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Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

How an Established Company Can Start Doing DevOps

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Many of the companies most associated with taking a DevOps approach, like Google, Facebook and Etsy, are relatively new technology driven companies that started doing DevOps from day one. But what about established companies? Can a large company with entrenched silos and …

Whatever Happened to _why?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Last week Slate ran a lengthy piece by Annie Lowrey on Ruby, learning to program and the long lost Ruby rock star known as “_why the lucky stiff.” _why created three important resources for learning Ruby: Hackety Hack, an interactive programming tutorial …

Microsoft’s Other Cloud Strategy: Dynamics

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Every so often, I hear that Microsoft is doomed because it didn’t get into tablets quick enough. Or that Microsoft is too dependent on Windows desktop licenses and Microsoft Office and that mobile and cloud are going to eat the margins on …

Clojure Creator Launches Datomic, a New In-Memory Database

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Clojure creator Rich Hickey has launched a new startup called Datomic, a spin-off from the consulting firm Relevance, Inc. Datanomic offers a cloud-based database of the same name that combines consistency and transactions with a flexible schema and scalability. It’s an in-memory …

Puppet vs. Chef: Which is More Popular?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Which configuration manatement tool is more popular: Puppet or Chef? RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady recently did some Web mining to find out. O’Grady’s not sure. I’m betting that Puppet has more traction, but that Chef is growing fast. O’Grady explains the project …

Don’t Be a Hero, Be Good At Your Job

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

“The guy who sucks, is somehow the hero, because it takes time,” writes Michael Stahnke, a community manager at Puppet Labs. “The guy who doesn’t look busy, because he did it right the first time, is overlooked, upset, and eventually changes jobs; …

How IT Support Services Are Changing

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Today HP announced its new Always On Support offering, and IDC analyst Robert Brothers appeared on theCube to talk about the changing IT support landscape. Brothers discussed how converged infrastructure, the cloud and the need trend towards single points of contact (or …

DevOps Dossier: OrangeScape

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

OrangeScape is a platform-as-a-service, but unlike “general computing PaaSes” like Heroku or Google App Engine, OrangeScape Studio provides a point-and-click interface for building business apps, most comparable to Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform. Apps built with OrangeScape can be deployed automatically either on-premises using …

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