Backup and Recovery for Distributed Databases
Over the past five years, applications have undergone a paradigm shift. They now require more agility, scalability and availability. The key trends in this era are driven by the use of social platforms, mobile devices and software as a service (SaaS). Being able to ingest large amounts of data from various sources and process that data in […]
DDoS Defense: Can You Tell Friend from Foe?
In many organizations, networks are at the core of the business, enabling not only internal functions such as human resources, supply chain and finance, but also the services and transactions the business depends on for revenue. That makes network availability critical. Any interruption of access from the outside world turns off the revenue spigot, impacting […]
Things to Know When Planning for Cassandra Backup
NoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure DocumentDB and others are being adopted by enterprises to meet the data requirements of next-generation applications. Specifically, Apache Cassandra database provides linear scalability, a flexible consistency model and shared-nothing architecture that enables enterprises to scale their database footprint according to performance needs. As mission-critical applications […]
Useful Big Data Terminologies, Part 1
As data continues to increase at an evermore rapid pace, organizations struggle to deal with this data torrent, let alone use it to analyze and capture value. The ways used to understand this big data also is increasingly rapidly, which introduces myriad terms used to define these methods. The follow is an attempt to provide […]
5 Development Trends Reshaping Testing
There’s no shortage of new development trends, but virtual reality, containers, big data, hyperconnected apps and IoT are affecting testing the most today. If you like change and challenge, it’s a fun time to work in software. Some technology developments, such as cloud computing, have been gaining speed slowly over many years. That steady progression […]
Continuous Delivery and Deployment: A Tale of Two Models
EnerNOC (Energy Network Operations Center) is an energy intelligence software provider with more than 1,300 employees in its Boston headquarters and international locations. The public firm helps global customers to efficiently consume energy. “Our mission is to change how the world uses energy, helping customers to improve profitability and visibility for better decision-making and sustainability […]
Application Monitoring in the Age of Big Data
Operations (or ops, as it is known colloquially) has been necessary since the first shared systems came online in the ’60s. While the job title didn’t necessarily exist, the same questions needed answers then as they do now: Is it up and accessible? Is it responding in a reasonable time frame? Is it performing better […]
4 Tech Imperatives in 2016 to Prepare for Tomorrow
Around the start of every new year come a bevy of predictions about what’s coming (or what someone, or some vendor, or some analyst hopes is coming) in the year ahead. Rather than do that, based on recent conversations with many CIOs, I’ve collected what I think are imperative to-do’s for CIOs and IT leaders […]
Why You Need to Embrace Automation
Just in case you hadn’t noticed: The robots are coming. Well, you probably had noticed. It’s hard to miss. Newspaper articles and blogs everywhere herald their arrival. The stories usually follow the same general formula: A catalogue of amazing things that robots (really, AI systems) can do. Debate about forced unemployment vs. people freed up to do […]
7 things 2016 has in store for the future of DevOps and IT
With only a couple weeks left in 2015 it’s time to start looking ahead to what next year has in store. Let’s be honest—most of us have already mentally checked out for the holidays anyway, so it’s already 2016 for all intents and purposes. I spoke with a handful of industry experts to get some […]
DevOpsSec – Creating the Full Triangle
Introduction As a discipline, DevOps emphasizes uniting development and IT operations teams through modernized culture, integrated tooling and processes in order to increase the frequency, quality and business alignment of software roll-outs. But while developers and IT Ops teams need to be in lockstep, security cannot be an afterthought. Rather, DevOps teams need to adapt […]
Avoid the DevOps Tool Trap
Software development, at its most complex and dynamic is a full-court press of effort, knowledge, patience, and hard work. Anything that can reliably and cost-effectively reduce the huge number of tasks, redundancies, reports, and delays associated with the application release process is something to be embraced. In particular, many organizations today are turning to the […]
Jut Operations Data Hub for DevOps
“You have to be able to ask questions of your data in real-time and then respond to the answers,” says Apurva Dave, VP of Marketing, Jut. Jut leverages live streaming, batch analytics, and visualization to enable enterprises to ask important queries of their operational data using the Jut operations data hub, which Jut created with […]
Where Oh Where has my Hadoop gone?
Where is Hadoop? Just a few years ago, it was everywhere. Internet heavy hitters such as Facebook and Yahoo boasted about the size of their Hadoop clusters and applications. It was easy to imagine the day when Hadoop would be the one indispensable tool for anyone who dealt in large volumes of data. And now? […]
Managing many hosts is more than a Big Data problem
Back in my days at StillSecure a major problem we had with our vulnerability management platform was managing vulnerabilities over a large number of hosts. How can you effectively manage so many hosts, visualize them across the entire deployment? It gave our GUI designers and developers fits. In today’s world of virtual instances, containers and […]
New Relic Announces Groundbreaking Real-Time Analytics Platform
Cloud-based New Relic Insights collects, stores and processes trillions of events from web and mobile software to allow customers to easily and quickly answer the most important business questions SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK – March 19, 2014 – Software analytics company New Relic today announced the arrival of Insights, a real-time analytics platform that collects, stores and […]
Tokutek Announces Reselling Partnership With SkySQL
Leading MariaDB Distributor Adds TokuDB as Complementary Tool to Extend Database Performance and Scalability With TokuDB and the SkySQL MariaDB, database administrators and DevOps engineers can easily operate on continuously incoming data and incorporate analysis on large volumes of data. LEXINGTON, MA and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM and HELSINKI, FINLAND–(Marketwired – Feb 12, 2014) – Tokutek, […]