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In this blog series, we’ve been looking at various methods of utilisation with cloud infrastructure. While cloud adoption can be beneficial to almost any organisation, change for change’s sake can be costly and bad for business. Simply lifting and shifting applications from your on-premises server room or data centre to…
In the IT industry, you’ll hear “I’ll sell you a DevOps; how much is it worth?” But the joke’s on you because you can’t sell (or buy) DevOps, as it is, in fact, an intangible entity. It’s a business process combining software development (Dev) and IT management processes (Ops) with the aim of helping teams understand what…
In my final post in this series, I want to talk about some things that we have not touched on already and how it relates to what we’ve already discussed. First, let’s take a quick recap of what we’ve covered. In post 1, we talked about the pace at which people are moving to the public cloud. You need to do your homework…
Few messages strike fear in the hearts of IT operations staff like the dreaded scan results from your security team. These messages often appear in your inbox early on Monday morning, which means it’s sitting there waiting for you. You’re not even into your second cup of coffee when you open the message: Good morning, Your…
“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture. Software and computers in general are inherently dynamic and not of a state of stasis. The only way IT, servers, software, or any other thing that has 1s and 0s on it can be perfectly stable is if they exist in a vacuum.…
After you’ve installed your new storage systems and migrated your data onto them, life slows down a bit. Freshly installed systems shouldn’t throw any hardware errors in the first stages of their lifecycle, apart from a drive that doesn’t fully realize it’s DOA. Software should be up to date. Maybe you’ll spend a bit more…
The other day, as is often the case when an engineer is deep in a troubleshooting task that requires a restart if interrupted, I got a request for advice. “Hey, if you have a second I wanted to ask a question about standardizing DevOps tools. Should my friend use Chef, Puppet, or something else to get DevOps going?” He…
I’ve come to a crossroads. Regular SolarWinds Lab viewers and new THWACKcamp attendees might have noticed my fondness for all things programmable. I can’t help smiling when I talk about it; I came to enterprise IT after a decade as a developer. But if you run across my spoor outside of SolarWinds, you may notice a…
Unless you’ve been living in a bomb shelter for the last five years, it’s impossible to avoid hearing about the struggle IT organizations have with supporting DevOps initiatives. Those of us on infrastructure or information security teams are already under pressure to implement and streamline processes to improve…
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