4 Ways to Simplify Cloud Performance Monitoring
Over the past 18 months, technologists across the globe have played a crucial role in the survival of brands and organizations via digital strategies. Across all industries, their skill and dedication have enabled businesses to rapidly launch innovative new digital services to meet huge fluctuations in customer needs and allow entire workforces to operate from […]
Progress Expands Chef Automation Portfolio
In advance of its ChefCon 2021 conference, Progress today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Progress Chef automation platform that includes managed services and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its offerings as well as tighter integration with cloud services and other third-party tools. Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for the Chef business at […]
SRE’s Guide to Pragmatic Incident Response
In my past experience as an SRE, I learned some valuable lessons about how to respond to and learn from incidents. If you want the TL;DR, I’ll summarize them here: Declare and run retros for the small incidents. It’s less stressful, and action items become much more actionable. Decrease the time it takes to analyze an […]
How to Improve Cloud Management
Cloud technology underpins emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, edge computing and containerization. Organizations must prioritize implementing effective cloud management practices to avoid spiraling costs and potential security and compliance violations. The COVID-19 pandemic has vastly accelerated cloud adoption. To support remote work, many businesses have moved workloads from on-premises servers to the public […]
Majority of Organizations Now Adopt Multi-Cloud
As IT’s digital footprint grows, its cloud footprint is rising both in size and complexity. As a result, most organizations have matured into multi-cloud operators. A multi-cloud approach empowers different divisions with the autonomy to select the right computing environment for their needs. It also enables a lift-and-shift ability to port workloads across cloud service […]
Infrastructure-as-Code Security will Improve Your Cloud Security
Moving to the cloud creates a tremendous opportunity to get security right and reduce the risk of a data breach. Most organizations start their cloud security efforts by ‘shifting security left’ thereby addressing issues in the CI/CD pipeline. Fixing known vulnerabilities and risky configurations before pushing images to production makes sense. But there is an […]
The SolarWinds Query Report 2021: Database Priorities and Pitfalls
The rise of hybrid IT and the accelerated adoption of cloud-native apps have evolved traditional database design, management and monitoring. Workloads are rapidly shifting to the cloud and application performance is heavily dependent on the performance of the underlying database. Meanwhile, the global COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to make significant changes in the last […]
5 Steps to a Seamless Multi-Cloud Migration
With digitization the topic of discussion in almost every boardroom since the onset of COVID-19, it’s no coincidence that migration to the cloud has skyrocketed in tandem. In fact, at the onset of the pandemic, 87% of IT decision-makers noted that the remote restructuring of the workplace would push their organizations to accelerate cloud migrations. […]
What It Will Take To Bring Cloud Gaming to Fruition?
The gaming industry is booming. There are 211 million people gaming in the U.S., and it’s one of the fastest-growing forms of entertainment on the planet. In the age of Twitch streaming, gaming has even upstaged traditional sports viewership. On average, young gamers between the ages of 18 and 25 spend a full hour more […]
How to Build an Options-Based Observability Strategy
The global pandemic forced companies to accelerate their digital transformations, pushing them toward new technologies and architectures as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. Companies wanted fast development and deployment and were happy to trade off efficiency, reliability and sometimes, security, to pursue their goals. Now that the pandemic is receding in many […]
Multi-Cloud Is Not About Lift and Shift
Multi-cloud is often framed from the perspective of “lift and shift.” In other words, an organization takes a computing environment previously running on one cloud and transfers it over to a different service provider. Cloud migration may make sense for cost savings or performance benefits and such a shift may be necessary when migrating on-premises […]
Best Practices for AWS Tagging With Yor
On the surface, AWS resource tags are simple, informational key:value metadata that you can assign to most AWS resources. They also have many hidden benefits, as outlined in this AWS Tagging Best Practices guide for improving cloud operations. There are six use cases author Brian Yost calls out in particular: AWS console organization and resource […]
Cloud Governance Can Trim Cloud Costs
The abrupt need to transition to remote work last year caused many companies to migrate to the cloud or accelerate an in-process migration. Cloud has become an essential part of company operations and budgets. Last year, worldwide end user spending on public cloud services was $257.5 billion, making up 9.1% of total global enterprise IT […]
Solving Cloud-Native Challenges in the Rush to the Cloud
The shift to cloud-native environments away from traditional data center infrastructures continues unabated, but security and complexity challenges remain a struggle for DevOps teams. These were two of the main takeaways in a survey and analyst report published by the IT consultancy firm Flexera. The survey, based on the responses of 750 IT professionals, revealed […]
Sysdig Adds CSPM Module to DevSecOps Platform
Sysdig today announced it added a cloud security posture management (CSPM) module to its Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform for monitoring application performance and security to enable IT teams to continuously detect threats. Pawan Shankar, director of product marketing for Sysdig, said this CSPM capability is based on an open source Cloud Custodian tool that enables […]
LeanIX Extends Application Management Reach
LeanIX today unveiled a catalog that enables DevOps teams to more easily track the relationships between microservices as they are built and deployed. At the same time, the company also revealed it has acquired Cleanshelf, a provider of a platform for managing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. LeanIX CEO André Christ said the Microservice Intelligence catalog will […]
Teleport Adds Database Support to Security Gateway
Teleport announced today it has added support for databases to a security gateway, delivered as a cloud service, that is currently used to secure Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters. Ev Kontsevoy, CEO, said Teleport intends to extend the reach of the security gateway up the entire stack of IT infrastructure that developers routinely use to […]
VMware Enhances Management Portfolio
VMware today rolled out a series of updates to its automation and monitoring portfolio as part of an ongoing effort to simplify management of highly distributed IT environments. Updates to the VMware vRealize Cloud automation portfolio include VMware vRealize Automation 8.4’s tighter integration with the open source Salt automation framework the company gained by acquiring […]
How to Know if You Need Multi-Cloud — and Succeed if You Do
There are many good reasons for running in multiple clouds, as well as times when multi-cloud environments are unavoidable due to organizational history or legal reasons. However, operating in multiple clouds adds complexity, increases operational overhead and can become expensive. Organizations should only pursue it when they have clear business reasons for doing so. In […]
Cloud Migration Monitoring: A Practical Guide
Almost every organization has transitioned some operational systems to the cloud. DevOps professionals are an essential part of migration projects, facilitating the migration itself, and making sure applications work as expected and provide satisfactory performance after the migration. To make your next cloud migration a success, you must get monitoring right. Applications must be monitored […]
LogDNA Adds Usage Quota Tools to Help Control Costs
LogDNA announced today it will enable IT teams to apply usage quotas to help rein in log management costs. Tucker Callaway, CEO, LogDNA, said as applications become more complex – thanks, in part, to the rise of microservices – the amount of log data that a DevOps team can collect has significantly increased. IT teams […]
Cloud Migrations Demand Risk and Compliance Maturity
The COVID-19 pandemic brought undeniable disruptions for organizations and their employees whether business, personal or otherwise. Across the globe, businesses and governments alike were forced to try and manage these disruptions. For nearly all organizations, digitization initiatives were accelerated in a short period of time, from implementing work-from-home policies and launching new applications to support […]
Too Many Organizations Get Public Cloud Wrong
The cloud has been getting a lot of press in the past few years—and with good reason. The elasticity and flexibility of resources are transformational for businesses. However, there are also drawbacks. For most enterprises, it’s a significant undertaking to migrate on-premises applications into a public cloud environment. Modern applications today are rarely self-contained entities. […]