The last few months saw the emegence of industry standards on containers and container orchestration, leading to initiatives like Open Container Project and Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Red Hat’s OpenShift became the first application deployment platform on top of Docker based Containers and Kubernetes. There are many other vendors planning to offer platforms using Docker […]
Continuous Delivery – Reduce The Damn Friction
If a CIO went into a coma 5 years back and wakes up today, he/she will see a world that is drastically different from the time he/she slipped into coma. The very approach to IT has changed over the past few years, enabled by various tools and cultural adjustments. Cloud became the canvas on top […]
Beyond Container Orchestration | PaaS Is Full Choreography
When I talk to end users in my role as industry observer, I see confusion between container orchestration and PaaS. Some people seem to wrongly assume that the only thing PaaS does is orchestrate application containers. While PaaS takes care of container orchestration, it goes way beyond that to offer a developer interface similar to […]
Microservices, Containers, PaaS and DevOps
Microservices is fast emerging as a modern way for building applications inside many organizations. It is a trend that had its initial roots in startups wanting to avoid the “legacy quagmire” that has negatively impacted many large enterprises to this today. Recently, it has started gaining more steam as organizations are realizing that reimagining their IT with […]
A Simple Formula For Modern Enterprise Success
As I talk to enterprise customers about DevOps and Modern Enterprise, I hear lots of confusion about how trends like agile, DevOps, PaaS, etc. fit into the idea of the Modern Enterprise. In this post, I will try to connect these trends and show a simple formula to maximize the productivity and agility gains in […]
Your DevOps Journey Starts With Business
DevOps is fast becoming an important term in the industry. DevOps, enabled by the success of cloud computing, is transforming organizations of all sizes. As these organizations become more nimble and efficient they are transforming how IT happens. DevOps is About Culture and Tools The early days of DevOps focused on pure cultural change without […]
DevOps, PaaS and Modern IT
Introduction One of the biggest selling points of cloud is agility. Cloud on it’s own doesn’t make organizations agile. Organizations must look beyond the marketing hype to maximize agility when adopting cloud technologies. If organizations embrace cloud technology without changing traditional IT practices or processes the return on investment and iterative improvement is minimal. This […]
Future-proofing Enterprise Platforms
The Modern Enterprise Model motivates IT to meet the needs of today’s technology and also anticipates future innovation. How do IT managers building modern enterprise platforms future-proof their organizations to cope with the needs of the fast changing technological revolution? This question should be on the minds of all CIOs and IT managers as they […]
Infrastructure for Modern Enterprises
As I go about talking about my Modern Enterprise theme, people ask me about the role of infrastructure in the Modern Enterprise platform. Industry confusion about the role of PaaS Vs IaaS (even though PaaS is a distinct layer on top of IaaS) is one of the biggest reasons for this. Today I’m adding my […]
Modern Enterprise DNA Includes DevOps
DevOps is all rage now and enterprises want to find out how to embrace DevOps in their organization. The buzzword nature of DevOps has lead to all kinds of marketing and false information around how organizations can embrace DevOps. It’s like Cloud Computing between 2008 and 2009. Everyone wants it but no one knows how […]