Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud
A global survey of 1,600 enterprise IT decision-makers found more than half are working for organizations that plan to eliminate the use of data centers over the next two years. The survey was conducted by Aryaka, a provider of a secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and found a quarter of the respondents have closed […]
Enabling Cloud Adoption in the Government
In 2022, federal agencies are estimated to spend $7.8 billion on cloud computing. While this spending on cloud computing is necessary, it’s imperative that the government uses its allotted funding appropriately to leverage the cloud’s full potential and avoid common pitfalls. Avoiding Common Cloud Adoption Pitfalls I’ve frequently witnessed government agencies get locked into a […]
2022 Predictions: AI, Security and Cloud
It is difficult to find a single area of the technology landscape that isn’t incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into products and services. As we move into a world where distributed computing is the norm for business operations, AI is a requirement given the increasing level of complexity in computing environments. While there are many different […]
IT Ops Trends: Cloud, Containers and COVID
Almost all companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure to remain competitive, with the focus firmly on migration to the cloud and the use of dynamic infrastructures. In a recent Trends in IT Ops 2021 survey, more than 160 IT professionals were asked how the implementation of IT strategies affected their day-to-day work. The results provided […]
Enable Multi-Cloud Networking With Automation
As we enter a new era of technology, we’re experiencing a “third wave” of cloud innovation that brings new complexities into the IT landscape, mainly centered around multi-cloud networking. With every wave of cloud technology advancement, networking components are becoming more complex and distributed across multiple groups. Further, multi-cloud networking brings new challenges around connecting […]
CIS Benchmarks: DevOps Guide to Hardening the Cloud
DevOps and cloud computing have become inseparable. But while the cloud started as primarily a dev/test environment — without stringent security and availability requirements — it has evolved into a mature platform for running production workloads. Moreover, devastating supply chain attacks like SolarWinds and Kaseya taught us all that development environments must also be secure. […]
Theranos’s Holmes VC Reverb | 5G C-Band Marches On | Mozilla Jumps Shark
In this week’s The Long View: The conviction of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leads to greater scrutiny of startups, higher-frequency 5G NR is creeping towards reality, and Mozilla gets criticized for promoting climate-harming scams.
IoT Developers: Get Familiar With LoRaWAN for 2022
IoT Analytics forecast the global number of connected IoT devices would grow to 12.3 billion active endpoints in 2021. That number is expected to grow exponentially in the near future as more and more industries make use of long-range wireless capability. For example, president Biden’s infrastructure plan promised major investment in smart cities and smart […]
Only 30% of Orgs Fully Implement DevSecOps
With the pressure to release more rapidly, security is shifting left within the continuous development pipeline at most organizations. This imperative is increasing with the rise of cyberattacks. Yet both a lack of training and poor visibility are stalling many DevSecOps rollouts, a recent CSA study found. DevSecOps is still a relatively new practice and […]
Quali Adds Free Tier to DevOps Automation Platform
Quali has added a free tier of service to its Torque platform for automating infrastructure provisioning and application workload deployments. In addition, the company has updated the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to provide blueprints through which it provides tighter integration with Terraform, an open source infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool, along with support for custom tags to make […]
Red Hat Adds Service to Customize RHEL Images
Red Hat this week announced a public beta of an Image Builder service that streamlines the process of building customized instances of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. Scott Herold, director of product management for RHEL at Red Hat, said the Image Builder service enables an IT team to define a “gold” template […]
Hasura Adds Engine to Transform REST APIs to GraphQL
Hasura today unveiled a Data Hub repository for integrating application programming interfaces (APIs). The repository includes a connector that makes it easier for IT organizations to convert REST APIs into ones based on the GraphQL specification. Tanmai Gopal, Hasura CEO, said the connector eliminates the need to write custom code to connect existing REST endpoints […]
Speedscale Makes Free API Observability Tool Available
Speedscale today announced it is making a free edition of its observability tool for application programming interfaces (APIs) available to developers. Ken Ahrens, Speedscale CEO, said the goal is to expose more developers to the company’s API testing tool that can be accessed on their local machine via a command line interface (CLI). Dubbed Speedscale […]
U.S. Govt. CX EO | Mozilla Revenue | Log4j Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Improving U.S. government CX, how much money Mozilla makes, and the latest on the Log4j/Log4Shell débâcle.
AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?
Canaries were once sent into coal mines as an early warning sign against danger—for me, it was my Roomba failing to automatically search out dog hair and clean the floor under my sons’ dining room chairs. Cloud-enabled apps also were acting “weird”. Some were down, while others were just slow—although, in my view, slow may […]
NetApp Survey Shows Hybrid Cloud is Maturing
A small survey of 79 midsized to large enterprises conducted by NetApp suggests enterprise IT organizations might finally be embracing hybrid cloud computing beyond use cases involving backup and recovery. The survey finds 20% of respondents are currently employing both on-premises and cloud resources to support the same workload in a production environment, with another […]
AWS Outage Exposes Weaknesses of DevOps Resilience
The December 7, 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage severely disrupted services from a wide range of businesses for more than five hours and highlighted just how reliant businesses have become on internet-delivered services. The outage mostly impacted web services in the eastern U.S., yet the implications are universal: It’s a reminder that many businesses […]
DevSecOps for Databases: Data Masking, Cloud Backup, WAF and More
DevSecOps is everywhere. More and more organizations realize that the traditional separation between DevOps and security is wasteful and dangerous. As a result, they are rushing to integrate security into all their software development processes. Adding security to containerized applications, cloud resources and other parts of modern DevOps infrastructure is already well understood. But what […]
Sumo Logic Extends Observability Reach to AWS Lambda
At the AWS re:Invent conference this week, Sumo Logic announced that in addition to collecting log data, metrics and traces, it now can collect telemetry data from the Lambda serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). In addition to collecting telemetry data, Sumo Logic also revealed that the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform […]
AWS Unfurls Bevy of Automation Tools to Streamline DevOps
At the AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) added a bevy of tools to its portfolio intended to accelerate the pace of application development while simultaneously simplifying DevOps processes. AWS development tools unveiled this week include AWS Amplify Studio, a visual development environment that allows developers to create web application user interfaces (UIs) with […]
AWS re:Invent Roundup: Private 5G | Graviton3 ARM Chips | DevOps Guru++
In this week’s The Long View: Three things that caught my eye from Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference. Private 5G, Graviton3 chips, and something called DevOps Guru for RDS (yes, really).
Why Do You Need GitHub Backup?
You’ve probably heard the joke that there are two types of people in IT: Those who do backups and those who will start. Though it’s still valid, this joke has become less relevant to businesses and professionals. The IT industry has been increasing expenditures on security for years, and backup is a critical area. However, […]
Does Your Organization Need a Data Diet?
The scenario is all-too-familiar: There’s a security breach, and afterward, the affected organization asks what it must do to better protect its data. But what if that organization never collected and stored that sensitive information in the first place? Often, the best defense against an embarrassing and costly breach is to collect only data that […]