Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Making real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today’s world. That’s why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and more have come to life. Enterprises are using these technologies to re-architect their data storage and processing […]
Rackspace Becomes AWS DevOps Competency Partner
SAN ANTONIO, TX–(Marketwired – April 14, 2016) – Rackspace® (NYSE: RAX) has achieved Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) DevOps Competency within the AWS Partner Competency Program, which recognizes members of the AWS Partner Network who have completed a rigorous third-party audit demonstrating their expertise in DevOps practices, tools, and proven customer success. Customers can access this […]
Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform™ Achieves AWS Security Competency
Threat Stack Earns Competency for Comprehensive Security and Seamless Customer Experience BOSTON – April 7, 2016 – Threat Stack, a leader in cloud security management and compliance, today announced that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency as part of the AWS Competency Program for the Threat Stack Cloud Security PlatformTM(CSP). “Security […]
DevOps and ITaaS: Two Sides of the Same Coin
It seems IT practitioners haven’t realized yet the scale of digital disruption. Mired in the old IT thinking, they firmly believe that sophisticated tools are all businesses need to survive the ongoing digital disruption waves. Most of them warn, “Digital transformation is changing the way we do business, the way we deliver IT services must change, […]
6 Key Considerations When Migrating to AWS
Every day, more and more organizations take the plunge and migrate to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. What they leave behind is the cumbersomeness of the traditional data center, but despite the cloud’s benefits in scalability, agility and efficiency, they discover a new set of challenges that need to be overcome. Gartner estimates that […]
Agile Infrastructure: Because your Infrastructure Deserves Tests, Too
Editor’s Note: This post was updated Aug. 4, 2018, to reflect an updated slide presentation at the end of the article. Infrastructure as Code is a truly powerful concept whose significance is best described with the words of Adam Jacob, CTO at Chef, in Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time: “Enable the reconstruction of […]
Avoiding Common AWS Security Risks
According to IBM’s Cyber Security Intelligence Index, 95% of all security incidents involve human error. That’s beyond significant, and when rapidly deploying multiple iterations in a DevOps shop, that means there are lots of opportunities to fail. Our own independent analysis based on customer configuration data shows that security control mechanisms Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes available […]
AWS re:Invent – New Releases Drive Cloud Security Innovation
The recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas saw the release of several new AWS services for security. Some of these announcements such as AWS Web Application Firewall and AWS Inspector seemed to take many in the security press and blogosphere by surprise. Cloud-native security companies like Evident.io however, weren’t surprised by these announcements. In fact, AWS […]
Alert Logic Cloud Insight brings cloud-based security to your cloud infrastructure
One of the primary driving forces behind DevOps is its fluidity. There is a domino-effect that cascades from the developers who create the apps to the IT admins who deploy and administer the apps to the individuals who download and use the apps and back again. Traditional security can’t keep pace so Alert Logic created […]
Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]
DevOps fast food: Chef on the AWS marketplace,
News from the AWS Summit in NYC today is that Chef is now available as a one click install on AWS via the AWS marketplace. While the ability to use Chef on AWS is not new (it is the leading configuration management tool on AWS), being on the marketplace makes both install and billing a […]
The Last One That Transformed the Future
The headline made her yelp for joy. A year into the future of D-Chip, on a crisp August morning, Phoebe opened the newspaper and swiped to the technology section on her iPad. What she saw was riveting: D-Chip reborn as a star in wearable computing. She immediately thought of the article Marc Andreessen wrote on […]
The One Where All the Deployments Stall
In the first episode of the DevOps story, DChip CEO Phoebe gave Chandler an ultimatum to move out of AWS into their datacenter on OpenStack. Does Chandler succeed? Read on to find out… Fast forward two weeks since that fateful night. Chandler is preparing for yet another leadership call. It’s deja vu, with the same […]
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Amazon has packed a box full of services and covered nearly every aspect in making cloud a smooth experience for developers to put up exceedingly operational and structurally complex applications on AWS. Large numbers of cloud-based systems feel the dire need of or dependency on sending out emails on a subscription basis to end users. But it is […]
Composable Environments for Continuous Delivery
The Continuous Deployment model discussed below requires some very specific properties for its platform substrate. Currently AWS is the the only environment that supports all the features needed to implement this. So when we start talking about implementation details in this, and future articles, we will be targeting AWS. The title of this article is […]
The One Where All Hell Breaks Loose
Don’t you love a good story? This one is a DevOps story in a fictional enterprise. It’s the kind of story you’ve seen replayed countless times in large organizations. So settle in for a read. The backstory DChip Tech is a semiconductor company. They’re in the business of making chips for wearable computing since acquiring […]
Optimize your spend on AWS through Reserved Instances
Over the last few years Amazon has gradually raised its compute capacity and provided the user with a set of advanced analytical and structural services. For each service, you can expand precisely for the amount of resources you actually need and shall pay for each resource usage at the end of each month. In the […]
AWS Key Management Service
Security of data and applications whether stored on-premises or in the cloud has always been a supreme issue of influence. To date AWS has provided it’s customers with services that help in securing and encrypting the data e.g., Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store(EBS) which is a server-side encryption service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS for […]
AWS Best Practices – Enterprise Perspective
Amazon AWS has changed the IaaS game for startups and growth companies. There are several practices we must acknowledge the importance of during the adoption and implementation of AWS services. Readers are more than welcome to comment, suggest modifications and even add their own little practices they follow during roll outs and implementations. As clients […]
Scripts or Machine Images, What is the Best Way to bootstrap
Between the advent of handy tools, like Chef and Puppet, and virtual machine infrastructures, like VMWare and AWS, I feel like there has been a great debate about how to bootstrap machines. It seems like there are two extremes. On one side is heavy reliance on machine images (AMIs, in AWS speak) or scripting (recipes, […]
The evolution of built-in DevOps features in cloud platforms
These days DevOps is being widely adopted by many IT organizations. Such IT organizations become more agile and reliable, deploying code more frequently with fewer bugs and failures. DevOps helps to get better IT performance and build additional competitive advantages, and companies with high-performing IT organizations are twice as likely to exceed their profitability, market […]
How Ansible makes automation easy
Continuing our series of videos from the recent Gluecon 2014 conference, here is our next one again courtesy of CloudSoft. In this video Peter Sankauskas talks about using Ansible to make automation easy especially with AWS. Hope you enjoy it. Alan Shimel
Security automation with DevOps: show me the code!
Last week Andrew Storms put up a good post hinting at the promise of security automation in [SecDevOps: Security Automation By Example – The Firewall Change]. He included an example of automating a series of actions when a firewall rule is changed. It’s a good article, although I’m increasingly convinced there’s no such thing as […]