by Cameron Haight | October 24, 2011 | 5 Comments
The CAP Theorem states that it is impossible for a distributed system to simultaneously have the characteristics of consistency, availability and partition tolerance. I was recently wondering if there were analogs of this type of thought in one of the areas that I’ve historically covered at Gartner, i.e., performance monitoring. In other words, what were [...]
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by Cameron Haight | October 18, 2011 | 11 Comments
In my DevOps presentation today at Gartner Symposium (many thanks for the great crowd by the way), I mentioned only partly in jest that I think the DevOps movement needs a new name – or at least some different marketing if I may be so bold (my apologies to Patrick Debois). Something perhaps edgier – [...]
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by Cameron Haight | October 16, 2011 | 3 Comments
I’ll be presenting on DevOps and the Cloud Operating Model on Tuesday at our Symposium conference in Orlando (note: record attendance has been announced for the event). My focus will be in keeping with the theme of the show, i.e., “Re-imagine IT.” DevOps seems to have captured the interest of a lot of the attendees [...]
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by Cameron Haight | October 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
Recently, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a solicitation for the kick-off of the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) project. The announcement describes the project as: The 100 Year Starship™ (100YSS™) is a project seeded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), with NASA Ames Research Center as executing agent, to develop [...]
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