Recently, I made two interesting support requests, each to a different company. Both companies asked for the output of many different commands and log files. Both balked once I explained my organization’s security policy. The policy reads simply: No anonymized data shall be delivered to a 3rd party. It is a simple statement, but it has a powerful effect …
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Rate of Business Change Leads to Microservices
There is no doubt that the pace of business change is not slowing. With this business rate of change comes the need for business applications to change at great speed. What may be less visible is the direct relationship between the speed of application change and the need for new application architectures.
Customization Is What You Want
My friend and colleague, Alastair Cooke, recently published a post entitled Advanced Simplification: You Want It. In this post Alastair lays out his case that simplification is something that would tend to be something that “deep geeks tend to scoff at” while yet at the same time embracing the wizards and silent install scripts that become available to help deploy and or manage an application and/or platform into our environments.
Will Citrix and Microsoft Tie the Knot?
As the business relationship between Citrix and Microsoft continues to flourish, it raises the question of whether the two will eventually tie the knot. Rumors of an acquisition have circulated on and off througout Citrix’s entire history, but could 2017 be the year that it finally happens?
Moving to the Future: Strategies for Handling Data Scale
We are all moving to the future. The election has, hopefully, forced us to rethink basic fundamentals of society. Individuals are usually easy to deal with, but larger and larger groups are much harder. Data scale changes everything. Even Isaac Asimov had this in mind when he wrote the Foundation trilogy. In his case, scale …
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We’ve Changed the guard at Buckingham Palace, it’s time for Hybrid – Vembu to the Rescue
In this, the eighth article in our series investigating the benefits of Vembu BDR for Virtualized Environments, we carry on examining Vembu’s migration capabilities. We all know that backing up your data is only one part of the equation. The ability to recover is the other, and arguably more important, side. This is where Vembu …