Related Content
Cloud Computing Refocuses Agile Development on the Customer For software projects embracing agile development, cloud computing can be vital in speeding the process and maximizing the. The cloud allows agile teams to focus on the project's goals over the infrastructure, ensuring that the project it main objective: fulfilling a need for the customer. |
||
Why Open Source CM May Not Be As Cheap As You Might Have Thought Joe Farah writes that there’s a lot more to the cost of configuration management than licenses for version control and problem tracking, and all those open source CM tools out there may be a lot more costly than you might have thought. |
||
Not Dead Yet—VMware Buys Cloud VDI Vendor Desktone Is VMware’s purchase of Cloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) vendor Desktone an indication that cloud desktop virtualization will finally become more widely accepted? The cloud desktop virtualization forecast is looking more like mixed clouds and sunshine. |
||
The US Government's Configuration Management Problems Joe Townsend probes the news and finds several stories detailing the US government's problems with configuration management. According to Joe, the defense industry and government agencies should be able to improve if they follow their own standards and directives. |
||
Are You Rethinking Cloud Network Access? Are you worried about your cloud resources network security? Is accessing your SaaS CRM system over the Internet just not reliable enough to meet your required customer SLAs and business objectives? We all know public cloud services—love them or hate them—have some glaring deficiencies. |
||
Helpful Tips for Good Branching and Merging in Product Development Branching and merging are necessary, but they can be minimized to reduce the overhead. In this story, Joe Farah shares several helpful branching and merging tips as well as his simple philosophy of creating a new branch when you need to support the old one. |
||
Integrate Cloud Services Support to Avoid the Help(less) Desk A major downside of using cloud services is that customers often find they are responsible for any needed integration across different applications and vendors. Beth Cohen offers tips for minimizing the risks and improving service quality when integrating cloud services. |
||
DevOps in the News Much like configuration management, you won’t hear Brian Williams talking about DevOps on the evening news or see Matt Lauer interviewing a DevOps expert on the couch of The Today Show. However, recently in IT-related news on the wire, DevOps is a huge story. |