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Stepping into an Everything Connected World While social media has connected the world in one sense, an automated and digitally connected world is becoming more popular. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the software engineering, implementation, security, and performance issues associated with stepping into a connected world. |
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Adobe Switching to Subscription-Based Creative Cloud Adobe, the manufacturer of choice for many creative professionals, said it will not release new versions of its Creative Suite tools. Instead it will solely support a subscription-only model in its Creative Cloud, allowing for more capabilities and as-released updates. But customers are skeptical. |
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Are You Getting Everything You Need from Your Infrastructure? Culture may be vital to the success of agile, but there are a number of technical requirements that must be in place for development teams to be able to bring the speed and quality that agile was designed to deliver. Nate Odell looks specifically at the needs of an agile infrastructure. |
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Cats vs. Cows—Which Cloud Do You Have? If you are treating your private cloud like a pampered and spoiled pet cat that requires expensive care and feeding, then maybe it is time to start treating your cloud infrastructure more like a consumable commodity, like hamburgers—cheap, reliable, and interchangeable. |
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Recent Corporate Acquisitions Highlight Growth of DevOps With the popularity of DevOps continuing to grow in the software industry, we’re seeing more and more news in the tech media about companies adopting the methodology. This week adds to that trend with some big corporate acquisitions. |
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Growth of API Usage Sparks New Management Tools Open APIs have become not only available, but prevalent, giving capabilities to photo, video, messaging, mapping, music, and news outlets. ProgrammableWeb's directory of web service APIs now numbers more than 8,000. With increased API usage, the need for help managing APIs also is growing. |
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Sale Leaves OfficeDrop's Cloud Storage Users in the Lurch Popular cloud storage provider OfficeDrop announced this week that they would no longer be storing their clients' data, and clients had two weeks to pull it off their servers before it would be deleted forever. How much of your data is stored in the cloud, and should you have a backup plan in place? |
