The good news is that AI is showing signs of identifying and slowing down – but not completely stopping – intrusions and breaches aimed at CI/CD pipelines.
Increasing complexity, the rapid adoption of emerging technologies and a growing skills gap are the biggest concerns facing IT leaders in 2024, according to The State of the Database Landscape,a major new survey from end-to-end Database DevOps provider Redgate.
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day, but the IT workers who keep corporate desktops, servers and networks running don't have much to celebrate.
Today is the perfect day to show your appreciation for the unsung heroes who keep corporate desktops, servers and networks running. It's System Administrator Appreciation Day, an annual event thought up by IT pro Ted Kekatos.
IT specialist Mike Mahan is trading his syslogs for a script. He's headed to Hollywood to film a YouTube-length movie in which he'll play the role of the sysadmin hero.
The last Friday in this past July marked the 8th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day -- a day to recognize all the typically unnoticed efforts of systems administrators, network managers, database administrators and other IT professionals.
First let me say as much as I write about networking and computers, I have no systems administrator skills. And second, let me say as much as I write in general, I have never attempted to write a song (maybe some mediocre poetry in college, but never set to music) so my respect goes out to systems administrators in general -- and in particular those tempted to write a song for the latest contest designed to challenge the talents of today's IT technicians.
Open-source IT automation software vendor Puppet Labs has acquired Cloudsmith, which provides tools and services that can help administrators and developers more easily use the Puppet software.
Industry groups award an Alaskan-based data communications specialist with the title of SysAdmin of the Year 2007. The contest is sponsored by IT search engine vendor Splunk and a slew of industry organizations, including SourceForge.net, NaSPA, LOPSA, Digg and USENIX/SAGE.
Now in your network environment just consider what one of your users with an empty iPod, access to a USB port and bad intentions could get away with . . . chills you to the marrow, doesn't it? And when you think of it, the whole idea of any I/O devices on PCs being available when they aren't actually needed is pretty dumb. So what's a sysadmin to do?
Red Hat will acquire IT automation software provider Ansible in a bid to bolster the tools it can offer enterprises for managing hybrid cloud environments through DevOps and other initiatives.
Two weeks ago, we asked for feedback from those of you responsible for IT management in the small to midsized business or remote branch office. Although the main reason I fielded your responses was that Audrey was on vacation, she also knew I have an interest in the subject. I’m no longer a sysadmin - nor do I play one on TV - but I do find myself involved in IT management decisions here at Enterprise Management Associates.
People testing out the public beta of Microsoft's Azure Stack private cloud system have some new platform services and DevOps tools to play with less than two weeks after it initially launched.
Friday is the 15th annual SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Last year the IT department of the Launch Federal Credit Union, which serves Florida’s Cape Canaveral region, did not feel as though they were sufficiently appreciated. This year they're taking no chances.
I'm not entirely sure I want to encourage this sort of YouTube behavior, but in honor of the 15th annual SysAdmin Day, here's the new karaoke version of Spiceworks' SysAdmin Day Song for you to sing along with.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says applications now outweigh infrastructure and speaks on how to best approach DevOps. What's behind this fundamental shift in emphasis and how can IT departments best deal with it?
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform has evolved far beyond its original offering of Platform as a Service to host .NET applications to what Azure provides today.