The last most of us heard from Lance Crosby we thought he was riding off to an island sunset, to bask in the glow of a very successful exit from SoftLayer. The company he founded was bought by IBM for a few billion dollars to serve as the centerpiece of their cloud strategy. Many would […]
SoftLayer Bare Metal Servers: Does the Cloud have to be virtual?
SoftLayer announced new service level and features to their Bare Metal Servers today. Continuing their march towards delivering dedicated servers at virtual server pricing and service levels, SoftLayer announced that they will now offer setup in under 30 minutes and hourly billing options. The 30 minute set up is available on a variety of pre-configured […]
Google Starts Cloud World War I, DevOps Wins
No matter the outcome, a cloud pricing war will leave DevOps the winner By now you probably saw the news and all of the buzz about how Google dropped its drawers eh, pricing on its cloud hosting. This is of course a direct shot at Amazon’s AWS. It’s about time someone with big enough stones (and […]
Survey Says: Positives and Negatives of DevOps are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Isn’t that the way it always works? A person’s strength can also be their weakness. A company’s killer product becomes their Achilles heel as the market shifts. As more and more companies make the shift to DevOps, it’s interesting to learn what’s working, what the opportunities are, and what the impediments are. As many of […]
Ops is dead, long live DevOps
Yes, that’s a bold statement, but if the vibe at the recent AWS re:Invent conference was any indication there are a number of methodologies, technologies, and companies working to make that a reality. This article isn’t focused on whether this is a good or bad thing (my personal belief is that ops will always be […]
IBM Invests $1B to Deliver Unique Platform-as-a-Service Capabilities to Connect Enterprise Data and Applications to the Cloud
Delivers Enterprise Software Capabilities – Integration, Security, Analytics, Commerce to Accelerate New Era of Hybrid Clouds ARMONK, N.Y. and LAS VEGAS, Feb. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a unique new development environment and capabilities-as-a-service to help clients and developers speed the adoption of “hybrid” clouds, which have the potential to usher in a […]
Automation Driving DevOps Adoption
Survey of Attendees at JumpCloud and SoftLayer Hosted DevOps Conference Confirms High Adoption of DevOps Driven by Demand for Automation of IT & Time Constraints February 10, 2014 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Dev opscon survey summary 2013 from ashimmy BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JumpCloud™, the leading automated server management tool for DevOps and IT pros, today […]