Friday, September 23, 2011

Dev:: The Web's rapid release cycle—and how IT departments can tame it


Feature: The Web's rapid release cycle—and how IT departments can tame it




Nowhere is the intersection between the consumer world and the enterprise domain more significant than on the Web. In the consumer space, we depend on services like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Amazon; in the corporate world, we have custom line-of-business applications and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications such as Google Apps and Office 365. The same core set of technologies and infrastructure underpins both, and this creates quite a conundrum for many enterprises. The consumer world favors a policy of rapid releases, which is anathema to business.

Thanks to Web browsers and Web apps, however, corporate IT departments increasingly find themselves forced to adjust to this newer, faster world. So how can businesses respond?

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