Trend Micro is acquiring TippingPoint from HP. The deal expands Trend Micro’s portfolio and gives it a more comprehensive security solution, and gives HP $300 million. I wrote this blog post about what’s in it for each of them and […]
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Developers develop and IT operations people operate the IT infrastructure. In a traditional IT environment there is a lot of friction between those two objectives. In fact, the goals of developers and IT operations often directly conflict. That’s why so
DevOps requires a seismic shift from traditional IT culture Read More »
When an organization–or even a team within the organization–chooses to embrace DevOps which department or individual is responsible for driving its success? The correct answer is “everyone”. If you place the burden or the glory for DevOps on a single
DevOps is a team sport Read More »
Google is borrowing a page from the T-Mobile playbook. The mobile provider started the trend of basically buying out customers’ contracts with other mobile services to enable them to make a switch to T-Mobile. Google isn’t offering to buy out
Google tries to sway Microsoft Office customers to give it a chance Read More »
The connection between Dell and EMC addresses issues both companies have that neither can address as well without the other. Meg Whitman was packaging HP to sell to either EMC or Oracle. If Dell buys EMC, HP is left spurned
Dell + EMC: HP is screwed Read More »
If you’ve ever looked at a job description for a company trying to hire a CISO you’d think only superheroes need apply. Organizations have lofty–often unreasonable–expectations for the CISO role. The task is not impossible but it’s crucial for the
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When you think of cloud platforms the first thing that comes to mind is generally Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services. There are other players in the market, though–like ProfitBricks–and those smaller players are often in a position to
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Jenkins is an open source project run by an independent, autonomous community. However, CloudBees is a significant contributor and benefactor to the Jenkins project. With the Jenkins User Conference coming up in Alexandria, Virginia in less than two weeks I
CloudBees CEO talks about relationship with Jenkins and the user community Read More »
Last week was HP Discover and the VCE Analyst conference and given both were going on at the same time it was pretty hard to avoid the stark differences. Since Meg Whitman took over HP has fragmented badly and while
HP vs. VCE: The contrast is striking Read More »
No matter how awesome DevOps might be it takes more than a swish or two from a magic wand to make the transition. Legacy systems, platforms, and services still exist while organizations move to DevOps by attrition–and IT admins still
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