Sysdig Adds Cloud Access Controls to DevSecOps Platform
Sysdig announced today that it is adding a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) capability to its Secure DevOps platform as part of an effort to better enforce least-privilege access within the context of a larger zero-trust approach to cybersecurity. Nick Fisher, vice president of product marketing for Sysdig, said this addition to the company’s core […]
FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization via Governance-as-Code
Cloud implementations continue to grow in scope and complexity. Too often, this expansion also means costs keep spiraling out of control. In this article, we’ll examine why the emerging practice of cloud financial management (FinOps) is so essential to containing costs in the cloud. We’ll then discuss the challenges teams encounter as they start to […]
HashiCorp Previews Updates to Consul Service Mesh
During an online HashiConf Global conference, HashiCorp today made available a beta of an update to its open source Consul service mesh for virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters that makes it possible for multiple administrators to share the same instance of a multitenant service mesh. Version 1.11 of Consul will also add support for a […]
Pulumi Adds Registry to Share Secure IaC Code
Pulumi this week added a public registry to its portfolio that makes it easier to discover packages that have been created using its tools to manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, said the Pulumi Registry will make it simpler for DevOps teams to share and reuse IaC tools that have been vetted versus always […]
Why Distributed Cloud Is the Future of Cloud Computing
A distributed cloud is a public cloud service that allows you to run public cloud infrastructure in multiple physical locations while being centrally managed for performance and compliance. The most innovative companies are moving all their assets to a distributed cloud structure. It is safe to say that distributed cloud is the future of cloud […]
Trust in Cloud Providers is a Developer Issue
Earlier this summer, we worked with ClearPath Strategies to ask developers about the level of trust they have in their various cloud service providers. What we learned spoke volumes: While developers’ familiarity and comfort with Amazon, Microsoft and Google position these well-known cloud providers as market frontrunners, developers often do not agree with the companies’ […]
Energy Efficiency and the Data Center
The IT industry has historically been a leader in the ongoing race to reduce CO2 emissions. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line. The data center is well-known as a voracious data consumer. But the data center consumption findings keep pace with the trend. Even in the face of […]
What Does the Future of DevOps Look Like?
During the past couple of years, we have seen a rapid acceleration of digital transformation. Many businesses have been leveraging the benefits of DevOps and the cloud to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. With so many changes going on in the industry, it is time to take a look ahead at what DevOps is becoming […]
The Inevitability of Multi-Cloud-Native Apps
We all know the story: Enterprises moved to the cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self-service developer provisioning. Along came Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud-native, where they learned about automation, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Now, even though most enterprises are still figuring out how to do cloud-native at scale, there’s […]
Closing the Education Gap for IoT Developers
The most common thing I hear from developers who are building internet of things (IoT) solutions is: It isn’t easy. And it’s not. Not because of a lack of skill—the developers I interact with are incredibly talented. There’s also no shortage of technologies to choose from for deploying an IoT solution. The challenge often comes […]
Microservices Adoption and the Software Supply Chain
Software development is undergoing industrialization, with more and more software rapidly assembled out of components and an emphasis on building automation around software validation and release processes. Modern cloud-native software is no longer a monolithic application living in a single repo with the majority of its dependencies self-contained. It is integrated from third-party components provided […]
Perforce Charts Testing Course After BlazeMeter Acquisition
Perforce Software has acquired BlazeMeter from Broadcom as part of an effort to extend the scope of its testing tools beyond the Perfecto tools for testing mobile and web applications it acquired in 2018. Broadcom gained control over BlazeMeter after it acquired CA Technologies in 2018. CA Technologies acquired BlazeMeter in 2016. Terms of the […]
4 Container Orchestration Security Concerns
Container orchestration is a must-have technical skill, according to 51% of respondents to the 2021 Upskilling survey from DevOps Institute. So, it’s no surprise, then, that container technology is becoming increasingly popular. However, container environments are far more complex and dynamic than other infrastructure, making container security essential. Security ensures containers are running as intended, […]
Global Next-Generation Software Engineering Conference
GNGSEC sounds the clarion call for software engineering change! The pandemic made 2020 the year where we see some of this decade’s most exciting digital technologies become commercially viable, and others finally go mainstream. Software is the core of digital transformation. In the digital era, the methods by which we produce software also need to […]
Why an Embedded Analytics Maturity Framework is Essential
Contextual analytics, or embedding analytics directly into a business application’s transactional environment and core workflows, is the most sophisticated stage of business intelligence (BI) currently available to organizations today. It is one level ahead of the traditional integration of analytics, which is a standalone capability presented as a separate dashboard or reporting module. Today, there […]
4 Tips To Plug The Cloud IT Skills Gap
Technical talent is few and far between. The programming world faces a developer shortage, and with this shortage comes a lack of cloud know-how. By now, most organizations have become multi-cloud, yet 86% of IT professionals believe a lack of these skills will slow down cloud projects. As more teams transition from older architectures to […]
CloudBees Acquires Neuralprints to Shift Compliance Left
At the online DevOps World 2021 conference today, CloudBees revealed it has acquired Neuralprints to provide the core technology for CloudBees Compliance, a real-time compliance and risk analysis platform that it will roll out in the first quarter of 2022. At the same time, CloudBees has enhanced the feature management capabilities of its namesake continuous […]
The New(ish) Complexity
The API economy and microservices architectures, led by Agile and DevOps, have introduced a massive amount of hidden complexity. I call it hidden complexity because we have a tendency in IT to focus on the problems in front of us, resolve them, then focus on the new problem in front of us. This leaves technical […]
DataOps: How to Turn Data into Actionable Insights
Enterprises have struggled to collaborate well around their data, which can impact everything from digital transformation to advanced concepts like AI and ML. DataOps is not without challenges; building, managing and scaling data pipelines requires careful thought around reusability, portability across infrastructure and applications and long-term maintenance and governance. And these are just a few […]
Zero-Trust Network Access Platforms Slash DevOps Bottlenecks
In a prior article, I indicated why a new remote zero-trust platform is needed to support DevOps teams. Traditional remote access configurations are not well-suited for DevOps given a shifting user population comprised of employees, contractors and other third parties often using their own devices; the large number of tools and systems to which access […]
Google DORA Report Shows Modest DevOps Gains
Google today published the annual Accelerate State of DevOps Report created by its DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team that finds 26% of DevOps teams surveyed can now be classified as elite performers. That compares to 20% the last time the study was conducted in 2019. DevOps teams, made up of a total of 32,000 […]
Accelerate State of DevOps Report: The Move to Multi-Cloud
Analysis of the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) data shows an increasing number of organizations are choosing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions. In our survey, respondents were asked where their primary service or application was hosted, and the results showed that public cloud use is on the rise. Of the 1,200 survey respondents […]
JFrog Acquires Upswift to Push DevOps to the Edge
JFrog today revealed it has acquired Upswift as part of an effort to extend its DevOps reach to edge computing platforms. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Upswift has created agent software that is deployed as a binary file on an edge computing platform that makes it possible to continuously deliver software across a […]