Lawrence started working with The New Stack in 2015. He was the research director for several ebooks about containers, Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.
He highlighted a chart and findings from industry research in The New Stack’s weekly newsletter. This sampling of the over 400 articles and reports he has written.
Architects usually choose the database technology used for new applications at 41% of organizations according to Percona’s “2020 Open Source Data Management Software Survey”. Developers make these decisions at 26% of organizations.
In our recent “Open Source in the Enterprise,” of the 500 respondents’ organizations utilizing an open source compliance tool or methodology, 29% affirmatively agreed that the Information Security function accesses data from the automated tools used for open source compliance. Another 37% answered “Don’t know,” indicating a dramatic lack of visibility between groups involved in the so-called DevSecOps ecosystem.
Chief Information Officers are deluding themselves if they think digital transformation via cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes is going to be easy.
59% of IT professionals are running workloads in an off-premises private cloud according to previously unreported data from the “Faction 2020 VMware Cloud on AWS Market Survey.”
Many companies are not hiring and may even have had layoffs. In this environment, large technology companies are having fewer problems recruiting and retaining talent.
44% of the 2,600 modules for Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud support were misconfigured when Bridgecrew assessed how they match up again CIS benchmarks.