IT as Code
VMware Streamlines IT Management via Cloud Foundation Update
VMware this week updated its Cloud Foundation platform and rolled up recent updates to the company’s virtualization portfolio all at once. Version 5.0 of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) encompasses the latest versions ...
Logz.io Taps AI to Surface Incident Response Recommendations
Logz.io this week added a supervised machine learning capability to its observability platform that reduces mean-time-to-remediation by surfacing recommendations for resolving incidents. Asaf Yigal, vice president of product for Logz.io, said the ...
Why You Need a Multi-Cloud and Multi-Region Deployment Strategy
As I began writing this article, I encountered some technical challenges in my attempt to provision three cloud providers in three separate regions to simulate multi-cloud and multi-region deployments. I couldn’t get ...
Cloud Drift Detection With Policy-as-Code
Joydip Kanjilal | | cloud drift, Configuration Management, drift detection, IaC, infrastructure as code, policy as codeCloud configurations can change and change often. Introducing new technologies, releasing new features and supporting new business requirements entail a constant flow of configuration changes in web application development. However, drift occurs ...
Checkmarx Brings Generative AI to SAST and IaC Security Tools
Under an early access program, Checkmarx today made available query builder and guided automation tools that take advantage of OpenAI's generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to make it simpler for developers to ...
What Is a Cloud Operations Engineer?
CloudOps, short for cloud operations, refers to the processes, tools and strategies employed to manage, monitor and optimize the performance, security and availability of cloud-based infrastructure, applications and services. It encompasses a ...
GitLab Adds More AI and Cybersecurity Capabilities to CI/CD Platform
Mike Vizard | | CI/CD, continuous delivery, continuous integration, Cybersecurity, generative AI, gitlabGitLab this week delivered an update to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that adds additional generative artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity capabilities. The GitLab 16 release included cybersecurity capabilities such as ...
US DoJ Makes PyPI Give Up User Data ¦ Tape Storage: Not Dead
Richi Jennings | | backup, backup and recovery, backups, Canary, data backup, databackup, database backup, HPE, ibm, LTO, PyPi, Python, Python Software Foundation, Quantum Corporation, Ransomware, storage, tape, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: PyPI complies with a “string of subpoenas,” and LTO continues to grow, despite predictions of its demise ...
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles and How to use Them
Amazon Web Services relies on the AWS IAM service to govern who is authenticated and authorized to use AWS resources. It plays a hugely significant role in AWS security–and so do its ...
FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS Aims to Standardize Cloud Billing
Cloud spending is on the rise. As organizations shift more applications to the cloud, there is a growing need to optimize workloads and reduce spending when possible. But a lack of visibility ...
Microsoft Adds Slew of Developer Tools to Azure
At its Build 2023 conference this week, Microsoft announced general availability of an Azure Deployment Environment service that provides developers with a portal through which they can employ infrastructure-as-a-code (IaC) templates based ...
Red Hat Enhances Insights to Simplify RHEL Management
Sharon Florentine | | linux, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, rhel, server administration, sysadminThis week at its Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat introduced an expanded set of capabilities to Red Hat Insights that simplify management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Managing Linux across ...
