Years ago companies saw a major improvement in efficiency in the heyday of virtualization. As the world looked to the cloud to solve business challenges these savings were forgotten. Today we live in a post cloud world with pre-virtualization efficiencies.
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Jordan Jacobs, VP of Products at SingleHop, will discuss the common mistakes that as many as 90% of companies are making utilizing public clouds, what are causing these problems and how to avoid them.
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Five Reasons APM Fails By @AppDynamics | @DvOpsSummit [#DevOps]
The first cause of failure is the silos in many of today’s organizations. There are often too many stakeholders involved in APM decision-making ranging from application support, server teams, network teams, database teams (DBAs), application developers, and various architects across the organization. We’re also seeing more non-technical users, such as the business owner of an application interested in seeing usage and performance data on critical Business Transactions within the application. These business users will become a more central user of APM in the future. It’s critical to identify the primary user of the product, and determine requirements focused on those primary users. Secondary users can have input but should not be the ones driving the key decision points. As products mature, they can sell into multiple areas or even cross sell through teams, but it shouldn’t be the focus of the initial implementation.
Building Trust From the Bottom Up By @AppDynamics | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
There are lots of ways DevOps can fail. For all the revolutionary promise of the idea, it takes a tricky cultural shift to get Development and Operations working together. Many companies—especially big ones—take a top-down approach. C-suite execs trumpet a Brand New DevOps Initiative, which everyone else resists, undermines, or ignores.
As a developer at a SaaS company, my success depends on Ops. Too often, Dev and Ops are divided by mistrust and rarely talk between releases. Bridging this gap requires finding a way to dial down the tensions that spring from differences in status and divergent incentives.
DevOps Foundation “Certification Track” at @DevOpsSummit New York [#DevOps]
SYS-CON Events announced today the DevOps Foundation Certification Course, being held June ?, 2015, in conjunction with DevOps Summit and 16th Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
This sixteen (16) hour course provides an introduction to DevOps – the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration and automation in order to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals. Improved workflows will result in an improved ability to design, develop, deploy and operate software and services faster.
Storms Brewing in the Cloud By @E_deSouza | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Recent events have taught us that everyone is vulnerable to data breaches. Now that the majority of businesses are running services in the cloud, whether sanctioned, rogue or Shadow IT, there is much work to be done in beefing up cloud security. And, with each major data breach that takes place in the cloud, trust in the cloud is further eroded.
Cloud Is an Attractive Target for Data Breaches
The increasing pervasiveness of the cloud makes it an attractive target for hackers and cybercriminals. Cloud is not only for business and leisure applications; it’s also the back end for electricity grids, water treatment plants, healthcare applications, smart cars, smart refrigerators and so much more. With each device or source that connects to the cloud it creates additional pathways or access points for unauthorized users to infiltrate. The increasing volume of data that is either stored or transacted in the cloud is a strong lure for hacktivists and cybercriminals.
Screen Scraping Bots By @DISTIL | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Like DDoS attacks, aggressive screen scraping can create huge spikes in traffic, cause brownouts, and even take you down for extended periods of time. Web scraping doesn’t make the headlines and most people aren’t aware of the damage it can cause to your website’s success.
Thieves and unauthorized content aggregators use screen scraping bots and cheap labor to steal your content, repackage it for sale, or place it on unauthorized sites – all of which hurt your SEO, negatively impact your brand, and reduce your ability to monetize your intellectual property. Below I’ve outlined just a few of the many ways that screen scraping can impact a company and its website.
JFrog Adds Docker Support to Bintray | @JFrog @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
JFrog on Thursday announced that it has added Docker support to Bintray, its distribution-as-a-service (DaaS) platform. When combined with JFrog’s Artifactory binary repository management system, organizations can now manage Docker images with an end-to-end solution that supports all technologies.
The new version of Bintray allows organizations to create an unlimited number of private Docker repositories, and through the use of fast Akamai content delivery networks (CDNs), it decreases the download time of large Docker repositories, speeding DevOps work significantly. Bintray’s highly available service and download layer also helps Docker users eliminate service disruption and performance degradation issues.
Win Server 2003 EOS Is Coming [New Survey] By @AppZero_Inc | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
The clock is ticking: the End of Support for Windows Server 2003, #WS2003EOS, arrives this July, as in four months from now. This means there will be no more patches or security updates and your applications and business will be at risk. New threats won’t be addressed and WS2003 systems will be a security risk and compliance nightmare. Especially for those in heavily regulated industries — pharmaceuticals, banking/finance and insurance, as well as any company that processes credit card transactions — this will cause a heavy compliance burden and could put you at risk of accruing penalties and fines.
OpenShift Commons Latest in Battle with Cloud Foundry By @IoT2040 | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Red Hat made the interesting times in which we live a little more interesting recently by announcing OpenShift Commons, “a place for companies using OpenShift to accelerate its success and adoption. To do this we’ll act as resources for each other, share best practices and provide a forum for peer-to-peer communication,” according to an official statement.
A total of 38 companies have committed to being part of the OpenShift Commons, including Cisco, Dell, and Docker. Others include Cloudera, Hortonworks, Iron.io, New Relic, and Zend.
The announcement is another move in the ongoing PaaS battle between OpenShift and Cloud Foundry, which got its Foundation last year.
A total of 38 companies have committed to being part of the OpenShift Commons, including Cisco, Dell, and Docker. Others include Cloudera, Hortonworks, Iron.io, New Relic, and Zend.
The announcement is another move in the ongoing PaaS battle between OpenShift and Cloud Foundry, which got its Foundation last year.
The two platforms are both OpenShift-friendly, and have an open-source nature that encourages community contributions and development.
The emerging, competing PaaS ecosystems seem to add strength to the intertwined notions of more aggressive cloud computing development in enterprises, the DevOps approach in leveraging the potential speed and flexibility of cloud, and keeping PaaS from being subsumed into major infrastructure (IaaS) providers such as Amazon and Salesforce.
Look for Jerome Pettazoni of Docker and Gordon Haff of Red Hat to cover much of the related ground in the world of PaaS at Cloud Expo & The DevOps Summit in New York June 9-11 at the Javits Center.
Cloud Acquisition Strategy | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
This year has brought big news, significant changes and increased awareness of the adoption of cloud computing in Government. In fact Cloud computing may be the biggest and most overhyped term in Government information technology today. It is also the most discussed topic in agency strategy, cyber security forums and mission / program reviews. While lots of conversation has been devoted to technology and the benefits that government customers can derive from Cloud, in the end the biggest challenge may be the acquisition of cloud services. Cloud computing presents a different set of acquisition challenges to the federal government and this shift requires a rethinking the agency acquisition process. Smart purchasing decisions require an understanding of security requirements, service models and service level agreements.