DevOps in the Enterprise: Difficult but Doable

The most recent DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in October 2015 put the evolving IT practices of large organizations under a microscope....

Bimodal IT: Challenges and cloud automation solutions

The old cliche about walking and chewing gum at the same time sort of has an equivalent among IT organizations: Simultaneously supporting...

OpenStack finding its footing in 2015

OpenStack has been at the nexus of some noteworthy business decisions over the last few months, as organizations from Wal-Mart to IBM have...

What are the challenges to software defined data center success?

The software-defined data center is first and foremost a model for aligning all IT infrastructures, including legacy, physical, virtual and...

Carriers focus on SDN/NFV and DevOps automation to prepare for...

The ongoing emergence of the Internet of Things is creating a natural incentive for carriers and their equipment suppliers to further...

Open networking projects: A look at the Open Network Operating...

As we draw to the end of this series on open networking standards, we'll look at the Open Network Operating System. The Open Network...

Addressing data center underutilization with an IaaS cloud

Data centers provide the infrastructure behind many of the services that individuals and organizations rely on each day. These facilities...

Streamlining proofs of concept with a self-service demo and PoC...

For technology manufacturers, independent software vendors and even service providers and technology manufacturers, demonstrations and...

Why IaaS is critical to DevOps automation

Infrastructure-as-a-service is more than just IT resources on-demand from a cloud. It is akin to a workbench, with tools that either make...