Modern development teams are shipping faster than ever, but with that speed comes increased risk. Open-source components are everywhere, governance is often reactive, and visibility across the software supply chain is limited.
If your artifact management or CI/CD workflows are still relying on manual oversight or scattered tooling, you’re not just slowing down your team. You’re exposing your business.
Here’s how leading engineering and security teams are rethinking open-source governance with the Sonatype Platform, alongside the operational simplicity of a managed solution from iTmethods.
Treat Components Like Code
Applications today are built on thousands of open-source packages and containers. These components deserve the same discipline you apply to your own code including version control, traceability, and lifecycle management.
With Nexus Repository Pro, teams can tag artifacts with metadata, apply immutability controls, and promote components through well-defined lifecycle stages. Whether you’re working with npm, Docker, Maven, PyPI, or another format, all your artifacts can live in one unified system with a clear path from development to production.
Shift Governance Earlier in the Process
By the time a vulnerable package is discovered in production, it’s already caused unnecessary risk. High-performing teams catch issues sooner, embedding policy enforcement directly into development workflows.
Nexus Lifecycle performs automated software composition analysis at the pull request level. If a component violates policy due to a license conflict or security vulnerability, the build fails. Developers receive instant guidance on how to resolve the issue before it ever merges. This shift-left approach helps teams maintain security posture without sacrificing speed.
Stop Threats Before They Enter
Waiting to scan artifacts during the build process leaves you vulnerable. Repository Firewall helps defend your supply chain earlier by scanning components as they enter your ecosystem.
Using real-time threat intelligence, it automatically quarantines malicious or vulnerable artifacts before they reach your repositories or pipelines. This proactive step minimizes exposure and reduces the time spent reacting to incidents after the fact.
Improve Storage Efficiency Without Compromise
It’s easy for artifact storage to spiral out of control, especially with continuous builds and multiple environments. But bloated repositories shouldn’t slow you down or inflate infrastructure costs.
Nexus Repository Pro gives teams the tools to manage growth intelligently. You can define cleanup policies based on age, usage frequency, or metadata tags. Cold artifacts are archived but still searchable and accessible when needed. With optimized caching and blob storage, teams maintain reliable performance even as usage scales.
With iTmethods managing the environment, you benefit from these efficiencies without the need to fine-tune infrastructure internally.
Why Organizations Choose iTmethods
The Sonatype Platform offers powerful governance tools out of the box. When combined with iTmethods’ managed services, it becomes a secure, scalable solution that frees internal teams from the burden of infrastructure management.
With iTmethods, you get a fully managed, single-tenant Sonatype Platform deployed in AWS, Azure, or GCP and tailored to your organization’s compliance, performance, and availability requirements.
Our services include:
• Cloud-native hosting in your chosen region
• 24/7 support, monitoring, and proactive issue resolution
• Seamless upgrades and performance tuning
• Built-in compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR
• Expert guidance in DevSecOps and open-source governance.
Ready to Strengthen Your Supply Chain?
Start with a free Sonatype Platform Assessment. We’ll evaluate your current environment, identify areas for improvement, and help you build a roadmap to stronger open-source governance, reduced risk, and better delivery performance.
