There are a number of companies that are in a race to own the enterprise landscape when it comes to infrastructure automation and development pipelines (aka continuous integration and continuous deployment). What is unfolding here is very similar to what we have witnessed in the cloud market.
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Container Efficiency
Many parallels are drawn between containers and VMs. At the same time, container evangelists are often quick to position containers as a replacement for virtualization. As is always the case, the new is different from the old but can learn from the past. Containers and VMs address different part of IT/IS, so they are not directly …
Podcast: Outages and Clouds
In episode 24, I sit down with Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor at AVOA and a well-known blogger and thought leader on cloud computing. We discuss a variety of topics, ranging from outages to containers to open source.
DevOps Discussion with ScriptRock
I recently read a great article by Alan Sharp-Paul, cofounder and co-CEO of ScriptRock, called “You’re Doing DevOps Wrong. Automation in the Enterprise.” So I reached out to Alan for a Q&A session about DevOps. The following is a recap of our discussion.
The War on PaaS
For over a year now, a large number of industry experts have been asking questions like “is PaaS becoming just a feature of IaaS?,” “is PaaS dying?,” “do you really need a PaaS?,” and “is PaaS dead?” This has raised great deal of passionate debate in Twitter-land and other social media outlets, although supporters of …
Moka5: Managed Local Desktops in the Cloud
Moka5 is tackling the problem of desktop management with their LivePC bare metal and software operating system virtualization solutions. If you consider that one of the major challenges in desktop management is the constant need to keep the base systems updated with system and security patches, and application updates that come just as often.