With so many organizations making the move to embrace DevOps practices, we are quickly highlighting what many see as a missing piece to the puzzle: Security. As NV (Network Virtualization) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) are rapidly growing in adoption, the ability to create programmable, repeatable security management into the development and deployment workflow has become a reality. Dynamic, abstracted …
Managed Clouds and Why SMB Customers Don’t Chase Unicorns
If we look at the economy and distribution of wealth, we can see that there are some interesting statistics about what many call the 1%. Stretch a little further into the top 10% and you will find what they refer to as the champagne glass effect. In other words, the top percentile of earners have a disproportionate percentage of the …
Cheeseburger cheese: How customer awareness is shaping the IT and cloud marketplace
Recently I attended a SQL User Group here in Toronto and one of the fun parts of the event is that everyone was asked to speak. I opted for a lightning talk which was five minutes, and my presentation was created to chat about change, virtualization, SQL servers, and the new ways of IT. I put this presentation together as …
The DiscoPosse New Year’s Phoenix Project Giveaway: 3 Ways to efficiency, 20 ways to win!
UPDATE: Congratulations to all the winners! It has been great to be able to see your ideas and be sure to share any feedback on The Phoenix Project! Coming hot off the heels of the very popular 2013 giveaway, I am super excited to be able to bring you this amazing chance for to win a spectacular book thanks to …