Rita Manachi

Oct 28, 2024 | blogs.vmware.com | Rita Manachi

How do you pick what to do at a huge conference like Explore? In my experience, some of the most powerful content is that presented by my peers and practitioners. This is not to discount the vendor and technologist-led sessions – those have significant value, especially when you’re trying to do more with your existing investments. This is to say that there is something special in learning from your peers’ experiences.

Sep 27, 2024 | tanzu.vmware.com | David Zendzian |Rita Manachi

Written by David Zendzian and Rita ManachiTanzu products are not affected by recently announced CUPS vulnerabilities. Tanzu Platform, Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry, Tanzu Data Solution, Tanzu Spring, Tanzu Application Catalog, Bitnami applications are not impacted by recently announced CUPS server vulnerabilities. We’ve provided an overview of the situation and a quick fix if your systems might be impacted.

Sep 4, 2024 | tanzu.vmware.com | Michael Cote |Michael Coté |Rita Manachi

Written by Michael Coté and Rita ManachiA version of this article appears in The New Stack. Securing cloud native environments can be overwhelming, especially if you're building your own stack from the hot-pot bar of the CNCF landscape. You'll fit each of those projects together, making sure you find and follow all the security to do's. Then you customize them to behave however you need - after all, that's why you built a custom stack, right?

Sep 4, 2024 | tanzu.vmware.com | Rita Manachi

A version of this blog post appeared in The New Stack. Enterprises have gotten pretty good at adopting DevOps practices. Scaling these initial successes can sometimes be difficult. To be sure disciplines like platform engineering and compliance architects are sprouting up as valid manifestations of DevOps. But, sustaining and expanding your productive, devops operating model requires constant validation and growth.

Aug 23, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Rita Manachi |David Zendzian

IT systems are constantly under threat — malicious or not — so much that breaches have become almost commonplace. Case in point, as we started writing this article, news broke that 4.5 million people were affected by the recent HealthEquity data breach. As our cloud native systems continue to scale, their distributed nature also makes them more complex. This complexity affords us flexibility and velocity; it also exposes more points of failure and intrusion.