Red Hat Extends Reach and Scope of Insights Analytics Service
During its online Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat today announced it has extended the Red Hat Insights predictive analytics cloud platform for managing IT to now include support for editions of Red Hat OpenShift based on Kubernetes and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In addition, Red Hat has extended Red Hat Insights for […]
Three Manual Accessibility Testing Pain Points
According to industry research, the vast majority of IT leaders view test automation as the single most important factor in accelerating software innovation. This also applies to automated accessibility testing – a great first step for making websites accessible to persons with disabilities. The new breed of automated tools can catch nearly 83% of all […]
ServiceNow Shifts to Single Unified Agent
ServiceNow today unveiled an Agent Client Collector (ACC) that makes it possible for IT teams to capture data from software, hardware and cloud infrastructure. Jeff Hausman, vice president and general manager for IT operations management at ServiceNow, said this unified agent will enable IT teams to reduce the number of agents they would otherwise have […]
Survey Shows Acceleration of Centralized IT Management
An OpsRamp survey published this week suggests large enterprises are looking to finally unify IT management at at time when it is becoming increasingly complex. OpsRamp, a provider of an IT management platform based on machine learning algorithms, polled 132 IT operations directors working for organizations in the U.S. with more than 500 employees that […]
Seeing the Bigger Picture With BizDevSecOps
Not long ago, if you can believe it, software was shipped on physical floppy disks and CDs. These physical relics contained dense paper instruction books that humans read diligently for hours on end (I guess they had more time to spare back then?). Complexity was a given for computer-based tasks. Fast forward past the consumerization […]
Tasktop Adds Dashboard to Surface VSM Insights
Tasktop today unveiled a dashboard that it promises will simplify tracking of key performance indicators (KPIs) spanning multiple projects. In addition, the value stream management (VSM) platform provider revealed it has garnered an additional $100 million in funding. Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten said the Tasktop Viz VSM Portfolio Insights dashboard makes it simpler to surface […]
Apollo GraphQL Makes Federated Server More Accessible
In advance of its online GraphQL Summit this week, Apollo GraphQL announced today it has updated its Apollo Federation offering that enables a GraphQL Server to span multiple platforms, making it more accessible to a wider range of developers using different tools. Apollo Federation is now integrated with both Apollo Studio, a web-based tool for navigating […]
42Crunch API Security Platform Now Available On-Premises
42Crunch has announced that the scanning tools it provides to enable DevOps teams to secure application programming interfaces (APIs) can now be deployed in on-premises IT deployments. Previously only available as a cloud service, the 42Crunch API Security Platform has also been updated to provide expanded support for the OpenAPI specification for REST interfaces defined […]
CircleCI Previews Support for Arm Platforms
CircleCI today previewed the ability to deploy applications on platforms based on Arm processors in a forthcoming release of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Tom Trahan, vice president of business development for CircleCI, said that Arm processors are rapidly being embraced by DevOps teams seeking to take advantage of the price/performance advantages they […]
Sysdig Adds CSPM Module to DevSecOps Platform
Sysdig today announced it added a cloud security posture management (CSPM) module to its Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform for monitoring application performance and security to enable IT teams to continuously detect threats. Pawan Shankar, director of product marketing for Sysdig, said this CSPM capability is based on an open source Cloud Custodian tool that enables […]
Tricentis Aquires Neotys to Gain Load Testing Tools
Tricentis announced today it has acquired Neotys as part of an effort to expand the scope of its tools portfolio into the realm of load testing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Neotys provides application testing teams with automatic test design and maintenance, user behavior simulation and root cause analysis capabilities using a set […]
Getting Started With Continuous Monitoring
DevOps continues to gain traction among organizations as demand grows for digital product and platform development. According to Gartner, 87% of business leaders believe digitalization is a priority. Every DevOps transformation requires a dedicated, continuous learning process and effective implementation to reach maturity. If a practice or pattern is passed over or ignored, it can […]
Achieving Reliable Observability Part 1 – Making Cloud-Native Observability More Robust
I was having a conversation with a CxO level customer as part of an AIOps/Observability workshop, and from what I could tell, most are confused about how to properly operationalize cloud-native production environments – especially the monitoring/observability portion. Here is how the conversation went. “Andy, we are thinking about getting [vendor] to use for our […]
Best Practices for Digital Experience Management
The COVID-19 pandemic put digital services in the spotlight. The winners in 2020 and beyond will be those organizations which provide awesome user experiences for online products, services and apps. There is scant room for error, as digital leaders before the pandemic have upped their game even more. For example, streaming service provider Netflix’s 2020 […]
Data Theorem Extends Scope of App Analyzer Portfolio
Data Theorem, Inc. today added to its portfolio a Cloud Secure analyzer that promises to provide full stack visibility into applications through the client, network and cloud layers of a distributed computing environment. Doug Dooley, Data Theorem COO, said Cloud Secure extends an existing Analyzer Engine offering that is currently widely employed to identify vulnerabilities […]
Cisco Leans on HashiCorp to Manage Infrastructure as Code
HashiCorp and Cisco today announced a Cisco Intersight Service for Terraform offering based on HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Business software. Cisco Intersight is an IT operations management platform that enables IT teams to manage IT infrastructure across a hybrid cloud computing environment. Open source Terraform tools have emerged as the dominant tool for provisioning infrastructure as […]
Visualization Shines a Light on IT Metrics
Modern IT departments operate in a pressure cooker. Their highly distributed infrastructures are spread across legacy data centers and hybrid and multiple public clouds. Now, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the edge are part of the mix. Massive amounts of data are flowing through these multifaceted environments, and it falls on IT to make […]
LeanIX Extends Application Management Reach
LeanIX today unveiled a catalog that enables DevOps teams to more easily track the relationships between microservices as they are built and deployed. At the same time, the company also revealed it has acquired Cleanshelf, a provider of a platform for managing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. LeanIX CEO André Christ said the Microservice Intelligence catalog will […]
Grafana Labs Aligns with Elastic on Observability
Elastic and Grafana Labs have allied to create a plugin through which DevOps teams that are employing Elasticsearch within a DevOps workflow will be able to invoke a monitoring platform, based on Prometheus, that is managed by Grafana Labs. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said both companies are dedicating engineering resources to building and maintaining […]
Logz.io Adds Prometheus Service to Observability Portfolio
Logz.io announced today the general availability of a cloud service, based on Prometheus, that can collect and analyze metrics alongside its existing log management service. Jonah Kowall, CTO, Logz.io, said the goal for Prometheus-as-a-Service is to provide IT teams with a centralized approach to analyzing data collected from instances of Prometheus running on local servers […]
Why Developers Should Care About Resilience
Recently, a friend reminded me of a joke we used to have when we were both developers at a huge software corporation (we won’t mention names, but back when printers were a thing, you probably owned one of theirs). We didn’t develop printers. We developed performance testing and monitoring tools. We were the dev team, […]
JumpCloud Brings Zero-Touch Provisioning to the Mac
JumpCloud today announced it is adding a zero-touch enrollment for Macs capability to its cloud directory platform that will also be extended over time to applications. Greg Keller, JumpCloud CTO, said this new capability extends Apple Business Manager, formerly known as Apple Device Enrollment Program (DEP), all the way down to specific users by leveraging […]
Sonatype Acquires MuseDev to Add Code Analysis
Sonatype today revealed it has acquired MuseDev, a provider of a code analysis tool, in addition to updating its Nexus platform for discovering vulnerabilities in software supply chains. Muse analyzes code each time a pull request is made, which makes it easier for developers to discover and address issues long before they commit code. Muse […]