A Matter of Trust: Survey Examines Impact of EV Certificates
When it comes to interacting online, everything is a matter of trust. Spam emails and clever phishing attacks make it more challenging to determine what’s legitimate and what isn’t and have put businesses and consumers on edge. Without trust, customers are reluctant to share sensitive information or conduct transactions online. According to a recent survey, […]
How Cloud-Native Computing Is Changing IT Job Roles
The cloud native age is upon us. This means not only that infrastructure, application deployment and security strategies look very different than they did just a few years ago, but also that the way companies design and fill IT jobs has changed—or should change, at least, for those seeking to stay relevant in our fast-changing, […]
DevOps 2.0: A New Evolution of Serverless Cloud Architecture
Science teaches us to formulate hypotheses and test them experimentally to advance systematically. While this sounds logical, DevOps—and software architecture in particular—does not follow this approach because current tools make this too cumbersome. So, architecture choices are frequently made by HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion). However, the rate of development, especially in the serverless or […]
Bridging the Multi-Cloud, DevOps Skills Gap
The cloud is driving a digital transformation revolution throughout the world, as traditional “brick and mortar” companies morph into software companies. This is easy to see with retailers and publishers, but it’s also happening at companies such as ZipCar, Boeing and Liberty Mutual (more about them later). This transformation, while driving radical performance and cost […]
Successfully Integrating DevOps while Deploying Cloud Applications
Transforming to a high-performance DevOps environment can provide competitive advantages, but it requires change—and that doesn’t come easily to most organizations. DevOps requires cultural changes that are inherent to automating previously manual tasks: They are perhaps intimidating to those involved and they require flexibility and enterprisewide buy-in to get right. Furthering these people-side transformational complications […]
Hosting Scalable WordPress on AWS
Do you own or manage a WordPress site? Is it complex, with a lot of traffic? I’m going to show you the ideal architecture to host a highly available and scalable WordPress site on AWS. This blog is intended to show a distributed architecture in AWS for WordPress CMS websites. You will be able to […]
Survey Finds DevOps Playing Key Role in Cloud Migration
A survey of 450 C-level and VP/director-level technology leaders in the United States, UK and Canada conducted by 451 Research on behalf of Skytap, a cloud service provider, found that lifting and shifting existing applications into the cloud is giving way to either refactoring and rewriting those applications to take advantage of cloud-native technologies. According […]
DevOps’ Role in Developing a Robust and Secure IoT Framework
Creating a secure IoT infrastructure is a challenge for developers, requiring a holistic approach. It requires a dynamic framework that is capable of collecting data from a cloud back end as well as directly from the embedded hardware. Supporting this secure environment is another challenge, requiring the development of complex systems capable of deployment in […]
Why Serverless Needs DevOps
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was updated July 2, 2018 Serverless, like Kubernetes and microservices, is a new technology. Yet, despite the amount of blog, forum and news-related posts published about serverless, it represents only a fraction of all IT deployments. Aside from the new factor, serverless shares few similarities with Kubernetes and microservices. Organizations turn […]
Evaluating a Multi-Cloud Strategy: The Pros and Cons
First off, let’s define multi-cloud. Clearly, we’re talking about using one or more clouds, but clouds come in different flavors. For example, multi-cloud incorporates the idea of hybrid cloud—a mix of public and private clouds. But multi-cloud can also mean two or more public clouds or two or more private clouds. So, why is this […]
Serverless Computing: Moving from DevOps to NoOps
Developers rejoice as serverless computing ushers in a new era of ‘NoOps’ to replace the ill-fitted DevOps model. While some organizations do better than others when it comes to implementing DevOps, almost everyone agrees it’s a concept easier penned to paper than pinned to reality. The idea of integrating development and operations is smart, but […]
What Can the Cloud Do for DevOps?
The cloud has enabled DevOps to grow and expand well beyond traditional boundaries set forth by on-premises production environments. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud services providers, DevOps devices are intended to speed advancement by empowering engineers to change, test and push code in a computerized design. This enables organizations to create and […]
Transforming with the Cloud: If Not Now, When?
The question of whether to move to the cloud is no longer relevant for most organizations. Migrating workloads to the cloud has already become an inevitable requirement for a vast majority of companies regardless of their sizes, and if your organization isn’t doing that already, then it is simply the question of when and how […]
DevOps and Digital Transformation: Q&A with Cloud Foundry Foundation’s Chip Childers
I had the chance recently to sit down with Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. One of Chip’s roles is working with companies digitally transforming their business, from legacy to a more DevOps-centric technology and culture. Here’s what he had to say. Swapnil Bhartiya: What are the greatest challenges facing those deploying DevOps? […]
Oracle Advances AI Effort to Automate DevOps
Oracle today announced the general availability of an expanded Oracle Cloud Platform service that promises to automate most back-end DevOps processes by relying on a combination of machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI). The Oracle platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment has also been expanded to include Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise, Oracle Data Integration […]
Why You Need Chaos Engineered into Your Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Nearly a decade ago, I began working at Amazon as an engineer. Cloud technology was just starting to revolutionize how companies launch applications, and early adopters were seeing the benefits of not having to purchase, provision and manage their own hardware. On the flip side, larger companies (especially those that store sensitive information) were still […]
Machine Learning: Essential in Cloud Service Management
As businesses today compete more and more on digital experience, you need to ensure that what’s delivered performs optimally and provides an outstanding customer experience. With increasing complexities, growth and change in your IT infrastructure, you need complete visibility into the performance and availability of IT infrastructure, and also the applications that ride on it. […]
Wavefront by VMware Extends Monitoring Reach
The gap that exists between the DevOps tools typically made available to traditional enterprise IT sites that have standardized on VMware and what’s typically employed by web-scale companies continues to close. The latest edition of the Wavefront analytics and monitoring tools from VMware now comes with pre-packaged support for a range of services running on […]
HPE Extends IT Management Reach with OneSphere
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today extended OneSphere, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for IT management, to include support for Microsoft Azure public clouds and the Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) that serve as the foundation for OpenStack. At the same time, HPE announced an update to HPE OneView, a platform for managing IT that can be deployed on-premises […]
Don’t Forget to Automate Cloud Security
Cloud has been around long enough, and we’ve had enough breaches stemming from unsecured cloud (mostly data objects, but other items, too) that we should know better. I cringe whenever I see a security headline along the lines of “… Unsecured S3 Bucket.” Would you publicly expose a server in your data center and not […]
Has DevOps Caused the Re-emergence of Shadow IT?
Shadow IT is back, and this time, it’s in the DevOps toolstack “One of our clients conducted an audit and found more than 10,000 Jenkins instances across their IT landscape!” This remark from a tooling vendor that helps enterprises centralize their continuous integration infrastructure really took me by surprise. For starters, I was impressed how […]
Complementary Technologies: Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL
For enterprises in search of a relational database service that will effectively and consistently meet their requirements, Amazon RDS is probably worth a hard look. By making cloud-based relational databases straightforward to set up, operate and scale, Amazon RDS liberates businesses from the time-sink of internal database administration duties—in turn allowing for a clearer focus […]
More App Dev Models Increase DevOps Pressure
A bifurcation in types of developers will become more pronounced in the years ahead as more application code moves to the network edge. As that transition continues occurring, the pressure on IT operations to be able to be able to flexibly manage different classes of applications by embracing DevOps processes will correspondingly increase. Mike Piech, […]