The New Era of Kubernetes, With StackRox
Orchestrators are becoming the operating systems of cloud for the future. Which one do you think has become the dominant one? Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, placed his bet on Kubernetes right from the start. StackRox is a Kubernetes-native security platform that helps DevOps and security teams operationalize security, providing richer context, native […]
Eclipse Foundation Looks to Create Cloud-Based IDE Standards
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the formation of a working group to create standards for cloud-based integrated development environments (IDEs) led by Broadcom, EclipseSource, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, SAP, Software AG and Typefox. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group (ECD WG) will work to […]
Understanding and Implementing the APM Puzzle – Performance and Availability
While every organization is unique, there’s one universal goal everyone can get behind—creating and delivering an exceptional end-user experience. For both classic IT organizations and companies built in the age of cloud, delivering continuous availability and appropriate application performance is key. Although digital transformation has become a buzzword some would say is meaningless, the idea […]
Should Your Company Use DBaaS?
From SaaS to IaaS, companies are rapidly moving to the cloud to gain huge agility and cost benefits. So, is it time for your company to take advantage of database as a service (DBaaS)? Here’s a high-level discussion to help you along your decision path. First, it’s important to distinguish DBaaS from simply running a […]
Why Integration Must Be Hybrid
Integration is the central piece that ties your enterprise together. The need to integrate has only increased with the proliferation of SaaS applications, IoT sensors and devices, B2B e-commerce supply chains and mobile app development in addition to the vast number of applications that still reside in on-premises data centers which also host mainframe, legacy […]
Survey Sees Cloud Foundry Momentum Gains
At a time when many organizations are wondering to what degree they should rely on legacy application development and deployment platform versus emerging container-based platforms, the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) today released the results of a survey that shows reliance on the organization’s namesake open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment continues to grow. Announced at the […]
Cloud Security: Self-Healing Infrastructure With Fugue
Misconfiguration is the No. 1 cause for data breach in the cloud. Fugue helps to eliminate data breaches, as it fixes anything that gets drifted by providing baseline drift detection and automated remediation. Fugue is all about cloud security. It identifies security risks and compliance violations and ensures they’re never repeated. During this interview, Josh […]
Atlassian Looks to the Cloud
As part of an effort to accelerate migrations to the cloud, Atlassian is making instances of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Desk and Jira Core running in the cloud available for free, as well as premium options that provide access to the same software with access to additional features and support. Harsh Jawharkar, head of […]
Pulumi Deepens Cloud Ties to DevOps
Pulumi has made available a framework for automating the management of multiple cloud computing platforms using familiar programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go. Company CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi 1.0 provides a framework that enables developers to automate the deployment of applications on public clouds in a way that eliminates having to […]
Why ITOps Is Moving to the Cloud
There’s been a lot of movement in the IT operations management (ITOM) business lately, from the acquisition of SignalFx by Splunk to the PagerDuty IPO, and all signs point to a Datadog IPO in the future. What’s with all this consolidation? I believe we’re seeing the rise of a future-state of ITOM; that is to […]
From DevOps to DevSecOps: Owning Cloud Security
The cloud is a complex environment, with different groups managing different cloud services and environments. The most basic division is between the cloud provider, who provides the core infrastructure, and the customer, who leverages services or builds their applications using resources leased from the provider. Within larger organizations, different cloud resources, data and applications may […]
Out of Date: Cloud Anti-Trends of 2019
Let’s talk about 2019 cloud tech anti-trends. A lot of those anti-trends are nothing but cloud myths, which are still widely spread and talked about. In this article, we’ll take a look at some anti-trends and try to understand where’s the myth part in them. Private Cloud Is Not Popular Anymore According to the IDC […]
Bringing 5G-Enabled Digital Services to Life Calls for Cloud-Native Operations
Spotify, Netflix, IoT connectivity and cloud storage are a few examples of the digital services providing new options for fun and function to consumers and businesses alike, while representing a growing boon for communications service providers (CSPs). Gartner predicts by 2020, nearly one quarter (23%) of CSPs’ large enterprise business communication revenues will be driven […]
Autonomous Security in Containers
With the advent of DevOps, the development world has quickly moved to agile development practices and containerized applications. At Forum Systems, we have responded to this trend by putting our API security software, Forum Sentry, into virtual form factors such as Amazon Machine Image, Azure Image, VMware Image, Linux, Windows and Docker. Why do we […]
Virtual Instruments Acquires Metricly to Monitor Cloud Costs
Virtual Instruments has acquired Metricly, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that help organizations to optimize the deployment of cloud application workloads. Tim Van Ash, senior vice president of products at Virtual Instruments, said Metricly employs machine learning algorithms to identify opportunities to improve performance and reduce costs. Those capabilities complement an existing VirtualWisdom […]
CloudBees Harnesses Additional Cloud Bursting
At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees announced that the latest version of its CloudBees Accelerator platform now supports cloud bursting to all three of the major public cloud service providers. CloudBees Accelerator makes it possible to distribute the build, quality assurance and testing cycles across a large cluster of inexpensive servers. […]
FaaS is Key to DevOps Efficiency
When AWS announced Lambda–a serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) technology offering–the idea of encapsulating a specific task into a function that resides in the cloud was introduced into mainstream access. Now, with the rising popularity of microservices, DevOps is waking up the benefits of FaaS where it is used to build and maintain enterprise applications in agile […]
VMware Looks to Accelerate App Migration to the Cloud
VMware this week expanded the scope of its cloud migration efforts to include workloads that aren’t running on its virtual machine. VMware HCX leverages replication and virtual machine mobility technology to make it easier to automate the migration of either VMware-based workloads or those running on rival platforms to the latest generation of VMware platforms. […]
3 Ways IoT Developers Can Make Their Applications More Secure
When the IoT was still young, IoT application developers got away with making security an afterthought, as they built prototypes and minimum viable products designed to demonstrate the different ways the IoT could be used to transform the way we work, play and live. But the IoT has matured and grown to the point where […]
Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes: Leaky S3 Buckets
As we get ready to discuss our list of the Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes in the upcoming DevOps.com webinar, we wanted to provide a preview of the type and depth of information we’ll be discussing. Since the most-talked about, and likely the most vulnerable, aspect of AWS security is inevitably those leaky S3 buckets, […]
Speaking the Language of Applications
I arrived early to a meeting, and the pleasant security guard at AT&T suggested I take a look at their innovation museum while I wait. Among motion picture sound technology and life-size photos of switchboard operators on roller-skates stood a transistor prototype. The transistor was invented in Bell labs in 1947, and it changed the […]
Stackery Smooths AWS Serverless Integration for DevOps
Stackery today announced a plug-in capability that will allow developers to build and debug code destined to run on the Lambda serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from within an integrated development environment (IDE) running on a local machine. Company CTO Chase Douglas said the latest Stackery tool can be dropped into […]
Morpheus Data Simplifies Management of Ansible and Kubernetes
Morpheus Data is moving to make it easier to adopt and manage both Ansible and Kubernetes. Its Morpheus 4.0 update, announced today, includes a distribution of Kubernetes as well as tighter integration with the open source Ansible automation framework. Brad Parks, vice president of marketing and business development for Morpheus Data, said in the case […]