Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, Devops, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are six great articles from the week of April 25th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy! How The Cloud Changes What IT Pros Do ...
This week the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference was held in San Jose, CA. The Zenoss team was there to help support the effort and to learn as much as possible about the future of the Open Cloud. The main observation from the conference I have to share was on the overall excitement around ...
Today’s “always up, always on” work environments require quick access to resources. Whether it’s to cover increased demand for existing services or for new business requests, IT is being asked to respond with near-instant provisioning. In order to support this requirement, manual service deployments, which can be error prone and time consuming, are being replaced ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, Devops, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are seven great articles from the week of April 18th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy! Can you make money in the cloud? There ...
By now, you most likely heard that Amazon suffered an outage yesterday of their industry leading Cloud services. The news of this outage transcended technical news publications and the blogosphere only to land them on the front page of CNNFN.com. How could this happen? Can the Cloud really go down? Where do you turn for help? Information? ...
A recent survey by the Aberdeen Group uncovered some interesting findings about virtualization deployment, and the operational and management challenges that organizations face. In the Network World article, “From best-in-class virtualization management to highly automated, optimized data centers,” the research firm found what sets leading organizations apart is how well IT understands and optimizes virtualization ...
Cloud computing is a very attractive proposition for many organizations today. And why not? In a competitive landscape where efficiency and cost savings is king, what could be more enticing than improving productivity, extending your computing resources on a dime, and cutting your business expenditures? That’s the promise of the Cloud (before building a Cloud infrastructure, ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, Devops, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are six great articles from the week of April 11th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy! DevOps and PaaS, yes, but now No-Ops? So ...
Last week, I had the opportunity to host a joint webinar with Cisco and Redmonk talking about building Cloud Computing infrastructures. It was only an hour long, but it was filled was so many great points and comments on the state of the Cloud that we wanted to put together a summary presentation to share. A big thanks ...
It seems that the team at Red Hat are finally figuring out their cloud computing strategy as they are set to release a new cloud application-building platform on May 3rd at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. While Red Hat has been enjoying robust revenue growth, it has been primarily driven by the adoption of ...
