Cloud Management

Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability

Mike Vizard | February 7, 2023 | cisco, cloud-native, CNCF, observability, OpenTelemetry

Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect ...

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5 Technologies Powering Cloud Optimization

Gilad David Maayan | February 7, 2023 | application performance monitoring, cloud cost management, cloud optimization, gitops, SRE

Cloud optimization is the process of improving the performance, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of cloud computing resources and services. It involves identifying and addressing inefficiencies in cloud architecture, application design and resource utilization, ...

New Relic Bolsters Observability Platform

Mike Vizard | January 30, 2023 | New Relic, observability, software security, vulnerability scanning

New Relic has updated its observability platform to include the ability to better detect and track errors in addition to monitoring vulnerabilities. At the same time, an instance of the New Relic ...

Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?

Richi Jennings | January 25, 2023 | azure, BGP, DNS, gitops, it-as-code, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MSFT, Office 365, outage, The Long View

All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...

Deploying a Service Mesh: Challenges and Solutions

Gilad David Maayan | January 24, 2023 | cloud-native applications, distributed applications, microservices, service mesh

A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that enables communication between microservices in a distributed application. It helps to abstract the underlying communication infrastructure, such as network protocols and load balancing ...

Devs Increasingly Rely on IaC to Manage Multiple Clouds

Mike Vizard | January 11, 2023 | Firefly, IaC, infrastructure as code, Multi-cloud

A survey of more than 300 DevOps professionals conducted by Firefly, a provider of a platform for automating cloud provisioning, found that more than a third of organizations (36%) have allocated the ...

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Cloudflare Adds Digital Experience Monitoring to CDN Portfolio

Mike Vizard | January 9, 2023 | cdn, cloud platform, Cloudflare, content delivery network, digital experience, IT services, ITSM

At an online CIO Week event, Cloudflare today added a digital experience monitoring capability to a portfolio of services layered on top of its core content delivery network (CDN). Corey Mahan, director ...

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Survey Sheds Light On Cloud, API Expertise Skills Gap

Bill Doerrfeld | January 6, 2023 | APIs, Axway, cloud, open APIs, skills gap

Enterprise IT faces a three-pronged onslaught: Digital transformation, open APIs and security threats. First, most organizations are still navigating ongoing digital transformations and cloud migrations. Second, development teams continue to increase their ...