Infrastructure/Networking
Log4j Puts Effective IT Operations at Center Stage
News of the Apache Log4j vulnerability exploit is striking fear into the hearts of both software makers and users. Log4j is the most popular Java logging service used today, with over 400,000 ...
U.S. Govt. CX EO | Mozilla Revenue | Log4j Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Improving U.S. government CX, how much money Mozilla makes, and the latest on the Log4j/Log4Shell débâcle ...
DevSecOps for Databases: Data Masking, Cloud Backup, WAF and More
DevSecOps is everywhere. More and more organizations realize that the traditional separation between DevOps and security is wasteful and dangerous. As a result, they are rushing to integrate security into all their ...
API Sprawl a Looming Threat to Digital Economy
New estimates say the total number of public and private APIs in use is approaching a whopping 200 million. APIs are becoming increasingly crucial to the global digital economy. They are the ...
Why Trust and Integrity Are Critical to IoT
We hear a lot about how the IoT is transforming people’s work and daily lives, but for me, its impact goes deeper. As a Type I diabetic, I depend on data from ...
Why Do You Need GitHub Backup?
You've probably heard the joke that there are two types of people in IT: Those who do backups and those who will start. Though it's still valid, this joke has become less ...
Fugue Marries Compliance-as-Code Tool to AWS Well-Architected Framework
Fugue has infused the best practices defined by Amazon Web Services (AWS) within its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for provisioning infrastructure using its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform. Fugue CEO Josh Stella said that IT ...
Ensuring Network Connectivity With SD-WAN and AIOps
Recently, Facebook experienced an outage. If companies relied on that app to do business, their IT teams were likely swamped with end-user complaint calls. How would teams traditionally respond? They’d dive deep ...
LogicMonitor Introduces Unlimited Log Data Retention
LogicMonitor today announced it will provide an option that allows IT organizations to retain an unlimited amount of log data on its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Tej Redkar, chief product officer at LogicMonitor, ...
Mastering the Shared Responsibility Model
It’s no secret that cloud-native application development is growing exponentially, with Agile development, IaaS and PaaS from providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google, enabling innovation at a pace that is challenging for ...
Building on Terraform: Evolution, not Revolution
Terraform is widely adopted among both enterprises and service providers who embrace infrastructure-as-code (IaC) as their model for infrastructure provisioning automation in DevOps environments. And while the technology has limitations, innovations seeking ...
Grafana Labs Expands into Incident Management Realm
During its online ObservabilityCON 2021 conference, Grafana Labs this week previewed an incident management platform in addition to making available an on-premises edition of its distributed tracing tool. Tom Wilkie, vice president ...

