DevOps, ITOps and PaaS: What do you think?
We are very happy to announce that we have launched a new survey that will explore how the community feels about DevOps, ITOps and PaaS. The survey is another in the continuing surveys we are...
View ArticleThe Growth in Data Center Uses for Shadow IT
Shadow IT is casting a long shadow over IT departments as more organizations react to changing demands from their customers, partners and regulators. Groups and individuals outside of IT are taking...
View ArticleDevOps Chat: 7 habits of successful DevOps
I recently had a chance to speak again with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft about his experience in leading the transition for Microsoft Visual Studio to Visual Studio online. In doing so, Sam and his...
View ArticleA Guide to Public Cloud Security Tools
Why is an arrangement of servers—which are constructed of hard metal, tend to run hot and weigh thousands of pounds—called a “cloud”? It only makes sense from the standpoint of an engineering diagram,...
View ArticleShould Your Apps be Cloud-Native?
There’s plenty of life left in a great number of the applications companies have been relying on and profiting from for years. The future may belong to cloud-native apps that deliver the performance...
View ArticleWhy Your SaaS Ecosystem Isn’t Delivering
Cloud computing and -as-a-service deliverables such as SaaS have the potential to be transformational, but their value depends on whether you see them as tactical, single-purpose tools or as part of a...
View ArticleBest Practices for Cloud Deployment
When it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, the conventional wisdom is that DevOps is not required if you’re a small or midsized company. The cloud is designed to enable virtually anyone to set up...
View ArticleEnterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as Amazon...
View ArticleShould You Go ‘Serverless’? The Pros and Cons
The popularity of the “serverless” term started to grow when Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014. Ever since, we’ve seen the term exponentially grow in use and reference, with more vendors entering the...
View ArticleHow IT Ops Teams Prepare to Prevent Web Downtime
IT operations teams can anticipate most periods of peak web traffic. The key to preventing outages and issues is to plan ahead. Here at BigPanda, we’ve prepared a checklist of the key factors IT ops...
View ArticleHow Healthy is Your Office 365 Environment?
The IBM Domino environment was mostly replaced by Microsoft on-premises technology, then later replaced by the Microsoft Cloud Services. One thing that hasn’t been replaced is the need for...
View ArticleProtecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for more than 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional...
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Headless Commerce: Why E-Commerce Is Losing Its Head
How headless commerce is changing the way commerce platforms are designed and services are offered Within the last 15 years we’ve seen commerce technology evolve at a breakneck pace. In the early...
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Accenture Cloud Simulation Platform Advances DevOps
Accenture has launched a cloud simulation service through which DevOps teams can better determine which workloads will run best on different cloud computing environments. Kishore Durg, growth and...
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Why AWS Cost Optimization Is About More than Saving Money
Why is it important to track and monitor cloud costs? The obvious answer is it helps you save money—and everyone wants to save money. Yet, cost plays a much larger role in your cloud journey. If you...
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HPE Adds Control Plane to Greenlake Managed Service
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today it has added a cloud platform to its managed Greenlake service, through which DevOps teams will be able to manage deployments of applications alongside...
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Logz.io Adds Monitoring Service Based on ELK and Grafana
Logz.io today at the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference launched Cloud Observability Platform, a monitoring and security cloud service based on ELK—open source Elasticsearch, a search engine; Logstash, a...
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AWS Applies Machine Learning to Optimize Cloud Deployments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week at its re:Invent 2019 conference unfurled two tools based on machine learning algorithms to optimize cloud application deployments. Amazon CodeGuru is a service...
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Practical Approaches to Long-Term Cloud-Native Security
There is no shortage of advice out there about how to secure modern, cloud-native workloads. By now, most developers and IT engineers who work with cloud-native deployments have heard all of the...
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An Overview of Cloud Migration and Open Source
Most businesses are moving toward making their business processes more user-friendly, through digitization. This shift of business modernization comes with a heavy price for them in terms of money and...
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