We spoke to Miles Ward, Chief Technology Officer at SADA, about what makes a great CTO. What soft skills does a CTO need to excel? Have the requirements changed recently? Miles gives advice for any aspiring, or current, Chief Technology Officer on how to further their career.
We spoke to Kumar Goswami, CEO of Komprise, about data management problems and data storage strategies. Without a thoughtful plan and process for the continual management of data from a cost, performance and business-need perspective, CIOs face impending disaster.
We spoke with Zoë Morris about employee retention, how women in tech can find mentors, alternative paths to a career in IT, and more. How can flexible, working from home environments help employees, and what advice does Zoë Morris have for aspiring tech professionals?
Jeff Williams, CTO and Co-founder at Contrast Security, spoke to us about the newest State of Application Security in Financial Services Report. Read his insights on the importance of observability, how false positives affect security, and the best practices we should all take.
We spoke with Brendan O’Leary Sr. Developer Evangelist at GitLab about remote working, the rise in security confidence, testing best practices, Kubernetes implementation, and more. Read on to learn more about what open source tools Brendan O’Leary suggests.
We had a chat with Robert Treat, Postgres Technical Fellow at the open source data platform company Instaclustr about PostgreSQL’s popularity, its use cases, and which open source technologies it pairs with. Learn how IT teams and organizations can overcome hurdles when scaling PostgreSQL.
We spoke with Ciaran Byrne, VP of Product Management at OpsRamp about the top challenges associated with managing IT infrastructures in mixed (cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid) and environments. Learn what an IT Ops pro needs to know about monitoring the major cloud platforms.
To learn more about integration testing, JAXenter spoke with Richard North, creator of integration testing’s most popular open source project, Testcontainers. North and co-founder Sergei Egorov announced that the Testcontainers project received $4M in seed funding, and that the project is on a mission to make integration testing so easy that it’s part of every build.
We chatted with Jonas Bonér, CEO and Founder of Lightbend about Akka Serverless and what makes it so different from other architectures. Jonas explains how data is kept secure in Akka Serverless and what limitations it removes with its data-centric backend application architecture.
Kevin Bocek discussed security with us, including the impact of a successful software supply chain attack, what security best practices we should all follow, and the difference between human and machine identity. Kevin shares his knowledge from over 16 years of experience in IT security.
Contrast Security announced Contrast Scan, a new tool that will help teams improve team’s security by quickly finding and identifying vulnerabilities and insecure code. We spoke with Steve Wilson, Chief Product Officer at Contrast Security about the release and security best practices.
We spoke with Eric Cook, Director of EMEA Solutions Consulting at OpsRamp about a new report from OpsRamp and how UK-based IT operations professionals feel about the tools that they use. Do IT professionals use too many tools and how satisfied are they with their infrastructure?
SADA CTO Miles Ward has joined the FinOps Governing Board as a voting member to help craft Foundation strategy and direction. To better understand the importance of Cloud Financial Management and the role of the Foundation, we asked Miles a few questions.
We spoke with Rob Whelan, Practice Director, Data and Analytics at 2nd Watch about the latest survey on data management and analytics in the enterprise. Most organizations don’t have a mature data strategy. Why is this? And what is it about the cloud that helps organizations make better use of their data?
