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ANALYSIS

Meet GitOps, the key to launching effective software releases in the cloud-native era

The automation story behind DevOps centers on CI/CD, the continuous integration and continuous deployment that results in working code ready for production. Deployment isn’t the end of the process, however. Releasing code is the missing step — putting new software in front of customers and end-users while ensuring it meets the ongoing objectives of the ...
ANALYSIS

Three steps to design security for the remote-work-first enterprise

Remote work muscled itself to the top of every security and risk manager’s agenda when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Whereas remote work was previously the exception, up to 82% of company leaders now plan to permit remote working at least some of the time as workplaces begin to reopen. Designing a durable enterprise-scale remote work ...
CLOUD NATIVE INSIGHTS

PerimeterX’s cloud native approach signals the rise of serverless security

Fifteen years ago, global cybersecurity spending was in the $3.5 billion range. Three years ago, it was $120 billion. Next year? Try a cool $1 trillion. Some executives in the information technology world are beginning to wonder what protection $1 trillion might actually bring. Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that cybercrime will cost global businesses more ...
GUEST COLUMN

How to reduce cybersecurity risk during the hybrid work transition

Many enterprises are looking to begin the transition of bringing workers back to physical offices. However, given the rise in COVID-19 cases across the U.S., it has become more complicated for this to occur and is forcing enterprises to pivot to a hybrid work environment. As businesses fight to keep their companies afloat in today’s ...
CLOUD NATIVE INSIGHTS

Beyond the fail whale: How former Twitter engineers designed a serverless database at Fauna

In the time it takes to read this sentence, more than 60,000 tweets will have already been sent. Twitter Inc. today has 330 million monthly active users, 1.3 billion accounts and 83% of the world’s leaders use the service. Yet, as the company’s 15th employee hired in 2008 saw it, one of the most powerful ...
CLOUD NATIVE INSIGHTS

GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner builds new tools for a developer-centric world

In a region known for creative company headquarters, Silicon Valley had never seen anything quite like what GitHub designed for its corporate offices nearly a decade ago. After meeting for years in bars and restaurants around San Francisco, the company’s co-founders took over a suite of offices that included a bar with beer on tap, a ...
CLOUD NATIVE INSIGHTS

Joy or horror? Corey Quinn calls it like he sees it in the cloud native world

The cloud industry sometimes takes itself too seriously in certain areas and not seriously enough in others. Corey Quinn is here to set the record straight on both counts. The chief cloud economist at The Duckbill Group (pictured) writes a blog on the firm’s website in which he has alternately lambasted Amazon Web Services Inc. for its ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

Ed Walsh departs IBM to head ChaosSearch and advance its log analytics technology

After departing one fledgling company to lead IBM Corp.’s global storage business four years ago, Ed Walsh is returning to the startup world he knows quite well. Walsh (pictured), who previously served as chief executive officer of four startup companies, including Avamar Technologies Inc. and Storwize Inc., has been named CEO and a director at ChaosSearch Inc., ...
ANALYSIS

Cloud-first is not enough: Five best practices for a cloud-smart journey

For nearly a decade, cloud-first has been the dominant approach to cloud adoption initiatives as organizations sought to drive digital transformation and modernization. As with most technologies, cloud services have evolved over the years, adding features and complexity that can muddle the rush to cloud with additional potential risk. Cloud technologies are also at the ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

‘Cloud bard’ Forrest Brazeal pinpoints failure and celebrates success in cloud native evolution

There is a right way and a wrong way to run a business in the cloud. Forrest Brazeal (pictured) has songs, cartoons and even a soon-to-be-released book on the subject to prove it. Brazeal, the “cloud bard” for training company A Cloud Guru, spent years working with enterprises on cloud adoption and is an advocate ...