“Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.” This is one of my favorite quotes from Gene Kim’s book, The Phoenix Project, and it plays directly into why we’re announcing the DevOps Express initiative today.
Tracing the Steps. For years now, I have witnessed needless work being performed across the DevOps industry. No, not within our clients DevOps and continuous delivery practices. I have seen it in the buyer’s journey — from the folks taking their first baby steps into DevOps to those organizations trying to master their craft.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Enzu will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Enzu’s mission is to be the leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions worldwide. Enzu enables online businesses to use its IT infrastructure to their competitive advantage. By offering a suite of proven hosting and management services, Enzu wants companies to focus on the core of their online business and let Enzu manage their IT hosting infrastructure.

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Adobe is changing the world though digital experiences. Adobe helps customers develop and deliver high-impact experiences that differentiate brands, build loyalty, and drive revenue across every screen, including smartphones, computers, tablets and TVs. Adobe content solutions are used daily by millions of companies worldwide-from publishers and broadcasters, to enterprises, marketing agencies and household-name brands. Building on its established design leadership, Adobe enables customers not only to make great content, but to manage, measure and monetize it for maximum impact.

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Adobe is changing the world though digital experiences. Adobe helps customers develop and deliver high-impact experiences that differentiate brands, build loyalty, and drive revenue across every screen, including smartphones, computers, tablets and TVs. Adobe content solutions are used daily by millions of companies worldwide-from publishers and broadcasters, to enterprises, marketing agencies and household-name brands. Building on its established design leadership, Adobe enables customers not only to make great content, but to manage, measure and monetize it for maximum impact.

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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Claude Remillard, Principal Program Manager in Developer Division at Microsoft, will contrast how his team used config as code and immutable patterns for continuous delivery of microservices and apps to the cloud. He will show the immutable patterns helps developers do away with most of the complexity of config as code-enabling scenarios such as rollback, zero downtime upgrades with far greater simplicity. He will also have live demos of building immutable pipelines in the cloud using both containers and VMs.

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Bridging the divide between legacy storage and new data management platforms could constrain IT organizations and budgets and could prevent the utilization of cost-effective scalable storage infrastructures. But, businesses can avoid some of these constrains by evaluating their storage options objectively and asking themselves three important questions.

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While two thirds of organisations polled by cloud storage and data protection provider CTERA Networks deploys more than a quarter of its applications in the cloud, protecting them is a different story altogether.

The findings appear in a report entitled ‘Game of Clouds’ – no prizes for guessing the theme – which makes the research concept clear.

“The emergence and tremendous growth of cloud computing in the enterprise is taking IT environments to uncharted territory, where unprecedented efficiency and cost benefits battle with new challenges around privacy, security, and the data protection and availability of critical business data,” the report opens. “Like most IT evolutions, there will be winners and losers. The key to victory in this ‘Game of Clouds’ lies in the alignment of an organisation’s data protection strategies with its business goals.”

The report found that while more than a quarter of apps are in the cloud at two thirds of firms, and while 37% of the 400 IT decision makers polled plan to grow their cloud use by at least 25% if not more, two thirds (66%) either ‘strongly’ or ‘somewhat’ agree that there is less focus on backing up applications in the cloud.

The reason? CTERA argues there is a ‘misconception that the cloud is inherently resilient compared to on-premises applications’. Furthermore, 62% say they rely on the cloud provider to back up applications running on their platform. “It is clear these organisations have faith in the perceived inherent resilience of their cloud providers, but they should be wary of relying on a third party to serve as both a platform to run applications and to maintain the only backups of those applications,” the report notes.

More than half (54%) of respondents say they are embracing a hybrid cloud strategy, while more than a third (36%) admit loss of data in the cloud would be more catastrophic than their data centre crashing. The message is clear, CTERA argues. “The enterprise’s move beyond traditional data centres has rewritten the playbook for data protection in the cloud,” said Jeff Denworth, CTERA SVP marketing in a statement.

“As organisations adopt cloud and multi-cloud strategies, traditional backup tools fall down. Our research spotlights the key data protection considerations and challenges for enterprises as they look for simple, efficient, and automated solutions that protect critical cloud-based applications.”

You can find out more about the report here (registration required).

It’s an exciting time to be a part of the cloud world, as new products are coming up every day to add value to businesses and to end customers at large. One of the new entrants to the cloud is CloudCoreo – a Seattle based startup in the cloud management arena. Located in South Lake Union District – the cloud computing capital of the world, this company is all set to take a share of the huge potential in cloud management.

This company is led by Tom Hull, its CEO, who previously was a founding member of a company called Union Bay Networks. After it was acquired by Apple in 2004, Hull, along with a few others came together to create CloudCoreo. Jason Needham, the current CMO, and Paul Allen (CTO) are the other co-founders. Hull has worked with Needham in Union Bay Networks, so it was only natural that they came together again to start this company. In fact, their relationship goes many years back, and started when they worked together at Seattle’s F5 Networks.  They are being joined by Soma Somasegar, a former Microsoft executive and a venture partner at Madrona.

In the last week, this company has received a $2.9-million seed stage funding from Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group, and is also supported by Divergent Ventures, Data Collective, and Aristos Ventures to continue with their product development.

At this point in time, the company is keeping their product plans a secret, and they plan to reveal a prototype during re:Invent – Amazon Web Services’ conference that is being held in Las Vegas from November 28 to December 2.

The CEO said that the company plans to use this money to help with product development, and is recruiting software and DevOps engineers to work on its product. Currently, there are about 10 employees in the company, and they’re believed to be working on a next-generation cloud management platform that will enable DevOps and SecOps team to scale effectively and efficiently across different cloud providers.

In an interview, Hull said that though there are many cloud management platforms available in the market, the one offered by CloudCoreo is likely to be different. This is why he opined that there is no point in comparing CloudCoreo’s platform with any of the existing ones.  Though the exact details of the product are not known at this time, inputs from the company’s websites and interviews by its CxO executives suggest that they are looking to create an integrated product that’ll manage public, private, and hybrid cloud systems efficiently.

A possible reason for this foray can be attributed to the fact the cloud management platform market is fragmented, and there is no vendor with a dominant market share. According to a report by Gartner, most cloud management platforms address only a portion of a business’ requirements, so there is always scope for many cloud platforms to have a presence in this market. In addition, the report says that the next 18 months should see more vendor consolidation, so this is the right time for CloudCoreo to make an impact in this niche market segment.

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In the next five to ten years, millions, if not billions of things will become smarter. This smartness goes beyond connected things in our homes like the fridge, thermostat and fancy lighting, and into heavily regulated industries including aerospace, pharmaceutical/medical devices and energy. “Smartness” will embed itself within individual products that are part of our daily lives. We will engage with smart products – learning from them, informing them, and communicating with them. Smart products will accumulate information and data wherever they go and will be able to recount this information on command when needed.

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