For the past few years, enterprises have grappled with the personal cloud dilemma: “Should we use private or public cloud?” To some degree this has moved beyond a binary, either-or decision and now many enterprises are using both, but the question still remains on a per-workload basis: “Should I run this workload on public or private cloud?”
To help enterprises weigh up the pros and cons of public and private clouds it’s useful to find comparable attributes and to consider their pros and cons. The original five cloud characteristics, as stated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), are a great starting point for such a comparison

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In my last post I discussed where to start when it comes to addressing the software-driven enterprise challenge head on as we see each industry’s “disruption day” draw closer. In my view, perhaps the biggest challenge for the established players of the day – in the industrial revolution it was the cottage industries, today it is the incumbents in virtually every market – is one of change management, and the skills required in the new world order.

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Many of the early examples tend to highlight smart cities or home automation. For most enterprises, however, the ability to connect and integrate everything together can solve current problems and open up new opportunities.
Most enterprises have complex combinations of legacy systems, SaaS services, thousands of devices, multiple locations and unending new requirements from business leaders looking to expand revenues or cut costs. Having the ability to integrate and connect all these systems, services, people and things into automated workflows can make a lot of sense.

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JFrog has announced a powerful technology for managing software packages from development into production. JFrog Artifactory 4 represents disruptive innovation in its groundbreaking ability to help development and DevOps teams deliver increasingly complex solutions on ever-shorter deadlines across multiple platforms
JFrog Artifactory 4 establishes a new category – the Universal Artifact Repository – that reflects JFrog’s unique commitment to enable faster software releases through the first platform-agnostic approach to storing and sharing binary artifacts.

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Even though you are running an agile development process, that doesn’t necessarily mean that your performance testing is being conducted in a truly agile way. Saving performance testing for a “final sprint” before release still treats it like a waterfall development step, with all the cost and risk that comes with that. In this post, we will show you how to make load testing happen early and often by putting SLAs on the agile task board.

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Through this series I’ve considered the changes disruptive technology is having on traditional models, the routes businesses are taking to embrace transformation and the skills challenge they are facing as a result. It’s clearly a complex and all-encompassing challenge for business leaders, but here I try to boil it down to the five key things we talk to senior leaders in business about when considering their change; from legacy, to next-generation, software-defined businesses:

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As businesses around the globe seek desperately to transform their business model and get them focused on increasing customer value, they need to rely on IT organizations, systems, and infrastructures that are specifically thought to delivery the tangible business benefits they desperately expect. Are CIOs and IT organizations aware of the business line expectations? Why the major IT vendors and consulting brands do not offer a model of the next IT organization? What is exactly the Complete ITaaS Delivery Model™? How CIOs can take advantage of it to meet business lines expectations are some of the key questions answered in this article.

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