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Infosys weighs in on digital transformation strategy and trends
Digital transformation isn’t slowing despite supply chain issues, a war in Europe and escalating inflation, according to a major digital services provider. The reason: “It’s all about growth,” said Anant Adya (pictured, right), executive vice president at Infosys Ltd. Post-pandemic business growth supplants pandemic-caused isolation economy, now, in other words. “What we hear from most ...
Inside VMware and HPE GreenLake’s deepening hybrid cloud collaboration
Some VMware Inc. staff who had been working on the virtualizer’s Dell Technologies Inc. partnership were moved to a growing VMware/HPE GreenLake hybrid cloud collaboration, according to Ricky Cooper (pictured, right), vice president of global and transformational partners at VMware Inc. After Dell spun off virtualization technology company VMware, the 2021 separation conceivably had the advantage of ...
How the enterprise is using automation as a tool to speed IT
Unifying orchestration and automating information technology are becoming increasingly in demand throughout digital business transformation for enterprise businesses. This is ringing true for Morpheus Data LLC, which began as an internal toolset within a private equity firm serving billions in capital and now provides cloud orchestration and self-service IT automation for developers. “Customers have actually ...
Environment as a service allows rapid spin-ups for developers
Developers and IT teams are opposing forces. Developers want to move fast, and they’re rewarded for doing that, along with being creative; whereas IT departments are rewarded for predictability and consistency. Environment-as-a-service solves this, according to Matt Carter (pictured, right), chief marketing officer of Release Technologies Inc., which specializes in rapid spin-ups of developer environments. The environments-on-demand ...
Vitess progresses with recent upgrades aimed at next-gen UI
Vitess, a graduated CNCF project, automatically detects and repairs MySQL-level failures, according to the lead tech behind the database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. This has been a prior hindrance to smooth running, despite Vitess’ ability to automatically handle functions like failovers and backups. “What that means for people using Vitess is that ...
The future of developer-oriented security: Teleport weighs in
VPNs, privileged access and shared credentials don’t work well and must be eliminated in the developer environment. That’s in order to reduce attack surfaces, explains the first identity-native infrastructure company, according to Drew Nielsen (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Teleport (Gravitational Inc.). The company thinks cryptographic validation of identity, in a frictionless form, ...
The secrets of scaling security in a cloud developer environment
Telemetry-driven approaches to security are now required for those looking to close gaps in their cloud-native infrastructure, according to the founder of data security company Uptycs Inc. Observability needs to be viewed across the entire environment. That includes from software, where it’s developed, all the way to where it’s deployed — from “laptop to the cloud,” ...
OpenTelemetry promises the demise of commodified data work
The adoption of OpenTelemetry is going to allow developers to do more building of interesting analysis features rather than repeating commodified work, according to one of the early members of the open source community-based project. “Instead of having to build your Kubernetes integration, for example, OpenTelemetry is integrated and you just have this data now,” ...
‘Confidential security’: The security perimeter should shift from box to asset, says Anjuna CEO
Moving the security perimeter to the workload and away from the machine will radicalize protection in ways never seen before, says a cybersecurity expert who is proposing to completely upend the base concepts behind protection. “What happens in the machine doesn’t matter anymore,” said Ayal Yogev (pictured), chief executive officer and co-founder of Anjuna Security ...
As the enterprise looks for an ‘evolved cloud’ state, price performance is critical
Cost is going to be a major discussion item across the cloud world over the near future, according to cloud infrastructure executives specializing in data management, storage and optimization. “It’s going to be a huge topic,” said Kevin McGrath (pictured right), vice president and general manager at automation cloud optimizer Spot by NetApp Inc. He ...