…comprehensive and flexible cloud solutions to our customers," said Moe Abdula, VP, SmartCloud Foundation at IBM. "By collaborating on product integration and Chef Community content, we'll be able to offer enterprise businesses comprehensive solutions for gaining the most value out of cloud, with minimal risk."
Opscode and IBM's collaboration also helps deliver on the promise of DevOps, leveraging Chef and SmartCloud as a common language and platform …
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…model with the flexibility of an open platform," says Patrick Moran , Vice President of Marketing at New Relic. "By allowing us to integrate our customer acquisition and order fulfillment processes, Marketo has helped streamline and speed sales cycles, making it an essential factor in the success of our marketing programs."
Sanjay Dholakia , CMO at Marketo continues, "The Revvies winners are thought-leading organizations that are successfully …
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Topic: "Replication Changes in MariaDB"
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Topic: "Storage Engines and Other Plugins: What's New?"
The Percona Live MySQL Conference includes a Diamond Sponsor Keynote panel on Wednesday morning on the "Impact of MySQL 5.6 and its Future in the Cloud" . Moderated by me, the …
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Here's what Pete Zimmerman, VP of Service and Operations at Sonian, had to say:
"Our infrastructure is fluid, so we needed an automation solution that was super flexible and easy to learn. Hosted Chef is both. It easily plugs into any cloud API, then automates everything up the stack, making our service faster, better and rock-solid."
This is yet another example of innovative companies being able to do even more by automating with Chef. For detailed information …
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…see the possibilities beyond the status quo and bring out the very best in the team," says our VP of Engineering, Bjorn Freeman-Benson . "With his belief in the valuable role of community contributions toward a collective knowledge, he is a perfect fit for New Relic's culture."
Ward will add his unique talents as a craftsman to New Relic's Portland-based Engineering Innovation Center .
" New Relic has changed the way software gets …
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The MySQL 5.6 content continues Tuesday morning when Tomas Ulin, VP, MySQL Engineering for Oracle, will present an invited keynote on " Driving MySQL Innovation ". In addition, Oracle MySQL technologists will lead three breakout sessions on MySQL 5.6 at the Percona Live MySQL Conference:
" MySQL 5.6: Performance Benchmarks, Tuning, and ‘Best' Practices " by Dmitri Kravtchuk, MySQL Performance Architect
" MySQL …
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…Kevin Lynch comes to Apple from Adobe to be the new " VP of Technology". I'm not sure what a VP of Technology does, but given his track record at Adobe, I am assuming he'll be involved in beefing up Apple's cloud services in more technical ways than Eddy Cue already does. The general consensus on the hire though is that it stinks . Convincing Apple shareholders, users, and enthusiasts that the guy who spent years selling Flash's snake oil …
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…us for a good while. The other side isn't as scary as Phil Schiller , Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Apple, would like you to believe. It's actually quite nice.
One More Thing
I hardly used my old iPhone as a phone. I use my Android even less so. A few months ago Jony Ive , Senior Vice President Industrial Design at Apple, said something that resonated with me:
"If we're thinking ‘ Lunch Box' we have to be …
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…90 percent of all the growth in the IT market," said Frank Gens, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst at IDC. "Companies that are not putting 80 percent or more of their competitive energy into this new market will be trapped in the legacy portion of the market, growing even slower than global GDP."
Industry Specific Cloud Services
IDC expects the number of industry specific Platform-as-a-Service ( PaaS) offerings to explode over the next year or so. Tailored …
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* Kris Gale, VP of Engineering at Yammer, argues the key to building fast lies in small teams.
* In this video from Waza, Matz talks about the recent release of Ruby 2.0 .
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* Joshua Bixby asks when it comes to big data, how big is big enough .
* Rich Pareta explains how to get hired into a collaborative engineering team.
* Colin Ihrig…
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