VMware Drops Managed Cloud Onto Dell EMC Appliances
At the Dell Technologies World conference, VMware today announced it will make available an instance of its managed cloud platform on appliances from Dell EMC in the second half of this year. VMware Cloud for Dell EMC is a turnkey platform that combines VMware compute, storage and networking software in a single offering managed and […]
Mirantis Adds Modeling Tool to Configure Private Cloud
At the Open Infrastructure Summit conference, Mirantis today unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application through which IT administrators can employ modeling tools to configure private clouds based on either OpenStack or Kubernetes. Boris Renski, chief marketing officer for Mirantis, said rather than having to manually configure a private cloud for an on-premises IT environment using YAML […]
The Biggest News from Google Cloud Next ’19? Better Capabilities for Big Data
Data analytics is about to become a whole lot easier. Google’s annual Google Cloud Next conference brought plenty of new announcements and innovations. But the search giant’s focus on data has stolen the show. Partners of the tech titan such as Fivetran, DataStax and Hammerspace are bringing unprecedented data capabilities to the Google Cloud Platform […]
The Key to Multi-Cloud Success
In the era of cloud-based architectures, companies have implemented multiple cloud platforms but have yet to reap the full benefits. Whether it’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure—or some combination thereof—a recent Forrester study found that nearly 86% of enterprises have incorporated a multi-cloud strategy. Not only does this strategy take companies […]
The Challenge of Securing a Dynamic, Cloud-Based DevOps Environment
The tech landscape has fundamentally changed over the last decade. The steady migration from local data centers to cloud computing combined with the advent of DevOps and the rise of containers have taken what was a more or less contained and relatively stable environment and transformed it into a dynamic, constantly shifting ecosystem. At the […]
Insight IGNITE: DevOps, Cloud and Cyber From Iceland With Love
I had the pleasure recently of attending my first Insight IGNITE event, which was held at the ION Adventure Hotel in enchanting Iceland. It was also my first trip to Iceland. These two new experiences combined to deliver an excellent learning and networking experience, resulting in me realizing more than several new insights (pun intended) […]
CloudBees Allies with Atos to Accelerate DevOps Adoption
In a move that should accelerate adoption of best DevOps practices in the enterprise, CloudBees and Atos announced this week that the two are collaborating to advance adoption of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms on the Google public cloud. Announced at the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, the alliance will result in the IT services […]
6 Considerations for Secure Cloud Migration
Planning a secure cloud migration? Here are some tips to help make the process smooth. Three out of every four organizations on the planet have some sort of cloud presence. According to a 2018 IDG survey, 77% of enterprises now have at least one application or some portion of their enterprise computing infrastructure in the […]
Google Revamps Hybrid Cloud Strategy
At the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, Google announced it will make available cloud services based on Kubernetes under the brand name Anthos on its own cloud and on-premises platforms, as well as on third-party cloud services. such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Google also announced a tool dubbed Anthos Migrate that […]
TypeFox Ties Cloud-Based IDE to GitHub
TypeFox has launched a GitPod.io service that melds the integrated development environment (IDE) based in the cloud from TypeFox with the open source GitHub repository. Sven Efftinge, co-founder of TypeFox, said this level of integration will make it easier for developers to navigate multiple projects from which they pull code from GitHub into an Eclipse-based […]
Cloud Visibility Remains a Top Challenge for Many Organizations
A number of enterprises have a love/hate relationship with cloud computing. Because of its low upfront costs, the expense for cloud is lower, especially in the early years. But historically there has been another cost: the challenge of obtaining good visibility into applications, users and network traffic. I thought advancements in cloud management and security […]
Effective Cloud Security Requires a Cloud-Native Mindset
Thousands of developers and cloud security professionals will fill the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week for the sold-out Google Cloud Next ’19 conference. Three days of breakout sessions and keynotes will immerse attendees in deep technical content and opportunities for hands-on learning. It’s all designed to help organizations embrace the cloud. A key […]
Pivotal Software Previews Automation Framework
At the North America Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 conference, Pivotal Software announced it is beta testing an automation framework that promises to keep its distribution of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment continuously updated. In addition, Pivotal revealed it will be adding support for open source technologies including Envoy load balancing and Istio service mesh software developed […]
DevOps: ‘Tidying Up’ Your Cloud for Greater Value
Have you watched Netflix lately? Even if you haven’t, you may have heard of the phenomenon that is Marie Kondo, a tidying consultant who helps families organize their lives to reduce wasted space, material items and time. While watching her carefully organize peoples’ closets, I began to draw parallels between this process and cloud management. […]
Comparing Nuclio and AWS Lambda
With serverless, you delegate the responsibility of running your infrastructure to a platform provider as much as possible. This frees your engineers to focus on building what your customers want from you—the features that differentiate your business from your competitors’. For this philosophy to work, however, the platform needs to not only give you the […]
DevOps: Embracing the Telco Cloud
Ongoing developments in technology have led businesses to look to the cloud for greater flexibility, scalability and processing power. The telecoms industry is no different. Under growing pressure to meet the demands of the internet of things (IoT) and 5G, service providers are increasingly adopting cloud and virtualization technologies such as network functions virtualization (NFV) […]
Adobe Strategy Revolves Around DevOps
At the Adobe Summit 2019 conference this week, Adobe detailed that its Adobe Experience Cloud customer experience ecosystem is reliant on a set of best DevOps processes that is wrapped around a modern microservices architecture and layered on top of big data platform deployed on the Azure cloud. Adobe last year acquired Magento, provider of […]
Why Unikernels Are Great for DevOps
DevOps tooling seems to be in a never-ending state of self-transformation. The continuing evolution of infrastructure and the tools that go with it are forever creating new ecosystems. On the infrastructure side, we saw VMWare, Citrix and other companies bring to market massive virtualization in the late ’90s and early ’00s. This, of course, prompted […]
VMware Advances Hybrid Cloud Ambitions
VMware today advanced its hybrid cloud strategy by making a series of updates to existing offerings, including the CloudHealth by VMware software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for managing and optimizing cloud applications, which VMware acquired last summer. In addition, VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in data centers operated by Amazon Web Services in Canada, Paris […]
Why You Need DevOps and the Cloud
DevOps and the cloud are not only two of today’s biggest tech trends, but are inextricably linked. Research from DORA’s 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report and Redgate’s 2019 State of Database DevOps Report outline a clear correlation between cloud and DevOps adoption, with the two working together to contribute to greater business success. For […]
FinOps Foundation to Help Rein in Cloud Costs
A new consortium has been formed to promote best practices for controlling cloud computing costs. Announced at the Cloud Economic Summit, the non-profit FinOps Foundation counts among its founding members Atlassian, Autodesk, Cloudability, HERE Technologies, Just Eat and Nationwide. Cloudability co-founder J.R. Storment said the goal is to bring financial accountability to variable cloud spending […]
Can DevSecOps Prevent a Zombie Apocalypse?
Making consistent progress within any DevSecOps initiative often can be an overwhelming undertaking. Developers tend to outnumber operations dramatically, with little to no security accountability. This leaves DevSecOps doomed to work with the same network security stack that was originally designed decades ago for on-premises environments. Still, the expectation is to support shrinking deployment cycles […]
Enhance DevOps Experience with AWS Smart Tools
DevOps has become the champion of business operations by fostering collaboration between disparate teams, providing a common work framework and paving way for continuous delivery that greatly boosted software development. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a leading provider of DevOps tools and services and has been instrumental in taking this experience to a higher […]