Monitoring Concerns Hamper Hybrid, Multicloud Deployments
Misconfiguration of the cloud platform is cited most often as the biggest security threat in public clouds,
SREs Wish Automation Solved All Their Problems
SREs are more than glorified IT operations professionals, but a focus on availability means they often are often not empowered to work on the engineering challenges they rather being working on.
Security Integration Throughout Software Development Lifecycle Is a Pipe Dream
Risk and vulnerability management is the top reason to implement security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), but the second most common reason is improving code quality according to the DevSecOps Community Survey 2019. However, this does not appear to be enough motivation to integrate security automation into the development process.
Control Cloud Costs with Organizational Alignment, Not Just Software
Finance can get a better view of spending if it works closer with IT, but for now only 28 percent of respondents collaborate across both IT and Finance.
Open Source Maintainers Want to Reduce Application Security Risk
Just because they care about security does not mean developers have the time or ability to address all your infosec vulnerabilities.
Information Security Spending: Don’t Be Fooled by Overconfidence
Spending on information security continues to increase, but those gains may decelerate as companies become more confident in their security posture. Maybe too confident. Although many reports show that cybersecurity is a top driver of technology spending, Scale Venture Partners’ recent survey of 300 executives […]
C-suite Doesn’t Have a Clue About App Dev
Half of all C-level executives think DevOps methodologies are used by their developers while only 30 percent of application developers think likewise. Similarly, there is a 22 percentage point gap regarding continuous integration (CI).
Insights from 68 People Who Care About AWS Container Security
In late 2019, Amazon Web Services’ Developer Advocate Michael Hausenblas surveyed 68 people who use containers on AWS. The publicly available results provide several anecdotal clues about adoption patterns among customers of the world’s largest cloud provider.
Digital Transformation, IT, and the Rest of the Company
78% are satisfied with the level of cooperation between IT and non-IT heads as they work on digital transformation.
Microsoft Mobile Developers Moving to Generic Browsers
Over the last two years, the percentage of developers working on Android and iOS apps declined slightly while those targeting mobile browsers rose by 43 percent.
FaaS Selection Criteria: Little Desire for Multicloud
Portability and control are being sacrificed as serverless users make gains with speed of development and flexibility of scaling.
Whose Hardware Will Run Analytics, AI and ML Workloads?
42% of respondents exclusively rely on third-party cloud providers’ hardware built to build AI/ML models, but only 12% will do so three years from now. Instead, a majority will use a combination of both on-premises and public cloud. Many companies may have gone first to cloud providers because they wanted to quickly launch AI/ML activities. These same companies may migrate to on-premises environments for specialized workloads to reduce costs as they scale-up into production or use proprietary data.