As we wind our way deeper into the holiday season, I am reminded that all it takes is one IF clause to ruin your day. Or even to ruin your holiday, if a change was made during a continuous integration cycle. Just because we can speed up and automate tasks does not mean we always …
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I was recently asked how a specialized application could be moved to the cloud. The vendor went to a group of folks who claimed to put applications in the cloud and basically never heard back from them. Why? Most cloud providers want tenants to do most if not all of the work of moving their …
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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 …
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In my last cloud dependency article, I reviewed the need for ubiquitous networking. In this article, I look at the need for automated upgrades. I do not mean the need for automation in general, but specifically the need to automate any upgrade or update behavior. There are two sides to every cloud story: what the …
On October 30, 2014, Lenovo completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google. This acquisition, which was announced in January, means that the Chinese company that bought IBM’s x86 server and desktop products now has mobile device manufacture in its portfolio.
I am starting to get annoyed with the direction of all the DevOps discussions that fly across my Twitter feed each day. I think people are focusing way too much on culture and not taking a pragmatic approach to solving business problems. I’ll be the first to admit that embracing the DevOps movement can be …
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