Distributed Systems: Turning Networking to Your Advantage
Whether it’s the office, the classroom, the store or the bank, a great many spheres of human life have moved online. Each day, we grow more and more used to consuming applications on demand that instantly connect us with the rest of the world. Our expanding appetite for the internet depends on an ongoing trend […]
Protecting CI/CD Pipelines to Secure the Software Supply Chain
Cloud-native applications have become increasingly complex. Composed of an infrastructure stack of mash-up code, hundreds of open source and commercial components, services and APIs, today’s software supply chain is fraught with security risks. At the same time, the ability to manage existing application requirements while building innovation and taking on new areas of responsibility like […]
What’s Next for Cloud Computing? Distributed Cloud
The public cloud has greatly advanced IT by allowing teams to interact with their data and write new applications in a cloud-native way. The cloud simplifies the application development process, provides services on demand and allows you to pay as you go. There has been phenomenal growth in public cloud use and all estimates show […]
Dynatrace Adds Grail Data Lakehouse to Observability Platform
Dynatrace today announced it has added a data lakehouse, dubbed Grail, to the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to make it simpler to aggregate all the observability data an IT team collects. Bob Wambach, vice president of product marketing for Dynatrace, said Grail will initially drive analytics of log data but in time will also be […]
Aligning Cloud Spend Management With Cloud Transformation
The cloud transformation movement is well underway, with more than half of enterprise organizations moving to a cloud-native approach this year, according to Forrester Research. Spending on cloud infrastructure is rising accordingly – more than $21 billion in Q4 2021, up 13.5% from Q4 2020, according to IDC. The cloud offers economies of scale and […]
Where Should I Store My IaC?
The most successful software companies rely on repeatability, auditability and simplicity when building solutions. The emergence of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has empowered developers to apply these practices to infrastructure allocation. What are the best practices for storing IaC? Should IaC code be stored with the application and feature code? Should it be stored separately in its […]
How IaC Helps Relieve Development Pain Points
Developers spend much of their day digging into their systems’ guts, allocating storage to an application, connecting the security system to the user interface and tracking which version of the application is where in the development cycle, among other tasks. That’s why a new category of software has emerged, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), that promises to automate […]
Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps
A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is highly sticky and makes future application improvements and migrations much harder. All three hyperscalers have storage services that present block, file and object-based […]
Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes. As part of this momentum, new roles are emerging to oversee cloud financial operations. Amid rising cloud costs, FinOps is emerging as a […]
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft.
How to Go Multi-Cloud: A Simple Three-Step Approach
Odds are your business already uses cloud technology for automation, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure updates and other purposes. But you don’t have to stick to a single cloud server or provider. In fact, you can take advantage of multi-cloud strategies for your organization and reap the benefits for years to come. That said, multi-cloud adoption and […]
90% Of Orgs Say Multi-Cloud Helps Achieve Business Goals
Multi-cloud is the new normal. And thankfully, this new normal isn’t just happenstance—it’s driving positive outcomes. New findings show that most organizations benefit from using multiple cloud providers. Multi-cloud adoptions are helping achieve business goals, such as improving reliability and scalability and increasing overall security and governance. However, nearly all organizations (94%) admitted that they […]
VMware Embraces Graph Technology to Manage Multiple Clouds
At the VMware Explore 2022 conference today, VMware launched a portfolio of multi-cloud management tools, dubbed VMware Aria, based on a graph-based data store that captures the resources spanning multiple clouds and their relationship to one another. Accessed via a VMware Aria Hub platform previously known as Project Ensemble, VMware Aria Graph provides a common […]
TidalScale Enables Hot-Swapping of Failed Servers
TidalScale has updated its namesake software for automating server management to include the ability to detect and prevent impending failures and enable IT teams to hot-swap another server. Version 4.1 of TidalScale also adds server wear leveling and preventative health checks that identify servers that should be replaced based on their remaining estimated life span. […]
OpenText to Create Software Powerhouse – Acquires Micro Focus for $6B
OpenText this week announced it will acquire Micro Focus for $6 billion. The acquisition is part of an effort to reinvigorate a broad portfolio of information management, application development and testing, integration and cybersecurity platforms by accelerating the rate at which they are transitioned to OpenText’s managed private cloud. The acquisition is expected to close […]
Time-Series Database Basics
There’s been a lot of buzz about time-series data for the past few years. No matter what you’re monitoring—financial data, server performance, social media activity or something else entirely—time-series data can give you valuable insights into trends and patterns. But what exactly is a time-series database, and why do you need one? This article will […]
Overcoming Multi-Cloud Management Challenges
We’ve long talked about how the cloud is the future. But with the vast majority of corporate data now stored in the cloud, it’s clear that most businesses now realize this is a must-have in today’s increasingly demanding and agile business environment. The cloud has been the backbone of the remote restructuring of the workplace […]
5 Ways to Prevent an Outage
In today’s always-on, ever-connected world, we all expect 100% availability. What gets in the way of this? The devil is in the details. Over time, everything breaks: Disks, nodes, containers, networks, DNS servers and configuration issues can all lead to major outages. Amazon’s 13 minutes of downtime in August 2021 translated to almost $5 million […]
Palo Alto Networks Extends Checkov Tool for Securing Infrastructure
Palo Alto Networks has added support for GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, CircleCI and Argo Workflows to Checkov, an open source tool that scans programmatically provisioned infrastructure for misconfigurations. Guy Eisenkot, senior director of product at Bridgecrew by Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, said the goal is to make it easier to secure configurations created […]
What Are the Seven Layers of the OSI Model?
Working in the software field, it’s not uncommon for engineers to refer to different “layers.” Perhaps you’re working with protocols at the “networking layer” or evaluating a solution that sits at “Layer 4” or “Layer 7.” Although these concepts are obvious to some, not everyone knows what these layers refer to. To get you up […]
How 5G Will Change the Public Cloud as We Know It
When it comes to realizing the promise of 5G, we’re still a few years away. Under the hood, though, the rollout of 5G infrastructure and the new applications 5G will enable—from AR and VR to new drone capabilities and beyond—will drive dramatic changes in infrastructure demands, starting with the public cloud. In the 5G era, […]
Simplifying DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Let’s face it, tools for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configuration management may be vital, but they’re difficult to use. But what if it’s not so much the tools themselves as it is our understanding of them? What if we looked at provisioning and configuration systems differently and did so using vocabulary that was less confusing and more […]
Reducing Energy Consumption With Cloud Cost Efficiency
A new study from Stanford University found that it takes 75 gigajoules per year of energy for a person to have a good, long life, but the average American uses nearly four times that amount: 284 gigajoules/year. In fact, the U.S. consumes 17% of the world’s energy while accounting for only 4% of the population. […]