Tips for Modern IT Admins’ Career to the Cloud

Source:-devops.com Fifteen years ago IT professionals experienced a drastically different day-to-day on the job. While the main mission has always remained constant—to take charge of all internal infrastructure—the infrastructure itself has moved off-premises over time. The complexity rested in networking for IT professionals. Routers, switches, firewalls and other gear needed to be managed so the network would function. Employee devices also required attention from IT admins, but these devices were typically all Microsoft Windows machines. This allowed IT to standardize

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DevOps firewall: How pre-configuring your cloud deployment can ensure compliance

Source:- helpnetsecurity.com Following the recent massive Capital One data breach, it’s clear that even some of the world’s largest and most respected companies working in the cloud are still vulnerable to compliance and security issues. In this case, federal prosecutors charged a Seattle woman with stealing more than 100 million credit applications. As the details of the attack became public, the Capital One AWS environment came under scrutiny. It’s now accepted that the attack vector the hacker took began with

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What the DevOps movement has done for — and to — developers

Source:-searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the evolution of — and trends within — the DevOps movement fascinates Gene Kim. What practices and ideas manifest within productive DevOps initiatives and shops? Kim is a researcher, author and the founder of IT Revolution, an IT publishing and research company based in Portland, Ore. With the release of his book, The Unicorn Project, Kim joined the Test & Release podcast to talk DevOps, the five ideals covered in the novel, developer productivity — and

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Why You May Want to Hold Off on Buying Splunk Stock — But Not Forever

Source:-yahoo.comDemocratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is fond of saying that technology is the oil of the new century. And part of that involves big data. Both a source of controversy and potential, tech firms have increasingly sought to economically harness our data. This progression drives the narrative for Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) and by deduction, Splunk stock. While the company may not be a household name right now, it’s certainly well on its way. Specializing in its “data-to-everything” platform, Splunk aims to radically transform how

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Redgate simplifies data masking further to respond to growth in compliant database DevOps

Source:-cambridgenetwork.co.uk  In its ongoing effort to help the increasing number of companies and organizations that need to use data masking in their development environments, Redgate has released another update for its Data Masker for SQL Server tool. The twelfth release this year, the new version makes it much easier for users to identify the best data masking rules to fit their needs. Alongside the 15 updates that were released in 2018, it’s part of the development team’s goal to ensure

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Is AIOps the future of DevOps?

Source:-information-age.com HP Morgan, business analyst at Tatvasoft Australia, discusses how AIOps helps DevOps to embrace the scale and speed needed for modern development For many years there’s been a constant demand placed on IT professionals and particularly in DevOps to become more proactive and flexible so that the businesses can accommodate and embrace the new challenges quickly to stay competitive. Such a paradigm shift has resulted in more processes by making them automated as a manual intervention that is in

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What venture capitalists need to know about DevOps

Source – itproportal.com Venture capital (VC) investment into DevOps continues to rise. Already populated by some huge worldwide brands like Google, Microsoft and Amazon and estimated to be a $50 billion market, DevOps has graduated beyond a niche software sector for unicorns, and has made it to the mainstream. The amount of interest in this space from the VC community since the middle of 2018 is just one of many signals from investors that “now is a great time to jump

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3 DevOps pitfalls and how to avoid them

Source – information-age.com Businesses have been hearing about DevOps and its benefits for some time, and now it appears to have reached a critical mass. As Forrester points out, DevOps has moved from the fringes, accessible only to a small number of large companies, to the mainstream. While DevOps is increasingly necessary, that doesn’t mean it’s easy. IT projects are notorious for a high rate of failure – a problem that is still prevalent in our agile-focused era. We recently surveyed

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Dealing with division through DevOps

Source – information-age.com The phrase “Too many cooks spoil the broth” can be applied to any number of scenarios, while another favourite—“A camel is a horse designed by committee” — explains the possible results of combative collaboration. Typically, the problem lies with people wanting different things from a project—an issue that should have IT professionals nodding knowingly. A long-term issue within businesses has been the disconnect between two teams who use IT to achieve different business goals. In the red corner,

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IT collaboration, DevOps a key to business success, says Robert Half

Source – itwire.com Australian companies need to improve collaboration between IT professionals and find ways to successfully leverage technology across the business in the current highly competitive environment, according to a newly published report. According to the report from recruitment firm Robert Half, the implementation of Development Operations (DevOps) is at the heart of the optimisation of collaboration between those in IT departments. And the recruiter says Australian companies need to build, test, and roll out new or updated solutions to

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Build a version control process for DevOps infrastructure

Source – techtarget.com Inside businesses of all shapes and sizes, modern IT teams have adopted DevOps practices to roll out changes faster, while delivering more stable software on more reliable infrastructure. Anyone can do it, as long as they learn fundamental skills. IT teams must embrace infrastructure as code (IaC) to apply DevOps practices. IaC enables automation, testability, quality control and more predictability during deployments. Perhaps more importantly, it demands that infrastructure-focused team members become aware of software development practices. A version

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Top 10 Agile Database Techniques

Source – ibm.com While agile database development and management continues to gain popularity, some DBAs are still hesitant to adopt the agile method in favor of the waterfall approach. Most often this is either because some IT professionals and development teams are afraid of losing maintenance control in the constant thrust of iteration, or they’re wary of change, especially one that would require them to change the way they work together. So, here are some great techniques for having a healthy

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