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For those of you familiar with Kubisys and its innovative solution, Thin Capture, it should come as no surprise now that we have again garnered a recognition from the midmarket CIO's.

I'm very happy to announce that the 150 CIO's gathered at the Midmarket CIO Forum in Orlando today just awarded Kubisys the 'Most Innovative Midmarket Solution' award!

I'd like to propose another analogy for DevOps - with rock band (the real kind, not the game) this time.

When thinking about building an IT solution, or a business for that matter, I'm often reminded of this delightful article by Aza Raskin: You Are Solving The Wrong Problem.

If you are a software company writing applications that are deployed across multiple platforms, using many software solutions on each platform, you already know that the biggest challenge in getting your product ready to ship is testing it End to End (E2E). You also know that the biggest challenge in end to end testing is re-creating the production environment to test it in. After all, if you’re writing one module to run on POS machines, another to connect to the Oracle server in the back-end and yet another module somewhere else, you will need to test these separately and in conjunction to make sure the software you deliver is robust.

Timely application of security patches is an essential part of a patch management policy in compliance with PCI-DSS regulations, thereby insuring protection of business-critical systems against rapidly changing security threats. However, the ever-changing nature of business timetables can prevent timely application of important patches. In addition, there’s also the ever-present possibility of those patches breaking your business-critical applications. With these scenarios to consider, how is it possible to insure timely updates to the latest patches while making sure they don’t put a wrench in your business operations?

Successful disaster recovery plans, strategies and techniques can make the difference between company success or failure should the unthinkable actually happen. Disaster recovery regulations are a big issue as well. You have strategies in place, but are you ready enough?

Let’s talk about configuration management analysis.

At the 2011 Midmarket CIO Forum in San Diego, 130 CIO's from the midmarket gathered to learn about various solutions that are targeted to them.  And from the 47 vendors present, they were asked to vote for just two awards: "Best Midmarket Solution" and "Best Midmarket Strategy."

Kubisys will be one of the sponsors at the Midmarket CIO Forum Fall Event that will be happening this weekend in San Diego.