A recent report from cloud solution provider Appirio confirms what many IT people have long known, even feared: cloud-to-cloud integration is a major headache for cloud adopters. Appirio’s “State of
Many organizations realize there are significant advantages to moving their business-critical applications to the public cloud. With competitive pressures becoming stronger all the time, the heat is on to make
Just when you thought you had mastered the alphabet soup of cloud services, along comes DaaS (development-as-a-service). Al Hilwa, program director for IDC’s Application Development Software research, explained how DaaS
Development and test teams are crunched for time just as much as they are crunched for resources. According to a recent survey, ‘developing applications faster’ is a top application delivery
There is widespread interest in cloud computing among CTOs, architects and IT professionals, but the vast majority of IT pros deploy cloud computing solutions on dedicated resources instead of the
Approximately nine months ago I wrote an article outlining something I considered to be “Ultra Lean Software Development” and give it a real world test on a new hiking start-up
New integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offerings aim to relieve the pain of SaaS and cloud integration, which has been so onerous that many organizations have pulled the plug
Given the widespread adoption of Agile software development practices, project management leaders are struggling to redefine their roles. Many are trying to focus less on planning and controlling, and more
Agile development processes can help teams to plan and make the process transparent to management. Planning sessions, release plans and other techniques that help Agile development teams keep their work