DevOps and Open Technologies
The Past, Present and Future of OpenStack
OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 12-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization ...
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, COVID-19, Devops for z/OS, Great Resignation, ibm, IBM Cloud, IBM Wazi, mainframe, mainframe security, remote working, The Long View, Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know, WFH, work from home, z/OSIn this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office ...
Cloudify Integrates DevOps Automation Platform With Terraform
Cloudify this week announced a free user interface (UI) module that extends its infrastructure provisioning platform and enables DevOps professionals to integrate unlimited Terraform modules. Nati Shalom, Cloudify CTO, said Terraform UI ...
How to Automate PKI for DevOps With Open Source Tools
Historically, DevOps and security have been diametrically opposed practices. DevOps wants to move fast and break things, or so they say, but security policies tend to slow things down. However, it has ...
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer ...
Unreliable Server Scare | Information Batteries | ARM IPO PDQ
Richi Jennings | | ARM, cosmic rays, Fall seven times and stand up the eighth, Green data center, Information batteries, machine learning, muons, NVIDIA, reliability, SoftBank, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: We worry about chips failing randomly, we ponder a new way of thinking about workload shifting, and we grok Arm’s IPO ...
How Stream Processing Goes Beyond Real-Time
How fast is real-time? According to Robert Miller's 1968 seminal study on human-computer interaction, we perceive a response time of 100 milliseconds or less as instantaneous. This is much quicker than the ...
Codenotary Launches Cloud Service to Generate SBOMs
Codenotary has launched a Codenotary Cloud platform that can automatically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) and make it easier to discover what components have been included in an application. Moshe ...
WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps
WhiteSource has added the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to the list of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms its open source vulnerability scanning tools natively supports. Susan St. Clair, director of product management ...
Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software
James Reinders | | hardware, open source, open systems, parallel programming, supercomputing, universal softwareAs hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, ...
Database Virtualization: Breaking Vendor Lock-In
Every enterprise is battling vendor lock-in—constantly. Ask any IT leader about what keeps them up at night and vendor lock-in is certainly near, if not at, the top of the list. And ...
Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use
A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they ...
