Applications are getting more complex, and so are the environments into which they must be incorporated and updated. Mistakes are inevitable, and scripts often aren’t enough to release and manage applications across the data center so they don’t disrupt operations. One solution: a new, cross-department approach. To get [...]

On the face of it, the term application service automation (or ASA for the sake of this blog) appears to be one of those wooly IT industry terms used to describe some element of the so-called ‘operations’ team’s daily workload. In practical terms, ASA comes down to automating application deployment, maintenance and management, which will typically involve remediation [...]

Nolio announced that it was selected by City Index, a global leader in Contracts for Difference, FX and spread betting, to be the de facto standard for data center application deployment. “Nolio ASAP” allows City Index to deliver 25% more software releases each week. Full Press Release

This is an older article written on Patrick Debois’ blog Just Enough Developed Infrastructure, by guest writer Stephen Nelson-Smith @lordcope a Technical Manager and Devop based in Hampshire, UK and author of Agile Sysadmin. Discussing the two major questions in the DevOps movement; What problems are we trying to solve? and How does DevOps help?, Stephen [...]

John Vincent is a System Architect from a consumer loyalty company in Atlanta, and he’s in love with DevOps. Every #devops tweet, every SlideShare presentation, conference, keynote, or book, if it’s got the DevOps stamp on it then John has most probably read it, been there, done that. You can read his blog post to learn more [...]

To some people, developers are ingenious innovative software generators. To others, they’re code hacking. Either way, the world they know is changing, and their role must evolve to take on more responsibility and be more accountable for the code and applications they create. One of the more pressing challenges facing software development and delivery teams occurs [...]

Over at the “The abyss between dev and ops” blog, Christian has a nice post describing some scenarios that essentially creates the infamous gap between Dev and Ops (check out this hilarious Monty Python take on DevOps) . In Christian’s opinion, lack of communication is a major cause. I would also expand this to the lack of communication tools, [...]

Today we launched our company in the US. Now it’s official! Read the press release

It’s great to sit with customers and get the spiel about what’s going on inside the organisation. Yesterday I heard the first-hand account and in my opinion also the most accurate narration of the relationship between the Development and Operations of a SaaS business. Referring to a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, [...]

Dan Woods, the Forbes blogger and analyst wrote a nice article about servicing applications in the data center and the cloud.