Data Center | Guest Opinion | Costas Galonis Friday, November 18, 2011
If you are wading through the sea of words that has been written about cloud computing in the last few months, you can be forgiven for being a little confused. Not only is cloud computing a new concept, the literature about it is weighed down with new ideas and words such as virtualization, multi-tenancy etc. Continue Reading »
In my previous post, I talked about what service-level agreements (SLAs) are all about, what it takes to implement SLAs in a product development environment (especially agile), core points to keep in mind especially when SLAs are tied with rewards and penalties. I had promised to talk about specific QA SLAs in my next blog, so here goes. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Rajini Padmanaban Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Service-level agreements (SLAs) and associated metrics can be applied to projects at various levels and for a diverse set of disciplines. In this write-up, I am focusing on what it takes to implement such SLAs in the true spirit for quality assurance (QA) efforts. Continue Reading »
Software development has become a very integrated activity over the last decade, where instead of one large piece of code developed in-house, a lot of small pieces flow and fall in place like pieces of a puzzle, to shape the engineer-to-engineer (E2E) product. Continue Reading »
Network monitoring is no longer just about collecting and analyzing network data traffic, watching for trouble spots, balancing loads across routers and other network devices, and the myriad other tasks associated with keeping the network alive and running well. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Feature | Dick Benton Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Undisciplined deployment of internal cloud strategies can cause a flood of virtual artifacts overwhelming IT and users. Three essentials are needed to build protective levees: service provider model procedures, key performance metrics and a knowledge of cost-per-unit of deployment. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Monday, June 27, 2011
Disaster recovery tasks today are still based on the same basic replication technologies that have been a hallmark of backup and recovery for more years than anyone cares to remember. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Guest Opinion | Mark O'Neill Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Organizations are depending more and more on services provided by cloud service providers. The benefits of using the cloud are well-documented, including the ability to scale capacity in a manner that is impossible with conventional data centers. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Tuesday, April 26, 2011
There’s been a lot of pointed criticism leveled at Amazon specifically and cloud computing in general as of late following recent high-profile outages that have affected some fairly well-known sites. Continue Reading »
