Market Guide for Disaster Recovery as a Service DRaaS offers a cost-effective way for IT leaders to quickly improve IT resilience and meet compliance or regulatory requirements. This research contextualizes the types of providers serving midmarket and large enterprises — and is supplemented with a vendor identification and evaluation tool.
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16 Tips to Enhance Your Disaster Recovery Program Despite advances in disaster recovery technology, DR remains a common challenge. Gartner has identified areas that are often problematic. This research contains 16 tips and 10 quick-start templates to help I&O leaders improve in areas such as strategy, documentation and exercises.
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The DevSecGuide to Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as code refers to the technology and processes used to manage and provision infrastructure using code. It enables DevOps processes such as version control, peer reviews, automated testing, tagging, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. DevSecOps has paved the way for teams to automate security and embed it into the DevOps lifecycle. In this guide, we’ll explore the challenges of leveraging DevSecOps to secure the cloud and how infrastructure as code makes it all possible.
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VMware Tanzu Application Platform: Turning developer definition into a running Kubernetes pod Kubernetes is the highest abstraction available to modern application developers today, sitting above containers and VMs. It is also arguably the most complex to get started with, VMware believes, being a mostly DIY user experience (such as building and maintaining containers and configuring them using YAML). As such, VMware has announced its Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) as a new set of abstractions that packages certain functionalities to help remove some of the complexity and take the sting out of cloud-native development – simplifying application delivery. Download the analyst report to read more!
The State of the Software Supply Chain: Open Source Edition 2021 It’s a safe assumption that almost all large organizations worldwide are running at least some OSS. From operating systems to web servers to databases to programming languages to Kubernetes—there’s an open source project for almost everything. With the popularity of OSS comes a significant set of concerns for enterprise IT executives, decision-makers and developers. Given the pace of OSS adoption, we wanted to investigate its use in the enterprise further. This survey was designed to dig deeper on OSS usage, including what types of OSS companies choose and why, what they like, and what the challenges are. In particular, our goal was to understand challenges and opportunities in two critical areas: OSS packaging and security. Enterprises haven’t settled on the tools and processes necessary to package and secure OSS in production, and the OSS supply chain remains a critical security risk that must be taken seriously. Read the eBook to learn more.
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Recognizing and Removing Friction Points in the Developer Experience on Kubernetes Kubernetes is a game-changing technological advancement, enabling infrastructure and operations teams to automate application deployment and management at scale. But it has also presented new challenges to developers. As organizations adopt cloud native application paradigms, they face a developer experience crisis due to the complexity of the cloud native ecosystem and a steep learning curve for developing applications for Kubernetes.
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Gartner Innovation Insight for Internal Developer Portals While the software industry is ripe with tools and services for developers, it’s also riddled with complexity that exacerbates your ability to attract and retain engineering talent. Platform teams are tasked with delivering a developer experience that supports your business and innovation goals while making your developers happy and productive. In “Innovation Insight for Internal Developer Portals,” Gartner® Research suggests implementing internal developer portals to “improve developer experience and effectiveness” and “enable governance without sacrificing agility.” Gartner predicts that “By 2025, 75% of organizations with platform teams will provide self-service developer portals to improve developer experience and accelerate product innovation.” Read the report for recommendations on how to implement internal dev portals to improve the developer experience, enable governance, and support continuous innovation.
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Gartner Predicts 2022: Modernizing Software Development is Key to Digital Transformation Modernized technologies, architectures and practices are essential to accelerate digital business. Our predictions will help software engineering leaders make strategic decisions around cloud-native architectures, observability technologies, supply chain security and improving developer experience. Download the analyst report to read more!
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Focusing on your users’ IT experience brings enormous benefits The shift to hybrid working underlines the link between IT and people’s productivity and wellbeing. But until now, these ‘human’ metrics have been complex and costly to capture. The traditional service level agreement (SLA) overlooks everyday IT issues that, over time, can be major sources of stress and frustration; it also fails to spot underlying problems, and sets only minimum standards. The experience level agreement (XLA) combines device and system data with in-the-moment sentiment capture. Unlike the SLA, it’s dynamic, constantly monitoring the whole IT environment and users’ interactions with it. Issues are identified and resolved proactively, and users always get 100% service. Delivering a great workplace experience also makes hiring and retaining talent easier; reduced downtime mean lower costs and enhanced customer service. Plus, user experience capture provides a clear path to value for IT investment. Our new paper examines the XLA, and how it can transform your organisation.
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Explore the emerging trends and longer-term changes affecting UK IT leaders With the immediate challenges of the pandemic behind us, CIOs face new, complex decisions around supporting distributed users and hybrid working models. For some organisations, Covid-19 acted as an accelerant for changes that were already being considered or actively implemented; for others, it forced a radical reassessment of how users interact with both technology and support services. In partnership with International Data Group (now Foundry), the world’s leading technology media, data and marketing services company, and the owner of the well-known publication ‘the CIO’, Acora surveyed UK-based IT decision makers from a wide range of industries and sectors. Our overall objective was to reveal the key priorities for today’s CIOs, their biggest concerns and in what areas businesses are spending their technology budgets, as well providing a broader sense of the technical, commercial and practical landscape in which CIOs are operating today. Download the CIO Report for insight into the key priorities and challenges affecting UK IT leaders.
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