Check in on how the IT department thinks it’s doing, minus custom software development. Infrastructure Readiness? It’s time to get realistic

Microsoft and Docker Preview Windows Server Containers

CBP’s Wolf Tombe: Mobile, wearable technologies will advance mission

How Homeland Security’s CBP Turned $335 Million Budget Cut Into Cloud Opportunity « Breaking Government - Government news, analysis and commentary

“Despite its uncertainties, the federal government wants to get to the cloud; in fact, it wants to double current progress. According the survey, only 23 percent of federal infrastructure services have moved, or are in the process of moving, to the cloud. The goal is 43 percent by the end of this year. That’s not going to happen” Why Federal Government is Still Behind the Cloud Curve

The recording for my talk at DevOpsDaysDays Chicago is up. As I mention in the opening, it has some material from my previous talks but is also pretty updated with new tips and tricks, as it were. Here’s the slides if you like that sort of thing. (And, here’s the clown zombie, from Day of the Dead.)

Including an estimate (11.5m?) of the number of developers globally. Application Developers Alliance

’“Google is not an enterprise company and we are trying to become cognizant of what the enterprise needs,” Craig McLuckie, Google’s product manager in charge of its Kubernetes and Google Container Engine' Google Hopes Open Source Will Give Its Cloud A Path To The Enterprise

SaaS Seen Driving Enterprise Software Sales

“IDC states that worldwide RDBMS revenue will grow to 41B by 2019. And, 5.7B of that will be public cloud RDBMS. So, while RDMBS revenue will grow at 4.0% CAGR, the public cloud CAGR will be 50.3%!” Datical is Cloud Native - with database market sizing numbers