CloudBees Demos Orchestration Capabilities of ReleaseIQ Platform
At the online DevOps World 2022 event today, CloudBees demonstrated for the first time the capabilities of the application release management platform it gained last month through the acquisition of ReleaseIQ. Shawn Ahmed, chief marketing officer and interim chief product officer at CloudBees, told conference attendees that the ReleaseIQ platform will provide application development teams […]
A DevOps Reset for a Multi-Cloud World
In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter: To release applications and updates as quickly as possible To have access to resources (processing, storage, networks) able to run those apps, as cost-effectively as possible. The measures used to achieve these twin goals should work together seamlessly–otherwise, you’re inefficient. But software development and IT […]
VMware Extends Equinix Alliance to Drive Managed Hosting Service
VMware today announced it has extended its alliance with Equinix to launch a managed distributed cloud service that runs instances of its cloud computing platform in hosted IT environments. Announced at the VMware Explore 2022 Europe conference, the VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal service takes advantage of more than 240 Equinix data centers in 71 […]
Snowflake Makes Case for Building and Deploying Apps on Platform
During a Snowday 2022 event, Snowflake this week moved to make it simpler to build applications on top of its cloud platform for managing data in addition to enhancing the overall security of the platform. The company has made generally available Snowpark, a framework for building Java, Scala, SQL or Python applications. Snowflake also committed […]
Cisco Adds Open Source Tool to Validate Serverless Functions
Cisco has launched an open source project, dubbed FunctionClarity, that makes it possible to verify signatures before code is deployed in a serverless computing environment. Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies and incubation at Cisco, said that one of the application security issues that has emerged in serverless computing environments is the lack of […]
Introduction to SPIFFE/SPIRE
For a long time, people have been logging into the apps they use via passwords or password managers. And many open standards and identity providers on the market continue to evolve how users authenticate and authorize with websites and applications. The issue is that the same problem exists for software services—when applications talk to applications, […]
Cloud Disaster Recovery Best Practices
It’s increasingly common for companies in all sectors to use the cloud to store their data. The cloud provides scalability, security and flexibility that was often inaccessible to businesses only a few years ago. But just like any other technology, it has its limits. What happens if a severe thunderstorm knocks out power to a […]
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
In this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow.
Momento Launches Elastic Cloud Caching Service
Momento this week emerged from stealth to launch an elastic Serverless Cache platform that promises to improve the performance of applications running on databases deployed in the cloud while simultaneously reducing costs. Fresh from raising $15 million in seed funding, Momento CEO and co-founder Khawaja Shams said Serverless Cache gives IT teams access to a […]
Gitpod Looks to Drive Application Development Into the Cloud
Gitpod today revealed it will add an application programming interface (API) to make cloud development environments (CDEs) more extensible. Gitpod also said Johannes Landgraf assumed the role of single CEO for Gitpod, as the previous co-CEO, Sven Efftinge, becomes the company’s first technical fellow. Fresh from raising an additional $25 million in funding, Gitpod’s Landgraf […]
Pulumi Adds Deployment Capability to IaC Platform
At the Pulumi Cloud Engineering Days event, Pulumi announced today it has added a code deployment capability to its Pulumi Cloud platform for managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Deployments will make it possible for DevOps teams to provision infrastructure and deploy applications via a single Git commit that can be invoked […]
InfluxData Delivers Revamped Database for Real-Time Processing
InfluxData has made good on a promise to deliver a next-generation time-series database that enables observability and monitoring tools used by DevOps teams to ingest high volumes of data more cost-efficiently. In addition, for the first time, the latest iteration of the InfluxDB database supports the de facto standard SQL query language. Developers can run […]
Fermyon Adds Managed PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Fermyon Technologies this week launched a hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, dubbed Fermyon Cloud, that promises to make it simpler to build WebAssembly (Wasm) applications. Announced during the Cloud Native Wasm Day event during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Fermyon Cloud is now available in open beta. Fresh from raising $20 million in funding, […]
JFrog Gives Pyrsia to CD Foundation to Secure Software Supply Chains
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, JFrog announced it contributed the Pyrsia project, which uses blockchain technologies to secure software packages, to the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations at JFrog and governing board member for the CD Foundation, said the goal is to increase the […]
SaaS Data Backup and the API Bottleneck
The need to protect SaaS data has never been greater. A recent global survey from Odaseva found that 51% of ransomware attacks are targeting SaaS data, and they are more likely to succeed (52%) than were attacks on cloud, endpoint and on-premises data. But there are plenty of reasons beyond the threat of ransomware to […]
Introduction to Cloud Custodian
Organizations continue to increase their footprint in the cloud. Yet, applying governance and enforcing policies across multiple cloud environments at scale is a challenging endeavor. Organizations typically have governance policies written in English, but translating them into enforceable code has historically required some custom workarounds. In the same vein as infrastructure-as-code (IaC), DevOps engineers now […]
Cosmonic Unveils PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Cosmonic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for building cloud-native applications using Web Assembly. Based on the open source wasmCloud distributed computing environment now being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Cosmonic PaaS gives developers access to a lightweight environment that […]
When the Cloud and the Edge Are the Same Thing
Edge computing remains a growing and exciting new architecture for enterprises across multiple industries. Distributing computing power across a decentralized network gives new opportunities for AI- and IoT-based applications. Demand is such that Gartner predicts by 2025, 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed on the edge. However, the cost and latency of […]
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing.
Datadog Extends Reach of Integrated DevOps Platform
At its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, Datadog has made available in beta a Data Streams Monitoring tool that makes it simpler to identify upstream issues that are likely to […]
More Choices, More Problems: The Double-Edged Sword of Multi-Cloud
Multi-cloud environments can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there are clear benefits to using whatever cloud or tool is best for your particular needs, regardless of vendor – in theory. In practice, however, the more choices you have, the more complex and expensive your environment becomes. In fact, Andreessen Horowitz postulates that […]
Oracle Enables Partners to Reuse Cloud Platform
At its CloudWorld event, Oracle today announced it will enable IT teams to deploy the same platform it uses to independently deliver cloud services anywhere they see fit. Leo Leung, vice president of products and strategy for Oracle, said an Oracle Alloy offering will enable organizations to provide a full set of cloud services they […]
DevOps Principles, Implementations and Culture
When organizations begin using DevOps for application development, many only reference DevOps as part of their infrastructure and select a subset of DevOps before understanding the cultural and process changes needed for success. Instead, organizations must first determine which ‘Ops’ approach best promotes a DevOps mindset and integrate their workflows into their culture. In doing so, […]