I’m a Windows guy. I’ve spent the better part of the past fifteen years on Windows laptops and servers. That fact probably hurts my geek cred, but hey, gotta be honest. Either way, it really seems that the coolest emerging… Read More ›
Cloud Foundry is a fast-growing open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). It has an impressive array of Foundation members/contributors including Pivotal, Intel, SAP, IBM, Hortonworks, Docker, and many more. I’ve spent the past few months building a new Pluralsight course that explores… Read More ›
I enjoyed 2014 and spent much of the year learning new things and building up an exceptional Product team at CenturyLink. Additionally, I spoke at events in Seattle, London, Houston, Ghent, Utrecht, and Oslo, delivered Pluralsight courses about Personal Productivity… Read More ›
So far in this blog series, I’ve taken a look at how to provision and scale servers using five leading cloud providers. Now, I want to dig into support for “Day 2 operations” like troubleshooting, reactive or proactive maintenance, billing,… Read More ›
In my first post of this series, I looked at the provisioning experience of five leading cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers. No two were alike, as each offered a unique take. Elasticity is an oft-cited reason for using the cloud, so scalability… Read More ›
There is no perfect cloud platform. Shocking, I know. Organizations choose the cloud that best fits their values and needs. Many factors go into those choices, and it can depend on who is evaluating the options. A CIO may care… Read More ›
Before my recent trip to Europe to discuss technology trends that impact application integration, I hunted down a bunch of smart integration folks to find out what integration looks like today. What technologies are used? Is JSON climbing in popularity?… Read More ›
