Palo Alto Networks Advances DevSecOps in the Cloud
Palo Alto Networks has updated its Prisma Cloud to make it easier to embrace best DevSecOps processes while deploying workloads in the cloud. New capabilities include the ability to define and apply cybersecurity policies to continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) workflows and scanning tools for discovering misconfigurations in cloud infrastructure templates, which is […]
Copado Launches DevOps COVID-19 Initiative
Copado, a provider of a DevOps platform building and deploying applications on top of Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, will make its platform available for free to anyone working on applications to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Copado has launched a virtual DevOps training center and opened its DevOps community to anyone in the […]
Why SaaSOps Pros Need to Manage the New Perimeter
It’s a SaaS-driven world inside today’s workplace. Business users have taken control over their organization’s data within SaaS applications in search of a much more collaborative and responsive IT experience. This has caused a fundamental shift in the security paradigm. The user has become the new perimeter. IT and security must now monitor user activity […]
How to Secure Online Coding Platforms
Threat Modeling for Online Coding Platforms The evolution of DevOps teams and a greater reliance on cloud-based computing has completely changed the coding process. Now, with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), coding can be done entirely online. This is convenient, but are online IDEs secure? To answer this, we will focus on two popular cloud-based IDEs: […]
Humio Adds Unlimited Ingest Plan to Log Management Service
Fresh off raising an additional $20 million in funding, Humio, a provider of a platform for analyzing log data, has added an unlimited ingest plan to a cloud-based service to make it easier for organizations to retain massive amounts of log data. The unlimited ingest plan for the company’s cloud service extends a similar option […]
How to Secure Your Kubernetes Cluster on GKE
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is easy to get going with, but requires additional security controls. The documentation is hard to grasp as there are many features and changes that tie to specific Kubernetes versions that will require using beta feature enablement, as well as some out of date documentation that can catch people out. There […]
How to Compare and Contrast APIs to Improve DevOps Processes
The cloud is driving digital transformation, from web applications to mobile applications, from partner integrations to API monetization. Even custom applications are moving into the cloud. If you draw a line through all these trends, APIs would be at the heart of it all. We know we need to eat our vegetables to keep our […]
EP 4: DevOps and the Mainframe
In this fourth episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM and Sam Knutson of Compuware to discuss app modernization, mainframes and DevOps. Find out what’s the right way to modernize your applications and how to do app modernization in a Z environment.
2nd Watch Allies With GitLab for Managed DevOps Service
2nd Watch today launched a managed DevOps service based on the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform from GitLab that it will operate on behalf of customers in addition to coaching them on how to adopt best DevOps practices. Stefana Muller, a senior product manager, said the 2nd Watch Managed DevOps service combines the managed and […]
EP 3: Open Source and DevOps
In the third episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Alan Shimel is joined by Kevin Dunne of Tricentis, Tracy Miranda of CDF and Alon Girmonsky of UP9 to answer the question: Can we have DevOps without open source?
Oracle Adds APIs to Java SDK To Advance DevOps
Oracle announced it is making available the Java 14 software development kit (SDK), which provides access to several additional capabilities designed to help advance DevOps adoptions within IT organizations that still rely heavily on Java to build enterprise applications. Those capabilities include a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable continuous monitoring of JDK […]
Mission Makes AWS Expertise Available for Free
Mission, a provider of managed services for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, this week announced it will make its cloud optimization expertise available free of charge for any IT organization that acquires AWS licenses through it. Alex Beal, director of product for Mission, said as cloud sprawl continues to be an issue, many internal […]
Extending Cloud to Enable Intelligent Edge
In the last few years, with the emergence of 5G, IoT and AI, cloud providers have recognized the value and the importance of edge, and started building the infrastructure technologies to provide computing and connection between cloud and edge, as well as edge based intelligent services as part of their total cloud value proposition. However, […]
The Cloud Is Booming — But so Is Cloud Waste
Fueled by the growth in cloud spend, cloud waste will exceed $17.6 billion in 2020. Over 90% of organizations will use public cloud services this year. In fact, public cloud customers will spend more than $50 billion on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from providers such as AWS, Azure and Google. This boom is, of […]
JFrog Delivers on Hybrid Cloud Promise for DevOps
JFrog announced the availability of what it claims to be the first available hybrid DevOps platform capable of spanning multiple clouds. Dror Bereznitsky, chief product officer for JFrog, said the JFrog Platform integrates a range of DevOps tools within the context of the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform that the company previously developed, with the […]
Ten Years Later — What Is Cloud Native?
Ever since the term cloud native made its debut in 2010, its usage has grown in popularity. Today cloud native is used as a qualifier for innovative, leading edge applications, platforms and systems or cloud-savvy organizations and processes. However, what is cloud native exactly? There are some definitions, there are many opinions, but first and […]
HashiCorp Updates Terraform Tool for Azure Cloud
HashiCorp today announced it has updated the instance of Terraform it created to automate the configuration of virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud to give IT teams more granular control. Version 2.0. of Terraform (TF) AzureRM Provider will allow IT teams to separately configure virtual machines by type for instance of both Windows and […]
vArmour CEO: Cloud Security Needs Simplicity
Cloud computing promised cost savings and simplified IT management, among other things. In many ways, the cloud has lived up to its ideals, and in other ways, such as API security, shadow IT and the securing of clouds across hybrid environments, the cloud has proven challenging. To get a sense of how enterprises and security […]
Report Pins Cloud Security Woes on Flawed DevOps Processes
By now it’s become apparent that the bulk of security incidents involving cloud platforms revolve around some type of configuration issue. An analysis of those cloud configurations published today by the Unit 42 research arm of Palo Alto Networks suggests that the root cause of the issue is most likely the templates many developers and […]
Multi-Cloud Adoption to Better Enable the Developer Workforce
Over the past decade, we started to see a broader shift toward the use of multiple cloud providers by the enterprise. The need to reduce risk, optimize cloud usage, manage costs and the push to open source and cloud vendor-agnostic technologies are providing more options for developers, which will likely lead to an even steeper […]
Ten Questions Data Professionals Should Be Asking When Moving to the Cloud
You have finally decided to move your data into the cloud. Whether it was the ability to leverage the power of cloud compute, the promise of cost-savings or the scalability and flexibility that a cloud data warehouse can bring, it’s important to have a strategy in place. In order to set yourself up for success, […]
Datadog Sees Spike in AWS Lambda Serverless Adoption
Datadog published a report that shows nearly half of organizations using the company’s IT monitoring platform have embraced the AWS Lambda serverless computing framework. Stephen Pinkerton, a product manager for Datadog, said that number shows serverless computing frameworks are being employed by mainstream IT organizations far more widely than initially might be thought, given the […]
IBM Doubles Down on Cloud, But Is Krishna an Interim CEO?
Big news from Big Blue yesterday: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down after eight years at the helm. In her stead, IBM is doubling down on the cloud by appointing Arvind Krishna as CEO and member of the board. The real move to watch, though, is the appointment of Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, […]