Knative is the newest member of serverless environments that is gaining significant interest and generating a great deal of hype in the Kubernetes/Cloud Native community. It’s an open source framework that was designed to enable the development and deployment of container-based serverless applications that are easy to transport between cloud providers. The GA version of […]
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Cloud adoption rates across a range of businesses and industries have reached +90% and cloud-native has evolved into a common part of the IT lexicon. System architectures, developers, IT Ops professionals and everyone in between recognizes that a cloud-first strategy has become the key to unlocking new innovations and efficiencies. Yet with the advantages conferred […]
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Faster release cycles are one of the major advantages of microservices architectures. But without a good CI/CD process, you won’t achieve the agility that microservices promise. This article describes the challenges and recommends some approaches to the problem. What is CI/CD? When we talk about CI/CD, we’re really talking about several related processes: Continuous integration, […]
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Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get software to run reliably when moved from one computing environment to another. Here’s what you need to know about this popular technology. Docker exploded onto the scene in 2013, and it’s been causing excitement in IT circles ever since. The application container technology provided by […]
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Containers have become the standard output of the development process. They are mostly used in a micro-services architecture, as small functional building blocks. According to the IDC over 85% of organizations in the world are already using Containers in some of their environments and over 40% are using Containers in production. The adoption rate is […]
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With today’s Web, massive data loads are accessed through APIs. In fact, according to programmableweb.com, there are now more than 10,000 publicly available APIs. Given the foundational role that APIs now play in today’s infrastructure, keeping APIs secure is absolutely critical. In this article, we explain five best practices that organizations can follow to help ensure […]
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Simplifying Your Multi-Cloud Security Strategy “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein Simplicity is key when it comes to solving most challenges and we couldn’t agree more with Mr. Einstein. However, when it comes to simplifying your multi-cloud security strategy there are three things to keep in mind: […]
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Digitisation has dramatically changed how work gets done. Business-critical apps and data are a keystroke away, no matter where an employee is or what time it is. Perhaps it is this familiarity with data that makes employees feel so connected to it that, when they switch jobs, they often take some of it with them. […]
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SDN (Software Defined Networking) has recently received widespread attention from customers, vendors and channel partners. As time goes by, SDN has become one of the most common ways for organizations to deploy applications. This technology helps organizations deploy applications faster and reduce overall deployment costs. Over the years, the technology has been announced as the […]
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At the heart of any business process or workflow is a document—invoices, proposals, contracts, reports, you name it. But the workflows you rely on to run your business often connect to content and services that also live outside of documents. One way to keep work flowing between documents and the apps you use everyday is […]