DevOps Download: What to Know About Life in the Cloud(s)
According to the 2022 Flexera State of the Cloud Report, 89% of cloud customers now use multiple cloud hosting providers. Nearly nine out of 10 might sound high, but it tracks with the anecdotal evidence we’ve seen. For varied and good reasons, companies are spreading their usage across multiple hyperscalers rather than putting all their […]
Complete Guide to AWS Savings Plans
Monitoring and managing your AWS Savings Plans, as part of your overall cloud operations strategy, can help optimize your cloud computing costs.
How Platform Engineering Bridges the IT and DevOps Divide
A key area where companies can eliminate expensive waste and increase time to value is the relationship and workflow between IT and developers. Enter platform engineering.
Defining ‘Best’
The tools you already have within your organization are capable of more than you think. Take advantage of them.
How to Keep Your IT Infrastructure Invisible
IT infrastructure is critical. IT infrastructure enables businesses to run—from day-to-day operational execution to visionary strategic innovation and everything in between. What’s interesting, though, is that people are only aware of it when there’s a problem: HR can’t access the payroll application, customers are complaining about how slow the transactional system is or this month’s […]
How to Empower DevSecOps in a Complex Multi-Cloud Landscape
Organizations are embracing cloud-based application delivery for speed of delivery and scale. However, the proliferation of multi-cloud systems to access and maximize the cloud’s capabilities is driving complexity in IT environments. Many organizations do not consider how multi-cloud adoption is expanding their attack surface—and the risk is growing: The 2023 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report found […]
Four Ways to Modernize Your Enterprise Monoliths
In a perfect world, every application would run like Netflix–by which I mean every application would be cloud-native, microservices-based, containerized and, in all other senses of the word, modern. Unfortunately, not every application can be transformed in these ways. Some of the most important enterprise applications–like those powered by SAP or Oracle–don’t lend themselves to […]
VMware Streamlines IT Management via Cloud Foundation Update
VMware this week updated its Cloud Foundation platform and rolled up recent updates to the company’s virtualization portfolio all at once. Version 5.0 of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) encompasses the latest versions of VMware vSphere 8.0u1 for workload management, VMware vSAN 8.0u1 for scale-out storage, VMware NSX 4.1 for networking and VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager […]
What Is a Cloud Operations Engineer?
CloudOps, short for cloud operations, refers to the processes, tools and strategies employed to manage, monitor and optimize the performance, security and availability of cloud-based infrastructure, applications and services. It encompasses a set of best practices and methodologies that ensure the smooth functioning of cloud environments, including resource provisioning, configuration management, automation, deployment, monitoring and […]
Consider Performance, Growth & Budget When Buying Data Analytics
So, your business needs to invest in data analytics technology to improve efficiencies, competitive advantage or business outcomes. There are a ton of things to consider, but underlying each decision are three driving factors: Performance – The need to meet service level agreements. Growth – The need to accommodate success, as well as deal with […]
Turning Software Testers Into 10xers
How do you make technical processes faster and more scalable? If your answer is simply to automate them, you’re stuck in the 2010s. Today, automation is widespread, and automating processes in a basic sense is no longer enough on its own to maximize efficiency and velocity. Instead, teams who want to excel–who want to become […]
5 Best Practices for Using VMs on Azure Cloud
When beginning a cloud improvement/optimization project, an easy place to start is to focus on the initial low-hanging fruit of your virtual machine (VM) environments. This article takes a closer look at these steps, using a Microsoft Azure VM environment as an example. Here are five best practices that can be easily achieved when using […]
Understanding Cloud APIs
Six out of every 10 businesses had moved their workloads to the cloud as of last year. More steady traffic in the cloud and more direct cloud instances mean more to juggle–and the need for greater customization and integration. That’s where APIs come in. APIs are doing for the cloud what they did for on-premises […]
Good Things Happen When DevSecOps and Cloud Collide
The marriage of cloud and software development is arguably the heart and soul of digital transformation. Providing pathways to greater efficiencies, lower costs and greater enterprise performance, the duo is poised to fundamentally transform industries as we know them. The compounding complexities of hybrid cloud operations and software supply chains, however, have led to a […]
DevOps Use Cases for AI-Assisted Kubernetes
As indicated in my prior blogs Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Kubernetes and Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration, an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator is needed to optimize cloud costs for DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE. This blog describes DevOps-specific use cases for an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator. The blog also describes a roadmap […]
FinOps & ITAM Must Team up to Cut Cloud Spend
Ahead of its Wisdom NA 2023 event taking place in Florida March 21-22, Rich Gibbons from the ITAM Review explores the relationship between FinOps and IT Asset Management when it comes to managing software costs. With on-premises revenues in decline, will the major software publishers respond by increasing policing and enforcement of their licensing rules in […]
Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Kubernetes
As indicated in my prior blog, Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration, an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator is needed to optimize cloud costs for DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE. This blog describes the landscape for cloud-native optimization approaches and a features requirement blueprint for an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator. The blog also describes a roadmap for […]
Report Affirms Continued AWS Cloud Dominance
A report published this week by Wiz, a provider of a cloud security platform, found more than half of organizations (57%) are using multiple clouds, with 22% currently using three or more platforms. However, the report also noted that 72% of all workloads are running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Among organizations that […]
5 Unique Challenges of Mobile App Testing
At first glance, testing a mobile app may not seem to be very different from testing a conventional desktop app. Mobile and desktop apps are often written in the same languages and hosted on the same servers. They must also meet the same basic user expectations in areas like loading speed and accessibility. But when […]
The Google Cloud DevOps Awards: Apply Now!
DevOps continues to be a major business accelerator for our customers and we continually see success from customers applying DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) principles and findings to their organization. The DevOps Awards are targeted to recognize customers shaping the future of DevOps with DORA. Share your inspirational story, supported by examples of business transformation […]
Survey Sheds Light On Cloud, API Expertise Skills Gap
Enterprise IT faces a three-pronged onslaught: Digital transformation, open APIs and security threats. First, most organizations are still navigating ongoing digital transformations and cloud migrations. Second, development teams continue to increase their use of open APIs, leading to sprawl concerns. And third, we’ve witnessed a slew of cybersecurity threats that appear to be growing in […]
How to Select the Right Volume Type/Storage for Your Workload
AWS services are at the top of the cloud services food chain, and a hot topic for nearly every business considering migrating to the cloud. Along any cloud migration journey, many hidden traps await the unprepared. The volumes you’ve already provisioned might seem like a perfect match—but are you sure they suit your workload and […]
Implementing Shift Left Security in the Cloud
While ransomware has been the leading concern for enterprise security teams over the few past years, software vulnerabilities are nipping at its heels. The boom in cloud-based apps and services and increased digitization of work have been a boon for hackers, who are taking advantage of developers’ and DevOps teams’ attempts to work faster and […]