May 21, 2013
HANA is nothing more than a stopgap measure by a desperate vendor trying to maintain its revenue in the face of an ancient code base that is inherently Cloud-unfriendly.
May 18, 2013
The first rule of DevOps is don't implement a DevOps team.
May 2, 2013
Dell's Boomi product is a full-fledged Integration-as-a-Service offering, positioned as the point of the spear for the company's Cloud strategy.
April 30, 2013
Qubole is a Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) service provider. Not hyperbole, Qubole.
April 19, 2013
If IBM PureSystems works as well as IBM says it does, it represents some serious enterprise firepower. But is it really a Private Cloud in a box?
April 14, 2013
So, is Amazon good or evil? You be the judge. Clearly, disrupting markets is in a different category from, say, outsourcing manufacturing to Asian sweatshops, but tell that to the targets of Amazon's disruption.
April 9, 2013
Everybody says they're doing Cloud or offering Cloud or whatnot, but precious little Cloud was visible at the CloudConnect conference.
April 5, 2013
A new Amazon Web Services capability called Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace paves the way for a full-blown market for Cloud instances.
April 4, 2013
Agile is not just for development any more. With DevOps, organizations are bringing the ops people to work closely with the development teams.
April 3, 2013
When you think PaaS, you typically think all-Java or all-Microsoft. Not so with Heroku.
April 1, 2013
We might dismiss software like Netware as arcane but the Cloud will never achieve the uptime it delivers.
March 27, 2013
Putting the capabilities of Amazon's Public Cloud on the CIA’s private network validates Amazon’s Public Cloud model, rather than detracting from it.
March 26, 2013
Learn how to create services that can be run in a cloud environment. Running in the cloud allows you to start quickly, with minimal expenses and lots of flexibility.
March 20, 2013
Any backup routine -- including for Cloud backup -- is only as good as your ability to recover data from backup. If that data is encrypted, recovering it can get tricky.
March 19, 2013
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions can automate business processes by coordinating the sequences of tasks and resources -- both systems and people.
March 1, 2013
If Microsoft can’t get the simple stuff right, then can you trust them with the difficult stuff?
February 20, 2013
Do you really want to trust your Cloud environment to a VPN?
February 12, 2013
Mature Agile teams use minimal branching and merging when they employ centralized source code repositories.
February 10, 2013
Will data centers hosting systems of record ever become Clouds?