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State of Modern Applications & DevSecOps in the Cloud - 2018

Sumo Logic's report with data-driven insights, best practices, and year-over-year trends - all by analyzing technology adoption among enterprises who run massive applications on AWS, Azure, and GCP. The report also provides additional visibility into the DevSecOps tools and methodologies used within cloud-first organizations as they “lift and shift” or modernize and migrate existing applications to cloud environments.

The Need for Security-Specific Applications

When we talk about cloud providers, we often forget that not all data is the same — even in the same application, while we might think of this data as from a “financial application” or a “computation process”, the reality is that each data set has subsets upon subsets, and thus require specific applications to manage them.

Is Slack the Right Choice for Your DevOps Team? Conquering the Biggest Challenges of Enterprise Collaboration

After closing a $20 million Series A round, Mattermost is skyrocketing in popularity as a secure, open source Slack alternative for enterprise DevOps and IT. High-trust teams are adopting it for messaging to overcome some of the biggest collaboration challenges today.

How to Detect Slow Database Queries Affecting Application Performance

The biggest challenge when a user complains of slow application is diagnosing why it’s slow: Is it due to a code-level issue or a database issue? Should we call the DBA or the application manager? Performance problems with the database can cause up to 70% of all application performance issues in production, according to consensus among database practitioners and experts.

OpsComm January: OpsRamp Winter Release Introduces New Capabilities for AIOps, Cloud Native Operations, and Service-Centric IT Management

It’s been a big month of great product updates in January, including the launch of the OpsRamp Winter Release, the ability to deliver collaboration across service delivery and IT operations teams with our certified ServiceNow integration and silver membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In this month’s OpsComm, we’ll take you through some of the exciting news and updates at OpsRamp. To see all of the recent OpsRamp coverage, check out our newsroom.

How to Take Business Continuity Tests To The Next Level

The importance of effective business continuity planning (BCP) cannot be understated. Being able to avoid and mitigate the risks and damages associated with a disruption to operations is critical to the health of any business. And, the two main pillars upon which a robust BCP program rests are, of course, the plan and the testing program.