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Get up to speed with PowerShell and the Microsoft Graph API

Microsoft plans to retire technologies that admins depend on to handle Office 365 and other cloud services via PowerShell. Learn how to start with this newer management method.

By Liam Cleary • Oct. 21, 2021

HashiCorp cozies up to Azure AD for zero-trust security

HashiCorp's Boundary access control utility will sync automatically with Microsoft Azure's Active Directory identity management service, the vendors said this week.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 21, 2021

Splunk SOAR low-code tool bridges IT automation gaps

Splunk's security orchestration tool bolstered low-code integration features this week, which in the case of Lockheed Martin eased self-healing IT infrastructure tasks as well.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 21, 2021

Splunk pricing, observability updates push cloud shift

Some Splunk customers are newly receptive to the vendor's cloud push in a pandemic-stricken economy, and it's piled on further pricing incentives to sweeten the deal.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 21, 2021

Dell officially spins off 81% equity ownership of VMware

The spinoff agreement provides VMware with increased strategic and financial flexibility to grow its cloud and infrastructure software business.

By Bridget Botelho , Ed Scannell • Oct. 19, 2021

5 nontechnical metrics to measure DevOps success

There are a lot of specific, technical KPIs for IT admins to track, but what are the nontechnical signs that your organization's DevOps transformation is going well?

By Tom Nolle • Oct. 18, 2021

Consider Grafana vs. Prometheus for your time-series tools

Grafana and Prometheus both monitor logs, manage reports and store time-series data -- but differ significantly. Discover their pros and cons with these examples and use cases.

By Prateek Singh • Oct. 18, 2021

OpenSSF adds $10M to software supply chain security effort

IT pros hope for improved software supply chain security standards from OpenSSF, a Linux Foundation group that gained momentum with new funding this week.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 15, 2021

GitOps practitioners address configuration management issues

IT pros shared workflow patterns and tool updates they say have helped them overcome one of the most common problems with performing GitOps at scale.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 15, 2021

DevOps platform operators hone support for GitOps

GitOps practitioners at companies such as State Farm and Intuit have begun to fill in the details of observability, security and other 'day 2' practices for the maturing paradigm.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 14, 2021

Crossplane project could disrupt infrastructure as code

An emerging CNCF project extends Kubernetes orchestration to non-container resources, displacing infrastructure-as-code tools in some early-adopter environments.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 14, 2021

What to know about dark data management

With machine learning, dark data has many use cases. But before organizations can even think to use it, they must tackle several management tasks.

By Brian Kirsch • Oct. 14, 2021

Microsoft squashes Windows zero-day on October Patch Tuesday

In addition to the publicly exploited bug, Microsoft corrected 76 flaws, including four that had been publicly disclosed, in this month's batch of security updates.

By Tom Walat • Oct. 13, 2021

How machine learning strengthens incident management

As systems failures pile up, machine learning stands as an alternative to improve response quality and save money. Learn the benefits and drawbacks to the approach.

By Kurt Marko • Oct. 12, 2021

Learn to work with the Microsoft Graph Security API

The API assists organizations that want to connect their security systems with a programmatic way to produce quicker results when performing investigations.

By Liam Cleary • Oct. 12, 2021

A breakdown of container runtimes for Kubernetes and Docker

For a container ecosystem to work, it needs a container runtime. Brush up on Kubernetes and Docker containers, then compare runtime options such as runC, CRI-O and containerd.

By Stephen Bigelow • Oct. 11, 2021

Palo Alto Networks distributor pact aims for US small businesses

Distributor Ingram Micro is set to offer Palo Alto Network's Okyo Garde, a subscription-based cybersecurity product that targets small businesses; other IT channel news.

By John Moore • Oct. 8, 2021

COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)

COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a high-level programming language for business applications. It was the first popular language designed to be operating system-agnostic and is still in use in many financial and business applications today.

By Vicki-Lynn Brunskill, Tréa Lavery • Oct. 8, 2021

What is a virtual hard drive?

A virtual hard drive file is a container file that acts similar to a physical hard drive.

By Brien Posey • Oct. 7, 2021

virtual private server (VPS) or virtual dedicated server (VDS)

A virtual private server (VPS), also called a virtual dedicated server (VDS), is a virtual server that appears to the user as a dedicated server, but that is actually installed on a computer serving multiple websites.

By Brien Posey • Oct. 7, 2021

Choosing between ITIL vs. IT4IT for a best practices model

ITIL and IT4IT offer companies insider knowledge to help achieve IT success. Learn about each model and how they compare and evaluate your organization's best fit.

By Clive Longbottom • Oct. 7, 2021

VMware Tanzu super users mull Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes meld

Users of VMware Tanzu Application Service, formerly Pivotal Cloud Foundry, hope VMware preserves their developer experience as it shifts its focus toward Kubernetes.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 6, 2021

dependency hell

Dependency hell is a negative situation that occurs when a software application is not able to access the additional programming it requires to work.

By Austin Allen • Oct. 6, 2021

Boot2Docker

Boot2Docker is a minimalist Linux distribution with the sole purpose to run Docker containers. It was depreciated and is no longer recommended for use.

By Jack Wallen • Oct. 6, 2021

VMware Tanzu roadmap targets multi-cloud, vSphere pros

VMware shops say the Tanzu platform's integration with familiar tools is a big draw as they move toward Kubernetes, but much of that integration is still in progress.

By Beth Pariseau • Oct. 6, 2021