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Cloud-native platform engineering in the enterprise

The director of engineering for a Fortune 20 automotive company spoke on the latest cloud-native tools for platform engineering, and the challenges and opportunities ahead with AI.
CNCF surveys highlight cloud-native AI connections

Cloud-native infrastructure aligns closely with AI in two new CNCF surveys, thanks in part to platform engineering and other abstractions that make it more user-friendly.

Mitigating AI's unique risks with AI monitoring

Coralogix CEO highlights the difference between AI and software monitoring, as illustrated by his company's acquisition and product expansion this year.
StarTree branches out from DataOps into observability

Co-founder Kishore Gopalakrishna says the IT observability market is 'ripe for disruption,' and his company is on a mission to do just that.
GenAI tools set to exceed past waves of AI automation

Gartner analyst Gregg Siegfried reflects on the previous generation of AIOps tools that never quite lived up to their NoOps promise, and why GenAI might be different.
AI observability: Why old monitoring fails in the GenAI era

Learning to work with AI agents requires a new approach to observability by IT orgs that offers a better understanding of how they work and when they drift.
GenAI's role in business transformation

Analyst Torsten Volk discusses the evolving role of generative AI in app modernization and how IT ops must adapt to agentic workflows.
'What if?' Imagining the future with generative AI tools

According to FreedomPay's performance guru, GenAI will let IT ops pros experiment with ideas for performance optimization and disaster recovery.
Dynatrace strategist favors SLMs for AIOps

Specialized small language models will be necessary to automate revisions to production code for incident response, according to a longtime industry expert.
OpenTelemetry adapts to AI observability

A core contributor and governing board member for the CNCF project reflects on how AI is changing observability, programming and business.
A visual future: GraphRAG and AI observability

In the eyes of one CNCF leader, GNNs, knowledge graphs and GraphRAG will boost IT operations and create 3D views of apps and infrastructure.
Charity Majors on AI observability and the future of SRE

The observability maven reflects on 'Observability 2.0' and urges site reliability engineers to embrace AI agents, despite their perceived threat -- before it's too late.
Review and predictions for open source software in 2025

Sigstore creator, Chainguard CEO, OpenSSF TAC member and Season 1 guest Dan Lorenc returns to review 2024 and make predictions for 2025.
Cybersecurity expertise gaps: More than meets the eye

An S&P Global analyst charts the past, present and future of SecOps, where demand continues to outpace the supply of advanced skills.
Rethinking business continuity before the next big IT outage

For one industry analyst, the most significant gap exposed by the CrowdStrike outage is between IT and business -- not Sec and Ops.
Rethinking 'secure by design' amid slippery SecOps shifts

An expert discusses the fallout from a CISA report that raised doubts about the last decade's DevSecOps trend, and where the industry goes from here.
CEO: GenAI changes multi-cloud security, network equation

Aviatrix CEO Doug Merritt sees generative AI apps forcing a more distributed approach to cloud infrastructure, but he believes it will also help SecOps catch up with threats.
Lines blur between enterprise SecOps and cyberdefense

One expert predicts AI will ultimately benefit attackers more than defenders and, instead, urges businesses to take a page out of military and government cyberdefense handbooks.
Could SBOMs save lives? SecOps in critical infrastructure

'We live in glass houses,' said a seasoned cybersecurity expert of the U.S. water supply, healthcare and other lifeline services. 'And people are about to start throwing rocks.'
Relearning past lessons in assessing cloud risk

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it -- even when that history is only about a decade or two old, according to one security analyst in this podcast episode.
Security observability, AI require data hygiene in DevSecOps

Sound data management is the heart of observability for security, which guides DevSecOps practices and determines the usefulness of AI apps, New Relic CISO says.
SecOps from the IT infrastructure operations perspective

The CrowdStrike outage capped a decade of deepening divide between SecOps and the rest of IT ops -- and should bring about its end, according to one industry veteran.
Microsoft security overhaul offers blueprint for SecOps

Better late than never: Microsoft lags major cloud competitors in making security a top priority. But other enterprises might learn from how the company is catching up.
The double-edged swords of cloud security and AI

DevSecOps expert Kyler Middleton examines the ways modern technologies such as cloud computing and AI both enable and complicate the future of SecOps.
SecOps' new frontier in the remote work era: HR

A CISO shares the story of how his SOC staff caught and contained a North Korean agent posing as a software engineer, saying he hopes to raise awareness of a growing threat.
CTO challenges software security status quo

A former U.S. Department of Homeland Security researcher argues that software is fundamentally broken from a security perspective. So, where does the industry go from here?
An expert's big-picture view of the state of SecOps

In this first episode of 'IT Ops Query' Season 2, a SANS institute instructor and 20-year cybersecurity veteran assesses the past, present and future of SecOps.
Is open source a tragedy of the commons? It's complicated

In the season finale of the 'IT Ops Query' podcast, Pantheon's Josh Koenig and David Strauss explain why it's difficult to label open source a tragedy of the commons.
An unpopular way to fund popular open source software

Tech analyst and consultant Justin Warren has a few thoughts on how to solve the open source maintenance problem. Some might not like his approach.
Open source security's systemic challenges

In this installment of 'IT Ops Query,' Emily Fox talks about how reevaluating 50-year-old open source security practices could lead the community somewhere new.
Be prepared for open source software risks

Companies need to prepare for the risks and responsibilities of using open source software, according to Chainguard's Dan Lorenc. Nothing is ever completely free.
Magical thinking puts open source maintenance in jeopardy

Open source software maintenance is broken. Tobie Langel has a big picture idea for how to fix it, which he shares in this installment of IT Ops Query.
Bruce Perens on software in a Post-Open world

What comes after open source software? Bruce Perens shares his ideas on why open source as he first defined it has failed, and what a new paradigm could look like.
The shortsightedness of open source business models

Chef Software founder Adam Jacob on the struggle of getting an open source business model right and the licensing approach for his new venture, System Initiative.
Weaveworks' lessons for open source business leaders

Weaveworks CEO Alexis Richardson talks about the company's beginnings and ultimate end, and offers up some ideas on how to help the businesses of open source software succeed.
Buoyant CEO on Linkerd's existential question

Buoyant CEO William Morgan said project viability and long-term funding underpinned recent changes to Linkerd, problems other open source projects are likely to face.
Open source software's tragedy of the commons

Will open source software become a tragedy of the commons? Senior news writer Beth Pariseau and Sentry's Chad Whitacre take up the question.
The awkward state of the remote vs. in-person work debate

TechTarget senior news writer Beth Pariseau discusses return-to-work initiatives for IT pros and in-person tech conferences coming back onto the schedule.
Why chaos engineering isn't as chaotic as it sounds

Don't let the name fool you. SSQ editors chatted with author Mikolaj Pawlikowski about why chaos engineering can be easily implemented into your testing environment.
Key questions to consider about pipeline as code

A pipeline as code entails writing in code the processes a development team uses to build and deploy code to production. To properly adopt the approach, study up on CI/CD and more.
DevOps news and trends to watch in 2021

Join veteran IT journalists in a conversation about the top development, DevOps, low-code and CI/CD news in 2020, and where these trends will take us in 2021.
Jeff Gallimore: Psychological safety for remote teams

Can chatter about household appliances contribute positively to digital transformation? Jeff Gallimore thinks so. Here's his take on psychological safety for remote dev teams.
Tanmay Bakshi talks programming with Julia and Swift

Programmers are problem solvers first, and code writers second, says Tanmay Bakshi in this interview. He shares how programmers should learn to code and develop machine learning apps.
Heed these core Scrum values to see measurable change

Why isn't Scrum paying off in faster software development and better user satisfaction with the product? Perhaps you adopted the framework without the values, says Ryan Ripley.
How Python makes automating security tasks a snap

Security professionals with coding skills can get a lot done in not a lot of time. Hear why Python suits beginners and how it puts security and developers on the same team.
DevOps in the enterprise requires focus on security, visibility

App dev, quality and delivery challenges constantly pop up in DevOps implementations. Hear how overworked IT professionals deal with these challenges, and how tools can help -- or not.
Prioritize DevOps and Agile outcomes, not transformation

Tools are easy; people are difficult. So, when it comes to an Agile or DevOps transformation, focus on the desired outcomes, not the process changes, as we discuss in this podcast.
Why it's time to take IT burnout seriously

Disengaged or apathetic employees are a sign of weak culture -- not weak people. In this podcast, Dr. Christina Maslach shares what IT job burnout looks like and how to address it.
Talking magnetic tape for storage with Quantum

Mark Pastor of Quantum speaks in this Q&A about tape's advancements and uses, as well as challenges in the market, including 'old perceptions' of tape.
What the DevOps movement has done for -- and to -- developers

As DevOps hits the mainstream in enterprise IT, Gene Kim examines what makes a successful DevOps approach, how developers should define their value and where we go from here.
Why DevOps underscores the importance of software testing

There's no debating the importance of software testing. But QA should be everyone's responsibility. In this podcast, learn how to follow a team-wide approach to quality.
Listen and learn about QA automation, built-in quality

Poorly designed environments and QA automation scripts impede digital transformation. In this podcast, we discuss how to stabilize a quality signal and implement continuous improvement.
Apache exec talks prudent open source software project usage

The open source community faces a number of technical and existential threats. A veteran talks open source's role, funding, security and compliance, as well as his favorite projects.
What's shaping the future of UI and UX design

UI/UX designers serve as the voice of users, so it's crucial that they're tuned into their needs. Aaron Fazulak of Flatiron School disseminates UI/UX advice in this podcast.
Measure UX or risk losing customers, says consultant

A quality customer experience helps ensure software product viability. So, why do organizations stop short in their UX efforts? In this podcast, Isabel Evans espouses the value of UX.
Scrum author talks removing dev hurdles, old-world thinking

In this edition of the Test & Release podcast, Gunther Verheyen, a Scrum author and expert, breaks down how Agile helps free IT from a rigid industrial approach.
Author, QA expert extols continuous testing virtues

Long tests and isolated QA grind app delivery to a crawl. In this episode of 'Test & Release,' author Eran Kinsbruner explains how DevOps cannot exist without continuous testing.
IBM and Microsoft open up to open source in 2018

With IBM's purchase of Linux market leader Red Hat and Microsoft buying GitHub, 2018 could prove to be a watershed year for the open source community.
Enterprise value streams' role in a software delivery model

Do software delivery teams overstress speed and discount value? Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, which produces value stream tools, shares his thoughts in this Test and Release episode.
Learn the value of exploratory testing vs. scripted testing

In this podcast, testing expert Matt Heusser explains how exploratory and scripted tests differ and how they complement each other.
Igneous Systems CEO: Data protection market transforming

Igneous is seeking to take hold of a market that's 'up for grabs.' The vendor's Hybrid Storage Cloud provides backup and archive of unstructured data, as well as data management.
Storage Spaces Direct a key option in Windows Server 2016 features

Windows Server 2016 includes new and updated capabilities with Storage Spaces, Storage Replica, Storage Quality of Service, data deduplication and Resilient File System.
Managing apps requires holistic, reactive approach

Managing apps' performance must be planned holistically with an eye to reactive management and proactive management.
How to manage a public API

Amy Reichert discusses how to overcome concerns of managing public APIs.
Cloud competition heating up as Amazon takes aim at VMware

In this podcast, we talk about what the AWS Management Portal for vCenter means for VMware and how to calculate true cloud computing costs.
Where are Citrix and VMware headed with end-user products?

In this podcast, we shed light on Citrix and VMware end-user product roadmaps with a recent news recap and an interview with VMware CTO Kit Colbert.
A tiered storage model is different from caching

In this podcast, Evaluator Group strategist Randy Kerns looks in-depth at today's tiered storage model, including how it differs from flash caching.
How NAND flash degrades and what vendors do to increase SSD endurance

Storage Switzerland senior analyst Eric Slack digs into the technical aspects of SSD cell degradation and how vendors are increasing SSD endurance.
Erasure coding tradeoffs include additional storage, disk update needs

Erasure coding tradeoffs include requirement for additional data storage, need to update extra disks for redundancy purposes, UC professor cautions.
Erasure coding brings trade-off of resilience vs. performance

IT's decision on using erasure coding in storage rests on data importance, durability more than amount of data, says storage consultant Marc Staimer.
Wikibon CTO: Erasure coding can help reduce data backup costs

Erasure coding can help reduce the data needed for backups and lower the cost of backup and recovery over the traditional approach, Wikibon CTO says.
Data durability guarantees shouldn't be big concern with cloud storage

Data durability guarantees of cloud storage providers shouldn't be a big point of concern for customers; they're too tough to measure and enforce.
How application integration maintenance is like taking care of a car

Forrester analyst Randy Heffner offers some best practices and his predictions for software integration management.
How to access cloud storage: Transfer, retrieval not so simple

Public cloud data access is straightforward, but data transfer to another provider or in-house could leave users on their own, analyst warns.
RHEV 3.1 storage: Functionality and considerations

Virtualization expert Sander van Vugt explains how RHEV storage works and discusses some of the new storage features in version 3.1.
What you need to know about improving iSCSI performance

Storage expert Dennis Martin discusses how technologies like Data Center Bridging, CHAP, IPsec and iSCSI offload adapters affect iSCSI performance.
Third-party tools help with VMware monitoring for storage

Third-party tools provide a single interface to help IT shops monitor the performance of storage, servers and network traffic in VMware environments.
What you need to know about SMB SANs

Marc Staimer discusses what to look for in an SMB SANs this Q&A and recent developments in SMB SAN technology.
Virtual tape libraries vs. disk-to-disk backup in small business storage environments

SMBs have several disk backup options to choose from. Which is more popular, VTLs or disk-to-disk backup?
EDRM: Best practices when preparing for an e-discovery request

We list the nine stages of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), and tell you why the preservation and collection stage is so important to data storage pros.

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