What is your typical practice for licensing in Dev and Test environments? Offline copies of Production licenses? Seperate licensing with low end/no support? Trial Licenses and things like MSDN ...

Even very sophisticated software companies with very smart people working in them have experienced breaches. When attackers get as far as software development systems, they could - theoretically - use ...

You are creating a database from scratch for an application This application will have multiple siloed environments (PROD, TST, INT, DEV) Data from PROD will nightly be moved to the other environments ...

In working for multiple companies I’ve been surprised at the lack of regimen that is used when deploying critical custom applications in their data center. There is a development process that some of ...

Microsoft is using its Ignite event to expand Azure’s role as its developer cloud, offering an isolated, configurable development platform. Microsoft’s latest Azure announcements echo Intel’s recent ...

If your company uses test and development infrastructures as a proving ground for shared services, virtualization and private cloud environments, you’re not alone. More companies are moving in that ...