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- October 20, 2016
20 Oct'16
What about the people?
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 ...
- October 19, 2016
19 Oct'16
Future IT trends watchlist highlights adaptive security, mesh architectures, IoT
Forward-thinking IT pros are peering around the corner at the IT trends they'll need to plan around in the coming year. Here's the short list -- how ready are you?
- October 18, 2016
18 Oct'16
These 10 trends in IT are rewriting the rules: Are you prepared?
The rapid evolution of data centers and cloud hinges on these 10 key IT trends, from hybrid infrastructures to IoT and smartly managing capacity -- and new IT roles to manage it all.
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- October 13, 2016
13 Oct'16
Open Container Initiative offshoot pushes standardization envelope
Does a set of container standards being nurtured by Google and Red Hat represent a threat to Docker? IT industry observers weigh in.
- October 12, 2016
12 Oct'16
DevOps pipeline tools woo enterprises with resiliency, integrations
Enterprises are ready to ante up in the DevOps game, as shown by new features being rolled out in DevOps pipeline tools.
- October 10, 2016
10 Oct'16
DevOps training concerns stymie IT transformations
Thought leaders debate what needs to be done to foster DevOps training, as forward-thinking IT pros with DevOps skills are still scarce in the available pool of enterprise talent.
- September 28, 2016
28 Sep'16
Create habitual IT security practices for the full stack
IT security should be so ingrained in developers and infrastructure managers it becomes second nature, rather than a stopping point along the flow of application lifecycles.
- September 27, 2016
27 Sep'16
Microsoft Docker container GA a potential sea change for enterprises
Microsoft-supported Docker products will become generally available beginning with Windows Server 2016 in October 2016, vaulting containers into enterprise prime time.
- September 23, 2016
23 Sep'16
For web companies, optimizing CI/CD mandates an IT infrastructure upgrade
Even relatively young web companies have found their IT infrastructure needed an overhaul to better support continuous integration and deployment.
- September 22, 2016
22 Sep'16
To scale up IT reliability, break apart operations
One strategy toward more IT reliability is to make it everyone's responsibility.
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- September 22, 2016
22 Sep'16
Uber hits bumps in the road with microservices challenges
Uber execs reveal the tradeoffs they've made in building their business upon hundreds of microservices, balancing the advantages of speed with challenges of system reliability.
- September 21, 2016
21 Sep'16
IT pros offered burgeoning choices in full-stack monitoring
APM and infrastructure monitoring vendors are crossing over, and an industry bellwether modernizes with an acquisition -- all to give enterprise IT shops a clearer view of ops.
- September 21, 2016
21 Sep'16
New Runnable service seeks to woo firms from AWS staging servers
Cratejoy will test code in environments automatically created by Runnable to avoid bottlenecks around EC2 instances used for staging. But will this plan work for enterprise IT shops?
- September 20, 2016
20 Sep'16
Trending on #bimodalIT and its ripple effects
Bimodal IT doesn't rely on just one coding construct, one IT operations tool or one platform. The shift to treating applications in entirely different ways is a mix of cultural and technological advancement.
- September 16, 2016
16 Sep'16
Monitoring open source software key for DevOps shops
Open source software is all the rage, as the DevOps movement advances, but it's important to keep track of it carefully for licensing and security purposes.