Engineering

(Almost) Everything You Need To Know About SRE
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a hot topic, but what exactly does it entail? And do you have to follow the principles to a T in order to achieve benefits from it? If you’re searching for answers to these common questions, look no further. In this episode of the Cloud & Culture podcast, VMware Tanzu’s …

Connecting Urban Environments With IoT And Digital Twins
As urbanization continues to take hold and cities face challenges to become more sustainable and livable, urban planning and operations strategies must adapt. The current pandemic has changed the way we live, accelerating cities’ future vision as a necessity of the present and what it means to live in a connected and resilient urban environment. …

Dynatrace Announces PurePath 4 With OpenTelemetry And Support For The Latest Cloud-native Architectures
Software intelligence company Dynatrace announced the 4th generation of its distributed tracing and code-level analysis technology, PurePath®. PurePath 4 captures and analyzes transactions end-to-end across multicloud environments, and at near-zero overhead. Dynatrace has extended this technology to automatically support OpenTelemetry and W3C Trace Context as well as the latest cloud-native architectures, including service mesh, and serverless …

Red Hat Drives Hybrid Cloud Ubiquity With OpenShift Innovation Across Architectures, Applications And Infrastructure
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced new capabilities and features for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. From updates to OpenShift Serverless for enhanced developer efficiency to extended support across architectures, Red Hat OpenShift helps fuel enterprise innovation across the hybrid cloud backed by Red Hat’s …

5G Economic Opportunity Proves Resilient
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced new study findings showing a 10.8% net increase in global 5G investment and R&D over the next 15 years, compared to the 2019 forecast. The IHS Markit 2020 5G Economy Study, commissioned by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. also shows an increase in 5G-related jobs to 22.8 million by 2035, up 22.3 million, …

Forbes Embraces MongoDB On Google Cloud As Part Of Digital-first Strategy
It’s often said that success is more about the journey than it is about your destination. But for a modern tech organization, just the opposite is true. Every technology journey gets judged by its outcome: Does it contribute something of value to the business? The emergence of cloud-based managed services didn’t change the importance of …

Google Cloud Announces Database Migration Service
Google Cloud announced its serverless Database Migration Service (DMS) is available in Preview, enabling customers to migrate MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL from on-premises environments or other clouds. For early customers like Samsung Electronics, DMS makes migrating their databases easy, cost-effective, and reliable.Gartner predicts that by 2023, 75% of all databases will be on …

3 Employee Traits That Help Scale A Tech Business
An IT firm is only as good as its people. The U.S. had one million vacant IT jobs last year, but employers are challenged with a talent shortage in fields such as programming, blockchain, artificial intelligence, robotics and engineering. Workers must possess relevant technical expertise, as well as soft skills to positively impact product and service quality. Therefore, business owners should seek job candidates who take ownership …

New Relic Expands Global Strategic Collaboration Agreement With AWS To Help Companies Accelerate Their Cloud Adoption Journey
New Relic, Inc., the observability platform company, announced a five-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Under the terms of the agreement, the companies commit to increased product integrations and development, and joint go-to-market activities designed to help customers accelerate and de-risk their cloud adoption journey. New Relic is now positioned as …