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Category: The New Stack
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.
Enterprise Database Selection Most Often Led by System Architects
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.
InfoSec Use of Compliance Tools for Open Source Software
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.
No Easy Fix: Cloud Native’s Role in Digital Transformation
Chief Information Officers are deluding themselves if they think digital transformation via cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes is going to be easy.
Postcard from the Edge: Government Use of Internet of Things
Monitoring and controlling equipment is the most common IoT use case among the 90 U.S. government agencies surveyed.
Culture, Vulnerabilities and Budget: Why Devs and AppSec Disagree
As compared to AppSec professionals, developers are significantly less, to believe application security risk at their organization has increased.
Value Investing: Open Source Foundations
The key determinant member satisfaction with an open source foundation is how often the organization is contributing upstream to open source projects.
Pure Storage Needed Portworx
Pure Storage customers were facing Kubernetes challenges, so the company acquired cloud native storage startup Portworx.
Visual Basic Lingers on
Visual Basic is remembered as a forerunner to today’s low-code offerings, but it still ranks sixth on the TIOBE Index.
VMware Cloud on AWS’s Slice of the Off-Premises Private Pie
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.”
Shaky Economy Dampens Need for Developer Recruitment Efforts
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.
Bridgecrew: Misconfigured Terraform Modules Are a Security Issue
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.