Is Amazon’s cloud service too big to fail?

Source – fnlondon.com Gavin Jackson, head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Amazon Web Services, loves to talk about snowballs. Not the lumps of mush and ice that children chuck at each other, but Amazon’s portable information storage devices, big grey suitcases that hold huge amounts of data. When clients such as banks sign on with Amazon Web Services, the ecommerce juggernaut’s cloud-computing service, they upload encrypted data from their old legacy IT systems into the snowball, or the larger-capacity

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Two Virtualization Techniques Sweeping Performance Testing

Source – bwcio.businessworld.in Performance has always been an integral part of “application quality” but the significance of performance and its very scope has changed enormously with the rapid growth in online channels, diverse mobile networks and changes in IT adoption through Rapid Application Deployment (DevOps/ Continuous Integration, etc). Rapid expansion of the digital world including heavy usage of frontend technologies (browser based) has increased the need for improving performance and user experience, especially in varied and unpredictable network conditions. It

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Continuous delivery, DevOps and cloud: vital pieces of modernization

Source – searchitoperations.techtarget.com The choice between containerization, DevOps and cloud migration can freeze an IT department’s attempts at modernization, because they weigh the technological options before they determine the goal. Applications should be modernized whenever possible, but it is notoriously difficult to do. Enterprises complain that goals are too technical, business practices are negatively affected and costs overrun expectations. Application modernization projects often become a focus of technical tunnel vision, disconnected from what should be target benefits and from a way to unify

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NetOps and DevOps Want More Collaboration in a Multi-Cloud World

Source – businesswire.com CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced the results of a recent survey comparing the views of over 850 NetOps and DevOps IT professionals on their respective disciplines and collaboration practices. Traditionally, the larger IT market has viewed these two groups as somewhat antagonistic toward one other. However, the F5 survey indicates they are largely aligned on priorities, with converging interests around the production pipeline and automation capabilities. Reconciling survey results with the current trend of DevOps turning to outside solutions

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The five most useful DevOps tools

Source – rcrwireless.com Cool tools for DevOps More and more IT organizations are adopting DevOps practices. In switching to a DevOps work environment, it is important to have the right tools in place. Otherwise, mismatched tools can trigger bottlenecks, giving rise to miscommunications between software developers and operations staff. Choosing which DevOps tools work best for your company can be daunting. In order to simplify the process, this article explores the most useful and reliable DevOps technologies available today. Chef Chef

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DevOps Jobs: How to win that role

Source – enterprisersproject.com For IT job hunters, some of today’s most desirable jobs are DevOps jobs. A company with a strong commitment to DevOps wants people to run fast, experiment, and iterate their way to success. These organizations prize innovation. But the DevOps methodology and culture turns some old rules about IT job hunting upside down. For instance, your ability to spot trouble and turn around failures now trumps certifications, says Robert Reeves, CTO at Datical, a database release automation company. For DevOps teams, companies need people who can think on their feet

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Dev Ringers: DevOps engineers or full-stack developers?

Source – jaxenter.com For some businesses, deciding between investing in DevOps engineers or full-stack developers is no small feat. This is due, in part of course, to the fact that nobody really seems to know what DevOps is. As one of the most talked-about and on-trend tech roles in recent years, it’s initially kind of staggering how hard DevOps can be to define. Perhaps there’s a reason for that. Typical advice to businesses considering their options usually goes something along the lines of “If

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Security drives the adoption of DevOps tools

Source – itproportal.com SecOps is more than just a title; it’s a workflow and methodology. Its goal is to align security and ops teams in order to help companies deliver software efficiently, while simultaneously reducing risk for the organization over time. And that’s a reality of business, after all. The simplest form of security monitoring often must be coordinated with operations – for example, even getting visibility into who is doing what, where, and when in the environment requires an agent,

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DevOps Security & the Culture of ‘Yes’

Source – darkreading.com I was talking to the CISO of a Fortune 500 healthcare company about how security teams work with their counterparts in other organizations. He lamented that he had recently overheard a peer refer to him derisively as the “C-S-No.” That was painful to hear because it brought into focus one of his most strategic challenges, one that security leaders everywhere are facing. That is, we as an industry haven’t figured out how to remain effective and relevant within

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Hiscox CTO Emphasises DevOps Is About Survival

Source – infoq.com A migration towards using cloud platforms has been a catalyst to fully embrace an end-to-end DevOps approach at Hiscox, said company CTO Jonathan Fletcher in a talk at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London in June. Fletcher’s talk was titled ‘Sorry Mr(s) Ops, We Hadn’t Forgotten You – Part Two of the Hiscox Story’. It built on his talk from 2016 and highlighted the impact of their growing realisation that, despite making improvements such as reducing the number of people involved in a

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Amazon Miss Sparks Debate: Will Video Pay Off Like Cloud Computing?

Source – investors.com Amazon.com‘s (AMZN) surprise second-quarter earnings miss has analysts debating the margin impact of its far-flung investments, and while cloud computing seems a good bet to pay off, internet video may be raising some eyebrows.  Autoplay: On | OffThe difference: Amazon Web Services is by far the biggest provider of cloud computing services, leading Microsoft (MSFT), Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) and others. In web video, Amazon aims to catch up with Netflix (NFLX), Google’s YouTube, Time Warner‘s (TWX) HBO and others. Amazon has stepped up investments in original content and has

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Is Cloud Security a Safe Bet for Highly Sensitive Government Data?

Source – securityintelligence.com Security is the primary focus of any government agency. One of the most obvious pitfalls of these agencies moving highly sensitive data to the cloud is that they surrender control to a third party. Moreover, nothing on the internet is truly secure, and all data is vulnerable to attacks and threats. The exposure footprint to those threats is staggering under the best of circumstances. For example, the complexity of mobile devices poses a significant challenge when it comes to cloud

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Report: DevOps is still considered a new phenomenon

Source – sdtimes.com While companies have grasped that DevOps leads to an increase in innovation, DevOps adoption and implementation still remains a challenge for many. Logz.io, an AI-powered log analytics company, released its DevOps Pulse 2017 survey in time for today’s SysAdmin Day, highlighting some of the challenges and benefits to DevOps. The DevOps Pulse report this year was based on data from a survey of 700 companies, with an additional section on DevOps culture because, according to Logz.io, it’s one topic that

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3 Benefits to Upgrading to the Cloud

Source – hardwareretailing.com Has your company considered the cloud? Small businesses from all sectors are seeing the benefits of implementing cloud technology—which means storing data remotely and accessing it through the internet, instead of storing in your local office computer. From allowing extra mobility, securing important documents and streamlining collaboration, cloud computing is an increasingly popular way of doing business for many operations. In a recent USA Today article, writer and lawyer Steve Strauss helps small business owners consider the three main ways

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Delivery and Adoption of Cloud Computing

Source – oracle.cioreview.com What is “Cloud” ? Cloud computing delivery models provide users with on-demand access to a flexible, wide-ranging pool of technology assets composed of services, applications, servers, networks, and storage facilities. Due to the habit of referring to data and applications as being “in the cloud,” it can be easily forgotten that cloud is housed in physical facilities. Cloud computing services are powered by highly virtualized processing and storage systems in data centers, which are available to remote users

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Five skills every DevOps engineer must mast

Source – rcrwireless.com The dawn of DevOps Demand for DevOps engineers has experienced exponential growth within the last few years. They are essential to ensuring better collaboration between software developers and operations staff for leading-edge businesses. The occupation was ranked third on Indeed’s best jobs in the U.S. for 2017 based upon competitive pay, work availability and opportunities for growth. While DevOps is one of many tech tends, it isn’t expected to wane anytime soon. Here are the top five skills every

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GitLab automates DevOps with new concept: Auto DevOps

Source – sdtimes.com GitLab is transforming its offerings of version control and continuous integration with a new integrated and automatic DevOps experience: Auto DevOps. Auto DevOps, a concept that was designed to help developers deliver ideas to production faster, is GitLab’s new collection of features for building, testing and deploying applications, as well as features for review apps and setting up code quality. These features are critical to DevOps, according to Mark Pundsack, head of product at GitLab, and while they exist at

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DevOps : A real balancing act for CIOs between business benefits and security

Source – cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com Bangalore: Adoption of DevOps is on a rise among enterprises and organisations. The new DevOps approach combines the two key aspects – software development and operations across business functions within the organisation. It helps organisation to bring the softwaredevelopment and business operationscloser, allowing them to collaborate and function in a more coordinated and efficient way. This enables continuous and faster software delivery cycles. Business benefits  “It certainly does offer benefits in terms of time to market. In this day and age, IT is part of doing business and it

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Why agile is key to whole-business transformation

Source – itproportal.com To maintain a competitive edge in today’s evolving marketplace, businesses should refocus their strategies, putting customers at their heart and more efficiently prioritising tasks. A new operating system is required – one that empowers networks of small teams to collaborate so that they can constantly deliver value to customers, and in which leaders provide the clarity of vision to align everyone. This whole-business transformation is an absolute must for survival. Think this sounds extreme? Companies need to transform,

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THE 6 BIGGEST DEVOPS MISTAKES YOU MUST AVOID

Source – techgenix.com Organizations are embracing DevOps, although they’d do well to steer past the known pitfalls that have caused several similar attempts to stumble. This is just paramount advice. The Rightscale 2017 State of the Cloud report suggested that 72 percent of SMBs and 84 percent of enterprises have already adopted some DevOps practices. Promises of better customer satisfaction, productivity improvements, more business development, and greater agility are key factors driving the shift toward DevOps. Is DevOps the perfect choice for all, then?

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