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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. |
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Computer Error Shuts Down NASDAQ Stock Exchange The NASDAQ stock exchange experienced a halt in trading Thursday, and a computer glitch is to blame. The outage was only the most recent of several very public technical failures in the US stock market system, prompting calls for testing requirements, safeguards, and trading software updates. |
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Trend toward Cloud Computing Spells Trouble for Data Centers The trend toward cloud computing and software as a service has been a boon for small businesses. But the money saved comes at a cost, and usually that’s people’s jobs. Consolidating data centers is becoming more common, and more companies are funneling those resources into cloud computing. |
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Will Information Technology Departments Exist in the Future? Joe Townsend explores whether or not information technology (IT) departments will exist in the future as he explores the concept of the consumerization of IT. Will business become the driver of technology rather than the IT group that currently exists in many organizations today? |
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World's Biggest Agile Development Project Collapses The United Kingdom’s Universal Credit welfare system was once touted by its creators as a shining example of how agile can modernize old systems. Now, the department in charge of the program is reverting back to waterfall, and experts are saying that the world's biggest agile project has collapsed. |
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Should the CIO Know How to Code? The issue isn’t whether CIOs should actually do the coding but whether they should know enough to understand IT complexities and to represent IT to customers. With more senior IT leaders coming from other departments, it isn’t a trivial question. This story looks at both sides of the matter. |
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What Role Does Configuration Management Play in Requirements Analysis? Once the inception phase of your project has been completed, a project will enter the requirements analysis phase. Joe Townsend explains the role that configuration management (CM) and quality assurance/control (QA/QC) plays during this phase of a project’s lifecycle. |
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Sears: Shop Everything from Appliances and Tools to Data Storage Pamela Rentz profiles the Sears Holdings Corp.'s newly formed business unit—Ubiquity Critical Environments. Ubiquity’s charter is to find a new—and hopefully profitable—use for the company’s bloated real estate portfolio of Sears and Kmart stores that are sitting empty or projected to close. |
