DevOps Chat: Serverless and Abstraction with Nimbella’s Anshu Agarwal
Anshu Agarwal has a tremendous record of working in startups that had successful exits. Now for the first time, along with her co-founders, she is actually founding the startup herself. Nimbella is a serverless platform that is cloud-agnostic and makes developing and deploying applications easy. Whether in a public cloud, private data center or both, […]
Spot Instances on Black Friday: A Case Study
Businesses made the right choice using spot instances for Black Friday Black Friday is the unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season, when retailers announce exciting deals to attract as many customers as they can into their stores. With online shopping surging in recent years, e-commerce and AdTech businesses are also participating in Black Friday […]
In AI Initiatives and Hybrid Clouds We Trust
The 2019 State of the Union Address, delivered Feb. 5, was light on anything tech-related. But just a week later, Feb. 11, technology was the focus of an executive order that launched The American Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative. Why do we need a national AI initiative, and what does it have to do with DevOps? […]
IBM Extends Cloud Reach to Include Integration
At the IBM Think 2019 conference this week, IBM unfurled an IBM Cloud Integration Platform that pulls together a range of tools in a single development platform that the company promises will reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy applications by making it easier to reuse integration code. Hillery Hunter, vice president and […]
Python Benefiting From Increase in DevOps Use
DevOps and Python have developed a mutually beneficial relationship. In a recent survey released by the Python Software Foundation and software development company JetBrains, researchers found that more and more developers are using the program language for an array of versatile projects, including DevOps and machine learning. In fact, Python developers told the researchers that […]
Red Hat Tightens CloudForms Integration with Ansible
Red Hat has tightened integration between CloudForms, its tool for managing IT infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud, and the its Ansible framework for automating IT operations. Pete Cruz, product marketing manager for management for Red Hat, said version 4.7 of Red Hat CloudForms and Ansible together promise to make it easier to manage multiple […]
Cloud Waste To Hit Over $14 Billion in 2019
The good news to start 2019 is that cloud adoption is growing rapidly. Most people realize this, but along with major growth comes some less welcome news. Wasted cloud spend is also up—often dramatically. Chances are, if you’re spending money on cloud, some of that money is being wasted. For some, a lot of that […]
DevTest Scales Out in the Cloud for 2019
It’s 2019, which means a whole new year of advancements in all areas of technology. One topic that is near and dear to my “cloud” heart is the acceleration and maturation of development and test (DevTest) scenarios and solutions in the public and hybrid cloud space. I’ve been talking with folks and presenting on […]
Edge Computing: Saving the Cloud from Ephemeral Data
Edge computing is rapidly gaining momentum. Last week’s Linux Foundation news on the launch of LF Edge is one more sign of accelerating growth at the edge. What’s driving this sudden intense interest? It’s more than just the sheer number of edge devices or mounting concerns around interoperability and security. Pushing compute resources closer to […]
Challenges and Tips for Taking Legacy Systems to the Cloud
Normalization of infrastructure through open source technologies is one way to make the move to the cloud an easier process for organizations. For many modern companies, growth often means growing through acquisition. As organizations become larger, it often makes sense to acquire existing companies who are already creating the solutions they need than try to […]
DevOps Chat: Cloud Migration with nClouds’ JT Giri
Moving to the cloud is becoming a must for many companies if they want to grow beyond their current footprint and be more innovative. But for many companies—especially those in the SMB space—their transition to the cloud is hindered by a lack of knowledge and experience, which often results in difficult migrations that sometimes just […]
Google Rolls Out Additional Cloud Certifications
Google is moving to address a chronic shortage of cloud skills necessary to advance DevOps. Specifically, Google plans to add Professional Cloud Developer (GA), Professional Cloud Network Engineer (Beta), Professional Cloud Security Engineer (Beta) and G Suite certifications (GA) alongside Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer and Associate Cloud Engineer certifications that already exist. Google […]
Identifying Cloud Migraines Before Cloud Migration: 6 Tips
Migrating to the cloud isn’t as simple as signing up for a SaaS application or deploying applications on a cloud infrastructure or platform; there are other factors at play. And the move to cloud shows no signs of slowing, with Gartner predicting the worldwide public cloud services market to grow 17.3 percent in 2019. Getting […]
Go Big: Scalability in the Age of DevOps
Achieving hyperscale is a work of technical art for any business. As companies grow and customers begin to rely more heavily on your service, ensuring reliability during peak business times is mission-critical. An enormous amount of work goes on behind the scenes to ensure scalability, and oftentimes it becomes necessary to redesign or rethink processes […]
Applying DevSecOps to Address Cloud Security Challenges
Driven by the encouragement from 2018 progress, cloud technology is poised to be even bigger in 2019. However, one major hurdle continues to haunt the cloud trend: security. An overwhelming number of firms in the IT industry are preparing for cloud adoption, yet security continues to be a big question for many of them. Early DevOps […]
5 Trends Transforming Digital and IT Operations Management
In 2018, digital transformation ushered in a radical shift in how enterprises harness customer insights, technology capabilities and rapid experimentation to drive revenue growth, profitability and market leadership. Enterprises spent $1.3 trillion in 2018 on digital transformation technologies such as public cloud platforms, microservices and containers, edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve […]
Distinguishing Between Cloud Washed and Cloud Native
Don’t fall for the marketing jargon: Running legacy infrastructure on a cloud instance is not actually cloud computing. Unfortunately, “cloudwashing” is common among enterprises as they attempt to jump on the cloud trend. So, how do we dispel the hype to distinguish pure cloud software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and […]
AWS re:Invent 2018 Product Launches: An Overview
AWS re:Invent is always rich in product launches. Some products are entirely new, while others are updates or enhancements to existing tools. The 2018 event was no exception. In case you missed it, here’s a drive-thru on some of the best products—and one important statement—from this year’s show. AWS Marketplace for Containers Announced at the […]
Revolutionize Software Delivery with DevOps and AWS
Technology is constantly evolving—every time we think we’ve got a complete hand-holding experience on some technological aspect, there emerges a better innovation. When the DevOps solution emerged, organizations were more than happy to incorporate its principles. But somewhere down the line, there came DevSecOps. Innovation is an upward curve that doesn’t see a decline but […]
Understanding Pillar 1 of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework
AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides a wealth of incredibly valuable best practices and guidelines structured around five distinct pillars that more cloud-native organizations would do well to heed. The first of these pillars, Operational Excellence, recommends a number of particularly valuable techniques. However, successfully adopting the design principles and practices within Pillar No. 1 requires a […]
Developers: Key to the User Experience in a Multicloud World
It’s amazing how many applications behave as if the network is always available, bandwidth is infinite and latency is zero. While optimistic, this approach to applications is ultimately rooted in fantasy. As it stands, there is a major proficiency gap between application developers and the networks in which they operate—but this can’t continue as our […]
Google Cloud Platform: The Basics for Absolute Beginners
Google Cloud Platform provides powerful tools and services. Why should you pay attention to one of the leading cloud service providers? More and more companies are moving to the cloud to help create software applications and manage data, and Google Cloud Platform is one of the many platforms available for cloud computing, an industry that […]
AWS Finally Embraces On-Premises IT
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced this week it will make available instances of its IT infrastructure available in on-premises IT environments, which it will then manage on behalf of customers. The announcement was made at its AWS re:Invent 2018 conference. AWS CEO Andy Jassy said AWS Outposts platforms, scheduled to be available in 2019, will […]