The EU’s Plans to Build a Wall Around GDPR-Protected Data
An ambitious German- and French-lead European Union (EU) initiative could wrestle tighter management, and eventually, control of data from commercial cloud providers. The project, dubbed as “Gaia-X,” is also intended to offer firewall-like protection for data sources from the EU. The initiative could have repercussions on how DevOps teams from outside of the EU manage […]
Survey Shows Accelerated Shift to Cloud, With Caveats
A survey of 250 IT leaders published by Snow Software, a provider of software asset management software, finds 91% are changing their cloud strategy in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey also finds twice as many respondents report they are accelerating cloud migration (45%) and digital transformation […]
AWS Aligns With Slack to Foster Dev Team Collaboration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies have formed an alliance through which they are moving to transform the way development teams collaborate. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Slack will migrate voice and video calls to the Amazon Chime real-time communications service. In addition, AWS and Slack are integrating Amazon AppFlow integration with […]
Harness Enables DevOps Teams to Rein in Cloud Costs
Harness today unfurled its Continuous Efficiency application, which enables DevOps teams employing its continuous delivery platform delivered as a service to monitor the cost of deploying applications on a public cloud. Company CEO Jyoti Bansal said cloud costs are spiraling out of control within many IT organizations because DevOps teams lack visibility into the true […]
Cloud and DevOps: CI/CD and Market Analysis
Companies today are under heavy pressure to deliver software faster and with more quality than their competitors. A set of good features and their reach to customers can increase only when the company releases software updates frequently. As a result, organizations are embracing DevOps and CI/CD approaches to improve their ability to plan, build, test […]
Report Finds Most Cloud Security Issues Left Unaddressed
Accurics, a provider of a platform for assessing the security of cloud computing environments, has published a report that finds that even once discovered, only 4% of issues reported in cloud production environments are addressed. Based on research conducted using its platform and other public sources of data, the report also finds 90% of organizations […]
How FaaS Is Disrupting Workflows: New CSP vs. CDN Services
Function as a Service (FaaS), the popular incarnation of serverless computing, along with containers, has played an important role in the migration from monolithic application architectures to those based on microservices. Its introduction has changed the way developers think about infrastructure and application development. While at the same time, it has also driven evolution in […]
CircleCI Extends Core CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today in partnership with Plandek launched an analytics plugin dubbed Buildtrakr for its namesake continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Buildtrakr integrates with CircleCI and Git to synthesize commit and build performance data, with critical metrics being surfaced via a dashboard. In addition, CircleCI has revamped its user interface and reconfigured a new […]
Cloud-Native Security and Performance: Two Sides of the Same Coin
You’re running Kubernetes in a production environment, and you need to apply a patch — perhaps to a commercial application, an open source component or even a container image. How long should it take to implement that patch in production? Thirty days? One day? One hour? Remember, cloud-native environments are supposed to respond to change […]
Rubrik Looks to Meld Data Management and DevOps
During its FORWARD Digital Summit event last week, Rubrik made a case for the melding of DevOps and data management. The company announced that its Polaris Data Management Platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, has added the ability to protect workloads running on virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Rubrik already provides […]
How to Secure the Intangible — Cloud Native Security in the New Age
People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. Companies aren’t interested in managing IT; they’re more interested in results. They want to deliver software quickly and focus on their core product or service. This is where the concept of cloud native computing comes in—and why securing it has become critical. […]
OpenStack Delivers Ussuri Update
The OpenStack community today officially released Ussuri, an update to the cloud management framework that tightens integration between components including the ability to automatically provision bare-metal servers using the Ironic IT automation framework built for that purpose. In addition, the community has added IPv6 support to the Kuryr project for integrating OpenStack with container networking […]
DevOps as a Service: Migrating Your Entire DevOps Stack to the Cloud
DevOps as a Service (DaaS) enables teams to centralize their tooling and workflow into one unified solution. This solution typically contains all necessary DevOps pipeline features, which replace legacy tooling. This article explains how DaaS works, including pros and cons, and an example showing how to migrate from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps in […]
Securing Internet-Facing Portals
Against the backdrop of the current pandemic, barely a day goes by without another portal or web application being launched to help citizens and customers interact with governments and corporations. Bringing these applications to market quickly, and ensuring they can’t compromise the security of the organization, requires DevOps to embrace news techniques and technologies. So, […]
Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Tools
Red Hat today announced it has extended the analytics capabilities it makes available for instances of the Ansible IT automation platform and has made the Ansible Automation Services Catalog now generally available. In addition, Red Hat has increased the number of certified playbooks it makes available from both the company and third-party partners within the […]
Data: The Fabric of Developers’ Lives
We’re living in the golden age of application development. Developers can tap into more resources and enjoy greater flexibility than ever before. Multi-cloud environments offer them the freedom to pick and choose from a wide range of services based on the strengths and offerings of different cloud providers. They have unparalleled opportunities to achieve their […]
Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization For The Enterprise
Multi-cloud is an increasingly popular approach for deploying enterprise computing assets. But, in the same vein, managing cloud costs has become a huge challenge. Whilst public cloud continues to grow in popularity, there are many factors that can increase a cloud bill that needs to be taken into consideration. A smart cloud cost management strategy […]
Self-Service Portal From env0 Reins in Public Cloud Costs
A platform that provides IT teams with a self-service portal through which they can both control access to and the cost of cloud resource consumption is now available in beta for free from env0. Company CEO Ohad Maislish said that while many organizations have implemented self-service portals to control who can access resources on public […]
How to Implement a Data Self-Service Program
Data self-service is a hot topic these days. By giving different people across an organization–marketers, technologists, business leaders, etc.–access to available data and analytics tools, you empower business users and decision makers to do their jobs effectively. But data self-service is still a work in progress at most organizations. According to a recent survey by IDG […]
JFrog Makes Free DevOps Resources Available for COVID-19 Projects
JFrog is providing free access to cloud-based DevOps tools to teams or organizations that have launched projects to actively research and fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Ido Green, vice president of technology for JFrog, said this initiative will be made available via its FrogCare program mainly to nonprofit organizations. The goal is to make it easier […]
Scalyr Alters Log Analytics Economics
Scalyr today announced that its log analytics cloud service is now capable of ingesting over 200TBs of data per customer per day in real-time. Company CEO Christine Heckart said the goal is to make as much log data available at a price point that will continue to be less than $5 per GB at scale. […]
APM and Application Stability: Where Two Monitoring Roads Merge and Diverge
In software development, application performance management (APM) is one of the grown-ups in the room. Not only has APM been around for a long time, but its solutions have evolved over several generations, making it one of the more mature product categories. APM’s longevity makes perfect sense when you consider its fundamental purpose, which is […]
Google Names CloudBees App Dev Partner of the Year
Google this week named CloudBees its 2019 Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Application Development at a time when the rate at which application workloads are heading into the cloud is expected to accelerate. Beyond the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CloudBees also makes available a software-as-a-service […]