How Data Drives the Business of a Clean Energy Company
Imagine using kerosene lanterns to light your way into the evening, at home so you can cook, read, shower and the kids can do homework, or outside to keep a business or medical center open or play night games in a park or field. This is life in undeveloped nations. Not only is the light […]
Trend Micro Expands DevSecOps Portfolio
At the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference today, Trend Micro significantly expanded its reach into DevSecOps by announcing it has acquired Immunio, a provider of agent software that can be employed on a central platform engine to execute security policies on a granular level. In addition, Trend Micro announced it is adding support for container image scanning […]
Case Study: DevOps Key to AWS Cloud Migration
DevOps practices halved the time it took this SaaS company to migrate to AWS Australia-based Whispir provides communications applications as a service. One of its goals is to get products into users’ hands as soon as possible, and that requires development, operations and product staff working together, said Jonathan Swift, head of product and operations. […]
Platform9 Brings Workflows to Serverless Computing
Serverless computing frameworks are widely regarded as the next big thing in enterprise IT because they are based on an event-driven architecture that makes servers, storage and networking resources dynamically available as needed using a programming construct known as functions. But DevOps teams are challenged in finding a way to orchestrate all those functions in […]
With a Multicloud Infrastructure, Control is Key
Ask any developer or DevOps manager about their first experiences with the public cloud and it’s likely they’ll happily share some memories of quickly provisioning some compute instances for a small project or new app. For (seemingly) a few pennies, you could take full advantage of the full suite of public cloud services—as well as […]
Is AWS Cloud Per-Second Billing Boon or Bane for DevOps Engineers?
Amazon’s introduction of its AWS services in 2006 with a per-hour billing model for compute resources was a game-changer for the IT world. Since then, AWS has taken over the cloud computing market as a leader, while broadening the range of cloud services offered every year. However, the per-hour billing business model was one of […]
Amazon’s Macie: Machine Learning to Protect Data in AWS
Macie is a recently launched security service from Amazon for its AWS customers. It works by identifying and classifying sensitive data such as personal information or intellectual property, continuously monitoring that data for anomalies and giving customers detailed alerts and dashboard readouts related to the access or movement of the data. Macie is currently able […]
VMware Cloud on AWS Will Bring DevOps Issues to a Head
Now that instances of VMware are starting to become available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a DevOps ecosystem is starting to emerge around the management of applications workloads moving into and out of AWS. Among the more than 4,500 applications that VMware claims already support VMware Cloud on AWS are those from Blue Medora, CA […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps and the Road to Cloud with JT Giri, CEO, nClouds
For many of us in the IT industry, migrating to the cloud is old news. Even the concept of how DevOps can help on the road to the cloud is not a novel idea. However, we need to remember that while many organizations have some cloud-based infrastructure, the real migration to the cloud is still […]
Tips to Optimize the Cloud for Scaling
When I first started migrating companies to the cloud (about seven years ago), companies would ask me, “How come the app isn’t scaling? How come users are still complaining about the slowness?” I would explain that the cloud enables auto-scaling, but you still have to make sure your app can scale in the cloud. In […]
Why Your Company Needs An Automated Infrastructure
IT teams and software have started to embrace automation across all levels of the development life cycle, from planning and testing to deployment and maintenance. With the advent of DevOps, and the cloud, it’s now entirely possible for technical teams to spin up new environments in a matter of minutes instead of days. The process […]
DevOps Chat: Puppet Extends Enterprise Credentials with Michael Olson
Puppet made three major announcements today around new versions of their flagship products, new products independent of Puppet Enterprise and a major expansion of partner programs and offices in the face of record growth over the last 12 months. As I detailed in my article on these announcements, these 3 taken together paint a clear […]
Puppet Solidifies Enterprise Provider Status With Bevy Of Announcements
Puppet has been maturing from a company with an enthusiastic base of users of an open source tool, to a leading provider of enterprise DevOps solutions for the last few years. Things really accelerated with the appointment last year of Sanjay Mirchandani, as CEO and the group of experienced, A+ players he brought to the […]
AWS Extends DevOps Ambitions via Managed Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is signaling its increased interest in providing managed services spanning multiple aspects of DevOps with the launch of service that promises to make it easier to set up development projects. At a recent AWS Summit conference in San Francisco, CTO Werner Vogels described AWS CodeStar as a means for building pipelines […]
DevOps Chat: Ken Cheney, Chef on AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automation
devopsy.kinsta.cloud catches up with Chef’s busy CMO Ken Cheney. Ken give us the inside look at AWS’s OpsWorks for Chef Automate. While this is an AWS offering it is based on Chef and is a pretty big bet by AWS on Chef. In addition Ken brings us up to speed (pun intended) on other things […]
DOES San Francisco 2016: Adrian Cockroft On Retaining Talent
Another one of the over 50 video interviews we did at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 is our discussion with Adrian Cockroft. Adrian is was one of the last presenters at DOES this year, but that was a good enough reason to stick around until the end. Adrian’s presentation was on the challenges in retaining talent […]
3 AWS Design Patterns to Maximize DevOps Value
Many business leaders are planning to make DevOps the cornerstone of their IT transformation strategy. But, as surprising as it might sound, skepticism abounds regarding how major vendors address the DevOps transformation challenges—they confuse DevOps with continuous delivery (CD) infrastructure. “We wanted DevOps and we got after a nine-month-long implementation a continuous delivery platform which speeds up IT operations without […]
Best Practices for User Management Models in AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives organizations the flexibility of using several different methods for managing user accounts. In this article, we will take a look at some of the best user account management practices and their potential pros and cons. The Ins and Outs of AWS Accounts AWS accounts provide comprehensive access to resources created […]
Orchestrating Continuous Delivery to Amazon ECS with Jenkins
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DevOps Q&A: SUMO Heavy’s Brodie on the Hybrid Cloud
Not every expert says DevOps will enable the hybrid cloud. One says it never will. Find out why in this Q&A with Bob Brodie, partner and CTO of SUMO Heavy, a digital commerce design and development firm. David Geer: How will DevOps enable the hybrid cloud? Brodie: I do not feel that DevOps enables the […]
Cohesive Networks Customers Validate VNS3 4.0 Elevates AWS Security
Newly Released 5-Star Rated Application-Layer Network and Security Software Now Available AWS SUMMIT – LONDON, UK – 6 July, 2016 – Cohesive Networks, a cloud-native security and networking company, today announced the availability of VNS3 version 4.0 in the AWS Marketplace, and all cloud environments. Cohesive Networks’ innovative approach to application-focused security differentiates VNS3 as the […]
mLab Launches Private Environments on AWS
Developers can now peer their AWS VPCs to their mLab Private Environments to create their own private networks isolated from the rest of the cloud datacenter San Francisco – June 22, 2016 – mLab, the fully managed cloud database service featuring automated provisioning, scaling, and management of MongoDB databases, today announced the private beta of Private […]
SecureWorks Counter Threat Platform Brings New Security Layer to Customer Workloads on AWS with Expanded Monitoring Capabilities
Organizations can add security bolstered by threat intelligence as they pursue the potential of cloud computing and hybrid IT. Atlanta, June 13, 2016 – SecureWorks Corp. (NASDAQ: SCWX) is expanding the capabilities of its vendor-agnostic, data analytics engine — the Counter Threat Platform (CTP) TM — to now provide security monitoring of client applications and […]