What is your typical practice for licensing in Dev and Test environments? Offline copies of Production licenses? Seperate licensing with low end/no support? Trial Licenses and things like MSDN ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

If you’re going to convince Oracle CEO Mark Hurd of anything, you better bring some supporting data. Here are a few data points that have convinced Hurd that 100% of enterprise development and testing ...

Even very sophisticated software companies with very smart people working in them have experienced breaches. When attackers get as far as software development systems, they could - theoretically - use ...

Operations doesn't want dev/test to affect production systems: Putting development and test into the production infrastructure, even if quarantined via VLANs, holds the potential of affecting ...

One thing that is both vital to developers, and difficult for traditional IT stacks is the ability to run the exact same platform in development and QA as you do in production. In fact, a holy grail ...

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Agile development and the cloud have brought a new set of expectations, and a new horizon of possibilities. The days of long waiting until servers are provisioned and configured have been replaced ...

Many companies hesitate to explore cloud computing because of concerns relating to the security, reliability, and cost of an always-on cloud-based application versus one hosted internally. A perfect ...