Tag: infrastructure
Protecting Data from Insider Threats
“Insider threat” can be defined as the threat an employee or a contractor will use their authorized access to, wittingly or unwittingly, do harm to an organization’s security. Certainly, as organizations become ...
4 Ways to Scale DevOps in 2021
January is a month often dedicated to planning, setting intentions and preparing ourselves professionally and personally for a fresh year. In my own capacity as a DevOps and SRE leader, many of ...
Up Your DevOps Game: It’s Time for NoOps
NoOps is here and it's more than just a buzzword or an ideal. The next generation of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) platforms are evolving to minimize the developers’ operational burden and reduce dependency on ...
7 Important Truths About Chaos Engineering
As a relatively new practice, chaos engineering has plenty of myths surrounding it, from randomly shutting down production systems to requiring huge investments of time and money. There’s a lot of confusion ...
How to Make a Self-Healing IT Infrastructure a Reality
In 2019, enterprises worldwide reported that every hour of infrastructure downtime cost them an average of $301,000- $400,000. If a system is down for five hours, that’s $1.5 million lost—and that’s on ...
Performance Issues: Looking Beyond the Infrastructure
In most cases today, resolving performance issues will require architecture changes or code refactoring Imagine you’re a software reliability engineer with your service-level objectives clearly laid out on your Grafana dashboard. Suddenly, ...
Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps
The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of ...
Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code
Chef today updated its tool for automating the management of IT infrastructure as part of an effort to further eliminate the need to rely on manual processes that generally fail to scale ...
Predictions 2020: 7 DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 ...
Does Agile Methodologies Work for IT Infra?
Recently, I had a fascinating conversation with my old friend Joe–the name has been changed but the conversation is real and unedited–an IT Infrastructure program manager from a large IT service provider ...
DevOps Chat: Cloud Migration with nClouds’ JT Giri
Moving to the cloud is becoming a must for many companies if they want to grow beyond their current footprint and be more innovative. But for many companies—especially those in the SMB ...
Identifying Cloud Migraines Before Cloud Migration: 6 Tips
Migrating to the cloud isn't as simple as signing up for a SaaS application or deploying applications on a cloud infrastructure or platform; there are other factors at play. And the move ...