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Month: October 2011

Continuous Builds – A Customer Experience

Continuous Builds – A Customer Experience

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): In our last article we discussed speeding up your build by leveraging tools such as Electric Accelerator. In this article we will discuss the process of Continuous Integration (CI) along with a customer experience utilizing...

Top 5 Hottest IT Outsourcing Trends

Top 5 Hottest IT Outsourcing Trends

As the global economy remains turbulent, corporate decisions-makers continue to remain laser-focused on cost containment and finding new ways of generating additional productivity and value to their organizations. As a result, these macro factors are shaping many of...

From Out-of-Office to VPN in 15 Minutes

From Out-of-Office to VPN in 15 Minutes

Traditionally, using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to connect to a remote site has been a technical – and oftentimes troublesome – requirement. With the growing popularity of using “remote programmers”, I see requests for purchasing Cisco routers and Windows...

Taking IT Out of Corporate IT … A Response

Taking IT Out of Corporate IT … A Response

There were quite a lot of comments on this site and other sites on the original post -- all by IT professionals, and almost all negative. The comments were interesting, but quite one-sided. Many people thought the article was suggesting dropping a figurative bomb on...

How to Upgrade a DB2 Database Server from 8.2 to 9.1

How to Upgrade a DB2 Database Server from 8.2 to 9.1

DB2 is one of the best databases available today for the money and features. It also offers a relatively easy upgrade from 8.2 to 9.1 database versions.  The primary issue was finding which level of DB2 that other application vendors all supported. The attached...

Top 5 Challenges Of Infrastructure Management (Updated 2023)

Top 5 Challenges Of Infrastructure Management (Updated 2023)

Managing infrastructure comes with unique challenges. Lab network, computer farm, load-balancing app, build-and-release system - each is distinct. "IT" is a broad term, but it comprises separate realms that are easily overlooked. But, understanding the uniqueness of...