D2iQ has introduced an AI assistant that helps organizations resolve problems more quickly and easily, including coding errors and system failures. The new DKP AI Navigator can help reduce the duration and cost of system and application bottlenecks, misconfigurations, and downtime, and ultimately help organizations overcome the Kubernetes skills gap.
Each day the news assails us with a jumbled wave of trends, hype, provocative claims, and skirmishes. From news venues around the globe, the D2iQ brain trust is called upon to provide insights and commentary to help make sense of the hot topics and controversies affecting the cloud-native and Kubernetes communities.
Military and intelligence agencies, hospitals and corporations all deploy air-gapped environments to protect their sensitive information from breaches and theft. An air-gapped environment aims to isolate and limit access to classified and sensitive data. An air-gapped environment can be as simple as five PCs in a room connected only to one another, whereas air-gapped environments like the U.S.
Platform engineering as a replacement for DevOps has become a hot topic, with provocative critics stoking the controversy by pronouncing DevOps dead. The underlying reason for these pronouncements is that the once-radical DevOps model is at odds with the new cloud-native container management model to which the now-obsolete DevOps model is being applied. Let’s take a closer look.
The growing need for a secure software development lifecycle has prompted a discussion around the concept of “shift left.” Security has been treated at the end of the development cycle for decades, and software development has been mostly linearly planned. As cloud-native applications evolve and users demand real-time and 24/7 software services, scheduling security and testing at the end of the development cycle can create significant development, operational, and cost implications.
As general manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane applied statistical analysis (also known as sabermetrics) to the evaluation of baseball players, which enabled the team to excel in the 2020 season. Beane was the subject of Michael Lewis’s book “Moneyball,” which was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt as Beane.
In a short time, the open-source ecosystem has evolved from niche projects with limited corporate backing to the de facto way to build software. Today, organizations large and small are adopting open-source software to accelerate product development and innovation. In the government sector, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a memorandum on adopting open source software as its preference versus proprietary software, calling open-source “critical in delivering software faster.”
As the latest surveys show, organizations are struggling to manage multiple clouds and to realize the expected benefits of moving to the cloud. In the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, for example, enterprises cited managing cloud spend and managing multi-cloud environments as their top cloud challenges. The root of these problems can be traced to cloud and cluster sprawl and the complexity of managing Kubernetes.
The latest surveys show that organizations are struggling to manage multi-cloud environments and overcome problems that include cloud cost, complexity, security, and visibility. In the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, for example, enterprises cited managing cloud spend and managing multi-cloud environments as their top cloud challenges.
When deploying a mission-critical Kubernetes infrastructure, the support you receive from your vendor is as important as the product. This is why we at D2iQ are especially pleased and proud that our D2iQ Customer Operations Team has won the Gold Stevie Award for Support Team of the Year for 2023. The American Business Awards, also known as the Stevie Awards, are billed as the “world’s premier business awards” and are judged by a panel of more than 200 industry experts.
