Tag: cloud
Automatic Right-Sizing is Magical Thinking
Some months ago, AWS evangelist Corey Quinn wrote a short blog post titled “Right Sizing Your Instances Is Nonsense.” As usual, Corey was spot-on in his takedown of cost-reduction-magic-AI industry hype. But ...
There’s No Innovation Without Automation
Companies of all sizes and across virtually every industry today have ready access to hyperscale compute, storage and myriad other technologies — without needing the significant budget or technical expertise of a ...
Designing Cost-Efficient Cloud Environments
Today, the days of on-premises data centers are mostly behind us, and the cloud has largely taken over with the promise of scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency. Despite these promises, the cloud often ...
Majority of Orgs Lack Visibility Into Container Vulnerabilities
Today’s blend of third-party application dependencies and polyglot software development often makes assessing risk difficult. With many new cloud-native deployment models, it can be tricky to discover potential vulnerabilities. These threats take ...
How to Move Fast Without Breaking Security
“Move fast and break things,” is a familiar motto. The phrase, attributed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helps to explain the company's stellar growth over the past decade, driven by its product ...
Rethinking Your Tool Chain in the Cloud
Every IT shop has a “tool chain” - all of the software other than the OS and the application that fills in the gaps and keeps everything running. This includes solutions for ...
Automation is Needed for Reliable Cloud Platforms
From six to 1,400 microservices in less than five years? At first glance, that sounds like overwhelming complexity. Can you actually see the entire system across all of the microservices? This is ...
The Importance of NetSecOps in Network Management
The IT landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past decade or so. The vast majority of businesses now operate largely in the cloud, which has had a notable impact on their ...
Despite Cloud Adoption, Enterprises Demand On-Premises Software
A recent report from Dimensional Research reveals that the demand for on-premises software is equal to that of public cloud. The report, which was commissioned by Replicated, a company specializing in on-premises ...
‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’
These days, software programmers are increasingly estranged from hardware. Most millennials and Generation Z developers have never had to mount physical servers. They have never been lulled by the gentle hum of ...
Perforce Adds Synchronization Tool for Cross-Functional Teams
Perforce Software has added a graphical tool, dubbed Helix Sync, that enables individuals, such as artists, to take advantage of the version control capabilities provided by its software development life cycle (SDLC) ...
Do You Need a Cloud AI Engineer?
For all the technological advancements we are witnessing in AI and machine learning, the practical benefits remain elusive in the non-tech business world, frustrating decision-makers as AI investment climbs. For example, over the ...