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Continuous security and reliability in iterative development
DevOps and continuous delivery allow businesses to deploy software far more frequently than in the past. But this approach poses new…
Read MoreCoding to standards and quality: supply-chain application development
Modern software development is a fast moving, highly fragmented, and highly distributed supply chain, with parts built by disparate teams, running…
Read MoreNext-generation CDNs: extending customer applications to the edge
Today's web and mobile applications are wreaking havoc on traditional content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure. But next-gen CDNs have solved the…
Read MoreWeb-scale IT for the enterprise: the journey to data-center modernization
Enterprises are learning lessons from major Web companies like Google and Facebook and the hyperscale datacenters they operate.
Read MoreTotal experience quality: integrating performance, usability, and application design
Lack of performance out of the gate can kill a web or mobile-based app quickly. Designers must focus on performance considerations…
Read MorePerformance testing: balancing agility and quality
Poor application performance can have severe impacts on revenue and customer experience. To be successful companies must integrate performance testing and…
Read MoreWhy public cloud providers need PaaS and how they can get it
The biggest question that public cloud providers must answer today is how to deploy PaaS as a major component of their…
Read MoreSector Roadmap: application-management solutions for distributed and cloud environments
The combination of the changes at the application and infrastructure layers creates new imperatives for users and vendors of application-performance management…
Read MoreIndustry vertical public PaaS in 2014: a market landscape
As more enterprises focus on building applications that support vertical capabilities, PaaS providers will spend more R&D dollars to provide compatible…
Read MoreDemocratizing devops: extending velocity and visibility to the entire enterprise
To move toward the goal of productivity and security, businesses must discard organizational silos and practices and embrace a more collaborative,…
Read MoreTransforming IT: building a business-driven infrastructure for the software-defined enterprise
Solutions in the application performance management market is deriving meaningful intelligence directly from the apps they monitor, intelligence that businesses can…
Read MoreThe transformative CIO, part two: reforming the IT organization
A radical redrawing of a firm’s technology road map can enable an IT department to be more focused on strategic applications…
Read MoreDetermining when PaaS is appropriate
Before a business can ask whether PaaS makes sense, it must first understand its own needs and the differences among the…
Read MoreSDN, NFV, and open source: the operator’s view
Where are SDN and NFV today? And what influence will open systems and open source have on the future of SDN…
Read MoreTech trends for 2014
As the year winds to a close, the Gigaom Research curators set their sights on 2014, and share thoughts on what…
Read MoreHow dev/test in the public cloud is accelerating agile delivery
Organizations focused on delivering value and flexibility see agile delivery as a competitive advantage in delivering innovative products and services to…
Read MoreSDN Sector RoadMap
Software-defined networking (SDN) represents the next big wave of networking investment: $2.45 billion by 2018, according to GigaOM Research. ANd with…
Read MorePrivate PaaS: the next generation platform for enterprises
How do you make PaaS work for your enterprise? The answer lies in understanding new models of delivery, such as private…
Read MoreThe new building blocks for IT: OpenStack, continuous delivery, and devops
The key building blocks of a modern IT organization include a highly flexible infrastructure, an automated software delivery life cycle, and…
Read MoreBreaking down barriers and reducing cycle times with devops and continuous delivery
How is it that companies like Netflix, Amazon, Etsy, and Facebook regularly deliver new features to their users (in some cases,…
Read MoreContinuous delivery and the world of devops
This paper explains the world of continuous delivery and its underlying philosophy, devops. Continuous delivery is an automated pipeline constructed with…
Read More7 things you should know about devops
The move to devops is on. The philosophy holds that software developers and IT operations people at a company work better…
Read MoreThe promise of hyperlocal: opportunities for publishers and developers
Advertisers have long been enamored with the promise of location-based advertising (LBA). To date, however, national advertisers’ and agencies’ enthusiasm has…
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