Using Microsoft Azure as a Backup Repository
Every year, the amount of data that needs to be backed up increases. There are two ways to store backups – using on-premises facilities or trusting cloud-based solutions. Having an on-premises storage infrastructure can be costly for a company. This is because of the high prices for storage equipment and the expenses to maintain this […]
Consider Performance, Growth & Budget When Buying Data Analytics
So, your business needs to invest in data analytics technology to improve efficiencies, competitive advantage or business outcomes. There are a ton of things to consider, but underlying each decision are three driving factors: Performance – The need to meet service level agreements. Growth – The need to accommodate success, as well as deal with […]
Survey: Much Greater Focus on Reining in IT Costs
A survey from Vega Cloud found 62% of respondents are more closely monitoring all IT costs, with more than half (52%) more closely evaluating their cloud service provider options. The survey polled 100 vice presidents from organizations with more than 1,000 employees and was published today by Vega Cloud, a provider of a platform for […]
How Good Developers Become Good Engineering Managers
Being a good engineering manager means that, to some degree, you have a natural affinity for the work involved. And if you’re a good developer, you likely already have some of those innate skills and attributes. But simply having the skills doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy being an engineering manager. For example, the nature of the […]
Device42 Brings Power and Carbon Emission Tracking to IT Asset Management
Device42 today made available a power and CO2 Summary Dashboard to its agentless platform that employs machine learning algorithms to discover and track IT assets. Raj Jalan, Device42 CEO, said the dashboard makes it possible for IT teams to combine the tracking of assets and associated dependencies with a capability that enables them to reduce […]
Platform Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail
Developer platforms and the platform teams that create them have been the center of attention for quite some time now. There have been many (wildly different) opinions about the subject, ranging from how bad the notion of a platform team is to how essential platforms are to make an organization’s DevOps journey to cloud native […]
The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring perpetual code quality and security. They’re not wrong. Yes, testing continuously is good practice, but some incorrectly equate the concept of continuous with […]
Pulumi Brings Advanced Analytics and AI to IaC Platform
Pulumi today launched a platform that leverages analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to generate infrastructure-as-code (IaC) from natural language prompts in addition to automating infrastructure management. Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Insights will substantially improve the productivity of DevOps teams in addition to ultimately reducing the total cost of cloud computing. At the core […]
5 Best Practices for Using VMs on Azure Cloud
When beginning a cloud improvement/optimization project, an easy place to start is to focus on the initial low-hanging fruit of your virtual machine (VM) environments. This article takes a closer look at these steps, using a Microsoft Azure VM environment as an example. Here are five best practices that can be easily achieved when using […]
env0 Extends Workflow Platform for Provisioning Infrastructure
env0 today announced it has added support for additional infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools and the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to its workflow automation and management platform. Fresh from raising an additional $35 million in funding, env0 CEO Ohad Maislish said while Terraform remains the most widely used IaC tool, there are now more organizations using alternatives […]
Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head
A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […]
Enfabrica Makes Cloud Networking Performance Advances
Enfabrica Corp. today emerged from stealth at the MemCon conference to launch a class of processors for networking in cloud computing environments that are optimized for moving data between CPUs, graphical processor units (GPUs), accelerators and memory. Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar said the Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) enables scalable, streaming, multi-terabit-per-second movement of data in […]
How Database DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation
In today’s real-time, hyperconnected reality, data is a core driver behind most digital strategies. User data is constantly gathered and shared across various technology backends and platforms—as is system performance data to inform engineers. Data is pivotal for everything, from generating machine learning models, refining user experiences and even supporting new data-centric services. But although […]
Large Organizations Are Embracing AIOps
A survey of 265 IT leaders found the primary reason organizations are applying artificial intelligence to IT operations (AIOps) is to improve service and application availability and performance (60%), followed closely by automation of operations (58%) and processes (54%). Conducted on behalf of OpsRamp, a provider of an AIOps platform, the survey polled 138 IT […]
What NetOps Teams Should Know Before Starting Automation Journeys
Automation has captured the human imagination since the earliest days of recorded history. A fanciful example of this comes from Homer’s classic “The Iliad” in the form of a bronze robot called Talos, which was designed to automatically monitor and defend the island of Crete from marauding intruders. The appeal of automation for IT organizations, […]
NETSCOUT Taps F5 to Optimize Custom App Performance
Through its alliance with F5, NETSCOUT Systems has extended the reach of its nGeniusOne enterprise performance management platform to support custom applications. The nGeniusONE platform supports more than 1,000 voice, video and business data applications using NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG appliances in combination with nGeniusONE to provide visibility into any infrastructure environment, including data centers, private and […]
AWS Delivers on Latest Graviton3 Price/Performance Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the number of virtual machines based on the latest generation of its Graviton processors to include instances that support DDR-5 memory. The latest Amazon EC2 instance types, dubbed M7g and R7g, that are now generally available are based on the AWS Graviton3 processors developed using an architecture created by […]
Nobl9 Adds Service Level Analyzer to SLO Management Platform
Nobl9 today added a free tool for analyzing service level objectives (SLOs) to its platform to enable DevOps team to more accurately set reliability goals. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said Service Level Analyzer collects metrics and observability data from more than 24 DevOps tools and platforms that can then be used to […]
Quali Update Strengthens Infrastructure Security
Quali today announced enhancements to its Torque automated infrastructure platform to add support for security scans and Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). OPA enables organizations to implement cybersecurity policies as code. The challenge many organizations have encountered is that not many developers have […]
Akamai Makes Case For Next Era of Cloud Computing
Akamai Technologies today unveiled a cloud computing service that combines its ability to deploy applications at the edge with the cloud platform it gained via its acquisition of Linode. Shawn Michels, vice president of product management for compute and apps at Akamai, said Akamai Connected Cloud will provide the foundation for running a new generation […]
The Differences Between DevOps and GitOps
The transition to a DevOps model has been welcomed by many organizations that are looking to implement more efficient development processes. However, there are multiple models to choose from, with GitOps a popular choice for many. So what is the difference, and which one is better? In this article, we will discuss what each model […]
Running Serverless in Production: 7 Best Practices for DevOps
Serverless in production refers to the deployment and use of serverless architecture in a live, production environment. In this context, serverless refers to a cloud computing paradigm where the cloud provider manages the infrastructure and allocates resources as needed to run and scale applications and services. In a serverless production environment, applications and services are […]
5 Technologies Powering Cloud Optimization
Cloud optimization is the process of improving the performance, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of cloud computing resources and services. It involves identifying and addressing inefficiencies in cloud architecture, application design and resource utilization, as well as implementing best practices for security, scalability and disaster recovery. The goal of cloud optimization is to maximize the benefits of […]