The Lego Approach to Overcoming the Developer Divide
As end-user demand for new services continues to rise and businesses adapt to changing times, digitalization has never been more important. Pressure is increasing on organizations to deliver digital transformation initiatives more quickly as 55% of CIOs in 2021 said they were increasing staff to accelerate their digital programs. The cloud is essential for this. […]
Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud
A global survey of 1,600 enterprise IT decision-makers found more than half are working for organizations that plan to eliminate the use of data centers over the next two years. The survey was conducted by Aryaka, a provider of a secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and found a quarter of the respondents have closed […]
IT Ops Trends: Cloud, Containers and COVID
Almost all companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure to remain competitive, with the focus firmly on migration to the cloud and the use of dynamic infrastructures. In a recent Trends in IT Ops 2021 survey, more than 160 IT professionals were asked how the implementation of IT strategies affected their day-to-day work. The results provided […]
Connecting Your Cloud & DevOps Tools to Enable CI/CD
An effective continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline must integrate cloud and DevOps tools seamlessly to ensure the build, compile, test and release of applications is accomplished efficiently and without friction. Application architectures, internal processes and personal preferences mean organizations and teams set up the CI/CD pipeline differently, resulting in a diversity of infrastructure and tooling […]
CIS Benchmarks: DevOps Guide to Hardening the Cloud
DevOps and cloud computing have become inseparable. But while the cloud started as primarily a dev/test environment — without stringent security and availability requirements — it has evolved into a mature platform for running production workloads. Moreover, devastating supply chain attacks like SolarWinds and Kaseya taught us all that development environments must also be secure. […]
Kyndryl Aligns with Microsoft in the Cloud
Following its spinout from IBM, Kyndryl has allied with Microsoft to increase the scope of IT services it provides on the Azure public cloud. Stephen Leonard, leader of global alliances and partnerships for Kyndryl, said that as part of this initiative, Kyndryl will be expanding the scope of the services it provides to both organizations […]
Understanding and Controlling Cloud Costs
The widescale migration to cloud and the embracement of cloud-native application architectures has been a blessing to developers and those responsible for deploying and maintaining modern applications. Container-based apps allow fast changes compared to monolithic apps. And cloud services let DevOps teams quickly launch instances and acquire resources for all stages of their work. The […]
Debunking 6 Stubborn Public Cloud Myths
A lot of enterprises migrate to the public cloud because they see everyone else doing it. And while you should stay up on the latest and greatest innovations—which often happen in the cloud—you need to be aware of the realities and understand different migration strategies. You need to know why you’re moving to the cloud. […]
How to Avoid the Most Common Online Service Costs
Throughout the last year and a half, most organizations were forced to either create or develop their online service offerings at a rapid pace. Companies had to find alternate solutions to continue day-to-day operations in the transition to remote-first. Low development costs and the wide range of use cases have been primary factors in the […]
Sysdig Adds Cloud Access Controls to DevSecOps Platform
Sysdig announced today that it is adding a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) capability to its Secure DevOps platform as part of an effort to better enforce least-privilege access within the context of a larger zero-trust approach to cybersecurity. Nick Fisher, vice president of product marketing for Sysdig, said this addition to the company’s core […]
Perforce Charts Testing Course After BlazeMeter Acquisition
Perforce Software has acquired BlazeMeter from Broadcom as part of an effort to extend the scope of its testing tools beyond the Perfecto tools for testing mobile and web applications it acquired in 2018. Broadcom gained control over BlazeMeter after it acquired CA Technologies in 2018. CA Technologies acquired BlazeMeter in 2016. Terms of the […]
4 Container Orchestration Security Concerns
Container orchestration is a must-have technical skill, according to 51% of respondents to the 2021 Upskilling survey from DevOps Institute. So, it’s no surprise, then, that container technology is becoming increasingly popular. However, container environments are far more complex and dynamic than other infrastructure, making container security essential. Security ensures containers are running as intended, […]
4 Tips To Plug The Cloud IT Skills Gap
Technical talent is few and far between. The programming world faces a developer shortage, and with this shortage comes a lack of cloud know-how. By now, most organizations have become multi-cloud, yet 86% of IT professionals believe a lack of these skills will slow down cloud projects. As more teams transition from older architectures to […]
4 Ways to Simplify Cloud Performance Monitoring
Over the past 18 months, technologists across the globe have played a crucial role in the survival of brands and organizations via digital strategies. Across all industries, their skill and dedication have enabled businesses to rapidly launch innovative new digital services to meet huge fluctuations in customer needs and allow entire workforces to operate from […]
How to Improve Cloud Management
Cloud technology underpins emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, edge computing and containerization. Organizations must prioritize implementing effective cloud management practices to avoid spiraling costs and potential security and compliance violations. The COVID-19 pandemic has vastly accelerated cloud adoption. To support remote work, many businesses have moved workloads from on-premises servers to the public […]
How to Achieve Cloud Operational Excellence
Cloud operational excellence means delivering the right mix of cloud-based services at the optimal cost and quality to support your organization’s mission and strategy. You might be thinking, “Why go to the trouble? Isn’t ‘almost good enough’ sufficient?” It turns out that it matters—a lot. The difference between the top 10% and the bottom 10% […]
Majority of Organizations Now Adopt Multi-Cloud
As IT’s digital footprint grows, its cloud footprint is rising both in size and complexity. As a result, most organizations have matured into multi-cloud operators. A multi-cloud approach empowers different divisions with the autonomy to select the right computing environment for their needs. It also enables a lift-and-shift ability to port workloads across cloud service […]
Infrastructure-as-Code Security will Improve Your Cloud Security
Moving to the cloud creates a tremendous opportunity to get security right and reduce the risk of a data breach. Most organizations start their cloud security efforts by ‘shifting security left’ thereby addressing issues in the CI/CD pipeline. Fixing known vulnerabilities and risky configurations before pushing images to production makes sense. But there is an […]
5 Steps to a Seamless Multi-Cloud Migration
With digitization the topic of discussion in almost every boardroom since the onset of COVID-19, it’s no coincidence that migration to the cloud has skyrocketed in tandem. In fact, at the onset of the pandemic, 87% of IT decision-makers noted that the remote restructuring of the workplace would push their organizations to accelerate cloud migrations. […]
Are You Wasting Money in the Cloud?
I’m not the first person to point out the issues with Andreessen Horowitz’s blog post outlining why Dropbox is repatriating from the public cloud to data centers and saving an enormous amount of money. But while others have brought up valid points about how Dropbox is not representative of most companies and that the value […]
Stop Hiding the Cloud From Your Developers
If you say a person or organization “goes to great lengths” to achieve something, it means they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things to accomplish their goal. One example I’ve seen is that of more traditional companies “going to great lengths” to “hide” the cloud from their pool of potential technical consumers doing […]
CloudTruth Acquires Tuono to Advance Configuration Management
CloudTruth, a provider of a unified configuration management platform, today revealed it has acquired Tuono, a provider of a cloud secrets management platform, as part of an effort to make it simpler to secure infrastructure provisioned using code. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Greg Arnette, CloudTruth CEO, said misconfigurations are rife across cloud […]
Leveraging the Cloud for Mainframe Access
Now more than ever, organizations around the world are looking to extend their existing mainframe investments as part of larger digital transformation initiatives. As core systems of record and reliability, mainframes continue to run many organizations’ most important applications and the idea of replacing these systems comes with greater risk than reward. While organizations are […]