Perforce Charts Testing Course After BlazeMeter Acquisition
Perforce Software has acquired BlazeMeter from Broadcom as part of an effort to extend the scope of its testing tools beyond the Perfecto tools for testing mobile and web applications it acquired in 2018. Broadcom gained control over BlazeMeter after it acquired CA Technologies in 2018. CA Technologies acquired BlazeMeter in 2016. Terms of the […]
Are ERP-Centric Enterprises Being Left Behind?
Many large enterprise companies are rife with departments that depend on customized ERP software applications. These systems accommodate vital business tasks ranging from inventory management to ordering capabilities to accounting programs to CRM platforms—all of which were custom-built to fit the enterprise’s specific needs and meet the KPIs of each unique organization. These applications tend […]
Why an Embedded Analytics Maturity Framework is Essential
Contextual analytics, or embedding analytics directly into a business application’s transactional environment and core workflows, is the most sophisticated stage of business intelligence (BI) currently available to organizations today. It is one level ahead of the traditional integration of analytics, which is a standalone capability presented as a separate dashboard or reporting module. Today, there […]
Sumo Logic Extends Observability Scope and Reach
During the online Illuminate user conference, Sumo Logic revealed how it is integrating capabilities it gained with the June 2021 acquisition of Sensu, a provider of open source monitoring tools, with its continuous intelligence platform in addition to adding support for data collected via open source OpenTelemetry software. Sensu Go, a set of tools for […]
CloudBees Acquires Neuralprints to Shift Compliance Left
At the online DevOps World 2021 conference today, CloudBees revealed it has acquired Neuralprints to provide the core technology for CloudBees Compliance, a real-time compliance and risk analysis platform that it will roll out in the first quarter of 2022. At the same time, CloudBees has enhanced the feature management capabilities of its namesake continuous […]
Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Automation Ambitions
During the online Ansiblefest, Red Hat announced the availability of a preview edition of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 that is intended to make it easier to automate IT processes at scale. Richard Henshall, senior manager for Ansible product management at Red Hat, said previously most IT teams have been automating individual processes, but […]
5 App Modernization Best Practices
An organization’s digital transformation is ineffectual if it doesn’t bring out the best from its applications. This is a near-universal concern since most enterprises still have core applications that are architected primarily to work in legacy IT landscapes in an on-premises dedicated environment, slowing down IT and business performance, stymieing innovation and increasing vulnerability to […]
OpsRamp Extends AI Reach to Incident Management
OpsRamp today extended its IT operations platform infused with machine learning algorithms, also known as AIOps, into the realm of incident management. The Summer 2021 release of the company’s namesake platform adds alert predictions for preventing outages and incidents, alert enrichment policies for faster incident troubleshooting and enhancements for automatically ingesting metrics data collected from […]
Sentry Integrates Code Observability Tool with GitHub, GitLab
Sentry this week extended its namesake observability platform for code to provide tighter integration with the DevOps platforms provided by GitHub and GitLab. Application development project managers can now assign issues to DevOps teams by integrating directly with the CODEOWNERS file in GitHub or GitLab. Error messages, for example, can now be automatically routed to […]
New Relic Survey Shows Greater Appreciation for Observability
A global survey of 1,300 software engineers, developers, IT leaders and executives found half of respondents (50%) are in the process of implementing an observability platform. Another 23% of respondents said that they cannot gain end-to-end observability at all, while 26% said they believe they have mature observability practices in place. The survey, published today, […]
Choosing the Right Metrics for DevOps Adoption
DevOps adoption has skyrocketed in recent years. Its impact on traditional development platforms has long been well-documented, but in more recent years it has started to influence low-code platforms, too. In its recent survey on the state of Salesforce DevOps, Gearset found that 69% of teams are already using source control and another 20% plan […]
JFrog Acquires Upswift to Push DevOps to the Edge
JFrog today revealed it has acquired Upswift as part of an effort to extend its DevOps reach to edge computing platforms. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Upswift has created agent software that is deployed as a binary file on an edge computing platform that makes it possible to continuously deliver software across a […]
3 Pillars of Autonomous IT Ops
Imagine a future where human IT operators and intelligent systems work together in a virtual operations room; the systems do the heavy lifting while the humans supervise. This may seem like science fiction, but the truth is we are already on the way to that future with AIOps. While actual AI-augmented teams are still quite […]
Google Donates Sqlcommenter to OpenTelemetry Project
Google announced today that Sqlcommenter, an open source project that provides access to an object-relational mapping (ORM) auto-instrumentation library, is being merged with OpenTelemetry, an open source project for building agent software to instrument applications. Nimesh Bhagat, a product manager for Google, said Sqlcommenter is designed to make it simpler to correlate application and database […]
4 Ways to Simplify Cloud Performance Monitoring
Over the past 18 months, technologists across the globe have played a crucial role in the survival of brands and organizations via digital strategies. Across all industries, their skill and dedication have enabled businesses to rapidly launch innovative new digital services to meet huge fluctuations in customer needs and allow entire workforces to operate from […]
Progress Expands Chef Automation Portfolio
In advance of its ChefCon 2021 conference, Progress today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Progress Chef automation platform that includes managed services and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its offerings as well as tighter integration with cloud services and other third-party tools. Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for the Chef business at […]
SRE’s Guide to Pragmatic Incident Response
In my past experience as an SRE, I learned some valuable lessons about how to respond to and learn from incidents. If you want the TL;DR, I’ll summarize them here: Declare and run retros for the small incidents. It’s less stressful, and action items become much more actionable. Decrease the time it takes to analyze an […]
How to Improve Cloud Management
Cloud technology underpins emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, edge computing and containerization. Organizations must prioritize implementing effective cloud management practices to avoid spiraling costs and potential security and compliance violations. The COVID-19 pandemic has vastly accelerated cloud adoption. To support remote work, many businesses have moved workloads from on-premises servers to the public […]
CircleCI Bets on Webhooks to Streamline DevOps Integrations
CircleCI today announced CircleCI webhooks, a feature that enables software engineering teams to build integrations that react to CircleCI job and workflow status notifications in near-real-time. Tom Trahan, vice president of business development at CircleCI, said this latest iteration of the company’s implementation of webhooks, which send messages any time an event occurs, will become […]
How to Achieve Cloud Operational Excellence
Cloud operational excellence means delivering the right mix of cloud-based services at the optimal cost and quality to support your organization’s mission and strategy. You might be thinking, “Why go to the trouble? Isn’t ‘almost good enough’ sufficient?” It turns out that it matters—a lot. The difference between the top 10% and the bottom 10% […]
CNCF Advances OpenTelemetry Initiative
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as an incubating project as part of an ongoing effort to simplify instrumentation of software using open source agent software. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) that can be […]
Popular iOS Apps Request Excessive User Data Permissions
Most apps require some sort of user data to function properly. Google Maps needs location data to offer routing services. Twitter needs photo library access to upload a photo, and so on. Many users are quick to allow access to personal information without hesitation. However, in recent years, it’s become apparent that many apps are […]
How DevOps Can Address CX Challenges
Delivering a seamless customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for companies undergoing digital transformation initiatives, as 85% of buyers are willing to pay more for a great customer experience. However, customers aren’t only willing to pay more for a positive experience–they’ll go elsewhere if their experience isn’t positive. In fact, 33% of customers […]