Tag: IT

@DevOpsSummit | @ClusterHQ All Enterprises Will Use Containers [#DevOps]

I saw a projection the other day of continued 30% annual market growth for Linux containers, as a function of ever-growing cloud computing installations and use of PaaS in particular. ClusterHQ is one company that is working to seize this opportunity, with the announcement of its open-source Flocker container management program. The company aims to…

Centrix Software Chooses Microsoft Azure to Host Cloud-based Usage Analytics Solution

– Azure’s scalability and global reach support Centrix Software with the growing demand for workspace usage analytics Centrix Software, a workspace management expert and Microsoft Gold Partner, has adopted Microsoft Corp’s cloud platform, Microsoft Azure, to help address the growing demand for its application (app) and device usage analytics solution, WorkSpace iQ. WorkSpace iQ addresses…

IT Careers: Open Source, Open Resume

How’s this for some IT humor: What do you call a Linux volunteer who just contributed his or her sixth patch to the Linux kernel? Hired. Get it? Allow Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman to explain: “The ‘joke’ is that no one contributes more than five patches to the kernel as an amateur, because after…

Health Care, Finance Sectors Lead IT Spending Growth

Financial service organizations are hiking IT operational budgets by 5 percent at the median and capital budgets are up 2.5 percent, while another sector showing above-average growth in IT operational spending is health care, with budgets rising 3.6 percent at the median, according to a report from Consumer Electronics. Banks, insurers, and other financial service…