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DevOps principles have had a big impact on the way software is managed in the cloud. Some key DevOps principles include: Agility – enable accelerated, continuous delivery of new functionality Automation – automate anything that’s done repeatedly, especially complex tasks that are error-prone Remove silos – by linking engineering and operations teams more seamlessly DevOps [...]
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Last week, we were honored by the BBJ as one of “the area’s most promising start-ups generating buzz from customers, competitors and investors alike” with “disruptive strategies, products and services.” Our peers in this selection included four consumer-focused companies, three biotech/healthcare companies, and one semiconductor company — plus five companies, including Intigua, that are focused [...]
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In April, we were selected by two different publications as a “start-up to watch” in virtualization and cloud computing: CRN wrote that Intigua enables “the software-defined data center (SDDC) and setting up organizations for IT-as-a-service (ITaaS)” by using “virtual containers to speed provisioning and updating of agents” while “improving uptime, performance and security.” In an [...]
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There was a thought-provoking post on the VMware vCloud Blog this month about delivering IT as a Service (ITaaS). Sure, “ITaaS” sounds like it could be just another buzzword. But it’s helpful in describing the business value of cloud computing – namely the power to “quickly and reliably respond to constantly changing business needs” and empower IT [...]
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Last week, I came across an interesting blog post written by John Treadway (who launched the CloudBzz blog in 2009) where he asks IT pros an important question about the promise of self-service clouds: Can your private cloud deliver a VM in 5-10 minutes? So often when we’re talking to customers and prospects, they answer [...]
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Last week, part of the Intigua team ditched the winter blues of Boston to attend IBM’s Pulse 2013 Conference in sunny Las Vegas. We went there to talk to IBM users about enterprise management and to show off Intigua’s newly IBM-certified “Tivoli-Ready” platform. If you weren’t there, you not only missed a superb demo of how [...]
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Last week, Intigua CEO and co-founder Shimon Hason had an interesting conversation with Peter Cohan, the author of the Forbes Startup Economy column, about startup culture, hiring and location. Most people in the startup community have strong opinions about these elements and how they can dictate success for up-and-coming tech companies – and more importantly, [...]
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Just a few short years ago, a line-of-business request to provision a new server would strike fear in the hearts of system administrators struggling to manage physical datacenters. Virtualization has radically eased those pains, putting servers and storage just a few mouse clicks away. However, infrastructure monitoring, management and security technologies have not kept pace [...]
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Last week we read about how the New York Times was hacked in a dramatic APT-style attack that was neither detectable by their anti-virus solution, nor preventable via traditional perimeter security (as the Times CSO said, “Attackers no longer go after our firewall.”). The next day, we learned that the Wall Street Journal also was [...]
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I’m pleased to announce that Intigua has received $8.6M in funding in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), with participation from our seed investors, Cedar Fund. For our customers and prospects, the new funding means we can bring new capabilities to market faster and continue expanding our team to meet your needs better. [...]