Too Many Organizations Get Public Cloud Wrong
The cloud has been getting a lot of press in the past few years—and with good reason. The elasticity and flexibility of resources are transformational for businesses. However, there are also drawbacks. For most enterprises, it’s a significant undertaking to migrate on-premises applications into a public cloud environment. Modern applications today are rarely self-contained entities. […]
SolarWinds Unveils Revamped APM Platform
SolarWinds is unifying its various application performance management (APM) tools within a single suite accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Denny LeCompte, senior vice president for products at SolarWinds, said the APM Integrated Experience offering combines the company’s AppOptics, Loggly and Pingdom tools to collect metrics, traces and logs along with real user monitoring capabilities […]
Why Every DevOps Team Needs a Spot Instance Strategy
Most DevOps teams use the public cloud extensively and focus a lot of energy on reducing cloud costs. According to one estimate, U.S. businesses spent $14.1 billion in 2019 just on wasted, unused cloud resources. Spot instances are one of the most important ways to reduce the cost of public cloud services. Spot instances are […]
AppDynamics Survey Reveals High IT Stress
A global survey published today by AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco, suggests the last year took a substantial toll on IT teams at a time when many organizations either launched or accelerated digital business transformation initiatives. The survey, of 1,050 IT professionals in organizations with revenue of more than $500 million, finds organizations, on average, […]
Top 4 Challenges for Developer Teams in 2021
As remote work continues into 2021, developer teams are still navigating the new landscape for working across distributed teams and how this new way of working affects product delivery. In particular, there are several key challenges that every developer must face this year, including adapting to new tools and workflows internally, balancing the prioritization of […]
Cloud Misconfigurations Threaten Cloud Migration
If we’ve learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that digital-native business models are essential to survival. That means cloud adoption is more important than ever before. Research shows that the public cloud market is expected to grow to $308.5 billion in 2021, an increase of 16% from 2020. But while the cloud holds […]
The Digital Transformation of Decision-Making
The ability to make effective business decisions has historically relied on factors such as experience, qualifications, talent and, in many cases, luck. Strategic and tactical choices are also informed by ‘borrowing’ the insight and knowledge of others. In many situations, ‘follow the leader’ can be an effective approach, and one need only study any sector […]
Building Trust Into Your Product by Design
In today’s world, every tool, every solution and every technology has the potential to do both good and bad. Good, if used according to the way it was designed, but bad if it falls into the wrong hands, or is manipulated or abused. As the ‘Peter Parker’ principle says, “With great power comes great responsibility.” […]
ZeroNorth Adds Analytics App to Advance DevSecOps
ZeroNorth today added an Advanced AppSec Risk Analytics module to its platform for orchestrating DevSecOps processes. John Worrall, ZeroNorth CEO, said the analytics tool pulls vulnerability data generated by a variety of security tools to provide both DevOps and cybersecurity professionals with a single source of truth for assessing security within an application environment. The […]
Rewind Acquires BackHub to Protect GitHub Repositories
Rewind, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for backing up cloud services, today announced it has acquired BackHub to gain control of a platform for backing up GitHub repositories. Based in Germany, BackHub adds a data protection platform to a Rewind portfolio that includes offerings for backing up everything from QuickBooks to Shopify. Fresh […]
EraDB Launches Log Management Alternative
EraDB today launched EraSearch to provide IT teams with an alternative to open source ElasticSearch software for managing logs at scale. Todd Persen, EraDB’s CEO, said EraSearch is based on a modern database that decouples storage and compute. In this way, EraSearch can scale more efficiently than ElasticSearch, while providing IT teams with the same […]
Dynatrace Extends Reach of Observability Platform
Dynatrace this week updated its observability and software intelligence platform as part of an effort to expand its reach across modern enterprise IT environments. Announced at the online Dynatrace Perform 2021 conference, the company’s namesake platform can now capture logs from Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift as well as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform […]
New Relic Adds Visualization Tool to Observability Platform
New Relic announced today it has added a visualization tool, dubbed New Relic Explorer, to make it simpler for IT professionals to discover the root cause of issues that adversely affect application performance. Buddy Brewer, global vice president and field CTO for the Americas, New Relic, said the goal is to make it simpler for […]
AIOps Builds Organizational Efficiency, Survey Finds
Enterprises entered 2020 with big plans. Post-pandemic, AIOps could help them achieve those goals, according to a new research survey from Digitate and CorporateLeader. Enterprises entered 2020 with the best-laid plans; many had efforts lined up to expand their use of cloud services and continue their steady efforts to digitally transform their businesses. Then the […]
Understanding Data Storage: Lakes vs. Warehouses
Now more than ever, companies are looking for new ways to incorporate data analytics into their daily operations and leverage data-driven insights to improve business functions. They are frequently turning to complex data for tasks like machine learning and artificial intelligence, which are becoming necessary to understand and reach customer segments across industries. However, understanding […]
CNCF Graduates Open Policy Agent Project to Manage Compliance as Code
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week that the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project, which many IT teams are employing to manage compliance as code, has officially graduated. Torin Sandall, co-founder of the OPA project and vice president of open source at Styra, whose compliance management platform is based on OPA, said formal […]
Lightstep Delivers Next Generation Observability Platform
Lightstep this week announced general availability of a Change Intelligence observability platform based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events each day. Ben Sigelman, Lightstep’s CEO, said as IT environments become more complex, thanks to the rise of microservices and cloud-native computing platforms, existing monitoring and observability tools will not […]
Hybrid Low-Code: The Next Step in App Development
The promise of low-code development has long been the ability to develop business-critical applications by humans with little programming experience. In fact, over the past year or two, the lines between low-code and no-code have become increasingly blurred. Low-code platforms have incorporated more and more functional no-code features to increase the efficiency of the developer […]
CloudBolt Software Aims to Bridge DevOps and IT Divide
CloudBolt Software today released a Winter update to its cloud management platform that aims to bridge the divide between DevOps teams and traditional IT administrators. IT administrators can now employ the CloudBolt platform to invoke the open source Ansible framework for automating IT processes and workflows using a graphical user interface (GUI) surfaced via a […]
AppDynamics Partners With Cisco to Secure Application Runtimes
AppDynamics today announced its agent software, which it provides as part of its observability platform, now has the ability to enforce application security policies. Developed in collaboration with the security business unit of parent company Cisco, the Cisco Secure Application offering, available from AppDynamics, can detect attacks, identify deviations in application behavior and block attacks […]
OpenAPI Specification: Perception vs. Reality
The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) (formerly known as the Swagger specification) provides a way to describe and document REST APIs and their components. It includes details on endpoints, their operations, parameters needed for the operations, expected responses for every operation, authentication methods and even annotations. OAS is an easy format to learn and read, and can […]
Using Automation to go All-Digital, Fast
Before the pandemic, digital transformation was a five-year plan for many companies — or in some cases, a distant vision that kept getting kicked down the road. Now, companies in every industry face an urgent imperative to adapt to an increasingly online-first world: If you don’t go digital, fast, you’re simply out of the game. […]