Herding Cats in the Cloud: Enterprise Monitoring of Decentralized AWS Usage
Cloud instances are typically spun out on a one-off basis across an enterprise. Most organizations have multiple cloud accounts purchased in a decentralized, ad hoc way. For large companies ...Full Article
U.S. Spy Master to Hire CIO
The U.S. intelligence apparatus is looking for a spy to come in from the cold to serve as its first chief information officer. The Office of the Director of ...Full Article
Rackspace Looks to Boost OpenStack Adoption
OpenStack pioneer Rackspace has moved to boost enterprise adoption of the cloud operating system with this week's release of a managed private cloud service that can be installed in ...Full Article
In OpenPOWER Play, IBM and Google Make Hyperscale Waves at Foundation Summit
OpenPOWER Foundation, the mostly IBM-driven effort to create an alternative architecture to Intel x86, took a major step forward today with the announcement of a joint effort by Google ...Full Article
At the ‘Cloudification’ Tipping Point, Application Integration Matters More Than Ever
As Internet-connected, smart devices increasingly meld into all aspects of daily life, people are starting to expect the same connectedness and speed in everything that they do. Companies are ...Full Article
DevOps Tool Targets Continuous Delivery of Apps
Attacking what it calls "islands of automation" that are thwarting efforts toward continuous delivery of business applications, an IT and DevOps specialist is rolling out a framework to automate ...Full Article
IBM’s Latest Cloud Deal is Salesforce Partner
Another week, another IBM acquisition: This time, a cloud consulting and implementation services specialist called Bluewolf Group. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Thursday (March 31) the acquisition would help extend ...Full Article
Cloud-based DevOps Tool Aims to Speed App Delivery
Getting enterprise applications out the door faster and into production is becoming a key task for harried DevOps teams. The barrier to faster deployment, according to an emerging group ...Full Article
Rival Camps Try to ‘Orchestrate’ Container Specs
The basis for an application container scheme continues to evolve as a group seeking to align competing technologies announced acceptance of a container orchestration platform developed by Google. The ...Full Article
A Low-maintenance, Software-driven Private Cloud from ZeroStack
The stampede to the cloud is on. Renting cycles if only for workload bursts is by now commonplace. Statistical and anecdotal evidence validates that at least partial adoption of ...Full Article