IT as Code
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
We’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 ...
5 Ways to Prevent an Outage
In today’s always-on, ever-connected world, we all expect 100% availability. What gets in the way of this? The devil is in the details. Over time, everything breaks: Disks, nodes, containers, networks, DNS ...
IBM Unveils Simulation Tool for Attacking SCM Platforms
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, IBM today revealed it is making available a toolkit for launching simulated attacks against source code management (SCM) platforms. The toolkit was launched as a ...
Tech Workers Struggle With Hybrid IT Complexity
Confidence levels among IT workers have plummeted as tech teams’ jobs have become more complex. The reasons behind IT worker angst are unprecedented, signaling a shift paralleling other post-pandemic industries. Running applications ...
Learn Something New Every (Cloud-Native) Day
Being the new guy at Techstrong Group, the first couple of weeks was spent trying to find things. Like the bathroom when I’m at HQ in Boca Raton or the login to ...
Orgs Struggle to Get App Modernization Right
A survey published today found 93% of IT leader respondents admitted that application modernization efforts are either extremely or somewhat challenging. The survey, which polled 150 IT leaders at organizations with at ...

