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The next wave of cloud computing: Resurgence of serverless as a paradigm
As developers continue to be a force to be reckoned with in the modern enterprise world, making their lives easier is taking center stage. WebAssembly is emerging as a key enabler of the serverless concept meant to boost developers’ productivity because they set their eyes on what matters and not issues such as infrastructure, according ...
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Cloud-native apps: Addressing power consumption needs using Kepler metrics
Open source is changing the game when it comes to saving the planet and making the world a better place. Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter, or Kepler — an open-source tool that shows power-use metrics in cloud-native environments — enables enterprises to tackle changing sustainability needs and maximize energy consumption based on enhanced assessments, according ...
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OpenSSF: Making SBOMs more dynamic to reduce software security risks
Since 41% of organizations are still not confident about their open-source software security, more innovations are needed to change this narrative. Even though software bill of materials offer more visibility, the Open Source Security Foundation seeks to alter SBOMs from just being a mechanism to be organism-based so that they address issues such as changes ...
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Making data accessibility faster and friendly using distributed query insights
Even though data is at the epicenter of decision-making in enterprises, its accessibility continues to be a burning issue. By connecting different data sources simultaneously, Trino — a high-performance, distributed SQL query engine for big data — makes data queries less painful and acts as a solitary point of access for faster analytics, according to ...
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The continuous delivery ecosystem: Interoperability and security take center stage
For enhanced software delivery performance, continuous integration and continuous delivery have proven to be pivotal. Even though security and traceability are closely related, the CD ecosystem lacks interoperability because of the absence of a common language, according to Fatih Degirmenci (pictured, left), executive director of the CD Foundation at The Linux Foundation. “Interoperability helps you ...
Platform engineering is DevOps with guardrails, Dell director says
As platform engineering continues to redefine information technology, it’s emerging as the new version of what modern and seamless IT should look like. With platform engineering being an agile ITOps in an application-led world, it is a concept within DevOps that has boundaries, according to Brad Maltz (pictured), senior director of DevOps portfolio and DevRel ...
Stopping cloud breaches: CrowdStrike combines agent-based and agentless methods to ensure data security
Adversaries view the cloud as a soft target, riddled with vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to exploit. Ending cloud breaches requires covering the entire spectrum. Since CrowdStrike Inc. is primarily focused stopping breaches, the company offers a more comprehensive cloud-native application protection platform solution by tying identity pieces and runtime protection using both agent-based and agentless methods, ...
Sony tackles content explosion challenges with Media Cloud
Since new stars are being born through social media platforms, such as YouTube and TikTok, content creation is going through the roof. As a media-focused layer sitting on top of Amazon Web Services Inc., Sony Electronics Inc.’s Ci Media Cloud enables content to be accessed anywhere in near real time by allowing upfront production, downstream ...
The power of GitOps: a comprehensive framework for modern IT operations
Since GitOps offers cluster management, it helps solve organizational issues, such as operational problems. GitOps not only enables application deployment and drift detection, but also serves as the foundational layer of various fields such as platform engineering, continuous integration and continuous deployment, according to Christian Hernandez (pictured, right), senior principal product manager at Red Hat ...
Delivering cloud security inside-out using a purpose-built graph database
Scalability and complexity have become burning issues in cloud security. As a result, by graphing every possible identity, access and permission entitlement in the cloud, Sonrai Security Inc. is providing cloud security inside out, according to Brendan Hannigan (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Sonrai. “Underneath the covers, we’ve built a way to actually aggregate ...