Today we released a new version of TechViews Unplugged. In this edition, George Watt and I discuss the Internet of Cars, building a Raspberry Pi cluster, the growing trend of wearable computers, Facebook’s Oculus acquisition, Android Malware, the booming App…
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Big Enterprises Need Big DevOps
The more I encounter organizations adopting a DevOps approach, the more I believe that everyone needs DevOps. I increasingly see how it addresses fundamental problems that nearly every IT organization faces. If you ask senior executives if their organizations are…
The Emergence and Benefits of DevOps
Is your organization dealing with a “digital disconnect”? In this new video, filmed with Bloomberg Media, I discuss the DevOps business model, its features, and the benefits your organization can expect to experience with the adoption of this unifying model.…
Survey: DevOps an Overnight Success Because It Works
We’ve all heard of bands or movie stars that seem to be overnight successes, even though they’ve been working hard for 10 years to “suddenly” make it. Like them, the idea of DevOps seems to have come out of nowhere,…
CloudViews Unplugged: April 2013
In this episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies discuss the hard truths of cloud computing, cloud tax laws, robots leveraging the cloud to complete complex tasks and more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9e0KP1cITk
Spending next week immersed in IT
Next week I will join thousands of other IT professionals at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012 in Orlando. I have been to Symposium and ITxpo many times before, in many different roles, and it never disappoints. There is so much to see…
Public Cloud Saves The Day – Not That You’d Know
The hue and cry when public cloud services fail – which they do with some frequency – is almost deafening. What we rarely hear about is when the public cloud works the way we hope it will. To be fair,…
Rating My 2011 Virtualization & Cloud Predictions
So it is prediction time again – a practice I am not keen on, but which provides a fun diversion for the silly season. But before I attempt the foolhardy mission of predicting 2012, I thought I would attempt the…
VMworld Wrap Up: Extending VMware for Mission-critical Virtualization and Cloud
I had a great time at VMworld 2011 Las Vegas this year. As I predicted in my last blog post, I met with loads of amazing people – too many to list out here, let alone in 140 on Twitter!…
Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management!
I have just started posting on BSM Digest on behalf of CA Technologies. You can read my first post there, Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management! In it, I talk about how cloud drives…
Sprawl or Stall: How’s your virtualization project going?
I had a great interview recently with Kathleen Lau for her feature article in IT World Canada, Sprawl or Stall: How’s your virtualization project going? where she looks at the causes behind two common problems plaguing virtualization deployments, and how…