July 26, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Cloud + DevOps: A Winning Combination

Source – it-infrastructure.cioreview.com “It takes two flints to make a fire.”—Louisa May Alcott As the use of digital technology and the app economy mushroom, businesses and organizations struggle to provide all the storage and infrastructure they need in their own data centers. For business, it’s not simply a challenge; it’s a matter of survival. Without safe storage and rapidly available infrastructure they can’t stay competitive. Hence, the cloud. The app economy demands more than just storage and infrastructure to stay competitive,

July 26, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps and Cloud Combo Boosts Software Performance

Source – cioinsight.com While relatively few companies are making extensive use of both cloud computing and DevOps, those that commit to both are achieving vastly improved key performance indicators (KPIs) as a result, according to a recent survey from CA Technologies. The accompanying report, “DevOps and Cloud Computing: Exploiting the Synergy for Business Advantage,” reveals that the organizations that do invest heavily in both the cloud and DevOps fare much better at improving the quality of software they produce, while reducing

July 22, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

The Relationship Between The Cloud And DevOps

Source – forbes.com Most companies understand that if they want to increase their competitiveness in today’s swiftly changing world, they can’t ignore digital transformation. DevOps and cloud computing are oft-touted as vital ways companies can achieve this needed transformation, though the relationship between the two is often confusing, as DevOps is about process and process improvement whereas cloud computing is about technology and services. Not mutually exclusive, it’s important to understand how the cloud and DevOps work together to help businesses

July 22, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

The top three approaches for improving cloud migration and security

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net For many enterprises, migrating towards a cloud delivered approach for IT systems is an attractive proposition. Cost efficiency and business agility are big drivers for CIOs to make the move. Most modern companies have either started migrating toward a public cloud or they are in the early planning and analysis phases of doing so. At the same time, making the jump from on-site infrastructure to cloud-hosted platforms is not free of challenges such as, regulations, data governance, billing

July 20, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

5 Ways to Think About Cloud Security

Source – csoonline.com Cloud computing promises significant costs savings and more streamlined management of mission-critical information technology, data processing and storage needs. But is it secure? Vibrant Credit Union (VCU), a Midwestern-based full service financial services credit union that offers both online services and storefront branches, continues to grow their footprint in the cloud. As their needs grow, so does their emphasis on security. Steve McAtee, Vibrant’s CIO, has been tasked with migrating securely to the cloud without inflating the credit

July 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Survey: DevOps a bright spot among public-sector uncertainty

Source – fcw.com Confidence in public sector IT may be on the decline, according to the 2017 Splunk Public Sector IT Operations Survey, and a greater reliance on DevOps could be key to navigating the way forward. The Ponemon Institute, in a Splunk-sponsored survey released July 19, polled 1,227 “IT decision makers and managers,” some 60 percent of whom work in federal agencies. The goal was to better identify both the barriers to success and the potential keys to a more positive future.

July 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

10 Skills That Prove You’ll Be An Excellent Cloud Product Manager

Source – forbes.com Demand for product managers with cloud computing skills and expertise continues to be an area of rapid hiring growth. It’s common for hiring managers, directors and vice presidents to spend at least 20% of their time every week working with in-house recruiters, writing & editing job descriptions and interviewing candidates. McKinsey & Company’s May 2017 article Product Managers For The Digital World provides insights into how product managers can excel in their roles, defining a framework for assessing product management maturity.

July 17, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

5 Steps to Migrate Unisys Mainframes to AWS

Source – infoq.com The Mainframe Conundrum If you have a Unisys mainframe, you may be thinking that cloud computing isn’t an option. You’d like to take advantage of all that cloud computing offers but don’t think it’s possible because it can’t handle your transaction workloads, or the architectures are just too disparate to merge, or even that it’s just plain too hard to do. I used to think the same thing. And until fairly recently, it was true. But cloud computing

July 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Robin Systems Releases Made-for-DevOps Dev Platform for AWS

Source – eweek.com If you’re looking for hot trends in the IT sector, three immediately come to mind: Any type of software that handles the “CX” or “UX” (consumer or user experence); anything on the backend using containers and microservices; and workloads that run in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Robin Systems, which makes cloud infrastructure software based on an open source foundation, checks the boxes for the second and third items listed. The San Jose, Calif.-based company on July 13

July 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Delivering the future potential of hyperscale cloud

Source – thestack.com Hyperscale, most closely associated with big data and cloud, is the provisioning required in distributed computing environments to efficiently scale from a few servers to thousands of servers in an instant: the public cloud. Hyperscale cloud is the management, from migration to on-going support, of client business applications hosted in the public cloud. This includes the maintenance, support and security for business applications hosted in AWS and Microsoft Azure. Gartner has suggested that by 2020, over 80% of

July 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

5 benefits of using cloud ERP to deliver results

Source – cio.com Enterprise resource planning (ERP), a software tool to optimize business process management, allows organizations to use an integrated system to manage and automate many business functions. By employing cloud computing platforms, a company can take its ERP to the next level and provide a more flexible and scalable management solution. This type of automation permits managers and owners to get a cohesive and instantaneous view of business functionality, including processes and resources from which to draw inferences. ERPs

July 14, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

How to alleviate the networking pain in hybrid cloud deployments

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net As cloud deployments have become more complex—with hybrid cloud environments growing in number and importance—networking technologies have not kept pace with advancements in cloud computing and storage. In fact, hybrid cloud networking has become a serious pain for enterprises across industries. Fortunately, new approaches are emerging that will help IT teams better anticipate these issues, and to ultimately overcome the complexity and related project delays that currently plague them. At a technical level, one problem is that on-premises,

July 13, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Microsoft Launches Local Cloud Services for Customers

Source – investopedia.com It has become the second major cloud company to begin offering local cloud services to large corporations. The Redmond, Washington-based company recently announced Azure Stack services at its Microsoft Inspire conference. Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud service that enables large corporations to deploy Azure services for their critical security-sensitive applications on-premises. Typically, Azure services are used in public clouds. The market for hybrid cloud, as the technology combining the public cloud with on-premises deployment is called, is expected to reach

July 11, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

The changing face of security in the age of the cloud

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net The computing world just keeps on progressing but as we all know with progress comes additional challenges. This is especially true of challenges around security. Every advance in computing has given rise to the same question: “how do we secure this new toy?” When client/server architecture was all the rage in the late 1990s there was great excitement about the advantages it brought about but also a concern for the security implications of distributed clients and centralised servers.

July 8, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

How will the cloud change IT? Look at Microsoft

Source – infoworld.com Microsoft is planning a global sales reorganization to better focus on selling cloud software, according to Microsoft insiders. This comes as no surprise, considering that Microsoft did the same for its ailing phone business last year. What does this mean? Well, cloud in, software out—at least from the Microsoft business standpoint. However, count on Microsoft soaking you for more operating system and office automation money for years to come. So, that’s still a thing. What does this mean to you,

July 6, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

The Future of IT Skills for Technical Support Organizations

Source – dqindia.com Over the past few years, digital transformation has become a watchword for many businesses. In this new era defined by cloud computing, social media and mobile strategies, companies are pursuing new IT tools, and it is clear that the best use of tools require a disruption to operational procedures. Accompanies seek success with new products and new customers; there are many areas that must be addressed in order to become a truly digital service provider. One of the

July 5, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

How to tackle changing cloud security threats: A guide

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net IT workers face a serious challenge when it comes to file sharing. In one corner is corporate governance which seeks to protect businesses and prevent cyber-attacks. In the opposite corner are end users who want to work more efficiently – collaboratively – by sharing or saving files. The best way of ending this conflict is to find middle ground. In attempting this resolution, enterprises need to find the right balance between IT security and governance on one side

July 5, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

The latest cyber attacks show why the cloud is safer

Source – infoworld.com Computer systems from the Ukraine to the United States were affected last week by the Petya cyber attack. It’s similar to the recent WannaCry ransomware attack last month. The WannaCry ransomware took advantage of vulnerabilities in the older versions of Windows that allowed the infection to spread. All someone needed to do was click a malicious link and—bang!—they were infected. That is, if they hadn’t installed the patches and updates. These attacks are a reminder of why the cloud is a

July 4, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Cloud native adoption means getting the DevOps tooling right

Source – theserverside.com There’s no debate over the fact that a cloud native architecture using DevOps tooling can work. Eliminating the wheel and spoke architecture where the massive monolith sits in the middle, and instead approaching software design by using DevOps tooling with a focus on serverless functions, stateless processes, isolated microservices and container based deployments has definitively been proven to work. But getting cloud native and DevOps tooling to work at scale isn’t easy, and the vast number of different pathways

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