Blog Archives

High Flying Plutora Heralds the Recognition of DevOps

September 30, 2013

Business

Business, Customer, DevOps, Impact assessment, Information technology operations, Netflix, Plutora, ServiceNow

DevOps as a term is one of those IT labels that is spoken about by the cognoscenti, but largely ignored by the real people who matter, enterprise IT. However the ethos that underlies the DevOps term is something that…

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SOASTA Builds an IPO War Chest

August 8, 2013

Business

CloudTest, Information technology operations, Initial public offering, Netflix, SOASTA, Tom Lounibos, TouchTest, Velocity

I’ve observed, commentated upon and helped out a number of startup companies over the years and have always been interested in the apparently random differences between companies that ride the rocket ship into commercial success and those who.. don’t.…

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Book Review – The Phoenix Project

May 23, 2013

Business

Bill Palmer, Business, DevOps, Goal, Information technology operations, Palmer, Phoenix Project, Third Way

A lifetime or so ago I studied management and spent much time reading and thinking about the book, “The Goal” written by Eli Goldratt. In the book, Goldratt sought to impart his theories about the management of a manufacturing…

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More on the IT Business Boiling Point

April 19, 2012

Business

Appirio, Asia-Pacific, BMC, Chief information officer, cloudcomputing, IBM, Information technology operations, netsuite

Over the last few days I’ve been talking to people about the tension that exists between “traditional” and “next generation” software platforms. The discussions had their genesis in a post I wrote specifically looking at NetSuite and Oracle, but…

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Blog Archives

High Flying Plutora Heralds the Recognition of DevOps

SOASTA Builds an IPO War Chest

Book Review – The Phoenix Project

More on the IT Business Boiling Point