Grazed from CIO.  Author: Paul Gillin.

If you aren’t doing DevOps now, chances are you soon will be. Results from the field show that DevOps is not only a more productive way to develop software, but also the resulting code is of higher quality and is delivered more quickly. In today’s business environment, who can afford to wait six months for new applications?

DevOps is an evolution of agile software development, which demands frequent releases and iterative feedback so that applications move steadily toward the business goal, nurtured by collaboration between developers and users. If you’ve ever waited months for your IT organization to deliver an application, only to find that it’s horribly different from what was requested, you know why this idea has appeal…

 Grazed from Bloombery Law.  Author: Dennis Garcia.

The high-profile data breach incidents that continue to occur highlights that companies will only use technology they can confidently trust. If your company is ready to reap the many well-documented benefits associated with cloud computing, it’s critical to select a “trusted cloud” provider.  While that sounds like a great idea, how does a company identify a trusted cloud provider?

Assemble Your Team

The first step is to assemble a team of stakeholders who will help your company conduct the necessary due diligence to select a trusted cloud provider…

 Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: David Auslander.

The first time I heard the acronym SDN was more than 10 years ago. At that time SDN was the cool way of saying “once the networking guys have racked, stacked and wired the switching and routing components we can install tools on a server and configure them through those tools from the comfort of the NOC”.

This was much more than just standard monitoring and management; we could setup whole networks and change them around, in software. But alas, this wasn’t really what we were hoping for and we would have to wait a number of years for the next advance…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Charlie Osborne.

The face of cloud and IT is going to change rapidly in the next five years, and the enterprise needs to respond now to maintain their market positions in the future.

Speaking to attendees at the Asigra Cloud Backup Summit held in Toronto, Canada, Tiffani Bova, Vice President & Sales Strategies analyst at Gartner said the cloud market is transforming and it is up to companies to use this to advantage — or be left by the wayside…

Grazed from DigiTimes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Taiwan-based InnoDisk, which develops and manufactures industrial-class storage products, has disclosed the company is partnering with NAND flash chip vendor Toshiba and Super Micro Computer (Supermicro), a specialist in application-optimized servers, workstations, blades, storage and GPU systems, to provide SSD solutions for data centers and cloud computing.

A joint venture between the companies, named AccelStor, has been formed to provide SSD solutions targeted at customers in the financial sector and telecom carriers, according to InnoDisk…

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is enabling law enforcement agencies of any size to access one of the world’s largest networks of law enforcement data comprising more than a billion shareable documents from the Cloud. IBM i2 COPLINK on Cloudapplies analytics to vast quantities of data to help officials piece together seemingly unrelated information and generate investigative case leads.

For almost 20 years, IBM i2 COPLINK has transformed information sharing across more than 6,000 law enforcement agencies in North America, enabling them to uncover hidden relationships and patterns when investigating crime. Through the use of sophisticated analytics and "fuzzy searches," even partial information such as a portion of a license plate, tattoo or nickname can be processed and used to help accelerate investigations…

Grazed from HostSearch.  Author: Editorial Staff.

 In a move that took place in the latter part of 2014 and has not been highly publicized (it is only just being reported in fact), search giant Google acquired mobile cloud computing company Agawi. Led by founders Rajat Gupta, Rohan Relan, and Peter Relan, Agawi has headquarters in Campbell, California, USA. The company bills itself as a technology platform company which specializes in low-latency cloud-to-mobile device app streaming. Alongside mobile it is involved in cloud data services and cloud gaming.

Grazed from Seeking Alpha.  Author: Editorial Staff.

 We are initiating coverage on Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) with a $32 1-year Price Target and a ‘Sell’ rating. While cloud revenue growth is surging, it is an overstated segment of the business. We believe that Oracle’s structural transition to cloud computing has driven the current stock value too high.

Grazed from IFreePress.  Author: Editorial Staff.

If you’re already dialed in to the Google/Android ecosystem, it’s practically automatic and comes with a learning curve equivalent to taking baby steps.  Asides, you can also get a lot of software that you might need, for example picture editing apps. Agawi itself is no longer a live business: its web site is dead (kind of ironically), and its various Twitter accounts have not been updated since 2013. Below are some more Android M details from our time with it on the Nexus 9.

Grazed from WindowsITPro.  Author:  Cheryl J. Ajluni.

As those of you who read IT Innovators regularly know, its goal is to help spark your imagination with new ideas and opportunities for improving your networks and storage capability. Just in case you’re in need of a little additional inspiration, however, there’s word out of Microsoft that cloud computing is being used with cutting-edge molecular biology and drones in a system designed to detect infectious disease outbreaks before they become widespread.

The system is being developed through the combined efforts of Microsoft and academic partners across multiple disciplines, all of whom are working together on a project that’s being referred to as Project Premonition. If all works as planned, the system will collect and analyze mosquitos to look for early warning signs that a disease is spreading…