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Stay ahead of threats with DevOps security best practices

Unsure where to start when it comes to securing your DevOps environment? Taking these five actions can strengthen your organization's defenses against cyber attacks.

By Nihad Hassan • May 1, 2023

Get a grip on your infrastructure with a custom MMC

Microsoft provides great administration tools, such as PowerShell and Server Manager. But don't neglect the venerable Microsoft Management Console for its flexibility.

By Damon Garn • April 28, 2023

Amid supply chain attacks, emerging vendor rethinks SBOM

Early adopters such as Swisscom have used startup Codenotary’s notarization system to establish and track the provenance of software artifacts in pipelines and production.

By Beth Pariseau • April 28, 2023

At KubeCon 2023, observability and FinOps high on the agenda

With data sprawl increasing as IT budgets shrink, observability and FinOps were hot topics at KubeCon Europe 2023. Get an industry analyst's perspective on trends to watch.

By Jon Brown • April 28, 2023

IT monitoring

IT monitoring is a process that gathers metrics on the operations of an IT environment.

By Alexander Gillis • April 28, 2023

The promises and risks of AI in software development

Incorporating AI into software development could be transformative, but it raises ethical and practical concerns. What does AI-generated code mean for the tech sector's future?

By Lev Craig • April 26, 2023

Takeaways and emerging trends from KubeCon Europe 2023

An industry analyst shares key highlights and trends to watch from this year's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, including adoption of large language models and WebAssembly.

By Paul Nashawaty • April 26, 2023

carbon-aware computing

As a green design principle, carbon-aware computing steers software and hardware development up a path of sustainability toward carbon neutrality.

By Andy Patrizio • April 25, 2023

KubeCon highlights open source to combat climate change

Addressing climate change takes a community. At KubeCon Europe 2023, experts discussed how open source practices and projects can foster sustainability.

By Emily Foster • April 25, 2023

systems operator (sysop)

In IT, a systems operator (sysop) is a person who runs computer servers and other devices on a daily basis in a data center.

By Paul Kirvan • April 24, 2023

WinZip

WinZip is a software product used to archive, compress and encrypt files in a variety of archive formats for more efficient storage and distribution.

By Katie Terrell Hanna, Tom Walat • April 20, 2023

Sidecarless eBPF service mesh sparks debate

As cloud-native service meshes expand beyond Kubernetes, open source community members raise concerns about the security and suitability of eBPF in sidecarless architectures.

By Beth Pariseau • April 20, 2023

Set up a machine learning pipeline in this Kubeflow tutorial

For teams running machine learning workflows with Kubernetes, using Kubeflow can lead to faster, smoother deployments. Get started with this installation guide.

By Chris Tozzi • April 19, 2023

Atlassian demos ChatGPT tie-ins for Confluence, Jira Cloud

Atlassian teased early previews of cloud platform AI that supports natural language queries and automated links between Jira, Confluence and third-party products.

By Beth Pariseau • April 19, 2023

Tips to avoid a bumpy Exchange 2010 migration to Office 365

Now that Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange 2013 are legacy products, administrators should make the push to migrate to avoid becoming the next ransomware target.

By Helen Searle-Jones • April 19, 2023

Server-side Wasm boosts K8s bonds, devx ahead of key update

Early adopters await a WASI update this year before server-side Wasm can be ready for wider production use. For now, PaaS vendors have begun to bridge some of the gaps.

By Beth Pariseau • April 19, 2023

Microsoft Hybrid Configuration Wizard

The Microsoft Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) is a tool provided by Microsoft to help organizations set up and configure a hybrid deployment between their on-premises Exchange Server and Exchange Online, which is part of Microsoft 365.

By Toni Boger, Katie Terrell Hanna • April 19, 2023

service discovery

Service discovery is the automatic detection of devices and offered services over a network.

By Alexander Gillis • April 19, 2023

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

The Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) is a certification that was offered by Microsoft for IT professionals who demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and administering Windows server infrastructure, as well as other Microsoft technologies.

By Katie Terrell Hanna • April 18, 2023

Microsoft Cloud Witness

Microsoft Cloud Witness is a quorum witness for Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) that uses Microsoft Azure as the arbitration point.

By Katie Terrell Hanna, Tom Walat • April 18, 2023

open core model (open core software)

The open core model is an approach to software development that combines attributes of both the open source and closed source models.

By Corinne Bernstein • April 18, 2023

Evaluate the GitOps model for your organization

For some organizations, GitOps leads to faster, higher-quality software delivery -- but for others, DevOps or NetOps is a better fit. Learn what factors your team should consider.

By Tom Nolle • April 17, 2023

Microsoft Azure Key Vault

Microsoft Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based security service offered by Microsoft as part of its Azure platform.

By Tayla Holman, Katie Terrell Hanna • April 17, 2023

beep code

A beep code is the audio signal from a computer when it first powers on to give the Power-On Self-Test (POST) result.

By Gavin Wright • April 17, 2023

Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)

The Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) is a free utility administrators can use to move Active Directory objects, such as computers, users and groups, from one Windows Server Active Directory domain or forest to another.

By Katie Terrell Hanna, Stephen Bigelow • April 17, 2023