Agility in Cloud: Mindset as Much as Tech
Agility is one of cloud’s most discussed virtues. But what does agility actually mean? There are essentially two schools of thought on this, each of them tied to one’s perspective within an...
View ArticleHow To Do DevOps Better: A Quick Guide
So much has been written about DevOps in recent months, it’s hard to know where to start if you’re a business considering making the role a permanent fixture as part of your cloud strategy. Even with a...
View ArticleCertifiably Cloud: AWS Announces Accreditation
Last week several reporters, including Gathering Clouds friend in the field Barb Darrow, analyzed Amazon’s recent announcement of its cloud certification program. Widely seen as a positive move for the...
View ArticleCloud Player – Lon Binder, Vice President Technology, Warby Parker Part 2
Recently we had the pleasure of sitting down for an extended conversation with Lon Binder, VP of Technology at Warby Parker. We discussed a range of issues central to how Warby Parker approaches IT,...
View ArticleCloud Skills Shortage: Does It Matter?
More and more companies around the world are embracing the cloud – and that’s a good thing. But this massive IT shift also presents a problem: With so many businesses moving to cloud, is there enough...
View ArticleCan Cloud Computing Hurt A Business?
We see a lot published about why cloud computing is good for an organization: from cost reduction, to increased innovation, to greater speed to revenue, cloud has made a real and widely recognized...
View ArticleCloud Player – Adam Denenberg, VP Engineering, The Huffington Post Part 2
Yesterday, we published the first part of our conversation with Adam Denenberg. In today’s conclusion, we discuss the challenges of demand and scaling, Hurricane Sandy and business continuity, cloud’s...
View ArticleFrom DevOps to Database Engineers: Is there A Skills Shortage in IT?
One of the interesting sub-stories to the cloud computing narrative, with its dynamic promise to businesses, is the difficulty in finding qualified expertise to apply to projects. Christian Verstraete...
View ArticleCan (Or Should) DevOps Do It All?
DevOps tears down the often artificial barriers between developers and operations in an organization. Being in different departments and being accountable for different, often conflicting goals can...
View ArticleWho’s Who in Cloud September 6, 2013
We hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day Weekend and short work week! Now, as the cloud matures into the enterprise, many interesting developments have transpired. Cyber security, the DevOps role, and...
View ArticleBeyond DevOps: Bridging the Gap Between Development and Infrastructure
Reconciling application and infrastructure requirements is difficult. They are often not synced, since application developers understand their mandate one way and infrastructure managers believe theirs...
View ArticleScalability in Cloud Computing: Old Problems With New Solutions
Software is eating the world, and especially the world of systems management. As we evolve to a world of Infrastructure-as-Code, it becomes imperative the technology powering complex, web-facing...
View ArticleThe Measurable and Important Benefits of DevOps
This is the second piece in our ongoing series on cloud DevOps. Check out the first piece here: Scalability in Cloud Computing: Old Problems With New Solutions. It is said that what cannot be measured...
View ArticleThe Importance of DevOps When Deploying with AWS
This is the third piece in our ongoing series on cloud DevOps. Check out the second piece here: The Measurable and Important Benefits of DevOps. The fact that ‘Time is Money’ applies today, just as it...
View ArticleDevOps And High Availability When Deploying with AWS
This is the fourth piece in our ongoing series on the Practice on DevOps. Check out the third piece here: The Importance of DevOps When Deploying with AWS. Winston Churchill once said said, “He who...
View ArticleHow DevOps Can Improve Security When Deploying With AWS
This the 5th part of our series on DevOps. Check out Part 4: DevOps and High Availability. Recent high-profile security breaches prove the difficulty in assuring the three core tenets of information...
View ArticleThe Importance of DevOps in Enabling Compliance in AWS Environments
This the 6th part of our series on DevOps. Check out Part 5 here: How DevOps Can Improve Security WHen Deployming with AWS. The increased collaboration between Development and Operations teams in the...
View ArticleHow DevOps can Improve Reliability When Deploying with AWS
This the 7th part of our series on DevOps. Check out Part 6: The Importance of DevOps in Enabling Compliance in AWS Environments. Reliability, in the cloud technology era, can be defined as the...
View ArticleDevOps Automation: Financial Implication and Benefits with AWS
The Financial Implication and Benefits of an Automation using DevOps in AWS This the 8th part of our series on DevOps. Check out Part 7: How DevOps can Improve Reliability When Deploying with AWS....
View ArticleImproving the End User Experience When Using AWS
Improving the End User Experience with Amazon Web Services This the final post of our series on DevOps. Check out Part 8: DevOps Automation. End user experience is a combination of several factors:...
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