Multi-Cloud Snake Oil

tl;dr Most multi-cloud management solutions are pure snake oil. Buyer beware. And you most likely don’t even need Multi-cloud. Let’s take the scenario of an online Flower vendor. They sell bouquets and arrangements of Flowers via e-commerce and deliver them across the country. They have two big events year which account for around 92% of…

DevOps as a Service (DaaS)?

In a recent post I posted on DevOps.com, I suggested the term DevOps as a Service (DaaS). Personally I am not a fan of the term. Mainly because DevOps is not a ‘Service’. It is an approach to achieve business objectives by adopting a set of capabilities, namely: Continuous Business Planning Collaborative Development Continuous Integration…

DevOps for PaaS Video Chat

I had the opportunity last week to participate in a Google Hangout Video Chat with some of the leading industry experts in the field of DevOps and PaaS. Accompanying me were: Moderator: James Governor (@monkchips), Redmonk Analyst and Moderator Brian Massey (@brym13), IBM, Senior Product Manager, PureSystems Mark Willemse, ING, Executive IT Teamleader Customer Intelligence…