Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Big Data and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of March 25th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Cracking the ...
On a recent plane trip, I had the pleasure of sitting behind a couple that was having quite a heated argument. Naturally, both of them thought they were right but their styles of debate were very different. I’d describe it as an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. From my perspective, her logic was sound, ...
Did you ever wonder what was the perfect gift for the Ops team? How can you get them to stand up in a meeting and announce their love for the Dev team? Well if you care to only give them the best then introduce them to a set of tools that will drastically change the ...
It’s been a wonderful start to 2012 as I have had the honor and pleasure to make the case for redefining IT Operations within four distinct blog posts and accompanying webinars. The response to this series has been overwhelming and what takes my breath away is the shear number of questions that continue to pour ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Big Data and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of March 4th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Google ...
While I never had the privilege of working in IT Ops, I began my career working with “those bearded, sandals-wearing UNIX guys”, who were the untouchable gurus of their organizations. Man, those were the days! That description wasn’t by any means derogatory, as my own software company was full of them, and ‘the Grateful Dead’ ...
In this day and age, there are varying views on open source adoption, especially in large-scale enterprise IT operations. While people still trust their large vendors for a variety of reasons, that line of thinking is very much outdated - quite like their historical operations strategy: closed and proprietary. Although most big vendors are attempting ...
Oddly, this recent push to recognize NoOps as a methodology separate from DevOps may end up bringing down the long-term divide between operations and development in a way that DevOps, as a movement at least, has failed to do so far. I sense it’s because the developers are finally joining in on the conversation. “DevOps ...
Originally written and posted on Google+ My colleagues and I have written plenty of times about Zenoss’ involvement with various Cloud projects. These are currently focused mostly around OpenStack and Crowbar, which we use and develop for (respectively). As we're currently extending our OpenStack Cloud to support some of the “not so out of the ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Big Data and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of February 27th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! How Red Hat ...
