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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 ...
Force Me Back to the Office? Apple ‘Hasn’t Learned Anything’
In this week’s The Long View: New ways of working. Whether it’s remote work, enforced hybrid working or a four-day working week, let’s triage the trends and futz with the future ...
F5 NGINX Delivers Modern Management Platform
F5 NGINX has revamped an implementation of its management suite as part of an effort to make the platform both more accessible and simpler to use. Eric Braun, vice president of product ...
Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours ...
Cycode Expands Scope of AppDev Security Platform
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, Cycode this week announced it has added static application security testing (SAST) and container scanning capabilities to its software composition analysis (SCA) platform that is based ...
CloudNativeDay: WASM to Drive Next IT Epoch
WebAssembly (WASM) is poised to drive the next era of development of cloud-native applications that can truly run anywhere. Liam Randall, CEO of Cosmonic, a provider of a platform for building and ...
GitHub Brings 2FA to JavaScript Package Manager
GitHub has made generally available a two-factor authentication tool for the package manager for JavaScript applications maintained by its NPM, Inc. arm. In addition, all npm packages have been re-signed and there ...
CREST Defines Quality Verification Standard for AppSec Testing
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, CREST today shared a quality assurance verification standard to improve application security testing. The standard is based on the open source framework defined by the ...
IBM Unveils Simulation Tool for Attacking SCM Platforms
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, IBM today revealed it is making available a toolkit for launching simulated attacks against source code management (SCM) platforms. The toolkit was launched as a ...
Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive ...
Orgs Struggle to Get App Modernization Right
A survey published today found 93% of IT leader respondents admitted that application modernization efforts are either extremely or somewhat challenging. The survey, which polled 150 IT leaders at organizations with at ...
GitHub Adds Tools to Simplify Management of Software Development
GitHub has made generally available Projects powered by GitHub Issues, a set of tools for managing application development projects based on a spreadsheet interface. Mario Rodriguez, vice president of product management at ...