Tag: automation

March 26, 2024

As organizations expand and increasingly invest in more cloud applications and services, their cloud footprint grows and often becomes more complex. That’s why it is critically important to regularly reevaluate the security of those cloud assets to ensure that everything […]

January 10, 2024

Greater availability of development tools, the desire to reduce costs, and automation are driving enterprise adoption of AI. But challenges such as employee skillsets, data complexity, and ethical concerns remain barriers to widespread adoption of the technology. These are a […]

February 20, 2023

Salesforce skills are among the most sought-after in the IT industry and demand is soaring. The most performant CRM system today, Salesforce is a core technology for digital business, and its associated applications and ecosystem help make it in a […]

February 16, 2023

With the rapid growth and increasing complexity of cloud environments, organizations are increasingly at risk from various security threats. Cloud security posture management (CSPM) is a process that helps organizations continuously monitor, identify, and remediate security risks in the cloud. […]

August 30, 2022

I’ve written about cloud security many times, including this post from 2021. The report I referenced found that misconfigured cloud servers caused 19% of data breaches. Corroborative data is available from public cloud providers that fight this daily. Microsoft analyzed […]

May 6, 2022

Automation is a great tool. Instead of solving a problem once, you can automate a solution to automatically adapt to changing needs, no humans required. Cloud scalability is the best example of this. We no longer manually need to provision […]

February 3, 2022

When planning to roll out automation testing with Selenium, there lies a common question which is faced by every Quality Analyst. What’s the question? “Is it better to set up in-house/on-premises infrastructure for Selenium or should I go for cloud-based […]

November 4, 2021

Hyperscalers and cloud data centers in the future might operate in a changed landscape where robots and AI fill gaps in the tech workforce and regional government entities seek more oversight of the space. Gartner and Forrester issued separate predictions […]

October 26, 2021

Many customers I’ve spoken to think of the cloud as a location—specifically, the public cloud—a place to go to unlock speed, agility, and increased innovation for their development and IT organization. They look to the public cloud to give them […]

September 9, 2021

A recent report by Red Hat and CCS Insight found that 85% of EMEA developers have automated their app deployment process to some degree. This trend is not so surprising, given that speedy and scalable app development is a priority […]

August 12, 2021

Enterprise networks are focused on buying full-stack offerings that include key software components such as management, automation and AI but also routing, switching and security rather than a piecemeal approach. That trend is being driven by a post-COVID rethinking of […]

June 4, 2021

As I move from project to project, I’ve seen the latest trend is to leverage operational tools, such as AIops and security operations platforms to automate most of what it takes to proactively operate a cloud, hybrid cloud, or multicloud […]

April 1, 2021

While the arrival of spring promises better days ahead, enterprises are also facing a cyberthreat landscape filled with both familiar threats and emerging attack vectors. As a result, it’s worth taking stock of current security systems and services to see […]

November 30, 2020

While Todd Nightingale has been Cisco’s Enterprise Networking & Cloud business chief since March, some of the directions he wants to take the company’s biggest business unit—namely superior cloud-neutral orchestration and automation—are already evident. The COVID-19 pandemic and the enterprise […]

November 11, 2020

IBM continued enhancing its core Cloud Pak hybrid cloud software offerings, this week bolstering automation and data features that will let customers simplify everything from software provisioning and patching, to data discovery and document processing. IBM Cloud Paks are bundles […]

August 21, 2020

Redefining the future of how and where work gets done through a newly remote workforce has meant that large corporations are shifting toward Artificial Intelligence (AI) for business automation processes and insights and increasing their focus on constructing the enterprise […]

July 27, 2020

Many still think that cloud computing is an online method to store data. However, cloud computing is much more than that. It is the delivery of SaaS computing services like storage, servers, databases, software, etc. over the Internet. The cloud […]

June 17, 2020

“We’ve been able to stay open because we’ve invested in our data centre,” explains Chris Smith, Blue Chip’s Chief Marketing Officer, adding “as well as the networking and storage, the automation and orchestration software that we’ve developed allows us to […]

March 12, 2020

A few months ago, Atlassian acquired Code Barrel, the Sydney-based company behind the popular Automation for Jira low-code tool for — you guessed it — automating many aspects of Jira. Unsurprisingly, Atlassian then set out to integrate many of these […]

December 17, 2019

If you use public cloud services at some scale, then you know you must tag your resources. You know you must use tagging so that your cost reports get nicely broken down; so that you can create resource groups to […]