As the name suggests, middleware is a software layer that sits in the middle between separate applications – providing an interface that “glues” these programs together. The word “middleware” is a catch-all term that describes many of the applications most…
Chef is a popular tool for configuration management of IT infrastructure. Its flagship enterprise solution, Chef, is a strong choice for experienced DevOps teams who want to automate their development and deployment infrastructure.
Haven’t heard of AppDynamics? You better step your proverbial APM game up! AppDynamics is crushing it in the Application Performance Management space. It’s so good, Microsoft is using it to monitor XBox Live in production. What happened to SCOM, Microsoft???? Here’s even a…
With frequent budget cuts and the release of the Government’s Cloud First Policy, agencies are rapidly moving to cost-effective hosting solutions that operate outside the boundaries of their existing data centers. With less control over the hosting infrastructure, agencies are transitioning to…
Dockerizing Applications: A “Hello world” We get a lot of questions about Docker but mainly, what’s this Docker thing all about? At a high level, Docker allows you to run applications inside containers which provide much more density and performance over…
Atlanta, GA, June 6, 2014 — Shadow-Soft, the Open Source system integration experts, is excited to announce a new partnership with Docker Inc., the company that delivers the Open Source Docker technology to the enterprise. In this partnership Shadow-Soft will…
Ever since Good to Great, there has been a driving trend in our industry for more measurement and more understanding. This holds true with our internal systems and applications just as much as all of our management and leadership…