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Platform engineering has automated deployment but not recovery. The next maturity curve is intelligent operations that automate routine production decisions and resilience.
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Explore how Atlassian’s recent Bitbucket Cloud outage impacted global DevOps teams and what it reveals about cloud service dependencies in modern development.
AI
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs.
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It’s hard to run a business. Besides the numerous challenges you have to deal with daily, ensuring the security of your business and customer information is essential for operating…
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It’s increasingly common for companies in all sectors to use the cloud to store their data. The cloud provides scalability, security and flexibility that was often inaccessible to…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing.
AI
In this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations.
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Had enough change yet? It is almost amusing that I and some other tech people had that conversation a decade ago, and since then, nothing has slowed down. Our conclusion was that,…
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One thing Agile and DevOps definitely brought IT was a more accepting view of the whole “mistakes happen” mantra. Crashing systems is no longer a guarantee of a free ticket out the…
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The massive shift to remote work necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic kickstarted many companies’ digital transformation. While this transition had already begun for most organiza…
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Apache Cassandra is a row-oriented NoSQL database created by developers working at Facebook. With elasticity as one of its key features, open source contributors have added new str…
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Transaction combines data backup and recovery technology with cybersecurity platform to deliver complete data protection for customers and their endpoints March 26, 2019 04:01 PM E…
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There are numerous ways to assure business continuity for applications running within the Azure cloud via various high availability and disaster recovery provisions. But, selecting…
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I’ve received thousands of emails, ads and sales pitches for tools for every stage of the app life cycle, from automating infrastructure buildout to release planning to building an…
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With 71 percent of CIOs report having a cloud-first strategy, it’s clear enterprises are doing something. But it’s also clear that no two organizations are in the same place. While…
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Many people believe that replicating a distributed database is a replacement for having a solid disaster recovery (DR) plan or backup system. While there are certainly elements of…
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Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for over 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. T…
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Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences. Now imagine that factory is a database. The world’s top smartphone mak…
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Recent IT disasters suggest gaps in hardware testing, backup system testing and inadequate disaster recovery plans. Although the summer often is the most profitable season for most…
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When disasters make headlines, corporate executives often have knee-jerk reactions and call for business continuity solutions to be implemented immediately. However, when push come…
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I remember when data centers were not the multipowered, multitelecommunication, hardware, software and people buildings they are today. My first was on the fifth floor of a parking…
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What does it take to run an active-active architecture? It boils down to data, and how you interact with it. The most common disaster recovery strategies I encounter with folks are…
