Cloud Smart’s Success Relies on Smart Network Monitoring
09/03/19 The Office of Management and Budget’s Cloud Smart proposal signals both the end of an era and the beginning of new opportunities. The focus has shifted from ramping up clo…
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4 Strategies to Improve App Performance
07/23/19 Optimizing application performance has more to do with the entire application environment than it does with the individual application. It’s critical for federal IT pros t…
Is Cloud-Agnostic Even a Thing?
07/19/19 Before we can examine if cloud-agnostic is a thing, we must understand what it is in the first place. There are a multitude of opinions on this matter, but from my standpo…
Getting Started With Hybrid IT
07/17/19 Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a lot about hybrid IT and its benefits. New tools, new technologies, new skillsets. Hybrid IT is still new to a lot of companies, and…
Assessing Your Agency’s Cloud Readiness
07/09/19 A recent report regarding the modernization of Federal Information Technology (IT), coordinated by the American Technology Council (ATC) in 2017, called for agencies to “i…
Bimodal IT vs. Hybrid IT: What’s the Best Approach?
07/08/19 IT departments have always been an important part of the business. Critical business models rely on systems managed by IT. Businesses have been using IT for years, but IT …
How to Prevent Lock-In for DevOps Tooling
07/03/19 We’ve talked about a lot in this series about DevOps tooling: Start Your DevOps Journey by Looking at the Value You Add Why Choosing a One-Size-Fits-All Solution Won’t Wor…
3 Reasons to Choose a Hybrid Cloud
06/26/19 The hybrid cloud makes everything better. It’s helping drive down costs, it’s making the software we use to run our data centers easier, and it’s pushing innovation. The p…
How to Choose the Right Tools in Your DevOps Toolchain
05/31/19 We’ve established that choosing a one-size-fits-all solution won’t work. So, what does work? Let’s look at why we need tools in the first place, and what kind of work thes…
Why Choosing a One-Size-Fits-All Solution Won’t Work
05/24/19 In my previous post, we talked about the CALMS framework as an introduction to DevOps, and how it’s more than just “DevOps tooling.” Yes, some of it is about automation an…
A Look at the Shift from Organizations Adopting a Cloud-First Mentality
05/20/19 Not too long ago, the hype in the marketplace was very much geared toward moving all workloads to the public cloud. If you didn’t, you were behind the curve. The reality i…
Start Your DevOps Journey by Looking at the Value You Add
05/14/19 Starting with DevOps can be hard. Often, it’s not entirely clear why you’re getting on the DevOps train. Sometimes, it’s simply because it’s the new trendy thing to do. Fo…