CA Technologies says, “For DevOps to work correctly, it must be treated as
a movement, not a market for a specific vendor’s products.”
As Arlo Guthrie once sang, with three people it is an organization. But if we
can find 50 people who can sing the praises of DevOps, it can become a
movement! Trouble is, many software developers are stuck in the past. In a
2012 service virtualization survey of IT executives and managers by analyst
firm voke, only 6% of the group responded they were completely confident that
new IT applications would be delivered to market on time.
But maybe its high time DevOps becomes a movement. You can read more about
this idea in my post last week on CA’s blog here.
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Last week we witnessed the first Cyber War, but it didn’t go down quite as
many of us expected. Instead of a group of anonymous hackers trying to take
over thousands of infected PCs or trying to cut off access to critical
infrastructure, we saw Google declare the first salvo in its war against
Chinese censorship by moving its servers to Hong Kong.
The more I thought about this, the more I realized that this was war,
declared by a private company on a nation state. Just because Google
doesn’t have its own army (yet), or that no actual physical weapons were
fired doesn’t make it a... (more)
Facebook on Ulitzer
If you have spent any time online using social networks like LinkedIn or
Facebook, you know they can be difficult to grow your network and add
contacts. But even harder is the ability to extract your contacts once you
have built up a reasonably sized network. None of the social networks makes
it very easy to get this information.
Why would you want to do this? Several reasons. First is the peace of mind
that you have control over your own data. Should you decide to leave the
network, or should the network decided to leave you (either for cause or for
lack of... (more)
Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer
I hate those end of year lists, made especially tiresome this year being the
end of the decade (which really doesn’t end until next year, but we won’t
get into that).
Nevertheless, I will call your attention to this list where I reside at #26:
Ulitzer Names The World’s 30 Most Influential Virtualization Bloggers
I am honored to be among such great company.
Happy new year everyone!
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iPad on Ulitzer
Pardon me for adding yet another iPad analysis (certainly, when a computer
product launch makes it into Doonesbury, we have crossed a new threshold of
hype), but one thing actually missing from the copious words and videos on
yesterday's event at Moscone was the simple fact that we have a new browser
war on our hands, and it isn't a pretty sight.
The browser wars of yesteryear between Microsoft and Netscape seem so quaint.
(And look what happened to Netsacpe, too.) Today it is all about Adobe Flash
versus the multi-touch swipe technology that is part of Apple's pr... (more)
David Strom is an international authority on network and Internet technologies. He has written extensively on the topic for 20 years for a wide variety of print publications and websites, such as The New York Times, TechTarget.com, PC Week/eWeek, Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business Computing, Communications Week, Windows Sources, c|net and news.com, Web Review, Tom's Hardware, EETimes, and many others.
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