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As the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more business leaders are focused on preparing for future crises. This is driving a workflow revolution as companies strive to stay both agile and resilient. Against that backdrop, ServiceNow Chief Innovation Officer Dave Wright facilitated a panel of experts from the public sector, healthcare, and technology industries.

Performing day-to-day IT tasks can be demanding—not because all tasks are challenging to carryout, but because of the repetitive nature of many tasks. A high number of mundane, repetitive tasks impacts productivity. Over time, these repetitive, no-brainer tasks can even eat away so much valuable time that it effectively halts your organization’s growth.

No matter where you live, if your business targets a global audience, the question of where to host your website comes up pretty often.

The software industry has been leading the automation trend by setting up tools, frameworks, and platforms to simplify and automate application development and deployment workflows. This enables less human involvement, less error-prone situations, and more consistency and reliability in rolling out software.

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig. Eid Mubarak! Our team continues to work hard to bring great new features to all of our customers, automatically and for free! Most importantly, of course, was our recent funding round! I won’t repeat all the details as you can read more about what it means here. However, we are super excited about all the new feature improvements we can fund and bring to our customers!

You’re called in. The system is misbehaving. It could be a key metric going crazy, or exceptions starting to fire. You’re troubleshooting, beating around the bush, just to realize that one of the team’s deployments was the one messing things up. Sounds familiar? If you’re practicing continuous deployment, you probably experience that several times a week, if not more. Users report that 50% of their outages are due to infrastructure and code changes, namely deployments.

Since Google first introduced Kubernetes, it’s become one of the most popular DevOps platforms on the market. Unfortunately, increasingly widespread usage has made Kubernetes a growing target for hackers. To illustrate the scale of the problem, a Stackrox report found that over 90% of respondents had experienced some form of security breach in 2020. These breaches were due primarily to poorly-implemented Kubernetes security.