Once you’ve migrated to the cloud, the journey is not done! Customer demands and business objectives are continuously evolving, placing ongoing demands on infrastructure and applications. Russell Coombes, VP of Cloud Services at Shadow-Soft, shares his ideas on how open source tools can help you on your cloud journey.
Today’s competitive environment is driven by transformational change, innovation, and technologies that increase velocity to market while also protecting oneself from modern security threats as well as getting “left behind” in adopting modern business processes and development architectures.
While some business leaders still shy away from open source tools, others are recognizing the benefits of cheaper, more flexible technology with accountability built in. Microservice development and management is one place where open source technology shines.
If you’ve ever looked into programming and getting apps to market faster, you’ve probably heard of Azure, Microsoft’s hybrid solution to creating and deploying data in a public cloud system that can be accessed anywhere, anytime over the Internet.
Erik Wallin and I founded Shadow-Soft in June 2008 to pursue the emerging Open Source Software (OSS) marketplace. We were bored and frustrated providing “traditional” IT solutions and wanted to make a bigger impact. Knowing OSS was under-serviced, we focused on this “new and emerging” segment and launched Shadow-Soft.
Open source enterprise software has never been more popular than right now. More and more organizations, recognizing the array of benefits that it has to offer, are bringing open source software into their processes and even building whole businesses around…
New open source technologies are changing the way organizations develop and deploy applications. In this article, we review four leading open source application servers. Compare each tool based on business benefits, feature set, and price.
As a partner that sells and provides exclusive Icinga support in the US, we have learned through experience that Icinga 2 isn’t a fit for all organizations. In this article, we share seven examples where we would not recommend Icinga…
For the last 12-24 months I’ve been saying that open source has finally entered the mainstream. I’m happy to see that Mary Catherine O’Connor’s article entitled Open source: The new normal in enterprise software validates my claim! At Shadow-Soft we have…
Every business is at a different place with their monitoring systems. A surprising number of companies have no monitoring at all, while a second group has a monitoring system that they are generally unhappy with. A third group has a…