We’ve all heard or read about the reasons Agile is good from the business or project management perspectives, but when it really comes down to it, how much do those reasons actually move the needle for the people on the front lines who are trying to implement Agile?
As the Agile team becomes more efficient and successful, they begin to wonder how they can extend these benefits beyond the development team. I suspect that the success of Agile teams was one of the reasons for the birth of the DevOps movement, as development teams began to wonder about whether they could extend Agile towards concepts like continuous delivery or deployment, and began to pull in their IT Operations brethren.
In organizations that are successfully practicing Agile or DevOps, the DBA team is starting to think through how they will support all of this increased release velocity. Historically suspicious of automation, and for good reason, the DBA team is starting to acknowledge that the manual processes and script writing they’ve depended upon will hamper their ability to keep up with development and operations. They’re beginning to wonder if there’s a better way for them – a way in which they can safely and reliably support the increased velocity from Agile workflows without losing control…
«Vormetric is a data security company. We secure information at rest and our customers are some of the largest organizations in the world. The threats that are coming around today are either from state-sponsored activities and organized crime, and the intent is to steal information,» explained Derek Tumulak, Vice President of Product Management at Vormetric, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Andrei Yurkevich, CTO at Altoros, provided an overview of all the benefits and opportunities, as well as drawbacks of deploying Cloud Foundry PaaS with Juju and compared it to BOSH. Discover the features that overlap, and understand what Juju Charm is, what it is not, where you use one or the other or where you use both BOSH and Juju Charms together.
Andrei Yurkevich is Cloud Foundry protagonist and CTO at Altoros. Under his supervision, the Altoros engineering team has grown from zero to more than 250 specialists across seven global locations. Currently, he is responsible for technology alliances in Platform-as-a-Service, Big Data, and Cloud Automation.
Ninety-percent of your users want your site to perform well during peak periods, like the last month or so. That’s according to a study by Compuware, in which they also found that most dissatisfied users will throw you under a bus if your app or site performs poorly while they’re desperately trying to buy the right gift for their very demanding loved ones.
In an application world driven by impatient and very vocal users, performance is king. Every year before Christmas we hear at least one horror story of a site that didn’t perform up to expectations and is promptly made an example by, well, everyone. I could probably fill this post with examples, but that’s not really the point. The point is maybe there’s a way to counteract that, in real time, thanks to the power of programmability in the network.
Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
With all the news these days about cyberterrorism and hacking the cloud may seem like the last place you would want to put your precious information. Pew Research has even suggested that cyber-attacks are likely to increase. Some 61% of over 1600 security expert respondents to a recent survey said «yes» that a major attack causing widespread harm would occur by 2025,according to the Pew Research study. The cold hard fact, however, is that fear of the cyberterrorist and hackers, while definitely valid, is mostly misplaced. I hold this contrarian view, because when you pull back the curtain on many of the recent breaches, you’ll likely see a mirror.
Xero small business accounting software believes SaaS (software as a service) and especially mobile accounting software is the way to empower small business in a way that can influence whole countries’ gross domestic products (GDP.) Today we embark to learn just how this can be true.
The kiwi company was founded in 2006. In 2012, former Sage-employee Jamie Sutherland was tasked with opening the U.S. office, which now has 150 employees in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Denver.
Xero U.S. President Sutherland decided to make a switch from world’s third largest ERP (enterprise resource planning software) U.K.-based Sage to Xero because he just felt everything it was working toward just made sense with how he saw the future of business software.
Databases take a long time to build, populate and manage, but deploying in the cloud holds great promise for changing all of that.
Time is probably the most valuable commodity in business. «Time is money» is a trite way of saying that those who move the quickest are usually the ones who get the loot.
But current database technology is anything but timely. Databases take a long time to build, populate and manage, and more often than not produce valuable results only after hours of number crunching. And with Big Data, social networking, the Internet of Things and other data-intensive workloads on the near horizon, database functionality is likely to become slower still.
Cloudian, Inc., on Wednesday announced availability of Cloudian HyperStore 5.1 software. HyperStore 5.1 is an enhanced Amazon S3-compliant, plug-and-play hybrid cloud software solution that now features full Apache Hadoop integration. Enterprises can now transform Big Data into smart data by running Hadoop analytics on HyperStore software and appliances. This in-place analytics, with no need to offload data to other systems for Hadoop analyses, enables customers to derive meaningful business intelligence from their data quickly, efficiently and economically.
Docker is becoming very popular–we are seeing every major private and public cloud vendor racing to adopt it. It promises portability and interoperability, and is quickly becoming the currency of the Cloud.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Bart Copeland, CEO of ActiveState, discussed why Docker is so important to the future of the cloud, but will also take a step back and show that Docker is actually only one piece of the puzzle. Copeland will outline the bigger picture of where Docker fits and the remaining infrastructure that is needed for large scale adoption by enterprise IT.