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Why Cloud Security Risks Have Shifted to Identities and Entitlements
Traditional security tools focus on the network perimeter, leaving user and service accounts vulnerable to hackers.
Read moreCan Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Become More Than an Asset?
While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have experienced slight setbacks over the last two weeks, the industry as a whole has been booming alongside other technology equities over the past year. Bitcoin continues to hover around $50,000, while other popular coins like Ethereum and Stellar have seen similar enormous growth.
Read moreReport finds a rise in DevOps and cross-platform database use
Nearly three-quarters of organizations have now adopted DevOps in some form and they have also increased the use of cross-platform databases, Redgate Software’s 2021 State of Database DevOps Report shows. Some 74% of respondents are now taking a DevOps approach to development, compared to just 47% when the report was first published five years ago, according to the report. Further, almost half of respondents said they use three or more databases, compared with the 30% who are only using one database platform.
Read moreEight Things Machine Learning Can Do To Improve Your Daily Customer Interactions
As machine learning becomes more prevalent in business, it has the potential to affect a company’s day-to-day interactions with its customers, whether positively or negatively. Many businesses have already invested heavily in machine learning and have found great success. However, new tech can always be intimidating, scary or potentially difficult to implement.
Read moreArtificial Intelligence: Leveling The Business Playing Field
The economic crisis caused by Covid-19 forced organizations to grapple with an entirely new set of challenges. And while no business was — or is — immune, the burden fell disproportionately on startups and small businesses.
Read moreEven the smallest piece of data can prove valuable
There was a time when owning a cross-cut shredder for home use was considered the height of personal data security. Oh, how the world has changed!
Read morePost-Pandemic Operations
The classic operations toolkit revolves around monitoring sets of physical properties (such as volume, speed, capacity) and having smart people build complex algorithms that describe when an event threshold has been breached.
Read moreFour Digital Transformation Strategies To Help Keep Pace With Market Change
Current economic and social forces have created a level of upheaval that has become a forcing function for digital transformation. From communications to selling, the importance of digital operations has mushroomed seemingly overnight. Indeed, research by Twilio found that Covid-19 “accelerated companies’ digital communications strategy by an average of six years while 97% of enterprise decision-makers believe the pandemic sped up their company’s digital transformation.”
Read moreThe New Normal
The pandemic hit, and the world has changed forever. I do not mean to sound overdramatic, but having 100% remote working, and 100% e-business forced on much of the business world, we have had to learn a lot of rather uncomfortable lessons.
Read more2021 DevOps Predictions For The Software-Powered World
The developer community has scaled quickly. Its presence and growth have driven change in many industries. Moving forward, I think we’ll see organizations pay more attention to developers and have a greater understanding of how important they are in decision making.
Read moreHow I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love AI
The machines are rising! Robots are stealing our jobs! AI is making us obsolete! Maybe it’s inherited trauma from the Industrial Revolution, but in recent years people’s concerns about artificial intelligence have heightened, especially anxiety that the technology will replace human workers throughout the economy. It was even the basis of one 2020 presidential candidate’s campaign. Well, I bring a message of optimism. While AI will dramatically transform how work is done and who does it, its overall impact won’t be to displace humans but to augment them. And the myriad, miraculous ways that this technology will be able to improve people’s lives should excite and inspire.
Read moreThe Internet: Overcoming Current Challenges To Increase Digital Transformation
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought massive and unexpected life twists, but it did not grind everything to a halt. While it is true the coronavirus has caused catastrophic health, social and economic effects, we are still fortunate that technology has advanced so much that we can continue communicating and working with one another, albeit only virtually.
Read moreKey Nastel Technical Thought Leadership Posts
- Speed is King in COVID-19 Times
- Is Observability the New Monitoring?
- Using Nastel XRay to Cross-examine Data About Transactions
- Managing and Enforcing Automated DevOps of MQ Environments
- Getting Started Using Nastel XRay for MQ On-Prem Version
- Getting Started Using Nastel XRay for MQ
- Using Nastel’s MQSpeedtest to Test MQ Performance in a Multi-hop Architecture
- Getting started using Nastel’s MQSpeedtest for IBM MQ
Key Nastel Business Though Leadership Posts
- Even the smallest piece of data can prove valuable
- Post-Pandemic Operations
- The New Normal
- Nastel releases updated mobile apps for Nastel XRay
- How will risk and security change in the shadow of the recent SolarWinds exposure?
- Updated Mobile App for Nastel XRay Delivers APM Insights, Analytics for IBM MQ, Kafka Shops
- Nastel Awarded Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Select Tier Partner Status
- When You Have Lost the Security War, You Need a New Approach
- Season’s Greetings!
- How PRML changed the world as we know it
- Improve the performance of Java apps
- Observability is to Monitoring what Tesla is to a Horse Drawn Carriage
- Is Legacy Technology Still Your Greatest Asset?
- Lessons from the DevOps shop floor
- How businesses are making hybrid offices a permanent feature
- Why Monitoring is being supplemented by Observability
- The power of standards
- The secret to exploiting your investment in messaging middleware!
- Shareholder Value versus Lifetime Customer Value.
- Need a way to reduce costs and improve application performance at the same time?