March 2015 - Enterprise PaaS Evaluation Guide, Docker and the Slope of Enlightenment, Reshaping Enterprise IT, and Komodo 9 Now Available

ActiveState Newsletter - March 2015 Enterprise PaaS Evaluation Guide In comparison to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has experienced a slower rate of adoption. However, PaaS is coming into its own as evidenced by increased usage and top technology companies such as HP and IBM supporting open source projects like Cloud Foundry by bringing their own PaaS to market. PaaS is important because apps are an important part of our lives. With this relatively new dependency on web and mobile applications, organizations need to find a way to automate their app deployment and management process just to stay in the game. If you are not looking for a way to speed up your pipeline, you can bet that your competition is. And PaaS is a critical component to achieving this.  There are a lot of PaaS offerings (including some that only masquerade as an actual PaaS), so you need to make sure that you are evaluating an enterprise PaaS and not just one that claims to have the functionality "like it." Read More   Happy Birthday Docker. Welcome to the Slope of Enlightenment. It's 2:15pm on a Friday, and I'm sitting in the keynote hall at PyCon 2013 fidgeting through a succession of lightning talks that have very little relevance to my life. Topics like "Python code coverage techniques" (ho-hum) and "Controlling Christmas lights with Python" (yawn - I wonder if there's anything new on Hacker News)...when Solomon Hykes takes the stage, unveils Docker, and the world shifts... Read More   Reshaping Enterprise IT for a New Era Enterprise IT is going through unprecedented change. CIO Strategic Advisor Tim Crawford shares insights on how IT can prepare to meet the challenges and opportunities of their new role. Watch Now   In the Cloud, Virtualization is an Implementation Detail Catch up on all of the great blogs this past month - John Wetherill talks about Bare Metal and the Cloud; Brent Smithurst provides a summary of the March Cloud Foundry Advisory Board meeting; Phil Whelan interviews Alex Jackson about Cloud Foundry's Loggregator; and our devs talk about why they love being a developer. Read More   Stackato Partner Spotlight: HighOps Welcome to our new Partner Spotlight Series! We want to take this opportunity to highlight the great work that our partners do and hopefully introduce you to some cutting edge and innovative companies. Today we are speaking with Marco Abis, founder and CEO of HighOps, an IT operations company providing professional and managed services based in London, England.  Read More   Komodo 9 Released: Better, Stronger, Faster New features include support for Google Go (golang), new Track Changes, a Markdown Viewer, integration with kopy.io, and more. Get it on sale through April 30, or download the 21-day free trial. Learn More   Keep up to date on all ActiveState news! Click here to read the complete newsletter   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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Fireside Chat Tomorrow: Reshaping Enterprise IT for a New Era

sherly, Enterprise IT is going through more change today than during its entire history. Long associated with back office functions and viewed as a cost center, today's rise of what IDC calls the Third Platform – the intersection of the cloud, mobile, social media and big data – has made IT the primary way customers do business with enterprises. In this fireside chat, CIO Strategic Advisor Tim Crawford joins Bernard Golden to discuss how enterprise IT organizations can prepare to meet the challenges and opportunities of their new role. Register to attend tomorrow's LIVE webcast. Date: Thursday, March 26, 2015 Time: 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 6 pm GMT Format: 60 min. with real-time Q&A, tweet via #CLFchat If you have already registered for the fireside chat series, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to attend. Please note this as a reminder. Discussion topics will include: DevOps, Gartner's bi-modal IT and innovation labs – which models have been successful? Does the new era of IT require more adoption of open source? How can IT adjust their expected pace from "waterfall" to "agile"? Can existing staff and vendors make the shift? Examples of IT organizations that are meeting the Third Platform challenge Guest Luminary: Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA Tim Crawford is an internationally renowned thought leader in the areas of IT transformation, innovation, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT). Tim has served as CIO and other senior IT roles with global organizations such as Konica Minolta/All Covered, Stanford University, Knight-Ridder, Philips Electronics and National Semiconductor. Hosted by Bernard Golden, VP of Strategy, ActiveState Named in Wired.com as one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing, Bernard Golden has authored or co-authored four books on virtualization, including Virtualization for Dummies and Amazon Web Services for Dummies, and is the cloud computing advisor for CIO.com. Attend Tomorrow's Fireside Chat We look forward to seeing you tomorrow! - The Stackato Team, ActiveState Invite your colleagues:   Copyright © 2015 ActiveState Software Inc. All rights reserved.  |  1700 - 409 Granville Street   Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1T2  |  ActiveState.com  |  Phone: (778) 786 1100  |  Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581

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Reshaping Enterprise IT for a New Era - Fireside Chat Next Thurs. Mar. 26

sherly, Enterprise IT is going through more change today than during its entire history. Long associated with back office functions and viewed as a cost center, today's rise of what IDC calls the Third Platform has made IT the primary way customers do business with enterprises. This is a tremendous opportunity for IT organizations, but also an enormous challenge. In the next fireside chat, CIO Strategic Advisor Tim Crawford joins Bernard Golden to discuss how enterprise IT organizations can prepare to meet the requirements of their new role. Register to attend next week's live webcast. Date: Thursday, March 26, 2015 Time: 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 6 pm GMT Format: 60 min. with real-time Q&A #CLFchat This interactive discussion will cover topics such as: DevOps, Gartner's bi-modal IT and innovation labs – which models have been successful? Does the new era of IT require more adoption of open source? How can IT adjust their expected pace from "waterfall" to "agile"? Can existing staff and vendors make the shift? Examples of IT organizations that are meeting the Third Platform challenge If you have already registered for the fireside chats, you will automatically be registered for next week's edition and will receive a confirmation email. Guest Luminary: Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA Tim Crawford is an internationally renowned thought leader in the areas of IT transformation, innovation, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT). Tim has served as CIO and other senior IT roles with global organizations such as Konica Minolta/ All Covered, Stanford University, Knight-Ridder, Philips Electronics and National Semiconductor. Hosted by Bernard Golden, VP of Strategy, ActiveState Named in Wired.com as one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing, Bernard Golden has authored or co-authored four books on virtualization, including Virtualization for Dummies and Amazon Web Services for Dummies, and is the cloud computing advisor for CIO.com. Attend Next Week's Fireside Chat We look forward to seeing you next Thursday! - The Stackato Team, ActiveState Invite your colleagues:   Copyright © 2015 ActiveState Software Inc. All rights reserved.  |  1700 - 409 Granville Street   Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1T2  |  ActiveState.com  |  Phone: (778) 786 1100  |  Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581

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Fireside Chat Tomorrow: How will Docker integrate with IT infrastructure?

sherly, The explosion of interest in Docker has made clear that containers will revolutionize the computing environments of the future. But how they will integrate into infrastructure, application architectures and operations is, as yet, unclear.  This fireside chat welcomes entrepreneur and investor Alexis Richardson to discuss the future of containers and his open source project, Weave, a Docker virtual networking technology. Register to attend tomorrow's LIVE webcast. Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Time: 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 5 pm GMT Format: 60 min. with real-time Q&A If you have already registered for the fireside chats, you would have received a confirmation email with the link to attend. Please note this as a reminder. Discussion topics will include: Who owns containers – applications or operations? Integrating containers into infrastructure environments How does Weave work? Is it competitive or complementary with other container technologies like Kubernetes and Meso? The application lifecycle and supporting technologies such as PaaS Guest Luminary: Alexis Richardson, Founder & CEO, Weaveworks Alexis Richardson is the founder of Weaveworks, makers of Weave - a new product for Docker and containerized applications. Previously, Alexis was Head of Product for App Suite & Real Time Intelligence at Pivotal. Alexis is also a founder of Rabbit Technologies Ltd. (RabbitMQ), Cohesive Networks and MetaLogic Oy. Hosted by Bernard Golden, VP of Strategy, ActiveState Named in Wired.com as one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing, Bernard Golden has authored or co-authored four books on virtualization, including Virtualization for Dummies and Amazon Web Services for Dummies. Attend Tomorrow's Fireside Chat We look forward to seeing you tomorrow! - The Stackato Team, ActiveState Invite your colleagues:   Copyright © 2015 ActiveState Software Inc. All rights reserved.  |  1700 - 409 Granville Street   Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1T2  |  ActiveState.com  |  Phone: (778) 786 1100  |  Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581

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