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CIO OPINION
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ENTERPRISES
NEED TO GIVE
DEVELOPERS
WHAT THEY NEED,
WHILE STILL
ENSURING THAT
OPERATIONS CAN
MANAGE IT ALL
EFFECTIVELY
WITHIN THE
CONFINES OF
CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE
AND REGULATION.
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democratisation of Kube
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management, consistenc
the entire application portfolio across all
environments removes the need for vendor
or cloud specific teams, reduces complexity
and provides the necessary visibility required
across multiple environments.
5. Promoting collaboration between
developers and operations: Developers
need access to the tools and environments
that are going to help them do their jobs.
Operations teams are looking for a straight
way to manage – continual changes are
the stuff of operations nightmares. The risk
is that if operations and developers cannot
collaborate, then the latter will acquire
their resources outside of the enterprise IT
structure, leading to potential security risks.
This has always been an issue; however, with
applications so critical to business success,
getting developers and operations on the
same page is now an absolute imperative.
Enterprises need to give developers
what they need, while still ensuring that
operations can manage it all effectively
within the confines of corporate governance
and regulation.
6. Empower developers to build and
deploy applications to any public cloud:
The days of taking six months to build
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