Measuring Your DevOps Success
by: Our answer is always that an organization’s current position must be baselined first. Having a baseline means you can build a business case, apply targets and goals to your projects and measure your success as you progress through your project with the ultimate goal being to report back to the board on how you(…)
SoftLayer – Ibm’s New Quarterback for the Cloud
by: What typically happens to smaller firms when they are being eaten up by mega-companies like IBM seems pretty obvious – they go to the dogs. Key executives will leave the team, product roadmaps will lose their binding character and strategy will get fuzzy due to the sheer magnitude of the organization and its inherent(…)
Product Manager Matt Ayers on Skytap’s Integration with Amazon Web Services
by: Hi folks, I’m a product manager here at Skytap and I wanted to take some time to talk about our newly-launched support for Skytap on Amazon Web Services. Since beginning a private beta program last November, we’ve been working closely with our customers who use AWS, and after receiving extensive customer feedback, we are(…)
Oracle Reports Gains, But Rivals Grow Faster
by: Doug Henschen Oracle Cloud subscription revenue increases 25% and hardware rebounds, but Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce.com, and Workday threats loom large. Continue reading at informationweek.com This post is brought to you as part of the VMware Software Defined Enterprise, which provides resources and solutions for the software defined world. Join the conversation on Facebook and(…)
Hadoop Pioneer Cloudera Raises Whopping $160 Million
by: John Rath From pioneer to leader, big data powerhouse Cloudera brings its total amount raised to $300 million, after announcing that it has closed a new $160 million financing round to accelerate its growth in 2014. Continue reading at Data Center Knowledge This post is brought to you as part of the VMware Software(…)
VSAN Pricing Comparison
by: Tom Howarth, Tom Howarth on Google Last week, VMware released vSphere 5.5 Update 1. You can find the release notes here, and the links to the download are here. Why is this such a milestone? It finally marks the release of VMware’s long-awaited entry into the world of software-defined storage, the VSAN (Virtual Storage(…)
Disaster Recovery & Backup Are Part of Cloud Storage, Not Stand-alone Apps
by: Industry Perspectives It’s time to give up on incrementally improving a broken backup system, and instead move forward toward a new model for data protection. The cloud holds much more potential than a cheap dumping ground for backup and archive data, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni. Continue reading at Data Center Knowledge This post(…)
The operator’s view of Sdn, Nfv, and open source
by: Mark Leary Where are SDN and NFV today? And what influence will open systems and open source have on the future of SDN and NFV? Our survey and analysis provide key insights into the current activity and future direction of SDN and NFV advancements as well as the development and deployment of open systems(…)
Resource Pools versus Virtual Machine Pools
by: This post is following up on last week’s post, “The Inevitability of Idle Resources”, in which I mentioned the importance of ensuring not only that resources are available when you need to provision a new service to scale but that the resources available match the needs of the service. So let’s continue that by(…)
Measuring Your DevOps Success
by: Our answer is always that an organization’s current position must be baselined first. Having a baseline means you can build a business case, apply targets and goals to your projects and measure your success as you progress through your project with the ultimate goal being to report back to the board on how you(…)
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