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Navigating the Multi-Cloud Ecosystem
Multi-cloud environments involve businesses using services from multiple cloud providers to meet diverse operational needs.
Massdriver Adds Cloud Cost Controls to Internal Developer Platform
Massdriver has made available tools for tracking cloud costs and generating a cloud IBOM to IDPs as part of an ongoing effort to streamline platform engineering workflows.
Technical Debt is Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It
Eventually, your organization will accumulate technical debt. It doesn’t matter what programming language, software stack, computing style, host, or slick hybrid mix you use. It doesn’t matter if you’re using a waterfall or agile methodology. Ultimately, most technology becomes technical debt one day. “Technical debt is inevitable,” said Insight’s North American chief technology officer, Juan […]
Top Three DevOps Tools for Cloud Infrastructure
A survey from Canonical of 326 IT executives found the most widely employed DevOps tool for managing cloud infrastructure is the Bash shell and command language (53%), followed by the Ansible automation platform (47%) and Terraform (40%). Another 27% reported they used tools they developed themselves. The survey also found 58% managed their cloud infrastructure […]
Infrastructure Abstraction Will Be Key to Managing Multi-Cloud
There’s no doubt we’re now living in a hybrid multi-cloud age. Companies are using major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP with niche cloud computing providers emerging within the market. Simultaneously, many organizations still retain workloads in on-premises data centers or embrace colocation. Regardless of deployment pattern, DevOps teams desire the same elasticity as […]
TidalScale Enables Hot-Swapping of Failed Servers
TidalScale has updated its namesake software for automating server management to include the ability to detect and prevent impending failures and enable IT teams to hot-swap another server. Version 4.1 of TidalScale also adds server wear leveling and preventative health checks that identify servers that should be replaced based on their remaining estimated life span. […]
Oracle’s Free Managed Service Integrates With Microsoft Azure
Oracle today extended its alliance with Microsoft to include a managed service that makes it simpler for IT organizations to embrace hybrid cloud computing. Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure integrates Windows applications with Oracle databases running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Leo Leung, vice president of products and strategy for Oracle, said the managed service […]
DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: Life in the Fast Lane?
Scream if you want to go faster! When it comes to a dual hybrid-cloud-and-DevOps rollout, most organizations would admit they’re eager to get going a little bit faster. But what started so enthusiastically can turn to frustration (and a different kind of screaming starts) when they’ve accelerated into this major transformation without considering all the […]
The Past, Present and Future of OpenStack
OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 12-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization to manage and promote the technology—a watershed moment for a project announced just two years earlier. Today, with contributions from more than 34,000 […]