“Shift to SaaS” is a cloud migration model to consider when you want to free your IT team from maintaining applications that are not customer-facing. Read on to learn why you should move back-office applications to SaaS. Why shift to SaaS? Back-office applications suck a lot…
In recent months, Microsoft has made some tremendous strides in improving the overall user experience for administrators working with the Azure Cloud Platform. As I have transitioned from AWS over to Microsoft Azure, I have quickly learned how easy it…
Hybrid Cloud Management Use Case: A large scale organization attempted to digitally transform its approach to delivering information technology capabilities. The organization needed to rapidly provision and deprovision its resources to meet elastic demand, allowing consumers a self-service option while…
In the world of containers, there are a growing number of management options available. Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm – and even more complete solutions like OpenShift or EBS. However, when it comes to finding a platform that supports both Docker…
devops journey workshop April 22, 2016 This past Tuesday, I had the pleasure of being invited to a workshop hosted by Shadow-Soft here in Charleston. I had been to a couple of their events in the past, which were mainly…
To celebrate the holidays and 15 years of Red Hat Training, we offering up 15% off on any two Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® OpenStack®, OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Storage courses…
Most data center professionals are faced with a sort of Prisoner’s Dilemma. Government and commercial organizations are constantly told to do more with fewer resources, but not to cut any corners and to keep everything up and running, and protected. In…
By Christopher Mims — December 5, 2012 (QZ.com) Oracle is a $156 billion corporate IT company with a big problem on its hands: in a recent survey of senior information-technology executives in charge of IT budgets greater than $50 million, 85% are trying to figure…
From Gagaom.com Written by Derrick Harris Disney is a massive company, but when it comes to its big data platform, the entertainment conglomerate looks a lot like a startup. Kind of, that is. By the sheer power of its will…
Wired Enterprise reports – “On Saturday, at midnight Greenwich Mean Time, as June turned into July, the Earth’s official time keepers held their clocks back by a single second in order to keep them in sync with the planet’s daily…