HashiCorp, a San Francisco-based start-up founded in 2012, has recently released its first commercial product, called Atlas. HashiCorp is known by many people as the creator of a number of open-source tools that assist in developing, deploying, and maintaining applications. One major challenge for IT shops is that so many tools are required to automate the building and delivery of software that engineers spend far too much time trying to tie all of these tools together, which takes away time from working on business requests. In many shops, one or more people may be dedicated to managing the complexities of the DevOps tool chain, which includes integration, patching, upgrading, and many other non-value added tasks. With Atlas, engineers can leverage a single tool for managing infrastructure and builds with a common workflow and a central dashboard.

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SAP’s Bernd provides an overview of the myriad of IoT’s that will be arriving at our door steps in the coming months and years. Some of them have already made their precense felt and more of them on the threshold. As far as busines value is concerned it appears to be a deluge. It is anticipated that billions of devices will be interconnected and our private lives are forever compromised. From the list of IoT collected in this article there is but one conclusion, it is not just IoT by IOET (internet of every thing).

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The next release candidate for 1.11.0 will be out very shortly, but I thought it best to post a brief update on the past week’s work as this week saw a concentrated effort on core optimization.

First we took another look at the use of arguments lists throughout the framework and found several more occurrences of it being accessed in an inefficient manner. Depending on the browser, accessing arguments in such a way that causes it to be allocated can be up to 80% slower and so it’s really good to have these all fixed.

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With the advent of cloud computing, Microsoft SharePoint had graduated to the cloud, but take-up was slow – according to research firm IDC, only around 4% of offices at the time were using virtual applications to manage productivity.

So should your business tick with managing its SharePoint data in-house or move to the cloud?

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Cloud computing is increasingly becoming part of the enterprise IT landscape. In fact, a recent cloud security survey conducted by HP reveals that 70 percent of all respondents say their company is using some form of the cloud. The study also found that cloud penetration jumps to 80 percent for enterprise-size organizations. With such dramatic growth figures, it is no wonder that enterprise companies are carefully reviewing cloud security policies’ implication on cloud data. Here’s another fact from that same survey: While more than half of those using the public cloud are confident that critical and sensitive data can be secured in the public cloud, 16 percent of all companies in the cloud reported at least one public cloud breach in the past 12 months.

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By Bob Gourley

The FBI just posted the first official written articulation of why they believe North Korea is linked to the ongoing Sony Hack. As someone who has worked with FBI investigators in the past I have to tell you they do not go public like this unless they have evidence. It is true they have been […]

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Few companies are able to implement Agile Development across the organization because there exists a chasm between the Application Development team and the Database Administrators.
All too often, database development is an afterthought in Agile Development. Developers perfect how best to implement a solution in code, but tend to spend too little time on representing that solution in the Database. This is unfortunate, given that 65% of your change requests require changes to the application schema, according to independent research conducted by Simon Management Group. This finding implies that Database changes are every bit as important as the Application Code, and should be treated as tier-one artifacts in your release process.

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“There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing…,” – Eric Schmidt, Former CEO, Google. If IT leaders hadn’t already heard Schmidt’s famous quotation, today they are definitely facing the challenge he describes. Gone are […]

The post If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it – ITOA use case #1 written by Marcus Sarmento appeared first on Application Performance Monitoring Blog from AppDynamics.

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This past year has continued to see rising enterprise cloud adoption, and with it efforts from tech giants to control the cloud through price wars. Like most things, the path we’ve taken to this point will certainly impact where the road ahead will lead.
If 2014 was the continued battle for cloud infrastructure, 2015 will be the rise of the cloud platform, as enterprises will focus on creating apps and workflows that take advantage of the growing platform options across enterprise needs such as HR, Financial Services and IT. The rise of the platform will bring with it a variety of other changes – all of which stem from more and more CIOs turning to the cloud to deliver substantial innovation and business results. From verticalization to data as a service, we’ll ring in the new year with dramatic changes to the cloud landscape that stand to transform how we view and utilize cloud technologies. Below are five enterprise cloud platform inspired predictions for this coming year.

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My bright blue bathing suit had turned pale pink from all the chemicals in the pool and I knew it was only a matter of time before the chlorine ate through the nylon fabric. Once, when I waited too long to replace an old suit, the front of my trunks ripped wide open and the see-through mesh lining underneath left little to the imagination. I did not want to repeat that walk of shame back to the locker room.

So I did what millions of shoppers do every day: I signed into Amazon and with a few simple clicks, I found and ordered my favorite suit. And then, because it doesn’t get any easier than Amazon, I picked up a few spare bicycle tires, filters for the vacuum cleaner and a novel I’d been meaning to read.

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