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How to unlock your leadership potential on a cloud migration project: A guide for the DBA, part 1

If your organization is embarking on a cloud migration project, it can be a great opportunity to develop skills and qualities that will help unlock your leadership potential. But what skills should you look to be honing, what areas should you focus on, how do you get involved in a cloud project in the first place, and what qualities can prepare you for leadership responsibilities? We spoke to some notable industry experts to find out.

How software company security priorities are changing

The cyberthreat landscape continues to change along with technological advancements. Industry thought leaders expect to see changes in software companies’ approach to security and the defenses they put in place to protect their businesses and their users. Here are five of developers’ cybersecurity priorities for 2023 and predictions for how software companies will adapt their processes to address them.

Unleash the potential of intelligent, context-aware automation with BigPanda and Ansible

Many ITOps organizations we speak with want a state of self-healing systems capable of identifying and resolving issues without human intervention. Thanks to the progress in AI and ML, AIOps has made significant advancements in areas that automate many of the steps involved with identifying and triaging incidents. We ask ITOps leaders why they aren’t taking the next step with auto-remediating incident response workflows.

Infrastructure Management & Lifecycle Explained

IT infrastructure must meet enterprise needs for effective service delivery while also providing value for money. This is a critical undertaking. Massive data growth, increased complexity of hybrid cloud environments, and emphasis on digital-first strategies are just some of the challenges. This requires an advanced approach to how infrastructure is configured and controlled — infrastructure management.

How To Create a DevOps Implementation Roadmap

You’ve done your research and decided to use the DevOps approach for your software development process and IT operations. However, before you start tossing around terms like “continuous integration” and “containerization,” there’s an important starting point on your DevOps journey — creating a DevOps implementation roadmap.

Goodbye, GitOps: Getting to green in an AI-powered world

The cognitive bias known as the streetlight effect describes our desire as humans to look for clues where it’s easiest to search, regardless of whether that’s where the answers are. For decades in the software industry, we’ve focused on testing our applications under the reassuring streetlight of GitOps. It made sense in theory: wait for changes to the codebase made by engineers, then trigger a re-test of your code. If your tests pass, you’re good to go.

NVIDIA H200 Power Requirements: Can Your Racks Support Them?

This week, NVIDIA unveiled what they are calling “the world’s most powerful GPU for supercharging AI and HPC workloads,” the H200 Tensor Core GPU. There is much hype around the H200 as it is the first GPU with HBM3e. The larger and faster memory will further enable generative AI, large language models, and advance scientific computing for HPC workloads. Read the NVIDIA press release.

Introducing Custom Reliability Test Suites, Scoring and Dashboards

Last year, we released Reliability Management, a combination of pre-built reliability tests and scoring to give you a consistent way to define, test, and measure progress toward reliability standards across your organization. Today, we fulfill the next stage of that promise with the release of Custom Reliability Test Suites, Custom Scoring, and Dashboards.