With IT teams around the world adjusting to remote working while still struggling to maintain productivity and workflows, ensuring DevOps and Agile practices are in place has never been more important. And while typical DevOps professionals probably have significantly better remote desktop setups than most of their business peers, it’s how IT leaders manage these teams that […]
The assumption that large, established enterprises—from insurance companies to government agencies—can’t adopt Agile processes or DevOps is based on the falsehood that legacy technology stacks won’t allow for it; that existing traditional mainframe applications or legacy applications that large enterprises are built on are incapable of adapting to these approaches. Accelerated Strategies Group recently released […]
IBM this week announced its intention to spin out a new company next year focused primarily on managed infrastructure as part of a plan to focus more on hybrid cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. IBM is combining the Red Hat assets it gained last year via a $34 billion acquisition with its investment in Watson […]
ZeroNorth has extended its namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for orchestrating DevSecOps toolchains to include integrations with Scout Suite, Aqua Trivy, Gitlab and BitBucket Server and the configuration management database (CMDB) from ServiceNow. The company is also adding application portfolio reports to surface the security policies applied to each application, scan results and progress of remediation work and […]
One of the most important shifts of the past few years in finance and banking was the movement from primarily branch-based banks to mobile-first banks. While these innovative products simplify the end user experience, they also bring up more security concerns, since digital channels expose a number of vulnerabilities. These apps deal with sensitive user […]
Continuous integration/continuous delivery, more commonly known as CI/CD, promises to help software companies become more agile by delivering software faster and more reliably. The goal of CI/CD is to reduce software development and delivery timelines from months or weeks down to days or even hours. It does this by pushing frequent updates and fixes regardless […]
DevOps is not only about software development and operations. To make complete utilization of the flexibility in DevOps approach, it is desirable for software developers to integrate IT security at every step during a software’s life cycle. It is, in essence, what DevSecOps is. Exploring Further – What is DevSecOps? DevSecOps works on the premise […]
DevSecOps has become one of the hottest buzzwords in the DevOps ecosystem over the past couple of years. In the abstract, it’s easy to understand what DevSecOps means and why people care about it: It’s a strategy that extends DevOps efficiencies to software security. But when you sit down and actually start implementing DevSecOps, things can get trickier. […]
With the advent of microservices, the functionalities that used to be bundled together in a single web/mule application are now running on different containers across VMs and at times across datacenters. This presents a huge challenge to trace transactions as they traverse across the container/VM boundaries. To address this challenge, companies build a custom distributed tracing […]
The majority of B2B collaboration now happens over APIs. Ergo the data flowing through your API is a good representation of the health of your business. Yet, outside of infrastructure engineering, there’s a lack of tooling around how to leverage that API data. Today, business analytics tools either focus on: Offline transactional data sitting in databases and […]