
Why DevOps matters to business
The cloud means that business people have to care more than ever about application development. But not old-style app dev — there’s a new game in town, called DevOps. While I say ‘new’ it’s been around for a couple of years in the cloud computing arena (I was introduced to it a while back by […]

Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis
Rackspace announces a support plan for OpenStack, while Dell, Rackspace, and Opscode announce an OpenStack installer for quick cloud building.

Automation as a Service from Opscode – Quick Analysis
With new cash and a SaaS IT Management offering in beta, Opscode has some interesting stuff going on.

The return of good, old fashioned application development
There’s starting to be more attention on cloud software development than just operations optimization.