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In today’s rapidly-evolving business landscape, automation has become an essential tool for organizations looking to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and remain competitive. However, the journey toward automation success can be fraught with challenges. Without proper planning, companies may meet setbacks that hinder their progress. Here are five common planning mistakes to avoid when embarking on the automation journey, along with strategies to turn these setbacks into opportunities.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the year 2024 presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities. As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, the need for robust security measures has never been more critical. New and emerging threats posed by Generative AI, Unsecured API integrations, agile cloud environments, and easy access to sophisticated nefarious code creation are driving the increase in the frequency, volume, and success rate for cybercriminals.

In January of 2020, an entire availability zone (AZ) in AWS’ Sydney region suddenly went dark. Multiple facilities lost power, preventing customers from accessing EC2 instances and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes. Customers who didn’t have backup infrastructure in another zone had to wait nearly 8 hours before service was restored, and even then, some EBS volumes couldn’t be recovered. Major cloud provider outages are rare, but they happen nonetheless.

At swampUP 2023, JFrog’s annual user conference, Gerard McMahon, Head of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tools and Platforms at Fidelity Investments, shared Fidelity’s cloud migration story and how it supports the overall company philosophy. He explored the company’s focus on ensuring employee satisfaction while delivering great software and value to customers.