The SolarWinds Query Report 2021: Database Priorities and Pitfalls
The rise of hybrid IT and the accelerated adoption of cloud-native apps have evolved traditional database design, management and monitoring. Workloads are rapidly shifting to the cloud and application performance is heavily dependent on the performance of the underlying database. Meanwhile, the global COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to make significant changes in the last […]
Establishing Trust in Multi-Cloud Environments
Modern applications are transforming enterprises into digital innovation factories. However, the distributed nature and complexity of modern apps have made it extremely difficult for organizations to maintain trust and compliance across multi-platform, multi-cloud environments. Although Kubernetes is the standard for application platforms today, each cloud service provider (CSP) has a different offering for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) […]
5 Steps to a Seamless Multi-Cloud Migration
With digitization the topic of discussion in almost every boardroom since the onset of COVID-19, it’s no coincidence that migration to the cloud has skyrocketed in tandem. In fact, at the onset of the pandemic, 87% of IT decision-makers noted that the remote restructuring of the workplace would push their organizations to accelerate cloud migrations. […]
Where Do SREs Go From Here?
Charlene O’Hanlon talks with Leo Vasiliou, director of product marketing at Catchpoint, about the results of a study the company fielded with VMWare Tanzu and DevOps Institute of nearly 300 site reliability engineers (SREs). This year’s report underscores the challenges of multi-cloud, calls out the underutilization of AIOps and shows a systemic shift in core […]
Improving Security with Mapping, Automation and DevOps
Strong cybersecurity is paramount for every organization. But all too often, security teams are disconnected from ongoing development processes and viewed either as an impediment to bringing products to market or as an afterthought. This leads to increased costs and possible gaps in the attack surfaces of new platforms. While many organizations are turning to […]
What It Will Take To Bring Cloud Gaming to Fruition?
The gaming industry is booming. There are 211 million people gaming in the U.S., and it’s one of the fastest-growing forms of entertainment on the planet. In the age of Twitch streaming, gaming has even upstaged traditional sports viewership. On average, young gamers between the ages of 18 and 25 spend a full hour more […]
How to Build an Options-Based Observability Strategy
The global pandemic forced companies to accelerate their digital transformations, pushing them toward new technologies and architectures as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. Companies wanted fast development and deployment and were happy to trade off efficiency, reliability and sometimes, security, to pursue their goals. Now that the pandemic is receding in many […]
Multi-Cloud Is Not About Lift and Shift
Multi-cloud is often framed from the perspective of “lift and shift.” In other words, an organization takes a computing environment previously running on one cloud and transfers it over to a different service provider. Cloud migration may make sense for cost savings or performance benefits and such a shift may be necessary when migrating on-premises […]
Cycloid Tool Can Reverse Engineer Provisioned IaC
Cycloid this week unveiled a tool that makes it possible to reverse engineer code used to manually provision cloud infrastructure. The Infra Import tool is part of an effort to create a more consistent and reliable version of that code using open source Terraform software. Benjamin Brial, Cycloid CEO, said Infra Import is based on […]
12 Ways to Bake Security Into a DevOps Transformation
Security has become an integral part of any DevOps transformation. According to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report, DevSecOps achieved a must-have percentage vote of 56% in the automation tool category. Security not only protects the business and its customers, but it enables companies to enforce internal and external policies. While considering how to […]
WhiteSource Tool Automatically Fixes Code Vulnerabilities
WhiteSource today announced that it has developed the first-ever tool that automatically remediates vulnerabilities discovered in custom code. Rami Sass, WhiteSource CEO, said WhiteSource Cure surfaces recommendations for fixing security vulnerabilities in code that developers can then apply with a click of a button. WhiteSource has a long history of providing tools that discover vulnerabilities […]
Shoreline Platform Automates Repetitive IT Tasks
Shoreline emerged from stealth today to make available a namesake incident automation platform that eliminates the need to manually perform the same repetitive tasks. Anurag Gupta, Shoreline CEO, said the platform is based on domain-specific language, dubbed Op, that provides a simple pipe delimited syntax to integrate real-time resources and metrics in a way that […]
Programmability is Key to Agile Transformation
Enterprise agility has rapidly become one of the most crucial variables for a business’s long-term resiliency. With the COVID-19 pandemic, never-ending disruptions to the global supply chain and nearly every industry’s typical processes flipped upside down, there has never been a more important time to prioritize agility than now. While the rewards of agility are […]
How ESM Enables Digital Transformation
The pandemic has forced organizations of all sizes to overcome colossal challenges and embrace flux. We’ve all heard stories about businesses having to adopt a new communication tool and train staff overnight, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Many companies are in the middle of fundamental transformation, enabling enterprises to create more business […]
Why You Should Embrace Incidents and Ditch MTTR
The cliché is that everyone in IT hates incidents, and the natural reaction when assembling incident response metrics is to look for numbers that you can lower over time. Fewer incidents and shorter incident response times must be better, we think. You might already be familiar with the common metrics associated with these goals, including […]
Visualize Logs to Get More Value from Data
Why do you keep logs? Regardless of the type of logs we’re talking about, you keep them because you expect them to provide some value for the organization. Maybe the logs will help you improve profitability; perhaps they will help you recover from downtime or perhaps they are expected to alert you to a security […]
Using ML/AI to Support Infrastructure Monitoring
Successful infrastructure monitoring enables IT teams to ensure constant uptime and performance of their company’s systems. Technologies like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) benefit infrastructure monitoring by more quickly collecting and analyzing data from all of the hardware and software components that comprise the IT stack. Infrastructure changes are occurring faster than ever […]
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Org-as-Code
We are all familiar with ‘everything-as-code’—a pattern that started with infrastructure-as-code and has now extended to other areas such as architecture-as-code, security-as-code and more. However, all the incarnations we have seen so far have been less than ambitious! The dawn of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology is moving us firmly toward organization-as-code. Org-as-code is […]
Best Practices for AWS Tagging With Yor
On the surface, AWS resource tags are simple, informational key:value metadata that you can assign to most AWS resources. They also have many hidden benefits, as outlined in this AWS Tagging Best Practices guide for improving cloud operations. There are six use cases author Brian Yost calls out in particular: AWS console organization and resource […]
Leveraging the Cloud for Mainframe Access
Now more than ever, organizations around the world are looking to extend their existing mainframe investments as part of larger digital transformation initiatives. As core systems of record and reliability, mainframes continue to run many organizations’ most important applications and the idea of replacing these systems comes with greater risk than reward. While organizations are […]
Fugue Aims to Simplify Securing Infrastructure-as-Code
Fugue today unveiled a 1.0 release for Regula, an open source policy engine for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security that comes with prebuilt libraries for implementing hundreds of policies that validate configurations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud services. Regula is based on the Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the […]
JFrog Acquires Vdoo to Advance DevSecOps
JFrog today announced it has agreed to acquire Vdoo for $300 million in cash to gain a set of analytics tools that discover vulnerabilities in application binaries. Vdoo’s scanning tools, infused with machine learning algorithms, will be fully integrated with the JFrog Xray vulnerability detection tools along with the rest of the JFrog continuous integration/continuous […]
Akamai Adds Service to Optimize API Traffic
Akamai today launched an API Acceleration service specifically designed to accelerate application programming interface (API) calls using special purpose hardware, reserved capacity and prioritized routing. At the same time, the company is also making available a globally distributed key-value store dubbed EdgeKV that enables stateful applications to be deployed on its EdgeWorker nodes. Finally, Akamai […]