5 Mean-Time Reliability Metrics To Follow
Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying bottlenecks in the support process. It’s also something executives like to show higher-ups when sharing a snapshot of overall platform performance. However, focusing […]
More Than Half of DevOps Pros Have Backdoor Access to IT Infrastructure
A survey of 600 DevOps professionals conducted by strongDM, a platform for managing access to IT infrastructure, found nearly two-thirds (64%) had productivity impacted on a daily or weekly basis because of access issues. It’s not surprising that, as a result, DevOps teams created a number of workarounds to gain access, even though those methods […]
Survey Sees Alternative Cloud Service Providers Gaining Ground
A survey of 458 development professionals, managers and senior leaders conducted by Techstrong Research, a sister entity of DevOps.com, found 43% are considering adding additional cloud service providers in the next 12 months. In total, nearly two-thirds said they are at least considering, evaluating or are ready to buy from a trusted alternative cloud vendor, […]
How to Manage and Engage Remote Engineering Teams
As engineering teams look to remain remote or hybrid, executives need to fundamentally change how these teams are managed. After tackling the tactical aspects of a distributed workforce—like home office equipment, a comfortable space where employees can get work done and reliable meeting, calendar and communication tools—more nuanced issues come into play. Before the COVID-19 […]
Saying Goodbye to Legacy Systems
Are you still using a rotary phone, tube television or Rolodex? Probably not. But if you were, you’d still be using newer technology than what many enterprises still rely on every day to drive mission-critical applications that we use every day when shopping, banking or hundreds of other normal tasks. At least two-thirds of large […]
Could Buying VMware Bring Broadcom Hybrid Cloud Bona Fides?
Rumors are swirling that Broadcom wants to buy its way into the growing hybrid cloud market by acquiring VMware. The deal won’t come cheap—after news of the potential deal surfaced, VMware’s market cap soared to around $50 billion. Yes, billion with a ‘B’. As interest rates increase and investors reevaluate many of the lofty software […]
Is Your Future in SaaS? Yes, Except …
The growth of SaaS—including IaaS—was phenomenal when it came and it has become somewhat pervasive. Today, there are SaaS tools in use at just about every business, large or small. From sales to marketing to customer management, there is a SaaS tool that does it affordably and well. For now. The same is true of […]
Container Storage for DevOps: New Options With NVMe
The DevOps world is ripe for a storage paradigm change, both in how it operates within the enterprise and how it implements applications. NVMe, especially NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMeoF), is both a tool and a host target that can provide such a change—especially in the new world of microservices and containerization. NVMe can drastically improve application performance […]
Pulumi Extends Infrastructure-as-Code Reach
At its online PulumiUP conference, Pulumi announced it will make its Pulumi CrossCode translation technology available to third parties and DevOps teams. The technology was developed to integrate a wide range of programming languages with its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform. The company also announced it has added support for YAML—widely used to configure Kubernetes environments—as well […]
CloudBolt Adds Modular Automation Framework to Tame Hybrid Clouds
CloudBolt Software this week added a framework consisting of eight modules that collectively make it simpler to automate, optimize and govern hybrid cloud computing environments. Jeff Kukowski, CloudBolt CEO, said the goal is to provide IT teams with a more modular approach to managing multiple clouds that they can employ as they gain additional expertise. […]
BMC Integrates DevOps Mainframe Portfolio With Git
BMC has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the development of mainframe applications by integrating the BMC Compuware ISPW continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with Git repositories. In addition, the company tightened integration between BMC Compuware ISPW and BMC AMI Ops platform and integrated BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench for building applications with […]
Riverbed Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Riverbed today launched a beta of a unified observability platform it will make available under the Alluvio by Riverbed brand name. Jim Hansen, senior vice president for product management at Riverbed, said the Alluvio by Riverbed observability platform combines several existing network and application performance management platforms into a single offering that is now infused […]
Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’
In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation.
Quali Adds Control Plane to Platform to Manage IaC
Quali has added a control plane to its Torque platform to give DevOps teams the ability to consistently provision and orchestrate infrastructure across a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. Amir Rosenberg, vice president of product for Quali, said the control plane allows DevOps team to centrally manage the provisioning of infrastructure via reusable blueprints accessed via […]
Russian Dev Exodus | Puppet IPO FAIL | Intel 18A Ahead of Sched.
In this week’s The Long View: More than 100,000 tech workers leave Russia, Perforce buys Puppet, and Intel moves faster than planned.
IBM z16 Delivers AI and Quantum-Safe Levels of Security
Business transformation and disruption is all about data. But it’s not just about collecting huge amounts of data, it’s what you do with that data and how it can enable you to create powerful insights. While many people focus on the cloud unicorns, the reality is that industry incumbents have a huge advantage. These businesses […]
Understanding SaaS Security for DevOps
As Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and DevOps adoption grew, new teams were formed to address emerging security challenges. Traditional solutions weren’t built to detect the new vulnerabilities in the cloud and created excessive noise for an already stressed pool of resources. The combination of emerging zero-day vulnerabilities and an avalanche of false-positives ends up increasing security […]
How DevOps is Revolutionizing Embedded Development
There’s something curious happening on the desktops of embedded developers around the world. From home offices to cubes to labs, in lamp-lit rooms late at night and sun-lit rooms early in the morning, developers are doing something different. They’re beginning to implement DevOps practices in their embedded development. Something quite serendipitous has occurred to make […]
Secure Software Summit: Applying Chaos Engineering to Software Security
Today’s software systems are, essentially, controlled chaos—and lightly controlled chaos, at that. This makes it exceptionally challenging to model the behavior of those systems. Our systems are quickly becoming larger and larger, with more and more moving parts. It is not uncommon for enterprises to have over 1,000 microservices and millions of containers running thousands […]
Survey Finds Widespread Adoption of DevOps in Mainframe Sites
A survey of IT leaders by the market research firm Global Surveyz found a full 100% of respondents are modernizing their mainframe applications, but the reasons behind and approaches to achieving that goal vary widely. The research was conducted on behalf of Model9, a provider of tools for migrating mainframe data, and polled 100 companies […]
Pulumi Adds Business Critical Edition to Infrastructure Management Platform
Pulumi today added a Business Critical edition of its Cloud Engineering Platform that provides large enterprises with additional security and compliance features, premium 24×7 support, training, professional services and a self-hosting option. In addition, the company announced that Pulumi Enterprise and Business Critical editions are now available via the online marketplace run by Amazon Web […]
Why the Built World Needs Standard APIs
Lately, new ESG initiatives have come front-and-center as companies seek to contextualize and limit their business’s impact on the environment. This is especially true for the built world—a term that refers to the human-made environment that provides the setting for human activity, including homes, buildings, zoning, streets, sidewalks, open spaces, transportation options and more—where monitoring […]
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office.