DevOps in the Cloud
Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
In this week’s The Long View: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer ...
Splunk Adds Data Management Tools to Observability Platform
At its .conf22 event, Splunk today announced it is making it easier to both onboard data and then manage it across hybrid IT environments via the Splunk Cloud Platform. In addition, Splunk ...
Grafana Labs Adds Visual Tools to Simplify Prometheus Queries
At its GrafanaCONline event, Grafana Labs today announced an update to the open source Grafana dashboard. The update adds visual query tools to make it easier for IT professionals of any skill ...
Saving on AWS Costs with Data Classification
The cloud is becoming a large cost center for many organizations. Though often touted as a cost-saver—and while many cloud migrations are driven by the desire to conserve IT costs—the cloud does ...
Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS
The number of DevOps tools keeps growing, as does the number of cloud resources and options to manage those resources. On EC2 alone, AWS offers nearly 400 instance types across storage, networking ...
Orca Security Adds CLI to Improve Cloud Security
Orca Security has extended its cloud security platform via a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it simpler to integrate with a wide range of DevOps tools. Rather than relying on agents, the ...
3xFAIL: IPv6 Fails | Fintech Fails | Firefox Fails
In this week’s The Long View: IPv6 gets stabbed in the back, Fintech firms’ valuations are falling, and the latest browser war seems to be over—Firefox lost ...
Broadcom’s Software Strategy: Milk the Cash Cow, Exploit ‘Synergies’
The week began with rumors that Broadcom would acquire VMware and ended with the news that the deal is all but done. The VMware board, along with Michael Dell (who still owns ...
JFrog Aims to Push DevOps to the Edge
At its swampUP event, JFrog launched a JFrog Connect platform for updating, managing, monitoring and securing remote Linux and internet of things (IoT) devices. The JFrog Connect platform is based on a ...
Broadcom Acquires VMware to Expand Software Portfolio
Broadcom today pulled the trigger on an acquisition of VMware for $61 billion in cash and stock that could dramatically expand its software portfolio. Tom Krause, president of the Broadcom Software Group, ...
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
In this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing ...
WhiteSource Becomes Mend, Launches Automated Remediation Platform
WhiteSource rechristened itself Mend today and launched a remediation platform that automatically resolves security issues for application developers. Rami Sass, co-founder and CEO of Mend, said now the company is going beyond ...


