Xebia Blog

Recently, Andrew Phillips, VP of Product Management at XebiaLabs, and I had the opportunity to speak with Mike Vizard, tech journalist for IT Business Edge. We had a great conversation about automating application deployments and Mike’s article provides a nice look into our discussion. In the last paragraph, he brings up an interesting point, saying “there [...]

Sometime in the bright future, you will be able to deploy the same virtual appliance containing your application to all your target environments without adjustments. For the time being, however, deployments to traditional DTAP1 landscapes almost always mean "tweaking" the application and associated configuration and resources to match the target environment - think endpoints, properties [...]

Virtualization and cloud computing have exploded over the past few years. A recent study shows that 90 percent of businesses have implemented server virtualization at some level and Gartner estimates the current market for cloud services is $46.4 billion and will reach $150.1 billion by 2013. With other estimates saying business applications can be made [...]

IT organizations often face issues when deploying applications in an Agile environment, in part, because there are more releases to deploy. Due to the nature of Agile, development teams are able to deliver working tested software in much shorter iterations. While this is great for the company, as they can have better flexibility and shorter [...]

Last December I wrote my first part on the Future of Deployment explaining the difference between big ol' servers with a gazillion applications and lots of new shiny small servers with each its own application. This time I'm going to go to the cloud or your virtualized servers and give you my vision of how [...]