CaC allows for a version-controlled, reproducible and automated method of managing environments, leading to more consistent and reliable systems.
Configuration-as-Code: Trends and Predictions for 2024
CaC allows for a version-controlled, reproducible and automated method of managing environments, leading to more consistent and reliable systems.
The Path to App Modernization: Benefits, Pitfalls and the Route to Success
There are many reasons an organization may find itself on the path to considering the risky journey of application modernization. It could be to gain an edge or to build a more competitive positioning, or a business could have a legacy system running on infrastructure that is no longer viable, leaving them no other choice. […]
GitLab Releases Updates to CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week made available a 13.9 update that adds more than 60 new features and updated capabilities to its namesake open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Brian Glanz, a product marketing manager for GitLab, said chief among those capabilities is a Security Alert Dashboard that enables DevOps teams to triage high-priority alerts more […]
Overcoming Cloud Asset Management Challenges
Twenty years ago, no one in IT could have predicted the monumental role that cloud computing would play in our everyday lives. To play off the words of Back to the Future‘s Doc Brown: “On-premises? Where we’re going, we don’t need on-premises.” As technology continues to evolve, though, security teams face greater challenges. Infrastructure is […]
Top 5 Issues Curtailing DevOps Adoption
DevOps may seem simple and logical on the surface, yet most of the companies we talk to are struggling in one aspect or another. This is no surprise: Successful DevOps initiatives require putting together a full toolset and simultaneously creating a smart team of developers, testers and project managers who are well-versed in cloud and […]
Embedding security testing to avoid headline-inducing configuration fails
When news broke earlier this month about the nation’s largest bond insurer exposing sensitive account information to Google’s indexing spiders due to a server misconfiguration, many an IT professional wondered how such a massive fail could have been neglected for so long. Security experts called it out-and-out negligence by the company, MBIA. But the truth […]
Simplify and expedite server management
Deploying, managing, and maintaining servers can be tedious. Deploying, managing, and maintaining thousands, or tens of thousands of server instances is overwhelming—bordering on impossible—without the right tools. Thankfully, the right tools exist. The Pain of Doing Things the Hard Way I know I am dating myself, but when I was an IT admin for a […]