DevOps Is the Future of Service Integration & Management (SIAM)
Enterprises with internally sourced IT operations typically struggle with typical tensions associated with siloed application and infrastructure organizations. They are…
Making Financial Sense of PaaS, Part Deux
In my blog, “Making Financial Sense of PaaS,” I provided an analysis of delivering a newly-developed mobile application using a…
Can Telcos Succeed As Cloud Service Providers?
Someone sent me a link to this article this morning. While reading it I started to think about the competitive…
Excuse Me Ms. Shannon-Solomon, But DevOps Is Great For Enterprises
On May 13th, Rachel Shannon-Solomon wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal section entitled “DevOps Is…
In IaaS and PaaS Convergence, It’s PaaS That Should Lead
Recent commentaries by cloud industry luminaries Reuven Cohen & Krishnan Subramanian address key issues related to relative importance and potential…
Without A Strong PaaS, ITaaS, DevOps & IaaS Fall Short
To lower IT operational costs and/or to become more agile, the business must simplify the processes to deliver and manage…
A Design For An Agile Cloud Management Platform
In the early part of 2013, EMC announced a new storage virtualization product called ViPR that delivers a software interface…
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Transformation Is More Important Than Cloud
On the surface it looks to be a chicken and egg problem. Is cloud driving IT transformation or is IT…
Notes From The Field: Inside A Real World Large-Scale Cloud Deployment
I’ve been granted an incredible opportunity. Over the past three and a half months I have gotten to lead a…
Cloud Should Be Defined By What It Will Become, Not What It Is Today
There’s been a lot of discussion about what makes cloud computing different than other forms of computing that have come…