Dylibso today made generally available a system of record for tracking, investigating, searching and validating modules built using the WebAssembly (Wasm) binary instruction format. Fresh from raising $6.6 million in additional funding, Dylibso CEO Steve Manuel said Modsurfer exposes the internal contents to enable developers to debug Wasm modules and ensure compatibility with runtime environments. […]
Atlassian’s Shift to the Cloud Gets Underway
Atlassian today announced the general availability of Cloud Enterprise, a cloud-based service through which organizations can mix and match the company’s various offerings under a single subscription. The company has signaled its intention to shift toward cloud services for months; now, the initial Cloud Enterprise subscription will cover the company’s Jira Software, Confluence and Jira […]
How to Optimize Your Cloud Operations
Taking a holistic approach to cloud optimization and application modernization can help keep cloud spend in check There’s a fine line between cloud spend and cloud sprawl. Most companies today are using cloud technologies to power their most important products and services, communications and collaboration, but it’s easy to cross the line from spending smartly […]
Oracle Extends Managed Cloud to On-Premises
Oracle today announced it will make available as a managed service in on-premises IT environments all of the software it currently provides access to on Oracle Cloud. In addition, Oracle is making available Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, which brings a managed database service to the Exadata servers optimized to run Oracle databases. Oracle […]
Report Finds Most Cloud Security Issues Left Unaddressed
Accurics, a provider of a platform for assessing the security of cloud computing environments, has published a report that finds that even once discovered, only 4% of issues reported in cloud production environments are addressed. Based on research conducted using its platform and other public sources of data, the report also finds 90% of organizations […]
Palo Alto Networks Advances DevSecOps in the Cloud
Palo Alto Networks has updated its Prisma Cloud to make it easier to embrace best DevSecOps processes while deploying workloads in the cloud. New capabilities include the ability to define and apply cybersecurity policies to continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) workflows and scanning tools for discovering misconfigurations in cloud infrastructure templates, which is […]
Using Trade Studies in Vetting Tool Stacks
Adding to your tool stack should entail more thought than, “Start your free trial today!” It’s great when there is an application need and cloud-based tools are easily grabbed with a few clicks. However, surveying alternatives before making a tool stack change can prevent costly mistakes. Trade studies can help vet best-fit tools for evaluation. […]
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 […]
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 […]