newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems have announced a self-service private/ hybrid cloud offering delivered by MomentumSI. This coalition brings together three foundations as a...
Ed Scannell’s recent SearchCIO.com piece on server provisioning is an insightful discussion on the failure of provisioning methods to keep pace in the age...
On top of raw system artifacts (such as packages and configuration files), rPath layers several unique system modeling concepts. Here’s how two of the...
Truth is a funny word. It smacks of empirical fact and righteousness. But truth is not that. It’s subjective—a cocktail of knowledge, experience, context and...
In the early days of team software development, everyone worked on a common directory of source code—and struggled to avoid conflicting changes and premature...
If you follow DevOps, you're probably familiar with the sentiment that this burgeoning movement could have mildly subversive motives. As a solution to the dev/ops...
In successful, long-lived software projects, developers continually refactor their code. That means that in addition to adding features and fixing bugs, they clean...
Like many holidays, the meaning of Independence Day is often overshadowed by its commercially derived incarnation: Cookouts, unsubtle retail sales and widespread detonation of...
Modern manufacturing is a direct consequence of a forced transformation—a transformation resulting from changing economics and massive product and supply chain complexity. The same...
IBM Rational’s user conference, “Innovate 2010,” kicks off today with a bold and inspiring message about the importance of software development: “Software is the...
You're probably familiar with the concept of VM sprawl—the no-longer-hidden cost of virtualization and cloud computing—where the proliferation of system images threatens to wash...