Applications

Three Reasons SSO is DevOps’ Best Friend

02/15/19 Nearly 200—that’s how many passwords the average business user has according to an article in Security Magazine. When it comes to troubleshooting, having even just two log…

To Cloud or Not to Cloud?

02/11/19 There’s a question I’m sure is keeping some IT managers and CTOs up at night. How do you know when it’s right to move a workload to the cloud? And when you finally make th…

Cloud Migration Is No Drama – Or Is It?

02/08/19 Great! You’ve made the decision to migrate to the cloud. What should be the first step towards that goal? The answer is: defining a cloud migration team that understands t…

The DevOps Slide: Shift to the Left

01/31/19 A culture of collaborative and continuous learning. Transparent knowledge sharing. Agile methods and automation as a means of accelerating innovation. Building good softwa…

Why Move to the Cloud? Benefits of the Ever-Onward Advancement of Hybrid IT

01/29/19 Why Cloud? I remember being asked this exact question during a technical presentation I got drafted into very last minute with a well-known, high street brand. During the …

Public Cloud – To Migrate or Not: That is the Question

01/28/19 Public clouds provide enormous scale and elasticity. Combined with a consumption-based model and instant deployment methodologies, they provide a platform that is extremel…

How Business Leaders Can Put the “Dev” Back in DevOps

01/25/19 The trouble with troubleshooting? When it’s the No. 1 activity on which tech professionals spend their time, there’s little of it left for development and innovation. As b…

IT Operations: Coping with Cloud

01/24/19 You’ll encounter terms like “dinosaur” and “curmudgeon” when bloggers refer to IT professionals who have decades of experience in the data center, but have not yet mastere…

2019: The Year of Meshing Around and Creating Chaos

01/03/19 It’s that time of year again—the time to reflect on the past year and anticipate the year ahead. For a number of years now, organizations of all sizes have been running co…

Application Dependency Mapping: Security and Ongoing ADM

12/19/18 Well, here we are. Finally, on the last post of this series. If you have not been following along, you can find the previous posts: part one, part two, part three, part fo…

Surviving and Thriving in the Ephemeral World of Containers and Functions

12/18/18 With containers, microservices, and FaaS becoming even more integrated into hybrid and cloud environments, you must remain diligent to make sure you’re navigating these as…

Expanding Observability to Help DevOps Live Up to New Expectations

11/07/18 DevOps has grown from being seen as simply a supporting function to becoming an extremely value core part of the business which drives growth. As a result of this noticeab…