The emergence of cloud computing, virtualization and other advanced IT services has encouraged decision-makers to look at innovative ways to enhance software development and deployment processes.

The consumerization of IT has had a major impact on the creation of applications, as companies around the world are now leveraging more mobile- and cloud-based software than ever before.

Because cloud computing is becoming such a critical aspect of business operations throughout the private sector, decision-makers need to monitor the hosted environments if they want to meet all of their performance demands.

For the last decade, application deployment processes have become more complex, especially as virtualization and cloud computing technologies emerged, which required advanced solutions to have a different set of characteristics.

As companies continue to innovate in an effort to maintain operations during the rapid proliferation of data, executives are turning to Platform as a Service and other forms of cloud computing to streamline operations.

A new study by CompTIA found that the market for cloud computing is still on the rise, as the number of organizations utilizing the technology increased in 2011 for the third straight year.

Even though IT organizations are succeeding in their efforts to improve core development, they are not meeting customer demands and are thereby decreasing satisfaction, according to a new study by Serena Software.

The rapid adoption and advancement of cloud computing is driving the need for organizations to implement new strategies to manage both internal and externally hosted machines.

The concept of DevOps is relatively new and allows companies to make a coordinated effort to combine both sides of IT - development and operations.

By using cloud hosting services, DevOps empowers organizations to dramatically improve their time to market, allowing companies to do thousands of deploys a day rather than the traditional one every nine months or so.