Many of the companies most associated with taking a DevOps approach, like Google, Facebook and Etsy, are relatively new technology driven companies that started doing DevOps from day one. But what about established companies? Can a large company with entrenched silos and legacy processes adopt the DevOps mindset? Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppet Labs, acknowledges ...

Last week Slate ran a lengthy piece by Annie Lowrey on Ruby, learning to program and the long lost Ruby rock star known as “_why the lucky stiff.” _why created three important resources for learning Ruby: Hackety Hack, an interactive programming tutorial for kids. TryRuby, a non-graphical interactive Ruby tutorial and predecessor to Codecademy. why’s ...

Every so often, I hear that Microsoft is doomed because it didn’t get into tablets quick enough. Or that Microsoft is too dependent on Windows desktop licenses and Microsoft Office and that mobile and cloud are going to eat the margins on those products. Or that Azure and Bing are non-starters and that Microsoft is ...

Kanban is a popular method for agile development, and I’ve started hearing of more IT operations teams using it to stay organized. Those in Silicon Valley interested in learning more about how to use the Kanban method for getting dev and ops teams on the same page can check out a forthcoming>class and meetup on ...

Clojure creator Rich Hickey has launched a new startup called Datomic, a spin-off from the consulting firm Relevance, Inc. Datanomic offers a cloud-based database of the same name that combines consistency and transactions with a flexible schema and scalability. It’s an in-memory transactional database. Users get a set of tools to use locally, but the ...

Which configuration manatement tool is more popular: Puppet or Chef? RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady recently did some Web mining to find out. O’Grady’s not sure. I’m betting that Puppet has more traction, but that Chef is growing fast. O’Grady explains the project thus: Although discussions of the platforms’ relative technical merits can be interesting – ...

“The guy who sucks, is somehow the hero, because it takes time,” writes Michael Stahnke, a community manager at Puppet Labs. “The guy who doesn’t look busy, because he did it right the first time, is overlooked, upset, and eventually changes jobs; which really only validates the hero.” That’s Stahnke’s take on what he calls ...

I’ve written before that big data necessitates DevOps. As teams build ever larger clusters of servers, the need for automation and close collaboration with developers to manage those servers becomes paramount. It also changes the needs that data center teams have from support contracts. According to HP’s Seamus Dunne, who appeared today on theCube, HP ...

Today HP announced its new Always On Support offering, and IDC analyst Robert Brothers appeared on theCube to talk about the changing IT support landscape. Brothers discussed how converged infrastructure, the cloud and the need trend towards single points of contact (or single throats to choke) have changed the industry quite a bit – but ...

OrangeScape is a platform-as-a-service, but unlike “general computing PaaSes” like Heroku or Google App Engine, OrangeScape Studio provides a point-and-click interface for building business apps, most comparable to Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform. Apps built with OrangeScape can be deployed automatically either on-premises using Eucalyptus or to Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine or Windows Azure. While ...