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Unstructured Data Management: Avoiding Insider Knowledge Gaps
Most IT leaders know that managing an unstructured data environment can be quite an undertaking. Before beginning an unstructured data management project, there are a lot of factors to consider including the ...

Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours ...

Survey Shows Steady DevSecOps Progress
A survey of 200 DevOps and IT/information security professionals published this week by Mezmo, a provider of an observability platform, conducted in collaboration with the market research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), ...

Why DevOps Teams Need Security Engineers
In the episode of View with Vizard, Mike Vizard sits down with Om Vyas, chief product officer for oak9, as he explains why security engineers need to become part of every DevOps ...

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 ...

Busting 5 Common Database Modernization Myths
Modernizing databases is one of the best ways to improve database and application performance. However, many companies are hesitant to make major changes, even if they could lead to better outcomes. Why? ...

Civo Report Surfaces Growing Cloud Lock-in Concerns
A survey of 100 IT professionals conducted by Civo, a provider of cloud services based on Kubernetes, finds a total of 82% currently rely on either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft ...

Techstrong TV: Styra Declarative Authorization Service
Styra's new launch of Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) for Cloud-Native Entitlements. With this solution, IAM teams can move to cloud-native technologies while still using existing systems-of-record as well as scale to ...

A Guide to Sustainable Application Modernization
Sustainable development is a blueprint for societal growth that is applied around the world to balance the needs of the present while optimizing for the future. Sustainability consists of three pillars — ...

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 ...

Contrast Security Adds API Support to Security Platform
Contrast Security has fully extended its vulnerability scanning and runtime application self-protection (RASP) platform to now include application programming interfaces (APIs). Company CTO Jeff Williams said the Contrast Secure Code Platform embeds ...

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 ...