SIOS Technology Automates Rebooting of AWS EC2 VM Instances
SIOS Technology Corp. this week launched SIOS AppKeeper, a tool that automatically reboots instances of EC2 virtual machines anytime they fail. Michael Bilancieri, senior vice president of products and marketing for SIOS, said SIOS AppKeeper is an extension of the work SIOS has historically done to enable servers and clusters to failover. However, many organizations […]
Opsani Applies AI to Rein in Cloud Costs
Opsani has added support for cloud computing environments to its namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that leverages machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize the IT environment. Company CEO Ross Schibler said Opsani AI not only proactively tunes resources such as CPU and memory, but it also can optimize middleware configuration […]
The Top Six Cloud Computing Trends of 2019
Cloud computing was one of the hottest topics in the technology and business media throughout 2019. This is no surprise as the cloud sector has been growing rapidly for the last few years. Synergy Research Group recently reported a 37% overall growth year-over-year in public cloud. They also note that it has taken just two […]
An Overview of Cloud Migration and Open Source
Most businesses are moving toward making their business processes more user-friendly, through digitization. This shift of business modernization comes with a heavy price for them in terms of money and in terms of time. It is going to take time and a great amount of investment in new innovative technologies. Cloud computing is the biggest […]
HPE Adds Control Plane to Greenlake Managed Service
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today it has added a cloud platform to its managed Greenlake service, through which DevOps teams will be able to manage deployments of applications alongside HPE. Scott Yow, vice president and general manager for GreenLake Hybrid Cloud Software at HPE, said HPE Greenlake Central provides a control plane that makes it […]
Understanding and Implementing the APM Puzzle – Performance and Availability
While every organization is unique, there’s one universal goal everyone can get behind—creating and delivering an exceptional end-user experience. For both classic IT organizations and companies built in the age of cloud, delivering continuous availability and appropriate application performance is key. Although digital transformation has become a buzzword some would say is meaningless, the idea […]
DevOps Chat: Data Protection in the Cloud With Druva
As any CIO knows, a data management architecture is essential to caring for one of the organization’s most valuable assets: data. Data management sounds simple but it’s not. Backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data retention, governance and e-discovery are all parts of any effective data protection strategy. As businesses move and grow their presence in […]
DevOps Chat: Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Management for DevOps With CloudBolt
Agile, DevOps, multiple cloud providers, serverless, contemporary cloud native apps, shadow IT using a credit card–it can be daunting for any IT organization to be responsive to the internal customer needs. It’s even tougher to be proactive and get ahead of the curve. Enter Cloud Management Platforms (CMP). On this episode of DevOps Chat, we […]
Out of Date: Cloud Anti-Trends of 2019
Let’s talk about 2019 cloud tech anti-trends. A lot of those anti-trends are nothing but cloud myths, which are still widely spread and talked about. In this article, we’ll take a look at some anti-trends and try to understand where’s the myth part in them. Private Cloud Is Not Popular Anymore According to the IDC […]
DevOps and Networking: Working to Achieve Nirvana
Enterprises don’t own the cloud, just the experience. If there’s an outage or even a hiccup in the performance or network service, it’s on the network and application teams (not the cloud provider) to fix it. But often with problems in the cloud comes finger-pointing, as network and application teams look to determine liability and […]
DevOps Isn’t Getting Cloud Security Right (and What Can Done About It)
The song title of Billy Joel’s 1977 hit, “Get it Right the First Time” aptly describes what DevOps teams need to take to heart when making the jump to the public cloud. But in most cases, security is lacking in the pipeline when making the shift—and a change in DevOps culture and mindset is necessary […]
VMware Adds More DevOps Depth to Cloud Strategy
VMware today added a bevy of services to its portfolio that make managing instances of its software running in a public cloud easier. Additions to the VMware cloud portfolio include VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension Service for Private Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that enables IT organizations to employ a self-service portal to move workloads between […]
Case Study: DevOps Key to AWS Cloud Migration
DevOps practices halved the time it took this SaaS company to migrate to AWS Australia-based Whispir provides communications applications as a service. One of its goals is to get products into users’ hands as soon as possible, and that requires development, operations and product staff working together, said Jonathan Swift, head of product and operations. […]
IBM Adds Cloud Foundry PaaS to Cloud Private
As IT organizations are being asked to provision and support an ever-growing number of platforms, they increasingly require an approach that abstracts away as much of that complexity as possible. With that goal in mind, IBM created IBM Cloud Private, an on-premises platform that automates the deployment of a private cloud based on Kubernetes container […]
Research Firms Agree, Cloud Growth Continues to Soar
Investment in all the various types of cloud computing has gone gangbusters in recent years, and for good reason: Cloud computing helps to cut cost, shorting time to market, provides unrivaled scale and reliability. This will only continue as enterprises continue to divest from on-premises infrastructure over the long term while seeking to scale the […]
With a Multicloud Infrastructure, Control is Key
Ask any developer or DevOps manager about their first experiences with the public cloud and it’s likely they’ll happily share some memories of quickly provisioning some compute instances for a small project or new app. For (seemingly) a few pennies, you could take full advantage of the full suite of public cloud services—as well as […]
VMware Unveils IT Automation Tools Suite
VMware over the last two years has been making steady advances in automating the management of IT. At the VMworld Europe 2017 conference VMware unveiled a vRealize Suite 2017 offering that combines the latest releases of vRealize Operations, vRealize Automation, vRealize Business for Cloud and vRealize Log Insight software into a single offering designed to […]
Data Science Industry Perspectives in the Cloud
In principle, the cloud is becoming a commodity. Google, Amazon and other companies are trying to commoditize almost everything, including the instruments for data gathering, data storage and data transformation. In the near term, we should expect that platform engineering, which today is overly complex, will become simpler. With data engineering, however, the prospects of […]
DevOps Needs a New Cloud Solution for Best Practices
Imagine this scenario: You are a company building modern software which is a key driver of your business. To support this, you have grown your infrastructure organically over time by adding servers, storage, networks, security, virtualization software, monitoring, alerting and analytics tools. You have also added a plethora of other middleware, databases, messaging and operating systems that your developers need […]
When Bad Things Happen to Good Clouds: Why You Need a Recovery Plan
Amazon S3 storage service recently experienced a widespread five-hour outage in its East Coast availability zone. Many next-generation consumer and business applications rely on a cloud storage, so the S3 outage quickly cascaded and temporarily crippled organizations from Netflix to Slack. Cloud outages like this are normal, and notable because they affect so many businesses. The […]
Is Cloud Adoption on Your Company’s Horizon?
Under pressure to increase the speed of innovation in the digital space and outpace competitors, companies large and small are turning to the cloud. Moving to the cloud provides flexibility of infrastructure, transparency of infrastructure costs and many other benefits. However, making the transition to the cloud is far more intricate for regulated industries—especially large […]
Protecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for over 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional solutions were designed for the world of on-premises infrastructure and structured applications and relational databases. But the world is changing. In the last blog, […]
Protecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for more than 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional solutions were designed for the world of on-premises infrastructure and structured applications and relational databases. But the world is changing. In the last […]