solitaire all day. To that end, a successful DevOps […]
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 […]
Tips to Optimize the Cloud for Scaling
When I first started migrating companies to the cloud (about seven years ago), companies would ask me, “How come the app isn’t scaling? How come users are still complaining about the slowness?” I would explain that the cloud enables auto-scaling, but you still have to make sure your app can scale in the cloud. In […]
AWS Extends DevOps Ambitions via Managed Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is signaling its increased interest in providing managed services spanning multiple aspects of DevOps with the launch of service that promises to make it easier to set up development projects. At a recent AWS Summit conference in San Francisco, CTO Werner Vogels described AWS CodeStar as a means for building pipelines […]
Australian DevOps Company to Open US Office in 2017
Australia-based DevOps as a managed service provider base2Services is preparing to establish a U.S. office in mid-2017. Despite being based in Melbourne, Australia, base2Services already has five customers in North America—including media company All Day and online video specialist Sardius Media—that contribute nearly 20 percent of the company’s revenue. Further expansion in the region will […]