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Why is SRE Becoming 2021's Hottest Hire?

Cordny Nederkoorn, StackPulse (guest writer) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:13:02 GMT

In the current IT market, one of the hottest job roles is the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). In January 2019, according to LinkedIn, being an SRE is the second most promising job in the USA. These Statistics were cited:

Playbooks-as-Code: An Overview

Chris Tozzi, StackPulse (guest writer) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:01:58 GMT

You’ve heard of playbooks. But what about playbooks-as-code? How can playbooks be managed as code, and what does that mean for SREs and incident response teams?

SRE: What, Why, and 5 Best Practices

Leonid Belkind, StackPulse (guest writer) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:54:33 GMT

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline with the primary goal of improving the reliability of software services. Initially developed by Google, SRE is now an industry standard, practiced in companies of all sizes. The increasing adoption of SRE best practices shows the effectiveness of this methodology in ensuring consistent uptime and availability, improving risk management, and enabling early detection of issues.

MPLS Upgrade for the Modern Enterprise

Dave Greenfield, Cato Networks (guest writer) — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:40:54 GMT

If you are about to renew your MPLS contract, or if you need to upgrade your capacity—STOP! Don’t commit to another year of MPLS until you’ve had time to consider if it’s the right technology to carry your business forward. Modern enterprises now have alternatives to MPLS that are more flexible and just as reliable for building a WAN.

SD-WAN or SASE: The Power is in the Platform

Dave Greenfield, Cato Networks (guest writer) — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:35:54 GMT

As enterprises set out to modernize their networks, SD-WAN has become a key networking technology for connecting offices. But with COVID-19, users transitioned to work at home, not in the office.

Why Remote Workforce and Legacy Security Architectures Don’t Mix

Dave Greenfield, Cato Networks (guest writer) — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:20:11 GMT

Make no mistake about it, work-from-home (WFH) and the remote workforce aren’t going away any time soon. Only 7%of respondents indicated that everyone will move back to the office. More than half (80%) indicated their companies will continue with a remote workforce in whole or in part.

SASE vs. SD-WAN: Achieving Cloud-Native WAN Security

Dave Greenfield, Cato Networks (guest writer) — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:03:06 GMT

For several years now, the network evolution spotlight has been on SD-WAN, and rightfully so. SD-WAN provides big advancements in connecting branch locations into central data centers in a cost-effective manner. It is the networking equivalent of a killer application that allows companies to use a variety of transport mechanisms besides MPLS and to steer traffic according to business priorities.

Kubeflow: Concepts, Use Cases and Starter's Guide

alex@globaldots.com (Alex Berber) — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:55:34 GMT

What is Kubeflow?

Kubeflow is an open-source project which is built on top of Kubernetes, that contains a set of tools and frameworks to enable the development, deployment and management of Machine Learning models, workflows and services in a completely portable and scalable manner. Kubeflow aims at creating an industry standard for end-to-end management on Machine Learning Infrastructure.

FinOps Adoption as an Evolutionary Process

David Amir, Cloud Economy Expert — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:21:13 GMT

With the acceleration of public cloud adoption among organizations in the past few years, developers and DevOps teams got used to the fast pace of trying new technologies, spinning up new instances and experimenting with cloud capabilities.

Attackers Use Automation - So Should You

Eyal Arazi (Guest Writer) — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:20:38 GMT

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We’ve all heard about the CapitalOne breach. It dominated headlines for weeks and is a prime example of how even the largest and best trained organizations – ones who clearly put security at the top of their mind – can fall victim to sophisticated cloud attacks.