Why You Should Consider Running Linux on Azure, Part II: More Details

One of the cool things about running Linux on Azure is the extensions that tie Linux virtual machines into the Azure environment. This is another feature that frankly surprised me a bit. I expected Microsoft products to fully integrate with Azure (and they do) but I expected the Linux integration to be clunky. That turned out to not be the case. There are Linux extensions that integrate directly into Azure.

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Colliding the Worlds of DevOps, ITIL® and Agile

Change is the order of the day, and now more than ever, the pace of business and technology change is accelerating. Businesses and customers are looking to IT service providers to be more responsive and deliver more frequent service changes with higher quality, which results in services that deliver more value to the business. ITIL is the de facto global framework for delivering and managing technology as a service to the business. Agile is a methodology for speeding the development and deployment of applications. DevOps is a philosophy or way of working that has the potential to realize greater benefits and faster delivery through such agile methods.

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