Cloud Drift Detection With Policy-as-Code
Cloud 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 regardless of how well-designed your IaC implementation is. The term “drift” is used to denote a state in which the actual state of […]
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 set of best practices and methodologies that ensure the smooth functioning of cloud environments, including resource provisioning, configuration management, automation, deployment, monitoring and […]
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 into complex cloud bills often impedes these goals. This is compounded by a lack of data standardization across the multi-cloud landscape, with cloud […]
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 on Terraform or Azure Resource Management files. In addition, Microsoft has enhanced Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation environment for developers that run Azure, […]
Quick Guide to Azure Storage Pricing
Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage service from Microsoft Azure. It provides a scalable, secure and highly available data storage solution for businesses of any size. The platform includes various services such as Azure Blob, which is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data such as documents, images, videos and backups. Azure Files […]
Using Microsoft Azure as a Backup Repository
Every year, the amount of data that needs to be backed up increases. There are two ways to store backups – using on-premises facilities or trusting cloud-based solutions. Having an on-premises storage infrastructure can be costly for a company. This is because of the high prices for storage equipment and the expenses to maintain this […]
Grafana Labs Reins in Cost of Storing Observability Data
Grafana Labs today made available an ability to customize what observability data is collected via its managed cloud service. This capability can help reduce storage costs in addition to enhancing the dashboard Grafana provides to make it simpler to track metrics usage. Wayne Jin, vice president of product marketing for Grafana Labs, said both capabilities […]
Consider Performance, Growth & Budget When Buying Data Analytics
So, your business needs to invest in data analytics technology to improve efficiencies, competitive advantage or business outcomes. There are a ton of things to consider, but underlying each decision are three driving factors: Performance – The need to meet service level agreements. Growth – The need to accommodate success, as well as deal with […]
Survey: Much Greater Focus on Reining in IT Costs
A survey from Vega Cloud found 62% of respondents are more closely monitoring all IT costs, with more than half (52%) more closely evaluating their cloud service provider options. The survey polled 100 vice presidents from organizations with more than 1,000 employees and was published today by Vega Cloud, a provider of a platform for […]
5 Best Practices for Using VMs on Azure Cloud
When beginning a cloud improvement/optimization project, an easy place to start is to focus on the initial low-hanging fruit of your virtual machine (VM) environments. This article takes a closer look at these steps, using a Microsoft Azure VM environment as an example. Here are five best practices that can be easily achieved when using […]
Orgs Shift Toward Centralizing Automation Initiatives
A survey published today found that 75% of respondents recognized that automation silos hamper their ability to unify cloud operations across functions. Conducted by CloudBolt Software, the survey polled 350 senior IT and DevOps leaders at organizations with more than 3,000 employees. On a positive note, the survey found 57% of respondents were starting to […]
Vega Cloud Commits to Reducing Cloud Costs
Vega Cloud today made a commitment to save customers at least 10% on their cloud infrastructure spending or it won’t charge for its software. Vega Cloud’s software automates cloud infrastructure management. The Vega Cloud platform enables IT teams to connect, automate, manage and optimize new and existing networks, applications and other multi-cloud IT environments from […]
Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head
A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […]
Enfabrica Makes Cloud Networking Performance Advances
Enfabrica Corp. today emerged from stealth at the MemCon conference to launch a class of processors for networking in cloud computing environments that are optimized for moving data between CPUs, graphical processor units (GPUs), accelerators and memory. Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar said the Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) enables scalable, streaming, multi-terabit-per-second movement of data in […]
Dylibso Releases Tool for Tracking and Validating Wasm Modules
Dylibso today made generally available a system of record for tracking, investigating, searching and validating modules built using the WebAssembly (Wasm) binary instruction format. Fresh from raising $6.6 million in additional funding, Dylibso CEO Steve Manuel said Modsurfer exposes the internal contents to enable developers to debug Wasm modules and ensure compatibility with runtime environments. […]
Understanding Cloud APIs
Six out of every 10 businesses had moved their workloads to the cloud as of last year. More steady traffic in the cloud and more direct cloud instances mean more to juggle–and the need for greater customization and integration. That’s where APIs come in. APIs are doing for the cloud what they did for on-premises […]
Cisco Streamlines Licensing Options for IT Operations Platform
Cisco has reduced the number of licensing options for its Intersight operations platform to two as part of an effort to make the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing on-premises and cloud computing environments more accessible. In addition, Cisco has added a Cisco UCS X-series Modular System to its portfolio based on a two-socket server configured […]
AWS Delivers on Latest Graviton3 Price/Performance Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the number of virtual machines based on the latest generation of its Graviton processors to include instances that support DDR-5 memory. The latest Amazon EC2 instance types, dubbed M7g and R7g, that are now generally available are based on the AWS Graviton3 processors developed using an architecture created by […]
Technical Debt is a Major Threat to Innovation
A survey published today suggested that technical debt is starting to take a heavier toll as IT environments continue to become more complex to manage. The survey of 400 IT leaders at organizations with 1,500 employees was conducted by Foundry, the market research arm of International Data Group (IDG) on behalf of Insight Enterprises, a […]
Fiberplane Adds Wasm Plug-in Framework for DevOps Notebook
Fiberplane today announced it is extending the reach of a real-time collaboration notebook designed for DevOps teams by making available tools for building plug-ins based on the WebAssembly (Wasm) framework. Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, Fiberplane CEO, said these plug-ins, dubbed providers, will make it much simpler for anyone to connect the Fiberplane notebook to other […]
More Java Apps Are Migrating to the Cloud
A survey of 879 enterprise developers and architects from Vaadin, a provider of framework for building Java applications, found that, as part of modernization efforts, the pace at which Java applications are moving to the cloud is now accelerating. The survey found more than one-third (36%) of Java applications are already deployed in the public […]
Akamai Makes Case For Next Era of Cloud Computing
Akamai Technologies today unveiled a cloud computing service that combines its ability to deploy applications at the edge with the cloud platform it gained via its acquisition of Linode. Shawn Michels, vice president of product management for compute and apps at Akamai, said Akamai Connected Cloud will provide the foundation for running a new generation […]
Report Affirms Continued AWS Cloud Dominance
A report published this week by Wiz, a provider of a cloud security platform, found more than half of organizations (57%) are using multiple clouds, with 22% currently using three or more platforms. However, the report also noted that 72% of all workloads are running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Among organizations that […]