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Preamble A key part of Enterprise IT Intelligence is understanding you Cloud Resources. And where better to start than using the “elegant” concept of Tagging. A concept used across the various cloud and infrastructure management platforms. Follows is an article from...

Integrate EcoSystem with your existing Infrastructure Orchestration toolsets for Configuration, Provisioning and Decommissioning. Examples of some of these are: Amazon Web Services | Chef | Ansible | Azure Container Service | Puppet | VMWare vSphere | Google Container...

The intention of environment synthetics is to provide ‘high-level of confidence’ applications (your system instances e.g. UAT Home Loan System) and their underlying component services (e.g. IIS, MSQL, Oracle, LDAP etc.) are operational and available for testing.  An...

Information technology and the digital world don’t exist without data. The data of an organization can contain a lot of unclassified, as well as classified information.  Irrespective of that, only authorized personnel should have access to data. However,...

Preamble These days, deploying our services to the cloud just makes sense. Deploying to the cloud means you’re letting someone else handle low-level infrastructure costs, which gives us incredible flexibility.  And with such flexibility comes a potentially...

Waiting for bad things to happen is never a good practice. Once a system is down, it may already be too late and damage to the business could be irreversible. IT resilience is about preventing a disaster recovery situation before it happens. Critical outages often...

It is hard to believe most enterprises are still managing their Development & Test Environment assets and activities with non-scalable and non-Intergratable methods like spreadsheets, word documents and emails.  A process that results in major blind spots and...

With 45%+ Infrastructure & License Spend being for Non Production & with IT Projects losing up to 20% in Productivity due to IT Environment issues. It is now clear that Test Environment Management can’t be ignored. It was in recognition of these problems that...

In the realm of software development, ensuring the reliability and functionality of applications is of paramount importance. Central to this process is software testing, which helps identify bugs, glitches, and other issues that could mar the user experience. A...

Deploying an instance in AWS, Azure or Google is typically a straightforward process. However, architecting, managing and optimizing your end-to-end platforms that consist of application tiers, data tiers, integration points and inherent relationships is less so. The...

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a methodology for building and maintaining large-scale, highly available software systems. It involves applying software engineering practices to operations in order to increase reliability, reduce downtime, and improve the...

I had an “interesting” chat with a potential client this week. The conversation started normally with myself and my colleague going through the benefits of our Test Environment & Release Management solution, and then continuing to a “show and tell”.  However,...

Containers are nothing new. Depending on how you look at it, you can make a case for them being around at least since 1982. But since the introduction of Docker in 2013, they’ve enjoyed a surge of popularity. Why?  In just a few years, containers have had a big...

As IT & Test environments become increasingly complex and dynamic, IT professionals need tools that can help them manage the complexity and ensure consistency across systems. Ansible is designed to address these challenges. In this post, we'll provide an...

Data security, The problem is scale & a lack of bees One of the biggest challenges of securing one’s enterprise data is the sheer volume. Think about it. Hundred (perhaps Thousands) of Applications, Thousands (perhaps Tens of Thousands) of Instances across...

Whether your organization is starting an agile transformation now or is well on its way, there are always pitfalls. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a big leap for most organizations. After all, even if some of your development teams were already using agile...

Organizations evaluating database virtualization tools are usually trying to solve a very practical problem: how to give teams fast, safe access to realistic data without copying production databases over and over again. Whether the driver is test automation,...

New technologies and new ways of doing things are continually impacting the way our IT Environments evolve and how we do things. One area of growing popularity is Microservices.   Why Use Microservices? Why should you start using microservices? Why all the...