How to Make a Self-Healing IT Infrastructure a Reality
In 2019, enterprises worldwide reported that every hour of infrastructure downtime cost them an average of $301,000- $400,000. If a system is down for five hours, that’s $1.5 million lost—and that’s on the low end. Five hours of downtime can impact companies for months down the road. It’s in the hands of DevOps practitioners to […]
Intel Readies Gold oneAPI Toolkit
Intel this week said a gold image of its oneAPI for unifying infrastructure as code will be available starting next month. Jeff McVeigh, vice president of data center XPU products and solutions Intel, said the goal is to provide a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing the compute capabilities of any processor regardless of […]
Cisco CEO: Developers Need More Infrastructure Control
Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins said this week that the company’s No. 1 priority going forward is to enable IT organizations to better manage application experience via abstraction layers that make to possible for developers to programmatically manage infrastructure. Speaking at its annual Cisco Partner Summit, which occurred online, Robbins said Cisco is working toward […]
Dell Launches Project Apex to Deliver IT as a Service
Dell Technologies today launched Project Apex, an initiative that promises to significantly expand its ambition to deliver IT as a service from the edge to the public cloud. Announced at the online Dell Technologies World 2020 conference, this initiative builds on the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform through which Dell manages IT infrastructure as service on […]
Distributed Data and Apps: What About Your Infra?
Technological and operational shifts are required to accommodate the shift to distributed data and apps You’ve read how modern companies are disrupting their legacy peers by pursuing a data-driven culture … Chick-fil-A’s edge use case allows the company to transform its fast-food restaurants. An industry-first, software-only mobile infrastructure by Rakuten Mobile. Tesla Autopilot functionality getting […]
Cisco Revamps Portfolio at the Network Edge
Cisco today announced a series of Catalyst offerings that combine the functionality of a secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and a router in a single platform. Archana Khetan, senior director of product management for enterprise routing and SD-WAN infrastructure within the Intent Based Networking Group at Cisco, said the Catalyst 8000 series is made […]
Cisco Expands Effort to Meld DevOps, NetOps
Cisco Systems has accelerated its efforts to converge network operations (NetOps) by adding support for Terraform tools for managing infrastructure-as-code as well as expanding its support for the Ansible IT automation framework. In addition, Cisco has improved and standardized the application programming interfaces (APIs) it makes available for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) framework for […]
Equinix Adds Automated Bare-Metal Server Service
Equinix, a provider of hosted IT services, added an Equinix Metal offering that allows IT teams to automate the deployment of bare-metal servers. Interest in deploying bare-metal servers is increasing due to the rise of both artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are compute-intensive and Kubernetes clusters that, in many cases, don’t require the overhead created […]
Netlify Extends JAMstack Reach to Edge Computing
Netlify, at its JAMSTACK CONF VIRTUAL event today, announced Netlify Edge Handlers, which make it possible to extend a Git-based workflow to edge computing applications. Company CEO Matt Biilmann said Netlify Edge Handlers, available in beta, puts the primitives in place for deploying serverless web applications based on a JAMstack software architecture that employs JavaScript, […]
Cloudflare Expands Range of CDN Alternatives to the Public Cloud
Cloudflare, a provider of a content delivery network (CDN) based on more than 200 data centers, this week announced it has made available a Durable Objects capability in beta that makes it possible to run stateful applications across a distributed serverless Cloudflare Workers service. Company CEO Matthew Prince said Durable Objects provide a truly unified […]
VMware Embraces SmartNICs to Extend Virtualization
VMware, as part of a bevy of updates to its portfolio announced today at its online VMworld 2020 conference, previewed its Project Monterey initiative to provide IT teams with composable infrastructure. At the core of that effort will be support for smart network integration cards (NICs) within VMware Cloud Foundation, the suite of software through […]
Preparing for Digital Life After COVID-19
The shift to a digitally dependent remote workforce across numerous industries was instantaneous for organizations after the COVID-19 pandemic spread, and after months of adapting, this way of life has become “a new normal.” IT professionals are facing unprecedented pressure to meet the increased demands they are experiencing now and preparing for the changes that […]
The Benefits of an IaC Approach to Storage
Adopting an IaC approach to storage offers freedom from storage infrastructure considerations Today’s multicloud world allows you to move applications and/or functions between clouds depending on your needs, but it also puts you in the position of having to understand the different storage requirements of each cloud provider. These providers have their own unique storage […]
Harmonizing Real-Time on Edge Platforms
Edge computing platforms sit at the boundary between the real-time world and the digital enterprise. Uninterrupted, uncorrupted data from the edge is a must if analytics in the cloud drive reliable business decisions. What’s the best approach: using Linux, an RTOS (real-time operating system), a hypervisor or something else for edge platforms? Let’s talk about […]
NGINX Expands Portfolio to Include Service Mesh
NGINX at its online Sprint conference today launched a bevy of offerings including a service mesh as part of an expanded effort to meld network and security operations within the context of a larger DevOps workflow. Rob Whiteley, chief marketing officer for the subsidiary of F5 Networks, said NGINX Service Mesh 1.0 provides an easier […]
NVIDIA to Create AI Powerhouse by Acquiring Arm for $40B
NVIDIA has announced its intention to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion as part of an effort to create a juggernaut that will build processors optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) applications that span edge computing deployment to the cloud. Under the terms of the proposed deal, Arm will operate as a subsidiary of NVIDIA […]
Challenging Cloud Migration Myths in the Wake of COVID-19
The COVID-19 push to cloud migration, unfortunately, is riddled with myths. Here are some worth busting With a substantial increase in the number of businesses now operating from their employees’ homes, and organization leaders realizing that their office buildings are now somewhat unnecessary until a vaccination against the coronavirus is widely distributed, the cloud has […]
Lenovo Updates Diverse HCI Platform Portfolio
Lenovo today announced a bevy of updates to its server portfolio that expand the number of options organizations have when it comes to bundling stacks of software with Lenovo hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms to reduce the total cost of on-premises IT. For example, Lenovo in collaboration with Nutanix and AMD, today launched a Lenovo ThinkAgile […]
How Continuous Transformation Can Deliver More Value
Continuous transformation in IT operations is more than just an industry buzzphrase. In fact, continuous transformation is a critical survival tool for any cloud and IT solution landscapes today. To achieve continuous transformation, innovation must continue well beyond a migration to the cloud. This continuous innovation during day-to-day IT operations is the most critical aspect […]
Volterra Service Mesh Service Automatically Discovers APIs
Volterra announced today it has updated a service mesh it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to include the ability to automatically discover all the application programming interfaces (APIs) in an application using machine learning algorithms, then automatically apply all the whitelist policies that apply to those APIs. Service meshes add a programmable layer […]
Evolving from FaaS to a Truly Serverless Paradigm
True serverless helps alleviate some of the administration and management issues related to FaaS Creating distributed applications demands a thorough understanding of cloud infrastructures and architectures. Engineers must address complex operational issues, including provisioning, configuration and how their code will behave over a distributed architecture. The current standard is to architect programs into microservices, before […]
HashiCorp Adds Business Tier to Managed Terraform Service
HashiCorp today announced it has added a Business tier to the HashiCorp Terraform Cloud that expands the managed service in a way that provides advanced security, compliance and governance capabilities along with the ability to execute multiple runs concurrently and take advantage of more flexible service level agreement (SLA) options. Meghan Liese, director of product […]
Nutanix Brings HCI Platform to AWS
Nutanix today announced that Nutanix Clusters are now available on bare-metal instances of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manoj Agarwal, senior vice president of engineering for Nutanix, said Nutanix Clusters on AWS will provide IT organizations with access to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities based on Nutanix virtual […]