Study Traces Cybersecurity Issues to Lack of App Supervision

April 18, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

A global survey of 400 application developers conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Veracode, a unit of CA Technologies that provides software development lifecycle tools, shines a light on how big an issue cybersecurity has become because of organizations failing to update components. The survey finds only 52 percent of developers using commercial or […]

Akamai Extends Scope of DevSecOps Reach

April 17, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Akamai pressed its case for becoming a strategic DevSecOps platform by adding a range of security capabilities to its network service platform that help isolate applications from cybersecurity threats. The company has added support for scripting to automate application security using its Kona Site Defender web application firewall as well as improved management and versioning […]

HashiCorp Extends Secrets Management Reach

April 11, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Secrets management is core to DevSecOps—how credentials are managed can make all the difference in preventing an application from being compromised in the first place. The challenge is making it as simple as possible for developers to access where most of those credentials are stored in the enterprise. HashiCorp this week released an update to […]

Google Taps Netflix for Open Source Canary Analysis

April 10, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Google and Netflix today jointly announced an open-source automated canary analysis service, dubbed Kayenta, that applies statistical analytics to optimize DevOps processes. Andrew Phillips, a product manager for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), said goal is to make it easier to consume advanced analytics by integrating Kayenta with the open source Spinnaker continuous delivery pipeline platform […]

NGINX Extends Microservices Ambitions

April 6, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

NGINX has extended the reach and scope of a namesake application platform that the company is positioning as a bridge between legacy applications and emerging microservices architectures. The NGINX Application Platform now includes NGINX Unit 1.0, an open source application server designed to simplify microservices across multiple application types simultaneously using a single instance of […]

VMware Adds Analytics to Automate IT Operations Based on Intent

April 4, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

VMware is moving to make it easier for organizations to automate data centers and public cloud based on its core hypervisor technology by injecting advanced analytics into its VMware vRealize Suite, enabling them to manage IT environments based on intent rather than having to manually manage every process themselves. At the core of those update […]

Google Unveils Suite of APM Tools

March 28, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Google today announced that it is making available application performance management (APM) tools based on the same technology it employs to manage its internal IT environment. Morgan McLean, a product manager at Google, said Stackdriver APM is based the open source StackDriver Trace and Debugger tools Google originally developed for its DevOps teams. The APM […]