The Importance of NetSecOps in Network Management
The IT landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past decade or so. The vast majority of businesses now operate largely in the cloud, which has had a notable impact on their agility and productivity. A recent survey of 1,900 IT and security professionals found that 41% of organizations are running more of their workloads […]
Tiering Cold Data to the Cloud Without Tears
The cloud provides inexpensive storage. But like everything else in the cloud, there are hidden costs. Cloud storage providers (CSPs) charge to put data into and retrieve data from the cloud. They charge for the API calls and they generally charge an egress cost when the data is extracted from the CSP. So, to keep […]
Managing Cloud Security with Check Point Software
Managing cloud security across multiple cloud providers, private cloud, AppSec and software as infrastructure, is highly complex. In this TechStrong TV episode, TJ Gonen, head of cloud security product line at Check Point Software, advises a security strategy that meets the challenges of cloud environments and cloud-native software architectures, and DevOps toolchains. Information about Check […]
Despite Cloud Adoption, Enterprises Demand On-Premises Software
A recent report from Dimensional Research reveals that the demand for on-premises software is equal to that of public cloud. The report, which was commissioned by Replicated, a company specializing in on-premises software modernization, queried 405 participants in software development, executive, product management, sales and services roles to determine the needs, usage and challenges of […]
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 […]
Consider Telemetry When Rearchitecting Applications
Australia and New Zealand have seen a big move to the public cloud, and “… when I talk to customers, I see huge interest in rearchitecting applications rather than doing a lift-and-shift right into public cloud,” said Scott van Kalken, F5 ANZ solution architect for DevOps and modern applications. That migration to the public cloud […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Reach to Embrace Prometheus
OpsRamp today announced it has added the ability to ingest data captured via the open source Prometheus monitoring software into its namesake IT operations platform infused with machine learning algorithms. In addition, the company is adding support for customizable dashboards using the Prometheus Query Language to create visualizations of hybrid infrastructure performance. Also, a set […]
Survey Illuminates Long Dark Road to Hybrid Cloud
While hybrid cloud computing will play a critical role in enabling digital business transformation it turns out most IT organizations lack the skills and technologies required to achieve it. A survey of 108 IT executives conducted by the research firm Pulse on behalf of CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, finds 94% […]
‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’
These days, software programmers are increasingly estranged from hardware. Most millennials and Generation Z developers have never had to mount physical servers. They have never been lulled by the gentle hum of a server room chugging along in synchronous harmony. Today, you don’t even necessarily have to build your own PC or worry too much […]
JFrog Tightens Integration with Cloud Edition of Jira
JFrog this week announced that its DevOps platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS), can now be integrated with the Jira project tracking and management application, delivered as a cloud service, from Atlassian. Casey O’Mara, vice president of worldwide business development for JFrog, said this bidirectional integration makes it possible to link a Jira issue, such […]
IBM Unifies Cloud Services to Simplify App Dev
IBM announced today that an IBM Cloud Code Engine service that unifies the cloud platforms on which applications are built and deployed is now generally available. Built on top of a serverless computing platform, IBM Cloud Code Engine is a managed service that unifies access to a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, a container-as-a-service (CaaS) environment and […]
Oracle Extends Capabilities of Enterprise Manager Platform
Oracle today announced it has updated its core management platform to provide capabilities that make it easier to manage a hybrid cloud computing environment spanning millions of endpoints. The latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) 13c, in addition to greater scalability, also provides support for dynamic groups, dynamic runbooks, automated workload analysis, monitoring templates, […]
Red Hat Extends Reach and Scope of Insights Analytics Service
During its online Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat today announced it has extended the Red Hat Insights predictive analytics cloud platform for managing IT to now include support for editions of Red Hat OpenShift based on Kubernetes and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In addition, Red Hat has extended Red Hat Insights for […]
Fast Object Storage Key to Backup and DR Strategy
The massive shift to remote work necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic kickstarted many companies’ digital transformation. While this transition had already begun for most organizations, the pandemic sped up the timeline. These events also had an impact on how storage and backup is done. Let’s look at why the right storage solution is key to […]
Pulumi Moves to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning
Pulumi announced today it is expanding the scope of its automation ambitions to make it easier to securely provision cloud infrastructure-as-code. Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, said the Cloud Engineering Platform enables DevOps teams to use Pulumi Packages to create reusable components for automating IT infrastructure provisioning in a way that can be embedded within workflows […]
Perforce Adds Synchronization Tool for Cross-Functional Teams
Perforce Software has added a graphical tool, dubbed Helix Sync, that enables individuals, such as artists, to take advantage of the version control capabilities provided by its software development life cycle (SDLC) platform. Gerhard Krüger, cloud architect and product manager at Perforce, said that as DevOps workflows continue to evolve in the gaming and automotive […]
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 […]
Web Isolation and Secure Web Gateways with Menlo Security
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many enterprises have implemented remote work policies to monitor network traffic and protect sensitive data. Organizations have been adjusting and adopting new practices and technologies to improve data security across cloud-based environments. In this episode of TechStrong TV, Nick Edwards, vice president of product management at Menlo Security, joins Mitch Ashley […]
Do You Need a Cloud AI Engineer?
For all the technological advancements we are witnessing in AI and machine learning, the practical benefits remain elusive in the non-tech business world, frustrating decision-makers as AI investment climbs. For example, over the past several years, many Fortune 500 companies have invested in strong data science teams and AI labs, but still struggle when it comes […]
What Amazon’s New CEO Means for IT’s Future
Amazon is placing its bets on the future of cloud. The announcement that CEO Jeff Bezos will be stepping down and passing the torch to Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Andy Jassy at the start of Q3 2021 signals a major shift in the future of technology – and not only for organizations specializing in […]
Red Hat Survey Reveals More Confidence in Open Source
A recent Red Hat survey revealed how DevOps teams increasingly depend on open source to support their shift to cloud-native environments and digital transformations, and to maintain security in these highly distributed environments. Based on a survey of 1,250 IT professionals, Red Hat maintains that the survey respondents — from organizations that were Red Hat […]
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 […]
Solvo Automatically Crafts Cloud Security Policies
Solvo today announced general availability of a namesake tool that automatically creates a least-privilege policy and applies it to application workloads deployed in the cloud. Previously available only as a private beta, Solvo will also continually analyze a workload after it’s been deployed to enable IT teams to adjust security policies as additional updates to […]