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Panel: The Future of IT Service Management

IT service management (ITSM) has evolved into a much broader discipline than just delivering IT services to the business. It’s grown beyond the IT department and become an integral part of how every employee in almost every business unit performs and completes tasks. In a recent webcast, SolarWinds Sr. Solutions Engineer Liz Beavers, ITSM experts Valence Howden and Julie Mohr, and HDI’s Group Principal Analyst Roy Atkinson paint a picture of what can be expected for the future of ITSM.

AWS CodeArtifact vs. Artifactory: Which Should You Choose for Binary Management?

Since the inception of JFrog – with OSS Artifactory – we’ve been adamant that you simply cannot deliver software with any type of scale, speed, or reliability without a robust artifact management solution. Now, over a decade later, other vendors in the industry are finally starting to catch on. AWS recently announced its CodeArtifact service for binary management.

Testcontainers for Containerized Integration Testing at Moogsoft

Here at Moogsoft, we take quality seriously and one of the most important goals for our test suites is to catch issues early on in the development process. A lot of our automated tests are integrated into our CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline as gates that can block a merge request with quality issues. Therefore, to ensure stable CI/CD pipelines as well as quick and quality releases to production, it is important to have tests that are stable and lightweight.

Ceph storage on VMware

If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to revolutionise VMware clusters where SAN (Storage Area Network) was the incumbent for many years.

Git is About Communication

An SCM such as Git is more than just a database for source code. It’s not only the thing you need to interact with to get code to production, but also a log of changes on a project. It’s not just the last couple of weeks of commits that are worth looking at. Any commit remains relevant weeks, months and years later. A commit serves multiple purposes. The first one is to explain a change during its review and the second is to explain a change to a future reader.

LogicTalks - How to Approach Monitoring during a Crisis

In this episode of LogicTalks, Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer at LogicMonitor, is joined by Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst at 451 Research to talk about how today's new realities effect how IT organizations are approaching the tools and solutions they use to retain and grow their customer base, keep employees production and their businesses up and running. From the reasons why it's a good idea to continue investments in IT technologies, to tackling tool sprawl, to some unique ways your organization could be using your monitoring solution to find efficiencies and cost savings,

JFrog ChartCenter walkthrough with Rancher Labs

JFrog ChartCenter is a new central Helm chart repository that just launched! We will be working on adding great new features and content for the Helm community all summer. JFrog’s ChartCenter is the latest entry from the JFrog Community Team and was built to help the Helm community find immutable, secure, and reliable Helm charts and have a single source of truth to proxy all the charts from one location.