Why DataOps is Critical for Digital Transformation
Data lies at the heart of all digital transformation. In fact, today, as organizations look to further accelerate their ongoing digital transformation initiatives, companies are looking to extract even more value from their data, to better drive corporate decision-making, help grow the business, improve customer satisfaction and gain a competitive advantage. Inspired by DevOps, DataOps, […]
The Power and Potential of Stored Procedures
One way of saving time when writing code is with stored procedures; prepared SQL code that you can save so the code can be reused over and over again. Stored procedures are a powerful vehicle for speeding up your code and giving you gains in performance. Stored procedures have many benefits—they can be easily modified, […]
Oracle Adds AI Services to Cloud Portfolio
Oracle today unfurled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI services, a collection of services that make it easier for developers to use application programming interfaces (APIs) to invoke a wide range of services based on algorithms trained by Oracle on their behalf. Elad Ziklik, vice president of product management for AI services and data science at […]
Organized Architecture
I’ve mentioned IT pendulums plenty of times before, but today I’m going to use them to explore a different angle on IT: The age of containers and microservices. It’s time to ask yourself if the current architectural design of the overall product offering of IT is the best one you can afford to offer. Agile […]
How AI is Changing DevOps for the Better
Managing a DevOps environment involves a high degree of complexity. The rapid proliferation of data has made it difficult for DevOps teams to effectively onboard, ingest and unlock data and implement information to make good business decisions and deliver delightful experiences. Imagine a team poring over troves of information to identify critical factors that triggered […]
FinOps 101: Demystifying Cloud Financial Operations for DevOps
In an ideal world, all organizations would have a dedicated FinOps team—or at least a single specialist who could work to ensure that the cloud was operating in a financially savvy way. Of course, in reality, most organizations are strapped for skills and are operating lean teams where responsibilities are spread thickly across employees. In […]
Couchbase Revamps DBaaS Based on Document Database
Couchbase Inc. has unfurled a revamped database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform dubbed Couchbase Capella hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Scott Anderson, senior vice president for product management for Couchbase, said that as application development continues to evolve, it’s becoming apparent more organizations prefer to have providers of databases manage those platforms on their behalf. […]
Sustainability No Longer Just a Buzzword for Cloud IT
A recent CloudBolt survey on IT sustainability finds that sustainability is no longer just a buzzword — the market is demanding real change, and it appears that environmental concerns finally are influencing large IT investments. For example, 67% say that a cloud provider’s sustainability initiatives are important in deciding whether to do business with them. […]
Salt Security Adds Support for GraphQL APIs
Salt Security has extended its platform for securing application programming interfaces (APIs) to include support for APIs built using GraphQL. GraphQL is an open source data query and manipulation language for APIs that was originally developed by Facebook. It provides a more efficient approach to querying data than the REST APIs that are widely used […]
Intel Woos DevOps Teams with API and Processor Advances
During the online Intel Innovation 2021 event, Intel announced today a unified Developer Zone for accessing application programming interfaces (APIs) that it makes available via a oneAPI toolkit to IT teams that want to more easily invoke a wide range of processor types and classes. At the same time, the company also revealed it is […]
Sysdig Adds Cloud Access Controls to DevSecOps Platform
Sysdig announced today that it is adding a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) capability to its Secure DevOps platform as part of an effort to better enforce least-privilege access within the context of a larger zero-trust approach to cybersecurity. Nick Fisher, vice president of product marketing for Sysdig, said this addition to the company’s core […]
CircleCI Adds Test Insights Module to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today announced it has added a Test Insights capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to make it easier to identify tests that are either taking too long to run or simply exhibiting some form of anomalous behavior. Dawit Gebregziabher, product manager for data insights at CircleCI, said Test Insights is designed to […]
Authentication in Serverless Apps—What Are the Options?
Serverless applications are growing in popularity among DevOps engineers. They provide a convenient, predictable way to run simple processes like CI/CD builds or automation scripts with no need to stand up infrastructure. They are also commonly used to deploy microservices. However, serverless applications present unique security challenges, one of them being authentication. How can you […]
Developer Challenges in Commercial Banking
Much like many other business sectors, the banking industry has had to accelerate their digital transformation efforts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s retail banking industry is a far cry from where it was even just five years ago. Consumers no longer have to physically appear in their bank to process payments or […]
HashiCorp Previews Updates to Consul Service Mesh
During an online HashiConf Global conference, HashiCorp today made available a beta of an update to its open source Consul service mesh for virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters that makes it possible for multiple administrators to share the same instance of a multitenant service mesh. Version 1.11 of Consul will also add support for a […]
Learn a Bit About AI
Every once in a while, a trend becomes broad enough that I feel the need to offer career advice. This year it will be simple: Know enough about AI/ML to be dangerous. We are past the point where not having at least a basic understanding is a good idea. Looking around the data center, AI […]
Splunk Expands Scope of Observability While Lowering Costs
During its online .conf21 conference Splunk Inc. today revealed a bevy of updates that advance observability while at the same time reducing the total cost of deploying its platforms. As part of that effort, Splunk also announced it will now make workload-based pricing available to all customers. Previously, a select number of small customers had […]
Trust in Cloud Providers is a Developer Issue
Earlier this summer, we worked with ClearPath Strategies to ask developers about the level of trust they have in their various cloud service providers. What we learned spoke volumes: While developers’ familiarity and comfort with Amazon, Microsoft and Google position these well-known cloud providers as market frontrunners, developers often do not agree with the companies’ […]
Energy Efficiency and the Data Center
The IT industry has historically been a leader in the ongoing race to reduce CO2 emissions. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line. The data center is well-known as a voracious data consumer. But the data center consumption findings keep pace with the trend. Even in the face of […]
Security is About People, not Technology
Just a random thought of the day: We have the world’s best example of how many of our security woes are actually people problems, not technology problems. We all know that. We’ve all discussed it—but let’s consider this example and have a quick discussion about 2FA. Epic Games had a problem not unlike the rest […]
The Inevitability of Multi-Cloud-Native Apps
We all know the story: Enterprises moved to the cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self-service developer provisioning. Along came Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud-native, where they learned about automation, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Now, even though most enterprises are still figuring out how to do cloud-native at scale, there’s […]
Mastering API Gateways for the Modern Cloud-Native Enterprise
As modern enterprises continue migrating to the cloud and the need for connected applications and devices dramatically increases, API-driven architectures are being widely adopted. In addition to the convenience of being able to efficiently connect and share resources, organizations benefit from the innovation and accelerated development speed that APIs bring in multi-cloud environments. APIs are […]
LF Networking (LFN) Adds to Open Source Portfolio
At the online Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day event LF Networking (LFN), an arm of the Linux Foundation focused on networking, today added several projects that promise to make it simpler to programmatically manage networking services based on open source software. Walmart is contributing a L3AF project for managing network […]