Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties include IT services, enterprise technology and software development. Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

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DevOps Dossier: Rally Software’s Virtual Kanban

Kanban boards are great, but what if you need to manage a remote team? Or retain records of your progress? That’s where Kanban software comes in. Although there are many standalone application lifecycle management systemsare increasingly incorporating deployment/DevOps into their processes. If you want to do both Kanban and ALM, one option is Rally Software, ...

More Hosted Hadoop: SunGard Offers Big Data in the Cloud

Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Microsoft’s Hadoop on Azure service are getting some new competition today with the launch of a technical preview of SunGard Availability Services‘ hosted Apache Hadoop solution, called Unified Analytics Services (UAS). According to SunGard, general availability scheduled for the second half of 2012. UAS will setup Hadoop clusters, import data and ...

VMware Exec Launching His Own Cloud Foundry Company?

Today ZDNet reported rumors that Derek Collison, former VMware Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms, is founding a new Cloud Foundry focused startup. Cloud Foundry is a platform-as-a-service that can be deployed on multiple cloud infrastructures that was open sourced by VMware last year. According to Collison’s LinkedIn profile he left VMware in February. According ...

3 Hot Themes in DevOps This Week

This week at DevOps Days Austin there was some discussion of the NoOps controversy. But Dell employee and Kanban2Go creator Prabhakar Gopalan probably summed up the attendees’ collective attitude pretty well: send all that noise to dev/null. Analysts get paid to talk about that stuff, but developers and sysadmins don’t. The technical people just want ...

When Real-Time Analytics Beat Batch Processing

Have you ever bought something expensive, say a consumer electronics device, only to see it on sale at a significantly discounted price soon after? Well, it happened to Charles Nicholls, founder and chief strategy officer of Web analytics company SeeWhy recently. Nicholls blames batch processing. Why is batch processing to blame? It’s not real-time. Since ...

5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement

“Most people are right in saying ‘we’ve been doing DevOps for years.’ That’s mainly because there is not good canonical definition for DevOps,” John Willis wrote recently. Rather than try to provide a definition of DevOps, Willis goes on to describe the evolution of the DevOps movement as we know it today. According to Willis, ...

Are You Available? Cloud Uptime a Year After the Great Amazon Web Services Outage

“Can we take availability off cloud concerns list?” Krishnan Subramanian, principal analyst at the newly formed Rishidot Research, asked at the beginning of last year. Google had just announced a new SLA that removed exemptions for planned maintenance and was bragging about 99.984% uptime. Then just a few months later came the Great Amazon Web ...

6 Infrastructure Automation Tools at a Glance

“Infrastructure as code” is one of the primary mantras of the DevOps movement. Virtualization and the elastic provisioning of resources via cloud computing are two important ingredients of a fully programmable infrastructure. Automation tools are the other key component. These are the tools that actually execute your code. There’s a growing selection of automation tools ...

SecOps: Where Security Meets DevOps

Today at DevOpsDay Austin Puppet Labs VP Tech Operations, author and recovering security professional James Turnbull gave a presentation on DevOps and Security. I’ve embedded his slide below, but the key point that he made that I’d like to emphasize is the importance of getting security into all IT conversations early. As Turbull puts it: ...

Yahoo Launches New Cross-Platform App Development Framework Mojito

Yahoo today released Mojito, an HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/Node.js framework for building cross-platform applications. Mojito is part of the Cocktail initiative Yahoo announced a few months ago. The other piece of Cocktail is Manhattan, a cloud hosting platform for Mojito apps. Here’s how Yahoo explained Mojito when it was first announced: Mojito is a JavaScript web application framework ...