Cloud Orchestration Language Roundup: A Comparison
What cloud providers do you work with? Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Amazon AWS? Microsoft Azure? Which services? Are you using a managed Kubernetes such as GKE, AKS, Openshift or EKS? How do you manage your cloud resources? How do you manage the release cycle of the infrastructure and applications that you deploy? If the above […]
JFrog Adds Free DevOps Tier in the Cloud
JFrog announced today it is making a free tier of its namesake DevOps platform available on all three major public cloud service providers. Stephen Chin, senior director for developer relations at JFrog, said a free subscription to JFrog Platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now generally […]
Observe Unveils Observability Platform Built on Snowflake DBaaS
After raising $35 million in seed funding, Observe Inc. has emerged from stealth with early access to a namesake observability service that leverages the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform created by Snowflake Inc. Company CEO Jeremy Burton said rather than build another data lake platform, it makes more sense to make an observability platform available using a […]
Kong Previews Application Connectivity Service
Kong Inc., at its online Kong Summit 2020 conference, unfurled Kong Konnect, a cloud service through which developers can leverage application programming interfaces (APIs) and microservices to integrate distributed applications. Available as a private beta, Kong Konnect promises to make it easier for developers to create complex workflows spanning API gateways, Kubernetes Ingress controllers and […]
Twilio Expands Scope of Cloud Services Portfolio
Twilio today at its online SIGNAL 2020 conference launched Twilio Video Web RTC Go, a free toolkit that makes it easier to embed video within an application, and exposed an Event Streams application programming interface (API) through which the management of streams of messaging and voice can be centralized using the Amazon Kinesis platform. At […]
Adobe Adds Tools for Building Custom Applications
Adobe this week launched a series of tools intended to make it easier to build custom applications that can be deployed on a serverless computing platform on the Adobe Experience Cloud. Announced at the online Adobe Developers Live event, the Project Firefly framework promises to make it easier for developers to build cloud-native applications that […]
Optimize Performance, Cut Costs With AWS Autoscaling Services
A very easy (and free) way to get the get your money’s worth on the AWS Cloud platform is autoscaling. Autoscaling allows for better fault tolerance, better availability and better cost management, quickly scaling up and down to meet traffic demands while keeping your costs within budget by detecting and replacing the components that are […]
VMware Starts to Gain Some Momentum on AWS
The number of IT organizations planning to move application workloads to the cloud that today run on VMware appears to be accelerating in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey of 1,054 IT and business professionals conducted by Faction, a provider of IT services, conducted in June finds more than half (51%) of all […]
Report: Cloud Expertise Now Superior to University Degree
According to a report by online learning platform A Cloud Guru, 90% of IT leaders expect to expand their cloud services usage over the next one to three years, yet only 56% have an actionable plan to upskill their workforce. The recently released “State of Cloud Learning Report” revealed interesting trends in cloud adoption and […]
Are We There Yet? The Long, Hot Road Trip to the Cloud
“If I have to pull this car over, there will be trouble!” Does this sentence evoke childhood memories of summer adventures in the family car? It’s the same sort of dread we get when the IT budget-holder turns around and threatens to pull over on our journey to the cloud or hybrid cloud. The family […]
Safeguarding Secrets Within the Pipeline
How can an organization write source code to use secrets without directly referencing them and risking them being leaked to the public? 2020 closes out a decade full of countless code leaks, a topic we talk about quite often. In fact, just recently, Intel became the latest victim after 20GB worth of internal documents were […]
Tricentis Extends Testing Reach to ServiceNow Applications
Tricentis has extended the reach of its portfolio of testing tools to now include software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications from ServiceNow. Martin Klaus, vice president of product marketing for Tricentis, said testing has become a larger issue because in addition to patch updates ServiceNow is now on a cadence to deliver to two major updates to its […]
How Serverless Technologies Can Achieve Optimal DevOps Practices
Growing competition and increased customer expectations drive the speed of development. Adopting DevOps, meanwhile, can be a challenge, as it includes adjusting practices and new infrastructure. However, although engineering resources may be slim, serverless offers new solutions to tackle the DevOps challenge. From improved IoT devices to cost-effective machine learning applications, the serverless ecosystem is […]
Survey: Cloud Security, DevOps Emerging as Enterprise Priorities
A survey published today by 2nd Watch, a provider of IT services, finds that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud security and DevOps have emerged as the top two priorities for large enterprise IT organizations. The survey queried more than 100 IT directors working at companies with at least $500 million in annual […]
How API Testing Can Save You Thousands
API testing before launch can mean the difference between a $25 cloud database bill and a $30k bill Usage-based billing is a popular payment model in cloud-based SaaS platforms. The idea is that you only pay for the amount of data your project uses, which is great for companies that have finite metrics on their […]
VMware Expands Reach of IT Management Portfolio
VMware today announced a bevy of updates to its portfolio of IT management tools that is now at the heart of its overall approach to both DevOps and AIOps. VMware vRealize Operations 8.2 and VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, the on-premises and software-as-a-service (SaaS) editions of the same IT automation platform, provide deeper support for Kubernetes […]
3 Key Issues With Hybrid Cloud Transformation
The cloud has fractured. Nowadays, it is nearly impossible to scale a cloud-agnostic digital transformation initiative. The reality is that most enterprises adopt a hybrid cloud arrangement. Whether designed strategically or throughout years of competing vendors and technology influences, hybrid cloud environments, and the problems therein, seem a mainstay for modern IT. Many digital transformation […]
Revisiting 2020 Cloud Predictions in Light of COVID-19
Back when the technology industry made its cloud predictions for 2020, no one forecasted the impending impact of COVID-19. Across the board, the pandemic has changed the way consumers have digital experiences, and made businesses realize their legacy IT infrastructure may not be up to keeping pace with new demands. So how does that change […]
Cloud Is Red Hot in the COVID-19 Era
As digital transformation accelerates, cloud services are helping organizations thrive in a COVID-19 world As the days tick by and the gloomy ramifications of COVID-19 become more apparent, one harsh truth has become crystal clear: Industries that have invested in digital transformation stand a better chance of recovery and survival than others. The banking industry […]
AWS Brings Machine Learning to Code Optimization
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made generally available a tool dubbed Amazon CodeGuru that employs machine learning algorithms to recommend ways to improve code quality and identify which lines of code are the most expensive to run on its cloud service. Peder Ulander, director of open source for AWS, said Amazon CodeGuru not only helps […]
Cloud Foundry Foundation Updates CLI to Extend DevOps Processes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) today released an update to its command-line interface (CLI) that will enable DevOps teams to build more granular and complex workflows spanning multiple processes across the open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. Announced at the Cloud Foundry North American Summit, version 7 of the Cloud Foundry CLI employs updates to the […]
ServiceNow Acquires Sweagle to Advance DevOps Agenda
ServiceNow has acquired Sweagle, a provider of a repository for collecting configuration data that makes it easier to manage IT environments at scale. RJ Jainendra, vice president and general manager of DevOps and IT business management at ServiceNow, said Sweagle advances the DevOps initiative his company launched last year by providing a way for IT […]
HashiCorp Unfurls Cloud Platform for Managed Services
HashiCorp today at its online HashiConf Digital event launched HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), through which it intends to make all of its software available as a fully managed service. At the same time, HashiCorp announced a public beta of an update to HashiCorp Terraform, a curated instance of an open source tool for configuring IT […]