DevOps and Security: Focus on Importance
Why have I written “DevOps and Security” and not DevSecOps or one of the other names that floats around? Because this post is aimed to apply to everyone—not just those far enough along to have melded some of their security practices into DevOps. Note: After I wrote this article but before I posted it, Bill […]
Toyota Research Institute Discusses DevOps Automation and Rapid Innovation
How TRI is using DevOps automation to drive its research and engineering Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is working to build a future where everyone has the freedom to move, engage and explore with a focus on reducing vehicle collisions, injuries and fatalities. Working tirelessly behind the scenes is TRI’s Infrastructure Engineering team, responsible for designing, […]
VMware Extends Scope of Alliance with IBM
On the heels of IBM announcing its intent to acquire Red Hat, VMware announced at the VMworld Europe 2018 conference this week an extension of its longstanding cloud alliance with IBM. Red Hat competes directly with VMware; yet, there are also more than 1,600 customers running VMware on the IBM cloud. Ajay Patel, senior vice […]
DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship
Most companies want to increase their competitiveness in today’s swiftly changing world, and so they cannot ignore digital transformation. DevOps and cloud computing have become two of the ways companies can achieve this needed transformation, though the relationship between the two is not easily reconciled—DevOps is about the process and process improvement, while cloud computing […]
DevOps Chat: Microclimate and IBM Cloud Private with Toby Corbin
IBM Cloud Private has cemented itself in the DevOps space as a personal cloud environment, which is great for developers who need the agility and computing power of the cloud but don’t want to step into a public cloud setting. Tony Corbin, technical lead for the Microclimate Project, describes IBM Cloud Private as “a cloud […]
How IBM’s $34B Bid for Red Hat Will Spur DevOps Adoption
IBM’s proposed acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion will have an immediate impact in raising awareness for a programmatic approach to managing hybrid clouds based on best DevOps practices. A recent survey published by International Data Corp. (IDC) finds most organizations (64 percent) have already embraced multiple clouds to varying degrees. Only 7 percent […]
Cost Per IT Ticket: Think Beyond Opex in Your Cloud Journey
Globally, organizations have embraced cloud computing and delivery models for their numerous advantages. Gartner predicts the public cloud market is expected to grow 21.4 percent by the end of 2018, from $153.5 billion in 2017. Cloud computing services provide an opportunity for organizations to consume specific services with delivery models that are most appropriate for […]
DevOps Chat: Security in the Cloud with Dome9’s Zolar Alon
Dome9 is in the business of cloud security, so it’s no wonder some of the world’s top companies rely in it to secure their sensitive data and applications in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments. And with last week’s announcement of Check Point’s aquisition of Dome9, an even greater number of users […]
SAP Embeds Integration Services in PaaS Environment
SAP, at its SAP Tech-Ed Europe 2018 conference, expanded the scope of the integration services it provides within SAP Cloud Platform, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment it provides for building custom applications based on the open source Cloud Foundry project. Dan Lahl, global vice president of product marketing for SAP Cloud Platform, said SAP is now […]
The Truth Behind DevOps on the Cloud
DevOps on the cloud may seem simple enough, but in reality it can be very complex The ultimate goal of a DevOps administrator is to make sure that everything is running properly and seamlessly—so much so that management is convinced that the DevOps administrator is playing solitaire all day. To that end, a successful DevOps […]
Building Great Cloud Security Guardrails
Security guardrails are an incredible way to keep our cloud deployments safer without slowing things down. Taking this structured approach will minimize friction while increasing protection. When I first started working hands-on in cloud (AWS) around nine years ago, I quickly realized both the power and risks of just how darn fast and agile cloud […]
IBM Survey: Rise of Multi-Cloud Computing to Force DevOps Issue
A survey of 1,106 business and technology executives published this week by the IBM Institute for Business Value finds 85 percent of companies are already operating in multi-cloud environments, with 98 percent forecasting they will be using multiple hybrid clouds within three years. But the survey finds that only 39 percent of the respondents have […]
DevOps Chat: disrupt:Ops Brings Security Closer to DevOps
Shifting security left during the software development process can be tough for companies because of the sheer number of operational things that go along with implementing security that must occur somehow in the realm of DevOps. It can be easy to lose control over their security processes without some sort of guardrails in place to […]
Adobe Looks to Drive DevOps Adoption via the Cloud
Adobe has been building out a managed service that includes continuous integration/continuous development capabilities on the Adobe cloud service. Now Adobe is extending the DevOps processes enabled by its CI/CD platform to make them more customizable in addition to expanding the scope of the application development tools it provides to include support for single page […]
Are Legacy Apps the Antithesis to DevOps?
Do you have an application marked with cryptic warning signs and a wealth of cobwebs that is running on legacy hardware hidden away in the back corner of your data center? If you’re in enterprise IT, chances are high that you do. These old platforms are often considered a bane to IT. More importantly, legacy […]
Is NoOps the Future of Cloud Networking?
As enterprises move more of their applications, data and operations to the cloud, competitive success becomes increasingly about speed. If the answer to a request to spin up and connect a new virtual cloud or deploy a new application across your hybrid cloud is “no,” or, “It will take us three months,” that’s a problem. […]
Pivotal Software Extends Development Platform Reach
Pivotal Software announced an expansion of its implementation of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment in addition to extending its support for Kubernetes to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. At its SpringOne Platform 2018 conference, Pivotal revealed that Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) can now extend a single instance of its distribution of the […]
The Hybrid Cloud and Why DevOps Teams Need Unified Stack Observability
The modern data center is constantly evolving to keep up with the demands of always-on, anywhere computing. Long gone are the days of monolithic, on-premises data centers. Today, the computing modus operandi is that of the hybrid cloud, which, according to Statista, will be worth close to $50 billion in 2018—just about double what it […]
Microsoft Revamps Approach to DevOps on Azure
Microsoft this week unfurled a broad range of DevOps services for the Azure cloud that are intended to make it easier for organizations to embrace modern application development and deployment processes. Jaimie Cool, director of product management for Azure DevOps, said it’s fundamentally simpler for organizations to embrace DevOps processes using tooling hosted in the […]
Bridging the Gaps in SaaS to Meet Business Needs
Today, software as a service (SaaS) is a mainstream model for application consumption, with industry-specific and business process-focused offerings increasingly available. Flexibility, reduced time to market and cost benefits are the top advantages and selling points of SaaS offerings. SaaS-powered business processes allow businesses to provide feedback in real time, thus enabling a smooth change […]
How to Use APM to Hold Cloud Providers Accountable
Here’s the challenge: Cloud providers’ service level agreements (SLAs) typically stop at the edge of their cloud, while your internal service level expectations run end to end. Measuring performance from the end user to the application and back, including device details, user productivity and page load times, is essential for customer satisfaction and continuous performance […]
Best Practices for Your SaaS Laravel Application on AWS
It is not easy to subsist in a modern cloud ecosystem. However, there are solid principles that will help you to build a perfect AWS architecture for your Laravel application, including the 12-factor methodology, design applications with a stateless approach and decoupling service components. I’m sure you are adopting many of these principles already. However, […]
Using Laravel and AWS: What You Need to Know
Most likely, you have heard about and Laravel, the open source PHP framework, and you might be planning to go to the next level to modernize your PHP Laravel application. AWS offers a number of features to help organizations scale to support millions of users, not to mention the agility and cost benefits associated with […]