Both prospects and customers often ask me why we need an artifact repository. Some think that as their favorite CI (Continuous Integration) server such as Jenkins already stores the output of each build, maybe there’s no need to add an artifact repository to their existing tool chain. Others simply wonder why they need such a repository at all.
In this blog post I’ll discuss why it’s essential for any continuous delivery and deployment project to version everything, and why artifact repositories such as Artifactory or Nexus are great choices for managing binary and other artifacts.
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Trends in Hyper-Scale Storage for Growing Data Center Workloads
Storage has finally become an interesting field, full of innovation and change, addressing growing new requirements for storage flexibility, density and performance. The falling prices of flash, the introduction of various flavors of storage class memory, combined with increasing appetite for commoditization of the data center infrastructure, has helped fuel the innovation in how data is stored and accessed.
Companies are faced with the challenges of how to store their ever growing data efficiently, at a cost point that is palatable to CTOs and CFOs, while keeping the right levels of performance and SLAs in order to provide storage services to end users and applications. At the same time, internal IT organizations are facing the challenge of competing with flexibility and price points offered externally through public clouds.
A Revolution in IoT | @ThingsExpo #IoT #IIoT #M2M #ML #InternetOfThings
Sensors allow us to digitally monitor our physical world, and take real-time action on the data from afar. Plant managers, in fact, can manage multiple manufacturing locations around the world in real-time via sensors and Internet connectivity. Drone pilots in the Nevada desert; project military force by flying combat missions around the world via sensors and remote control. Trucking companies can track and manage, via telematics, thousands of trucks, trailers and their cargo all across the country in real-time. As automation increases due to advances in sensors, bandwidth, artificial intelligence, algorithms and machine learning – precision becomes not only possible, but all-important.
Expanding @Exosite’s IoT Platform | @ThingsExpo #IoT #InternetOfThings
Exosite has announced its Taipei Office has formally been established. Exosite’s Taiwan operations have grown from the Taichung team, primarily focused on research and development, into a full-service IoT enablement organization with development and consulting capabilities. The new Taipei office is located in the Taipei Minsheng Dunhua district, surrounded by all its hardware and channel partners. Exosite will devote its time to the Taiwan market and expand its business into the Asia-Pacific market.
Load Testing Defined | @DevOpsSummit #APM #DevOps #Microservices
Whether you’re a beginner simply looking to get started or a seasoned vet brushing up on your subject knowledge, this post will serve as a definitive guide on how to perform effective load testing on a web or mobile application.
Load Testing: A performance-related testing process that places simulated demand on software, web or mobile applications in order to measure responses and systems’ behavior under both normal and anticipated peak load conditions.
Incidents Happen with Microservices | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices
No matter how resiliently you build your application, incidents will happen. And as your application grows, the complexity of troubleshooting and resolving an incident also grows. With prior virtualization technologies, this might involve a virtualization admin, a network admin, a storage admin, and an applications developer to sort through the issue, put a resolution in place, and determine a root cause. With microservices architectures and Docker containers, this complexity is taken to the next level.
Citrix App Center – Where it comes from and what it’s become
Citrix App Center – Where it comes from and what it’s become One of the main challenges in a virtualization environment is the management of the infrastructure. With thousands of VMs and users constantly being dynamically created and terminated, IT administrators have a tough time managing the network. In the early days, they had to […]
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Is the Cloud Ready for Legal? | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Cloud applications are well established for many activities such as CRM, HR, and billing. With the cloud paradigm proven for so many enterprise tasks, the question of cloud vs. on-premises seems like yesterday’s – or even last year’s – debate. But is the cloud ready to handle the unique requirements of legal work? The answer is yes, with a caveat. The cloud is ready for legal, but a legal firm must ensure its cloud vendor, cloud applications and internal processes for dealing with the vendor and applications are all in line with legal industry best practices.
IoT and Cognitive Analytics | @ThingsExpo #IoT #ML #CognitiveComputing
Big Data analytics and the Internet of Things are still relative newcomers. Given how quickly technology moves, though, it’s not surprising that their next incarnations are already being talked about: cognitive analytics and a much-grown Internet of Things (IoT).
We all know about the Internet of Things: it’s data from a host of Web-connected devices that can be analyzed and studied, just like traditional data analytics. But what is cognitive analytics? Think back to old sci-fi shows. Remember the insanely smart, almost-human robot sidekick? Cognitive analytics isn’t there yet, but it does emulate that heady mixture of massive processing power and advanced logical capabilities. In some cases, cognitive analytics could be used to interact with humans; in others, it could handle tasks with very little human input.
93% of enterprise now using cloud services – survey
The vast majority of IT professionals are now using at least one cloud-based service, according to a survey recently published by IT portal Spiceworks.
While 93% of respondents confirmed that they are using at least one cloud based service within their operations, the survey also highlighted IT professionals are still hesitant when considering emerging technologies.
Opportunities such as email hosting and cloud storage are increasingly being viewed as the norm, though IaaS is still met with some scepticism with only 20% of respondents currently using it, and only 16% considering its use in the next 12 months. EMEA professionals demonstrated a higher appetite for IaaS, with use 11 percentage points higher in EMEA than in North America.
In terms of current cloud services, web and email hosting are by far and away the most utilized, with 76% and 56% usage respectively. Online back-up and recovery appears to be the biggest growth area, with 35% of respondents currently using the service and 23% planning to engage over the next 12 months.
When building the business case for cloud transition, cost still remains the top priority for the majority of IT professionals. 71% of respondents highlighted this would be considered the number one reason for the transition, though cloud enabled innovation was only a driver for 3%. While early adopters are moving away from CAPEX/OPEX reductions as the business case for cloud adoption, the rising cost of hardware implementation and maintenance still drives mainstream cloud implementation.
The survey also highlighted that Shadow IT remains a challenge for a large part of the industry, as services which remain un-sanctioned by the IT team are still demonstrating high usage from the rest of the business. 33% of respondents highlighted they have deployed Dropbox services officially, but 78% of companies have employees using the service without IT approval. Google Drive was also being used in 59% of companies surveyed without approval from the IT team.
Microsoft Azure emerged as the most commonly used IaaS provider, accounting for 16%, closely followed by rival AWS at 13%. However 21% of respondents are considering Azure over the next twelve months, compared to only 11% weighing up AWS. The Microsoft team can be encouraged by these statistics, though this is a category which currently does not seem to have a clear market leader. Other brands highlighted by the survey in this space include Rackspace, Google and VMWare.
Despite AWS’s dominant market position, industry insiders questioned by BCN perceive Azure as the more effective platform. With Microsoft bolstering its ranks through strategic company and talent acquisition over the last 18-24 months, Azure is viewed as the more productive offering, despite being more expensive.
The results show a number of positive trends within the cloud industry, though still a number of worrying factors. 20% of IT services are cloud based today, and 30% of the respondents expect that within three years, more than half of their IT services will be cloud based. Conversely the culture of trusting public cloud services with company data/content without approval from the IT function seems to be a trend which isn’t disappearing.