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Cloud Waste To Hit Over $14 Billion in 2019

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 The good news to start 2019 is that cloud adoption is growing rapidly. Most people realize this, but along with major growth comes some less welcome news. Wasted cloud spend is also up—often dramatically. Chances are, if you’re spending money on cloud, some of that money is being wasted. For some, a lot of that […]

IoT, Not People, Now the Weakest Link in Security

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Do a quick search on “people weakest link” and you’ll see a raft of articles in which cybersecurity experts and computer scientists point to employees or end users as the biggest vulnerability. No doubt, people do silly (or outright abusive) stuff and open the door for a variety of enterprise security problems. Spoiler alert: There’s […]

5 Trends Transforming Digital and IT Operations Management

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In 2018, digital transformation ushered in a radical shift in how enterprises harness customer insights, technology capabilities and rapid experimentation to drive revenue growth, profitability and market leadership. Enterprises spent $1.3 trillion in 2018 on digital transformation technologies such as public cloud platforms, microservices and containers, edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve […]

DevOps Chat: A New Take on Application Security with Portshift

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Portshift brings a new identity-based application security model from code to runtime. Cloud or on-prem, Portshift works. In this DevOps Chat we speak with CEO Ran Ilany and VP Business Ops Eran Grabiner about what is unique to the Portshift solution and why you should consider it for your own application security, especially for your […]

Understanding Pillar 1 of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework

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AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides a wealth of incredibly valuable best practices and guidelines structured around five distinct pillars that more cloud-native organizations would do well to heed. The first of these pillars, Operational Excellence, recommends a number of particularly valuable techniques. However, successfully adopting the design principles and practices within Pillar No. 1 requires a […]

Google Cloud Platform: The Basics for Absolute Beginners

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 Google Cloud Platform provides powerful tools and services. Why should you pay attention to one of the leading cloud service providers? More and more companies are moving to the cloud to help create software applications and manage data, and Google Cloud Platform is one of the many platforms available for cloud computing, an industry that […]

AWS Finally Embraces On-Premises IT

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced this week it will make available instances of its IT infrastructure available in on-premises IT environments, which it will then manage on behalf of customers. The announcement was made at its AWS re:Invent 2018 conference. AWS CEO Andy Jassy said AWS Outposts platforms, scheduled to be available in 2019, will […]

Toyota Research Institute Discusses DevOps Automation and Rapid Innovation

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How TRI is using DevOps automation to drive its research and engineering Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is working to build a future where everyone has the freedom to move, engage and explore with a focus on reducing vehicle collisions, injuries and fatalities. Working tirelessly behind the scenes is TRI’s Infrastructure Engineering team, responsible for designing, […]

VMware Extends Scope of Alliance with IBM

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On the heels of IBM announcing its intent to acquire Red Hat, VMware announced at the VMworld Europe 2018 conference this week an extension of its longstanding cloud alliance with IBM. Red Hat competes directly with VMware; yet, there are also more than 1,600 customers running VMware on the IBM cloud. Ajay Patel, senior vice […]

The Truth Behind DevOps on the Cloud

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DevOps on the cloud may seem simple enough, but in reality it can be very complex The ultimate goal of a DevOps administrator is to make sure that everything is running properly and seamlessly—so much so that management is convinced that the DevOps administrator is playing solitaire all day. To that end, a successful DevOps […]