Grafana Labs Update Aims to Simplify Observability
Grafana Labs today released an update to the open source Grafana project that adds a viewer that simplifies tracking the path of a single request through a distributed system. Version 7.0 also adds a plug-in for Amazon CloudWatch Logs along with support for Apache Arrow, a unified data and plugin framework that promises to make […]
New Relic Extends Reach and Scope of AI Capabilities
New Relic this week announced it has extended the capabilities within its New Relic AI module to include support for additional data sources and provide access to more advanced analytics. Integrations with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus and Amazon CloudWatch are now provided along with support for a number of incident management platforms, including ServiceNow, OpsGenie and […]
Six Steps Every Business Should Take to Protect Its Data
Data may or may not be the new oil but it is the growth engine of today’s digital age. Data about a company’s customers, products, services and sales is worth a lot to the company itself, of course, but also to its competitors, as well as to business-savvy hackers. This is why every business, regardless […]
Why Enterprise Survival Depends on a Context Driven Approach to Data
Enterprises are sitting on an enormous amount of data that could be fueling their automation journey. Much of the information needed to run a business is existing data. However, much of an organization’s data is inaccessible and unsearchable. This so-called “dark data” is hidden away in paper forms, spreadsheets, emails and literally billions of PDF […]
Micro Focus Lays DevOps Foundation for RPA
Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Micro Focus Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which sets the stage for employing DevOps processes to construct highly automated business processes. Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital business transformation initiatives, interest in RPA has increased significantly. However, rather than merely using RPA to build […]
What is Cloud-Native Workload Protection?
We’re living in a cloud-native age. That means that many of the paradigms that worked in the days of on-premises hosting no longer suffice. Chief among them is security. To thrive in today’s cloud-native world, organizations need to rethink their approach to workload protection and bring it up to speed with cloud-native environments. In this […]
Data: the New Currency That Accelerates Business
The amount of data created every day is staggering: 2.5 quintillion (that’s 18 zeros) bytes, to be exact. And that number is growing exponentially, thanks to mass deployments of internet of things (IoT) networks and devices. Cisco Systems estimates that by the end of 2019, IoT will generate more than 500 zettabytes of data per […]
How AIOps Helps You Get More Out of DevOps
DevOps may seem like an overused term. It involves taking an application’s source code and running it in an environment. It can cover the processes, the technology or even the people that maintain the technology that is running those very processes. At its heart, though, DevOps is about helping developers to be self-sufficient when it […]
InfluxData Video Series: Dealing with Large Amounts of Data
The data deluge is becoming a daily issue, as companies collect ever more data from ever more devices and endpoints. But collecting data is one thing; deriving value from it is another. In this video, InfluxData VP of Products Tim Hall discusses some of the considerations in dealing with large amounts of data and how […]
Using Continuous Backup to Keep Pace in an Increasingly DevOps World
How continuous backup can help DevOps teams keep working with the right data The world of software engineering has changed; in fact it’s constantly changing. We’re moving on from the days of waterfall when big-budget releases with multiple features per version were the norm. Now, to compete, organizations have to implement agile development, with shorter […]
Breaking Down Data Silos in Your Organization
Today’s organizations can finally use advanced technologies to unlock the true value of all of their data. This enables them to make better decisions, serve up better customer experiences, accelerate innovation and respond to crises faster—even preventing them from occurring in the first place. Even so, many organizations are unable to do this because their […]
DevOps Chat: CHAOSSEARCH New Spin on Big Data Analysis
Analysis is the dark cloud overhanging big data — it’s difficult without the right tools. Elasticsearch by Elastic has become ubiquitous in helping organizations, but it can get unwieldy, as storage combining with compute is tricky. CHAOSSEARCH is an early stage startup designed to make searching massive amounts of data using elasticsearch and Amazon S3 […]
Talend Fall ’18 Enables Enterprises to Deliver Insight-Ready Data at Scale
Major integration platform update adds advanced catalog and API development capabilities and dramatically accelerates machine learning at scale REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and LONDON – October 16, 2018 – Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced a major update to Talend Data Fabric, the company’s unified data platform for data integration across complex, multi-cloud and on-premises […]
Database Security: Best Practices for Keeping Data Safe
Database security is of utmost importance to sectors including IT, banking, finance and ecommerce. Every other transaction is based on how secure their database is, as it holds every detail including usernames, passwords, customers’ credit card information and so on. The term “database security” denotes a series of measures initiated by the service provider to […]
We Still Haven’t Solved the Logging Problem
At a company I previously worked at, I helped build out the initial infrastructure to support a large cloud security product. It was one of the first times I had the opportunity to build something from nearly the very beginning. Like many operations professionals, so much of my career prior to this experience had been […]
How ‘Mature’ is Your Data Integration Competency?
To succeed with their digital transformation initiatives, companies need to use data to the full extent of their capability. Having the right data and applying it to the right problems can help companies gain new insights, create new models and disrupt stagnant processes. No argument there. The problem is, not everyone is putting their data […]
DevOps Security: 3 Privileged Access Management Best Practices
The tremendous upside of DevOps practices and tools are enough to keep organizations pressing forward at all costs. But when sloppy use of DevOps toolchains cause breaches, more than half the time it comes down to poor protection of privileged accounts. According to a recent study by security vendor Beyond Trust, 52 percent of IT […]
Speed and Security Can Coexist in Mainframe DevOps
DevOps teams face a constant tug-of-war in their daily work, balancing the need for speedy rollouts of high-performing (fast, reliable) applications that are secure also. If the team moves too quickly, an overlooked security vulnerability may make its way into production. If the team is not nimble enough to identify those security gaps, it can […]
Portability Shmortability: Most Applications are Going Nowhere
I’m a huge fan of the idea of taking our super-duper applications and deploying them where it makes most sense. I always have been. Those of us in application development spent forever bemoaning the fact that our applications weren’t all that portable between operating systems. In fact, looking back through the history of computers, you […]
NASA/JPL Tech-Incubation CEO Talks Artificial Intelligence
AJ Abdallat is a serial entrepreneur who worked on artificial intelligence (AI) projects and commercializing smart sensors at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1998 until 2011. Later he founded, launched and ran several spinoff companies from Caltech/JPL, doing AI work in support of the space program and various […]
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 […]
Making the Data Work for You: Data Visualization Techniques
When Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management, performed a two-year in-depth analysis of the General Motors corporation in the 1940s, he undertook what may have been the world’s most ambitious big data analysis ever at that time. However, when he gave the results to GM chairman Alfred Sloan, Al was not happy. In […]
DevOps and Data Portability
You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored to original spec. But it has no gas tank. A bit of a stark comparison, but that’s where we’re at with application release […]