IT as Code
Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps
A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is ...
Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes ...
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
Richi Jennings | | agile, ARM, BDUF, California, Eugene Zarashaw, facebook, Long live the King, Meta, Move fast and break things, NASA, Recruiting, RISC-V, Steven Elia, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft ...
Federal Agencies Share DevSecOps Guidelines
The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have published a set of DevSecOps best practices based on the Enduring ...
How to Go Multi-Cloud: A Simple Three-Step Approach
Odds are your business already uses cloud technology for automation, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure updates and other purposes. But you don’t have to stick to a single cloud server or provider. In fact, ...
90% Of Orgs Say Multi-Cloud Helps Achieve Business Goals
Multi-cloud is the new normal. And thankfully, this new normal isn't just happenstance—it's driving positive outcomes. New findings show that most organizations benefit from using multiple cloud providers. Multi-cloud adoptions are helping ...
VMware Embraces Graph Technology to Manage Multiple Clouds
At the VMware Explore 2022 conference today, VMware launched a portfolio of multi-cloud management tools, dubbed VMware Aria, based on a graph-based data store that captures the resources spanning multiple clouds and ...
TidalScale Enables Hot-Swapping of Failed Servers
TidalScale has updated its namesake software for automating server management to include the ability to detect and prevent impending failures and enable IT teams to hot-swap another server. Version 4.1 of TidalScale ...
OpenText to Create Software Powerhouse – Acquires Micro Focus for $6B
OpenText this week announced it will acquire Micro Focus for $6 billion. The acquisition is part of an effort to reinvigorate a broad portfolio of information management, application development and testing, integration ...
Time-Series Database Basics
There's been a lot of buzz about time-series data for the past few years. No matter what you're monitoring—financial data, server performance, social media activity or something else entirely—time-series data can give ...
Overcoming Multi-Cloud Management Challenges
Faiz Khan | | cloud management, cloud management challenges, DevOps cloud, Multi-cloud, multi-cloud managementWe’ve long talked about how the cloud is the future. But with the vast majority of corporate data now stored in the cloud, it’s clear that most businesses now realize this is ...
Avoiding Security Review Delays
In the summer of 2021, I had lunch with a senior security developer at one of Seattle's leading tech firms. Even though we were relaxed in the sunny and cool afternoon of ...
