The rapid application development model aims for accurate deployments, as does DevOps as an IT methodology. It would seem the two concepts are natural partners, but that's not always the case.

The responsibility for application deployment is shifting. For decades, the actual deployment of a new or updated application -- anything that touched the production environment -- was exclusive to ...

Puppet Inc., a major provider of infrastructure automation software, today launched a new product called Project Nebula into public beta aimed at simplifying the deployment of cloud applications.

Why: "Software installation isn't standardized, and rarely are two applications installed the same way, even when they come from the same vendor."" Microsoft Intune gives IT administrators plenty of ...

“Train as you fight, fight as you train” is an old Army truism. It is similarly true for the deployment process: “Plan your deployment, deploy your plan.” Deployment planning itself is a form of ...

He was the eighth employee hired at payments platform Stripe Inc. in 2011 and watched as the business grew to earn a $20 billion valuation in less than a decade. But for Anurag Goel, founder and chief ...

Companies fail to achieve strategic goals for a variety of reasons. They include a lack of understanding by the workforce of the strategy, an executive team that spends little time addressing strategy ...

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The Deployment Process Modernization Office (DPMO) is an integrated team committed to leading with excellence in deployment readiness and execution in the strategic environment. The team is active ...

BMC acquires Phurnace Software for its application release automation capabilities, which can help customers looking to deploy apps into physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. BMC ...