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Software testing is often one of the most expensive—and inefficient—components of an IT budget. Most IT leaders are shocked to learn how much their organization spends on software testing: During the past five years, software testing has consumed an average of 23% to 35% of a company’s overall IT spend. Given that most IT departments […]

This month’s #eWEEKchat, titled “Next-Gen Networking Products & Services” and which normally would have taken place on May 11, is being postponed until Tuesday, May 25. This is due to the changeover from longtime editor-in-chief Chris Preimesberger to new editor James Maguire, announced April 20 here in eWEEK. Mr. Maguire will take over moderating the […]

The expanding cloud-native ecosystem, an increase in open-source projects and the efforts of many companies to modernize their applications have fueled enterprise demand for service mesh. Service mesh is a programmable framework that allows an organization to secure, connect and monitor microservices. Container-based microservices are loosely coupled components of an application that communicate with each […]

Among software development and tech professionals, there’s a lot of buzz and hype around no-code platforms. No-code has enormous potential to transform the way we build applications and fundamentally shift the software development landscape. This is largely because line of business employees can use it to reconfigure and/or create applications to help them be more […]

Data security is always a major concern for consumers. We may listen to the warnings about data security breaches during major public security breaches, but on a regular basis, most of us underestimate the risk to our personal data that comes with connecting to public, shared or unsecured WiFi. Recent estimates showed that 87% of […]

When your dev team tells you they are planning to move one of your key applications to the cloud to become a SaaS service, usually one of two things will happen: First, they will attempt to recreate the exact functionality with the same architecture running on rented computers in the cloud. Advice: Run away, the […]

Company: LogDNA (centralized log management for DevOps teams) Company Description: LogDNA is a centralized log-management solution that helps modern engineering teams be more productive in a DevOps world. The product gives users instant access to, and control over, their logs so that they can understand, debug and troubleshoot their applications with ease. LogDNA’s intuitive user […]

It’s entirely possible that the U.S. government has undergone—and is still suffering the fallout from—the harshest, most potentially devastating cyber breach in the short history of digital information. Reuters broke the story last December that foreign entities—the National Security Agency and FBI have identified them as the Russian hacking group APT29, also known as Dark […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because […]

Enterprises using SmartNICs are reaping the benefits of network performance due to their ability to accelerate traffic and boost agility through programmability. What exactly is a SmartNIC, and what does it do? A NIC (network interface card) plugs into a server or storage array to enable connectivity to an Ethernet network. A DPU (data processing […]