Enterprise DevOps
Agile Pricing, Agile Uptake
It is pretty amusing, the number of software vendors that are selling us tools to work in our Agile and/or DevOps infrastructure but are not at all agile in their sales cycle ...
2023 Application Security Budgets on the Rise
A survey of 500 DevSecOps professionals in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters (73%) of organizations plan to increase investment in application security in 2023. The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf ...
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786, Elon Musk, If life were predictable it would cease to be life—and be without flavor, layoffs, OpenSSL, RCE, redundancy, security vulnerabilities, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow ...
Know What You Want and Need
Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, ...
Making App Dev More Efficient
Applications of all kinds are continually popping up across various industries to help improve consumer customer experiences, provide entertainment, make certain tedious or error-prone tasks easier for workers and to help businesses ...
BMC Extends Scope of ServiceOps Initiative
At the BMC Exchange conference this week, BMC revealed it has updated its Helix IT service management (ITSM) platform to include mapping and discovery capabilities. Those updates make it simpler for cross-functional ...
Where Does Your Data Go?
One of the most interesting developments in security and compliance in recent years is the ability to follow a piece of data through an application from input to consumption and see each ...
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
Richi Jennings | | disaster recovery, downtime, IaaS, Kakao, Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, on-premises, PaaS, Pangyo, SaaS, SK C&C, South Korea, The Long View, uptimeIn this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
Cloud: Why Must We Be Confusing?
When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those ...
Fear of the Unknown
Don Macvittie | | cloud instance cleanup, inventory, SBoM, software bill of materials, software inventoryWe IT folks are pretty fearless. Because it is newer technology, and change in IT is easier than in areas like heavy manufacturing, we are regularly thrown new tools, products and methodologies ...
Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region
Richi Jennings | | A fool thinks himself to be wise—but a wise man knows himself to be a fool, Africa, Debian, Debian package, free software, GCP, Google Cloud, Linus Torvalds, linux, Linux 6.0, open source, open source vs. proprietary, proprietary software, South Africa, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Linux 6.0 promoted to Stable, Debian 12 will include closed-source binaries, and Google Cloud opens its first Africa region ...
Driving Organizational Success With the 2022 State of DevOps Report
“Ship it!” We have just completed the research and analysis for the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) and oh boy, do we have some interesting things to share! First, let ...
