Networking: The DevOps Community Deserves Better
Developers of cloud-native applications are at the heart of a process of radical transformation shaking up the business world. Using DevOps and SRE methodologies, modern development teams are bringing a level of agility to the game that is all about freeing enterprises from the shackles of the old, pre-cloud days and letting them take advantage […]
AWS Advances DevOps Agenda at Summit Event
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added services to its cloud platform designed to automate the creation of virtual private clouds (VPCs) and made available additional tools to build applications and integrate external data. Speaking at the AWS Summit event, CTO Werner Vogels said these latest services are part of an ongoing effort to automate DevOps […]
Using Automation to Control Cloud Costs
By building in cost control automation from the very beginning, you can keep your cloud costs low while encouraging innovation. Infrastructure automation has become vital for every modern sys admin and operations team. Applications and systems are evolving from single-host mainframes to distributed microservices architectures. This automation has gone from basic operating system installation and […]
Making Your Cloud Work For You
Does your cloud work for you, or do you work for your cloud? Given the enormous dependency and costs associated with cloud computing, that is a question more and more DevOps teams are asking these days. After more than a decade of pressure from higher-ups to move workloads to the public cloud, DevOps teams are […]
Kentik: Cloud Native Applications Need Network Analytics
Moving everything into the cloud seems to have taken the spotlight from the network. As the internet is ubiquitous, who worries about the networks? Kentik has a notion that in the age of cloud native, network analytics are as important as ever. In fact, network analytics may be more important than ever. I sat down […]
HPE Extends Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today advanced its hybrid cloud computing strategy by announcing at its HPE Discover 2019 conference an alliance with Google to embrace Kubernetes in hybrid cloud computing environments and then extending the reach of its software-defined infrastructure for building private clouds to legacy ProLiant servers. Lauren Whitehouse, director of marketing for the software-defined […]
Lessons Learned From the Salesforce Outage
Everyone has bad days. Every company has been through some kind of outage due to a buggy database deployment. Even the best of the best, with highly trained staff, world-class best practices and well-thought-out processes make mistakes. On May 17, Salesforce.com had a bad day. What Happened? The company deployed a faulty database change script […]
Portable Security Policies: A DevSecOps Primer
Protecting critical data and applications is a challenge under any circumstances, but it’s especially daunting when resources reside in the cloud. Most organizations today operate a significant portion of their workloads in the cloud, which adds to the complexity of the security problem—a security team can’t fully control cloud environments but is responsible for securing […]
How Not to Sabotage Your Multi-Cloud Strategy
The immense pressure for enterprises to deliver new applications and insights that exploit new business opportunities has been a driving force for digital transformation. This, in turn, has led IT leaders to embrace a multi-cloud strategy—whether that’s deploying a combination of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google, or extending private data centers to […]
VMware to Acquire Avi Networks for NetOps Capability
VMware announced it intends to acquire Avi Networks for an undisclosed price as part of an ongoing effort to close the gap between network operations (NetOps) and DevOps. Once this deal closes, sometime between now and August, VMware plans to add a software-based load balancer, along with a web application firewall (WAF) and a service […]
RDX Eases Oracle Database Migration to PostgreSQL on AWS
RDX this week launched a set of tools designed to make it easier to convert applications running on an Oracle database to Amazon Aurora, an instance of an open source PostgreSQL database running on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud that is compatible with Oracle databases. Announced at the AWS Summit event in Washington D.C., […]
Akamai Extends Reach to the IoT Edge
Akamai today unveiled a strategic initiative to extend the reach of its global network out to applications deployed on the network edge. Announced at the Akamai Edge World conference, the Edge Cloud portfolio will consist of a mix of existing, new and forthcoming offerings. In terms of new offerings, Akamai launched IoT Edge Connect, which […]
Why Your Test Automation Is Failing
If you have been investing in test automation, but it’s not getting you where you think it should, it could be that you approached it superficially. One of the most common issues is that the test part of test automation is rather straightforward to automate, especially with today’s abundance of great automation tools. But jumping […]
Which Desktop OS Is Best for DevOps?
Which operating system (OS) is best for DevOps engineers to use on their workstations? That’s a weighty question. Talk about which OS is “best” for any purpose is always controversial. I’m not going to stick my neck out by saying that one OS is definitively better than others when it comes to doing DevOps work. […]
Tech Pros: Plan for Failure to Breed Success
Veteran tech pros will tell you: Failure does not always mean failing at something; it often means failing to do something. Failure can be unpredictable and accidental, but usually, a lack of preparedness causes the most significant incidents. Data centers go down, huge bursts of bot activity generate too many requests for a network to […]
DevOps and Networking: Working to Achieve Nirvana
Enterprises don’t own the cloud, just the experience. If there’s an outage or even a hiccup in the performance or network service, it’s on the network and application teams (not the cloud provider) to fix it. But often with problems in the cloud comes finger-pointing, as network and application teams look to determine liability and […]
Chef Extends Automation Reach and Scope
At its ChefConf 2019 conference today, Chef extended its core platform in ways that collectively serve to automate further the management of applications and the IT infrastructure they are deployed on. Extensions to the Chef Enterprise Automation (EAS) Stack include the addition of Application Operations Dashboards, Migration Accelerators for moving applications to the cloud and […]
Microsoft Gains DevOps Momentum
Microsoft, at its recent Microsoft Build 2019 conference, launched a series of efforts intended to make it easier for organizations to embrace best DevOps practices, including making it possible to address both continuous integration and continuous delivery within the same YAML file using Azure Pipelines. Microsoft also announced it will extend Azure Pipelines to provide […]
Nutanix Eases Development of IoT Apps
Nutanix, a vendor of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, has released a new developer environment that allows developers to try and test IoT and AI apps in the cloud. Starting May 7, developers can sign up for a free 10-day trial of this experience. The developer environment is built under Nutanix’s Xi IoT Platform and gives developers […]
5 Ways Wireless Technology Will Evolve in 2019
2019 will be a transformative year for the wireless world, with landmark developments in 5G, cloud computing and hardware. From stadiums and retail buildings to airports and even street corners, there’s no place that won’t be affected by the rapid evolution of wireless technology. And if you’re not up on the edge, you’re sleeping on […]
With RHEL 8, Red Hat Adds More Automation to IT Ops
At the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference, Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, which includes among other things a Smart Management add-on designed to make it easier to manage RHEL 8 across hybrid cloud computing environments. In addition, RHEL 8 includes Application Streams, a set of utilities […]
Autonomous Networks: The Future We Need Now
Automation has become a necessity for managing systems in today’s age of dynamic and agile cloud-based environments. Operators are looking to optimize with efficiency and minimalism—to do more with less—as the goal. This same line of thinking should be applied to managing the network or system infrastructure. While network operators face the same challenges as […]
Best Practices for DevOps in the Cloud
DevOps is commonly defined as a methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal is to shorten a system’s development life cycle while delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives. Putting DevOps into practice is an ongoing experiment for many organizations. Developers often struggle with continuous integration (CI) […]