Progress announced the early-access release of Progress® MarkLogic® Server 12.
Imagine that you are tasked with architecting a mission-critical cloud application. Or migrating an on-premise app to the cloud. You may ask yourself, "how do the cloud savvy companies like Airbnb, Adobe, SalesForce, etc. build and manage their modern applications?"
Or perhaps, you wonder about things like :
■ How are they releasing applications multiple times a day? (With technologies like Docker.)
■ How do they ensure always-on availability? (Orchestration automates it for you.)
■ Is this serverless stuff for real? (Oh, absolutely!)
■ Can I ensure security in the cloud? (You can, if you plan it well.)
■ Can I get centralized and real-time visibility into all my development, operations and security tools? (Yes! Especially if you send it all to a machine data platform.)
The answers to these questions and more are found in Sumo Logic's State of Modern Applications and DevSecOps in the Cloud report. The report provides exclusive data-driven insights, best practices and emerging trends within the modern application stack based on Sumo Logic's customer base of more than 1,600 enterprises. In addition, the report highlights trends and visibility into the DevSecOps tools and solutions that are used within cloud-first organizations as they "lift and shift" or modernize and migrate existing applications.
Here are five key takeaways from this year's report:
Azure adoption grows, signaling demand for multi-cloud choices
While AWS dominates in the public cloud world (and we have seen this for three years running), we are seeing multi-cloud adoption double year-over-year (YoY); we also see Azure adoption doubling YoY.
Containers and orchestration technology usage spikes in less than a year
Orchestration and containers adoption are exploding; one in three enterprises use managed or native Kubernetes orchestration solutions and 28 percent of enterprises use Docker containers in AWS.
AWS Lambda is king for serverless adoption
Serverless is quickly rising to the top, with one in three enterprises using AWS Lambda technologies. If they're not already, app architects should consider using Lambda for application or deployment automation for every production application.
Enterprises are adopting cloud-native security services
Security is still a major focus area for enterprises adopting cloud or migrating/modernizing existing traditional applications. More than one in four enterprises are adopting a combination of cloud-native platform security services (AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty, CrowdStrike, etc.)
Appetite for security and threat intelligence insights is strong
DevSecOps adoption is increasing. To improve software agility, reliability and security, enterprises are actively monitoring and analyzing their end-to-end tools and processes across the lifecycle with machine data analytics solutions. This gives them the insights needed to create a seamless modern app ecosystem.
Armed with this knowledge, we can use these trending insights to better understand the modern application and DevSecOps landscapes and help enterprises create tailored strategies that are right for their specific operational, security and business needs.
The biggest finding for me? Adopting a secure, cloud-native, unified machine data analytics solution can significantly help organizations streamline their optimization and troubleshooting efforts while providing the level of performance and security their customers require, the closest thing to ensuring success in today's dynamic, ever-changing always-on digital landscape.
Industry News
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AI across the hybrid cloud.
Jitterbit announced its unified AI-infused, low-code Harmony platform.
Akuity announced the launch of KubeVision, a feature within the Akuity Platform.
Couchbase announced Capella Free Tier, a free developer environment designed to empower developers to evaluate and explore products and test new features without time constraints.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced the general availability of AWS Parallel Computing Service, a new managed service that helps customers easily set up and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters so they can run scientific and engineering workloads at virtually any scale on AWS.
Dell Technologies and Red Hat are bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), a foundation model platform built on an AI-optimized operating system that enables users to more seamlessly develop, test and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (gen AI) models, to Dell PowerEdge servers.
Couchbase announced that Couchbase Mobile is generally available with vector search, which makes it possible for customers to offer similarity and hybrid search in their applications on mobile and at the edge.
Seekr announced the launch of SeekrFlow as a complete end-to-end AI platform for training, validating, deploying, and scaling trusted enterprise AI applications through an intuitive and simple to use web user interface (UI).
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. unveiled its innovative Portal designed for both managed security service providers (MSSPs) and distributors.
Couchbase officially launched Capella™ Columnar on AWS, which helps organizations streamline the development of adaptive applications by enabling real-time data analysis alongside operational workloads within a single database platform.
Mend.io unveiled the Mend AppSec Platform, a solution designed to help businesses transform application security programs into proactive programs that reduce application risk.
Elastic announced that it is adding the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL) as an option for users to license the free part of the Elasticsearch and Kibana source code that is available under Server Side Public License 1.0 (SSPL 1.0) and Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2).
Progress announced the latest release of Progress® Semaphore™, its metadata management and semantic AI platform.
Elastic, the Search AI Company, announced the Elasticsearch Open Inference API now integrates with Anthropic, providing developers with seamless access to Anthropic’s Claude, including Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Opus, directly from their Anthropic account.