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Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security

Organizations and their software delivery pipelines are continually exposed to growing cyberattack vectors. Coupled with the massive adoption of open source software, which now helps power nearly all of our public infrastructure and is highly prevalent in most proprietary software, businesses around the world are more vulnerable than ever. Today’s organizations need to be more vigilant in protecting their software development infrastructure and processes.

The Power Of Combining Kubernetes And Non-Kubernetes Cloud Spend

Whether you’re new to Kubernetes or a bona fide wizard, it may seem like getting any meaningful cost data out of it is a miracle. This is because many organizations that migrate to Kubernetes unwittingly step into the Black Box of Kubernetes Spend. In pre-Kubernetes life, teams could allocate costs by tagging resources.

Anodot Named Momentum Leader on G2's Fall Grid

We are proud to announce that Anodot has been named Momentum Leader on G2’s fall grid for Cloud Cost Management Software. G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace. More than 60 million people annually use G2 to make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. G2 is disrupting the traditional analyst model and building trust by showcasing the authentic voice of millions of software buyers.

How to Monitor and Troubleshoot Multi-cloud Applications

Multicloud and hybrid cloud applications are deployed on multiple cloud vendor platforms, including on-premises private cloud. While these platforms offer tremendous benefits by providing a reliable and scalable platform for fuelling digital transformation, they also add significant monitoring complexity. Site reliability engineers (SRE) need multicloud monitoring visibility to: Why is this important?

How to build an EKS kubernetes cluster with Ubuntu 20.04 on FIPS mode

Many clients have specific requirements for running their EKS Kubernetes clusters with Ubuntu: OS alignment across platforms, sysadmin knowledge or specific kernel features such Real Time Kernel or FIPS mode. If your workloads need to run on FIPS mode for compliance, you will not only need to create your containers on FIPS mode (in other words, with FIPS certified crypto libraries) but also, since containers share kernel with host/worker nodes, you need to have also the worker node's kernel running on FIPS mode.

Collect traces, logs, and custom metrics from your Google Cloud Run services with Datadog

Google Cloud Run is a managed platform for the deployment, management, and scaling of workloads using serverless containers. You can deploy workloads in the cloud or, using Cloud Run for Anthos, on your on-prem infrastructure.

Upsun partners with MongoDB to help customers build modern applications faster

Today, we are excited to announce that Upsun now offers the latest version of MongoDB to our Enterprise and Elite customers. Clients can now enjoy improved visibility via one source of control, the ability to track multiple applications and users, and native, at-rest encryption that meets the latest security compliance standards. There are more details about the benefits of MongoDB below.

The Challenges of Multi-Cloud Management and How Observability Helps Solve Them

When I started my career in information technology, I worked for a large insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time, they exclusively used Lotus Notes, an IBM product. Even as Microsoft Outlook gained popularity and functionality, the cost of changing email clients was insurmountable, so the company continued using Lotus Notes for many years.