Posts Tagged ‘policy driven governance’

Hearty congratulations to EMC on the announcement of their newest offering, ViPR.  It’s truly exciting to hear the buzz here in Vegas about it and to answer questions on the show floor as to how ServiceMesh Agility Platform integrates and supports the new Software-Defined Storage offering.  For more on that, read here.  While the reception…

What high performing organizations know about cloud-based DevOps  Are you inadvertently robbing your organization of agility? If I were to make the following statement to people from across a variety of corporate business units, I really think there would be negligible debate. “Accelerating the speed at which the business delivers new applications and services is…

"Leaving aside the proliferating startups in ServiceMesh's sector, Cisco, Dell, VMware and the Big Four enterprise systems management vendors can't lose the battle for cloud management without losing the war – and their lives."  This is what 451 analyst Rachel Chalmers wrote when describing the competition to ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform 9.0, and just one reason…

We are excited to announce today that ServiceMesh has joined the EMC Select Program.  As the title of this post indicates, we are focused on unlocking XaaS (everything as a service) IT, and the partnership with EMC is an enabler to this mission as ourAgility Platform™ is now available for purchase through EMC® Select, a…

The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim…

As ServiceMesh works with companies implementing cloud computing projects, we often get asked the question of how the technology will be able to keep up with the shifting landscape of IT governance requirements. Customers working in highly regulated industries are often worried about adapting to future legal changes. For others in less regulated industries, it's…

James Urquhart wrote a good piece for CNET yesterday, titled Regulation, Automation, and Cloud Computing. In it, James comments on a blog by Chris Hoff discussing some of the downsides to automation. Originally, Chris had pointed out that heavily automated environments don't leave a lot of room for human intervention when things go wrong and…

Gartner recently made the following prediction about the growth of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model for IT solutions: “Worldwide SaaS sales will eclipse $8.5 billion, up 14.1 percent from 2009 sales of $7.5 billion. More telling, this rapid increase in both customers and SaaS vendors means that on-demand applications will make up a larger percentage…