DevSecOps Implementation: EDR/XDR
We mentioned host intrusion detection and network intrusion detection in an earlier blog, and mentioned firewalls a couple of times in passing. Let’s delve a bit into the history to understand how these tools’ functionality has evolved over time. On the host side, we had virus detection, in one form or another, from early in […]
ARMO Aims to Simplify Microservices Security
ARMO this week emerged from stealth to launch a platform to secure cloud-native workloads and improve visibility. The ARMO Workload Fabric technology attaches code within the memory invoked by a microservice to enable cybersecurity policies to be applied via a cloud service. Company CEO Shauli Rozen said the ARMO Workload Fabric is designed to enable […]
Thread is the Future of Wireless Mesh
Over the last decade or so, interest in IoT technology and connecting devices to one another, and to the internet, has increased. Of course, one of the key elements necessary to connect devices is wireless communication. There are several wireless interfaces, such as cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, LoRa etc., that are prominently used in different […]
Esri Unveils PaaS Environment for Calling Geospatial Data via APIs
Esri today unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment through which developers can embed geospatial capabilities into their applications by making an application programming interface (API) call to a cloud service. Euan Cameron, CTO for developer technology at Esri, said the ArcGIS Platform will make it simpler for developers to incorporate mapping capabilities enabled by a geographic […]
Overcoming Cloud Asset Management Challenges
Twenty years ago, no one in IT could have predicted the monumental role that cloud computing would play in our everyday lives. To play off the words of Back to the Future‘s Doc Brown: “On-premises? Where we’re going, we don’t need on-premises.” As technology continues to evolve, though, security teams face greater challenges. Infrastructure is […]
Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud
Even in 2021, many companies still run business-critical, legacy applications on-premises, just as they have for the last 20 to 30 years. The midrange server hardware, and their unique architecture, on which many of these applications run is both their biggest drawback and biggest advantage; the benefits of being able to vertically scale a platform […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Reach to the Network
OpsRamp today announced its AI-enabled IT operations management (AIOps) platform now has the ability to analyze network flows and communications traffic. Ciaran Byrne, vice president of product management for OpsRamp, said the new analytics capabilities will make it possible for IT teams to correlate the IT events OpsRamp already tracks on servers and storage systems against […]
A Security Vulnerability Management Guide
Living in a container-native world is not easy. Containers have a reputation for being a point of entry for security vulnerabilities for many organizations. In 2015, according to a research paper, over 40% of Docker images distributed through Docker Hub had high-risk vulnerabilities; at that time there were more than 95,000 container images hosted on […]
Internal Makes On-Premises Edition of No-Code Tool Available
Internal today launched an on-premises edition of its eponymous no-code development platform that promises to simplify application development backlog reduction for enterprise IT organizations. Arisa Amano, CEO of Internal, said many professional developers regularly find themselves building simple applications that, if given access to the right tools, could be built instead by end users. Internal […]
Improving Mainframe Agility With DevOps
Mainframe workloads were on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic, and transaction-processing mainframes became vital as lockdowns went into effect and every aspect of business and personal life occurred online. Mainframes are reliable, secure, highly available and affordable, and it is essential for organizations to ensure their mainframe can achieve peak agility to enhance […]
Cloudflare Lays Out GitOps Ambitions for CDN Platform
Cloudflare’s acquisition of Linc is the latest move in the hosting provider’s move to better align its content delivery network (CDN) service with the tools and frameworks organizations rely on to build modern applications using GitOps processes, according to CEO Matthew Prince. Cloudflare also announced other updates and automation-related features, including a way to automatically […]
BMC Expands Scope of Mainframe Management Portfolio
BMC this week updated its portfolio of mainframe tools as part of an effort to make mainframe platforms more accessible to IT operations teams and developers. At the core of these offerings is BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI), which embeds machine learning algorithms in mainframe platforms to automate a wide range of processes. BMC AMI […]
Report: Software Quality Issues Costing U.S. Companies $2.08 Trillion
A report published today by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimates poor software quality collectively cost companies in the U.S. an estimated $2.08 trillion in 2020. The report, co-sponsored by software quality and security tools provider Synopsys, attempts to calculate, at least theoretically, the cost of known software failures. The report identifies […]
The Biggest Motivators and Barriers for SD-WAN Adoption in 2021
The SD-WAN market has exploded in 2020, driven by the need to support increasingly remote workforces, the emergence of the AI-driven WAN and the requirement to deliver branch performance that matches campus networks. As enterprises look at the year ahead, support for the distributed workforce remains a top priority, and SD-WAN is a crucial technology […]
How to Avoid Cloud Overspend
Cloud overspend can have a major impact on a company’s bottom line. Here’s what organizations need to know Cloud technology has reached the stage of mainstream adoption across multiple industries, be it finance, health care, manufacturing or retail. According to a Research and Markets report, the global cloud computing market is expected to grow further […]
How Cloud Data Platforms Help Enterprises Drive Business Value
Cloud data platforms make businesses more scalable and flexible and more cost-efficient The need for actionable data is nothing new. Enterprises spend time, money and resources working to get their data into a format that is usable for analytics. But most are still struggling to do just that. More than 90% of enterprises say that […]
Aruba Aims to Centralize Network Management
Aruba, a unit of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), unveiled orchestration software that makes it possible to centralize the management of network switches in the data center, across an extended campus and at the network edge. In addition, Aruba is adding a family of five 1/10/25/40/100 GbE switches to its portfolio that are designed to be deployed […]
How to Choose the Right IoT Cloud Provider
The flexibility and scale of cloud-native development makes it an obvious choice for IoT initiatives. That’s partly because IoT engineering tends to be more complex, requiring seamless interoperability between software, hardware, a UI, together with connectivity and data handling capabilities. Typical IoT initiatives are compute-intensive too, again making them a good fit with the functionality […]
How to Make a Self-Healing IT Infrastructure a Reality
In 2019, enterprises worldwide reported that every hour of infrastructure downtime cost them an average of $301,000- $400,000. If a system is down for five hours, that’s $1.5 million lost—and that’s on the low end. Five hours of downtime can impact companies for months down the road. It’s in the hands of DevOps practitioners to […]
How to Optimize Your Cloud Operations
Taking a holistic approach to cloud optimization and application modernization can help keep cloud spend in check There’s a fine line between cloud spend and cloud sprawl. Most companies today are using cloud technologies to power their most important products and services, communications and collaboration, but it’s easy to cross the line from spending smartly […]
Intel Readies Gold oneAPI Toolkit
Intel this week said a gold image of its oneAPI for unifying infrastructure as code will be available starting next month. Jeff McVeigh, vice president of data center XPU products and solutions Intel, said the goal is to provide a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing the compute capabilities of any processor regardless of […]
What’s the Best Multi-Cloud Strategy for Your Organization?
Scaling your business needs robust solutions, and a multi-cloud strategy can exactly help you achieve that. There has been a debate on whether organizations should go for multi-cloud or stick to a single vendor. Recently, one of the users of Reddit posted a question, “Do you need a multi-cloud strategy?” Responses to the question offer […]
20/20 Network Visibility: Making Cloud Migration a Success
Organizations need to take a considered and gradual approach to cloud migration to ensure security and compliance For businesses to succeed in 2021 and beyond, agility and responsiveness are critical. Data is the new currency, and businesses need to be able to access theirs instantly and securely to make the rapid-fire business decisions that will […]