Q&A: Software escrow’s role in business continuity planning
When you’re relying on lots of other services in your technology stack, you need to have a plan for what to do if the company offering that service shuts down. Software escrow — which is the practice of depositing the source code of that service with a third-party — can be a crucial part of … continue reading
Q&A: Is nuclear energy the key to meeting the demands of AI workloads?
AI requires a whole lot of power to run, and as more and more AI workloads are added, the power demand will just get greater. According to a report from Schneider Electric, in 2023 AI consumed 8% of the total power demanded by data centers, and this number is expected to grow to 15-20% by … continue reading
Q&A: What the consolidation of the SIEM market means for IT
Over the last several months, multiple security information and event management (SIEM) platforms have either merged or been acquired. LogRhythm merged with Exabeam, Palo Alto Networks acquired IBM’s QRadar portfolio, and Cisco acquired Splunk. To talk about why this is happening and what it all means, Chas Clawson, field CTO at Sumo Logic, joined the … continue reading
Q&A: Bad bots and their impact across the internet
Bots are becoming more and more of a challenge for companies to deal with. To learn more about how bots impact different industries, we spoke with Nick Rieniets, field CTO of Kasada, on the most recent episode of our podcast Get With IT. They had recently released a report on this topic, so we invited … continue reading
Kubernetes at 10: Where it began, and where it’s going
Ten years ago, the Kubernetes project was first announced, and then soon after, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was formed to become the home for it. Chris Aniszczyk was the founding executive director at the time, and has been around for the project’s entire history once it was donated by Google to the CNCF. … continue reading
The surprising ROI of Database DevOps
Implementing database optimization practices can help achieve business growth by protecting revenue from downtime, reducing manual task costs and protecting sensitive data. Now Redgate has put some tangible numbers behind those benefits to show how it can benefit your enterprise organization. View the ROI End-to-end Database DevOps provides a competitive advantage in a competitive economy. It can be a … continue reading
Event-driven architecture explained
Event-driven architecture is an architectural design approach that relies on events to trigger actions across decoupled services. In this context, an event represents some sort of change in state – a customer logging in to an application, a shopper adding an item to a cart, or a user following a new account. Events may include … continue reading
premium Observability: A guide for buyers
This free guide features a look at what observability means in today’s IT environments, how observability leaders are defined, and a list of vendors and descriptions of their offerings. Also in this guide is a contributed article on the importance of API observability in microservices architectures. … continue reading
2023 predictions for Infrastructure and Operations
The year that just was saw the rise in adoption of cloud-native technologies, a renewed effort in securing network systems and applications, as well as the huge volume increases in data being collected, stored and analyzed. What will 2023 bring? These industry experts weigh in with their thoughts. Chitra Balasubramanian, CFO, CircleCI Embrace curiosity and … continue reading
Gartner infrastructure conferences returning in person
“Empowering the Anywhere Business” is the theme for this year’s 2022 Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference, returning in-person for the first time since 2019. Businesses across the globe are challenged to bring value and innovation wherever their customers are, according to Gartner’s events team. Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders have a critical role … continue reading
ITOps predictions for 2022
Here are just a few predictions that experts across the industry have for 2022: Gabriel Aguiar Noury, Robotics Product Manager at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu Robotics industry: “Despite the market boost that the pandemic provided to the robotics industry, 2021 showed us that isolated projects based on proprietary technology carry bigger market risks than … continue reading
Five common questions about observability
Observability has emerged as a key capability that successful organizations need in order to deliver improved digital services to customers, employees and partners. It is especially relevant for today’s IT Ops environments where flexibility has given way to complexity for highly distributed and hybrid environments. ITOps Times recently asked Sudip Datta, head of AIOps & … continue reading
