Infrastructure/Networking
A DevOps Reset for a Multi-Cloud World
In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter: To release applications and updates as quickly as possible To have access to resources (processing, storage, networks) able to run those apps, ...
VMware Extends Equinix Alliance to Drive Managed Hosting Service
VMware today announced it has extended its alliance with Equinix to launch a managed distributed cloud service that runs instances of its cloud computing platform in hosted IT environments. Announced at the ...
Cloud Disaster Recovery Best Practices
It’s increasingly common for companies in all sectors to use the cloud to store their data. The cloud provides scalability, security and flexibility that was often inaccessible to businesses only a few ...
For Engineers, Meetings Waste Time and Money
Meetings can be the lifeblood of any organization, allowing coworkers to check in with one another, exchange ideas and solve problems. But, for engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number ...
Building New Value in IT Systems Management
For decades, companies treated the IT system as a cost center not much different from facilities maintenance. The job of IT was to keep the lights on, ensuring that the technology a ...
Cosmonic Unveils PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Cosmonic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for building cloud-native applications using Web Assembly. Based on the open source wasmCloud distributed computing environment now ...
Cisco Unveils 800G Networking Platform to Advance DataOps
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice ...
Oracle Enables Partners to Reuse Cloud Platform
At its CloudWorld event, Oracle today announced it will enable IT teams to deploy the same platform it uses to independently deliver cloud services anywhere they see fit. Leo Leung, vice president ...
Of Max and Min: When Performance Engineering Plans Go Awry
Modern software developers have access to powerful tools and services which allow them to quickly develop, demo and deploy fully functional applications. But what happens when the single-user prototype satisfies all required ...
GitLab Allies With Google to Improve Developer Productivity
GitLab Inc., in collaboration with Google, today launched an open source Cloud Seed tool that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to consume Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources. The Cloud Seed tool, ...
Distributed Systems: Turning Networking to Your Advantage
Whether it’s the office, the classroom, the store or the bank, a great many spheres of human life have moved online. Each day, we grow more and more used to consuming applications ...
Protecting CI/CD Pipelines to Secure the Software Supply Chain
Cloud-native applications have become increasingly complex. Composed of an infrastructure stack of mash-up code, hundreds of open source and commercial components, services and APIs, today’s software supply chain is fraught with security ...

