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How to spur business agility by linking DevOps with identity

Source:-https://itbrief.com With uncertainty and disruption swirling through the economy, being agile has never been more critical for a business. It’s vital to change everything from workflows and supply chains to service delivery and communication channels if a business is to survive and thrive in the coming months. Taking a ‘business as usual’ approach is no longer an option. Increasingly, this agile strategy is also being applied to the task of software development. Organisations realise that having the ability to write

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How to spur business agility by linking DevOps with identity

Source:-https://itbrief.com With uncertainty and disruption swirling through the economy, being agile has never been more critical for a business. It’s vital to change everything from workflows and supply chains to service delivery and communication channels if a business is to survive and thrive in the coming months. Taking a ‘business as usual’ approach is no longer an option. Increasingly, this agile strategy is also being applied to the task of software development. Organisations realise that having the ability to write

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Avaya OneCloud CCaaS now available with Google Cloud Contact Center AI capabilities In India

Source:-https://www.expresscomputer.in Avaya, a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today announced that key Google Cloud Contact Center AI (CCAI) capabilities as a part of Avaya OneCloudTM CCaaS solutions are now available for Indian customers. The powerful combination of Avaya AI conversation services and Google CCAI will provide a better experience for clients by seamlessly blending automated and assisted experiences throughout a customer’s interaction with the contact center. Avaya OneCloud CCaaS is powering organisations’ customer experience

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Linbit builds Kubernetes on-ramp for WD OpenFlex

Source:-https://blocksandfiles.com Western Digital’s composable OpenFlex flash storage system now supports Kubernetes storage, courtesy of Linbit’s LINSTOR software. OpenFlex is a physical chassis, containing SSDs or disk drives, which is addressed as an NVMe target device. It’s basically an NVMe-oF JBOD (Just a bunch of drives) and needs additional software to link it to containerised environments. Manfred Berger, WD’s senior manager for business development, platforms, said in a statement: “With Linbit’s LINSTOR software added to our OpenFlex offering, the software-defined-storage solution

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The practice of DevOps

Source:-https://www.dqindia.com Software development is both a science and an art. The science involves models, methods, and procedures that have been shown to be useful and correct. The art is weaving together these methods for a given situation, a given problem, a given set of programmers, and a given client, to deliver on the project’s promises. Thus the software industry has evolved with twin personas – the formal models side and the actual practices side. There are those who adhere strictly

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How GitHub Got MLOps Right

Source:-https://analyticsindiamag.com After productive and informative Day 1, ADasSci’s Deep Learning Developers Conference is live again. Day 2 of DLDC2020 too, had an interesting lineup of speakers along with a full-day workshop on deep learning with Keras. In an hour-long talk, speakers Pulkit Agarwal and Vinod Joshi of Github discussed the various challenges of setting up an ML pipeline. Pulkit, who is part of the product team at Github, began by defining what MLOps is really about and what makes it

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Five ways to better IT spending through the cloud for a post-pandemic era

Source:-https://cloudcomputing-news.net For many businesses, the impact of Covid-19 has brought the benefits and limitations of their IT landscape into focus. As companies look ahead to a post-pandemic era, many will need to consider how to meet different needs and priorities with potentially limited resources. The challenge is that many are overly reliant on legacy infrastructure, with these systems accounting for 74% of a company’s IT spend. Making important changes such as migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud will eventually help

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Why are banks suddenly so into open source software?

Source:-https://news.efinancialcareers.com Investment banks and hedge funds are normally very secretive organisations, carefully guarding the proprietary data that they view as key competitive advantages. Try and plug your USB stick into a work laptop, or email an attachment to your home email address, and it won’t be long before a team of compliance, tech and HR people are standing around your desk (or nowadays in a zoom call). You’re expected to keep secrets even after leaving. Non-disclosure agreements are par for

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Et tu, Atlassian? Company sharpens cloud focus, kicks on-prem out of the picture

Source:-https://devclass.com In what it is pitching as a bid to free up capacity and “to move faster”, software development and collaboration tool provider Atlassian has made some changes to its server and Data Center products, pretty much giving on-premises users 3.5 years to either switch to the cloud or find an alternative somewhere else. The company plans to end support for all server products on February 2, 2024. Tools affected by the change are Server versions of Jira Software, Jira

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Software, software, software: why all CEOs can no longer avoid it

Source:-https://www.businesslive.co.za The future happens all the time. Technology is fuelling a fourth industrial revolution that is exponentially increasing the rate of change and threatening the relevance of all businesses, regardless of size and complexity. This is placing digital transformation — a term that is often misused — on the strategic agenda of every business. Digital transformation helps CEOs diversify revenue streams, sustain profitability and increase agility. It is a crucial requirement for companies wishing to remain competitive amid accelerating change

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Sydney’s CMD Solutions says Tanzu on VMware Cloud for AWS would boost cloud-native adoption

Source:-https://www.crn.com.au The addition of VMware’s Tanzu application modernisation suite to VMware Cloud on AWS would see more organisations adopting cloud-native apps and provide flexibility, according to CMD Solutions boss Andre Morgan. Sydney-based CMD is an AWS partner and cloud consultancy that also specialises in application modernisation through containers like Kubernetes. The company is also an accredited VMware Cloud on AWS partner. Following the recently concluded VMworld 2020, CMD was receptive to the announcement around Tanzu, VMware’s suite of software and

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Sydney’s CMD Solutions says Tanzu on VMware Cloud for AWS would boost cloud-native adoption

Source:-https://www.crn.com The addition of VMware’s Tanzu application modernisation suite to VMware Cloud on AWS would see more organisations adopting cloud-native apps and provide flexibility, according to CMD Solutions boss Andre Morgan. Sydney-based CMD is an AWS partner and cloud consultancy that also specialises in application modernisation through containers like Kubernetes. The company is also an accredited VMware Cloud on AWS partner. Following the recently concluded VMworld 2020, CMD was receptive to the announcement around Tanzu, VMware’s suite of software and

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VMware drives emerging tech agenda in Singapore, unveils skills program

Source:-https://sg.channelasia.tech VMware has unveiled plans to enhance adoption of next-generation technologies in Singapore through a pilot training program designed to deepen workforce specialisations levels. Under the banner of Getting Future Ready, the eight-week program is available to VMware customers and partners enrolled in the SGUnited Traineeship program, with the aim of offering “structured learning paths” towards emerging cloud native job roles and opportunities. “The vibrancy and strength of Singapore’s innovation economy, along with its deep pool of tech talent, serve

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What’s the point: Rook, Kong, Docker Hub, Elixir, Sumo Logic, and Sonatype

Source:-https://devclass.com The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has gained another graduate project. Accepted into the CNCF in 2018, storage project Rook is now mature enough to fall into one category with cloud native bedrocks Kubernetes and Prometheus. Rook was originally developed at Upbound and looks to supply users with Kubernetes Operators for all sorts of storage providers to facilitate automated storage management. It is today maintained by a variety of companies ranging from Red Hat to Suse. Kong portfolio gets new

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VMware: security for the world’s digital infrastructure

Source:-https://www.businesschief.com In an announcement made by VMware, the company has unveiled its latest innovations to provide intrinsic security for the World’s digital infrastructure. As organisations strive to build resilient, future ready infrastructures via the accelerated cloud adoption, VMware has designed its latest solutions to advance public and private clouds, security operations and distributed workforces. “Amid global disruption, the key to survival for many companies has meant an accelerated shift to the cloud and ultimately, bolting on security products in their

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Chaos Conf Q&A: Adrian Cockcroft & Yury Niño Roa

Source:-infoq In preparation for the upcoming Chaos Conf 2020, InfoQ sat down with Adrian Cockcroft and Yury Niño Roa to explore topics of interest in the chaos engineering community. Key takeaways included: the adoption of chaos engineering is still unevenly spread across organisations; there are clear benefits with running “game days” to develop psychological safety; and the future of chaos engineering points toward incorporating experiments focused on security and scaling up experiments to test larger failure modes. Cockcroft, VP cloud

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Pivotal CTO: Kubernetes means we’re all distributed systems programmers now

Source: devclass.com Kubernetes is changing the way organisations develop their software and manage their systems. But can we expect it to start changing the nature of organisations themselves? It’s certainly changed the nature of Pivotal – which launched a drive onto Kubernetes last month, not long after being lambasted by financial analysts for scaling back financial targets and being late to the Kubernetes party. We sat down with Cornelia Davis, Pivotal’s CTO at DevOps Enterprise Summit in June. She was

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VMware extends Google Cloud deal, positions as hybrid partner of choice for the hyperscalers

Source: cloudcomputing-news.net VMware and Google Cloud have extended their partnership with the launch of a new offering which enables organisations to run their VMware workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The product, the snappily titled Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple – the latter being a verified VMware cloud partner – will give customers the opportunity to run VMware workloads on-prem, in the cloud, or as part of a hybrid architecture. Both sides naturally came across as agreeable in the

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Four key ways to optimise your cloud spending in 2019: A guide

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net he last six years have seen a rapid acceleration in the use of cloud computing. Enterprises of all sizes and across industries are now turning to cloud infrastructure and pursuing cloud-first strategies. As IT departments increasingly shift workloads into public clouds while they simultaneously convert existing on-premises virtualised environments to support cloud-like capabilities, optimising cloud spending has become an intense focus for many organisations. In the RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera, cloud users who were surveyed

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Larger organisations more likely to push ahead with DevOps initiatives, research argues

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net Almost half of respondents in a new study from Redgate Software say they have adopted a DevOps approach to their projects – with a further third planning to join them within the next two years. The study, the firm’s latest State of Database DevOps survey, polled 1,000 companies globally with more than half employing at least 500 people. While 47% polled overall said they are already on the road with DevOps initiatives, this number rises to 59% among

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