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Modern Operations: Apps & Stacks
A blog for IT professionals faced with deploying, managing and troubleshooting next-generation applications on distributed infrastructure in the cloud and elsewhere.
Recent Posts
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What does an IT person do? Answers from around the globe
- Executive Editor 21 Nov 2018 -
Gifts for geeks in 2018: analog edition
- Senior News Writer 20 Nov 2018 -
Chasing Grace Project spotlights women in tech
- Senior News Writer 25 Apr 2018
The holiday season is fast approaching, when IT and DevOps professionals around the world answer a perennial question at the family dinner table: What does an IT person do? While you might only ...
Gifts for geeks don't have to be digital. This year's suggestions feature a decidedly analog theme.
Poet Lauren Zuniga is featured in Episode 1 of the Chasing Grace Project, a documentary series about women in tech. Photo by Beth Pariseau, TechTarget Diversity Luncheons have popped up with ...
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Technology gifts 2017: Geeks want wireless headphones
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How do you run enterprise DevOps?
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Security, stateful app features mark enterprise-friendly Kubernetes release
- Senior News Writer 30 Jun 2017 -
Healthcare, big data and IoT: Scared to death?
- Casanova Advisory Services 29 Jun 2017 -
Breaking down Kubernetes use stats among OpenStack deployments
- Senior News Writer 10 May 2017 -
Red Hat Summit 2017: Big banks weave DevOps and security
- Senior News Writer 05 May 2017 -
Red Hat Summit 2017 Reporter's Notebook: OpenShift by Red Hat takes center stage
- Senior News Writer 05 May 2017
Novel approaches to mobile audio get attention from geeks as they choose their most-wanted technology gifts in 2017. Our geek advisory panel said the most coveted gift this year is close to ...
DevOps has escaped the rarefied realm of unicorns and startups, as workhorse enterprises take up application delivery and support methodology. Every experience is unique, and yet everyone can learn ...
Kubernetes 1.7 is here just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, adding some fireworks of its own with new security features and broader support for stateful apps that are sure to appeal to the ...
Big data isn't new to anyone or any industry, and its impact is challenging everyone. The internet of things didn't exist when the term information explosion was first used in the 1940s. It was ...
Kubernetes on OpenStack deployments -- how popular is it really? OpenStack Foundation leaders cited the organization's annual user survey as evidence that a combination of OpenStack and Kubernetes ...
BOSTON -- Security rules are inescapable for IT service providers within a financial enterprise, and several such companies filled in their peers on how they've approached DevOps and security in ...
BOSTON -- It was called Red Hat Summit, but it could just as easily have been OpenShift Summit. Red Hat's platform as a service product was the hottest topic at the show here this week. Enterprise ...
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IT troubleshooting is as much about users as technology
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My expanded interests in technology for the wider world
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IT leadership -- let's get our act together
- Casanova Advisory Services 23 Jan 2017 -
CMDB discovery tools alone aren't the answer
- Casanova Advisory Services 16 Jan 2017 -
Six DevOps books to read this season
- Associate Site Editor 21 Dec 2016 -
IBM Bluemix touts 'easy button' for DevOps deployment pipelines
- Senior News Writer 06 Dec 2016 -
CMDB meets IoT and Security
- Casanova Advisory Services 02 Nov 2016 -
IT due diligence in a merger
- Casanova Advisory Services 27 Oct 2016 -
What about the people?
- Senior Technology Editor 20 Oct 2016 -
POVs on IT infrastructure automation you can use
- Executive Editor 13 Oct 2016 -
Google Project Aristotle - 5 Keys to Team Success
- Casanova Advisory Services 14 Sep 2016 -
Service Management conferences offer more
- Casanova Advisory Services 25 Aug 2016 -
A new site for IT operations pros
- Executive Editor 07 Jun 2016 -
Enterprise DevOps is a custom operation
- Editorial Director 25 May 2016
It's easy with IT troubleshooting to head down a path that makes sense, with certain assumptions. But IT users and technology are unpredictable combinations.
There is nothing better than to put yourself in someone else’s shoes for a while -- look at the world through their eyes and ask yourself what would make the world better for that person.
I've been consulting to organizations for many years now. To the point that I've probably worked with, in some capacity or another, well over 100 different companies and IT leadership teams. ...
CMDB discovery tools have been around for quite a long time because their need is pretty obvious. Organizations are generally understaffed to do the daily work. Many just do not staff to ...
These six Agile and DevOps books cover how to adopt the methodologies, manage IT organizations with them, and find routes to improvement.
IBM delivered its Bluemix Continuous Delivery service this week - it is now generally available on Bluemix Dedicated, IBM's virtual private cloud offering, as well as its public cloud as of last ...
In the wake of the October 2016 Dyn attacks, IT organizations must consider IoT security, and truly integrate security into their CMDB and CM planning.
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) involve a tremendous amount of effort to properly evaluate the situation before decisions are made. Leaders must put together a teams to perform a due diligence ...
I've been a technologist all my life. I studied electronics in high school, graduated college with a BSEE, spent some years creating manufacturing machines, and have written extensively about ...
It's a natural urge to remove human intervention from machines' functioning, but an operational stack doesn't stay the same.
If I picked one word to collectively describe the five components from Project Aristotle, it would have to be value.
No one single focused approach will work for every organization or even across an entire organization. We must be open to different styles, approaches, frameworks and models.
Emerging technologies force enterprise IT shops to rethink not just which new products and services to adopt, but even more importantly, the very nature of how they do their jobs. For this reason, ...
There was no shortage of IT pros at Gartner's recent IT ops conference in Washington, D.C. looking shorten release cycles to apps, old and new, by adding process automation. But it's not extreme ...