CNCF Graduates Open Policy Agent Project to Manage Compliance as Code
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week that the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project, which many IT teams are employing to manage compliance as code, has officially graduated. Torin Sandall, co-founder of the OPA project and vice president of open source at Styra, whose compliance management platform is based on OPA, said formal […]
Lightstep Delivers Next Generation Observability Platform
Lightstep this week announced general availability of a Change Intelligence observability platform based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events each day. Ben Sigelman, Lightstep’s CEO, said as IT environments become more complex, thanks to the rise of microservices and cloud-native computing platforms, existing monitoring and observability tools will not […]
AppDynamics Partners With Cisco to Secure Application Runtimes
AppDynamics today announced its agent software, which it provides as part of its observability platform, now has the ability to enforce application security policies. Developed in collaboration with the security business unit of parent company Cisco, the Cisco Secure Application offering, available from AppDynamics, can detect attacks, identify deviations in application behavior and block attacks […]
Oracle Includes GraalVM Support in Java SE Subscription
Oracle announced today it is adding a GraalVM Enterprise virtual machine for building Java applications to Java SE Subscription at no additional cost. Donald Smith, senior director of product management from the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said GraalVM Enterprise provides developers with a high-performance application runtime, built on Oracle Java SE, that includes a […]
Tidelift Secures Open Source Software Supply Chains
Tidelift today announced the general availability of a platform dubbed Tidelift catalogs, through which enterprise IT organizations can more effectively manage their open source supply chains. Donald Fischer, Tidelift’s CEO, says the Tidelift catalogs platform enables IT teams to curate, track and manage open source components that have been vetted and adhere to compliance requirements […]
vFunction Automates Conversion of Java Apps to Microservices
vFunction has developed an eponymous platform capable of automatically converting a monolithic application written in Java into a set of microservices. The startup is emerging from stealth mode today. Fresh from raising $12.2 million in seed funding, vFunction CEO Moti Rafalin said the company’s platform employs dynamic analysis, static analysis, data science and automation to […]
DevSecOps Implementation: EDR/XDR
We mentioned host intrusion detection and network intrusion detection in an earlier blog, and mentioned firewalls a couple of times in passing. Let’s delve a bit into the history to understand how these tools’ functionality has evolved over time. On the host side, we had virus detection, in one form or another, from early in […]
OpenTelemetry Project Gains Log Agent Software from observIQ
Stanza, an open source log agent developed by observIQ, a provider of an observability platform, has become part of the OpenTelemetry Project for collecting telemetry data. Mike Kelly, CTO and co-founder, observIQ, said Stanza will make it possible to collect log data alongside other telemetry data using a common application programming interface (API) and software […]
ARMO Aims to Simplify Microservices Security
ARMO this week emerged from stealth to launch a platform to secure cloud-native workloads and improve visibility. The ARMO Workload Fabric technology attaches code within the memory invoked by a microservice to enable cybersecurity policies to be applied via a cloud service. Company CEO Shauli Rozen said the ARMO Workload Fabric is designed to enable […]
Sentry Updates Tool for Monitoring JavaScript Apps
Sentry today announced it has updated its JavaScript SDK tool for monitoring applications to provide a more comprehensive view of application health. Previously, Sentry’s JavaScript SDK enabled JavaScript developers to insert lines of code that would tell them, for example, how many times an application failed. A new release health capability now also identifies what […]
An Analytics Workload is a Critical Data Management Tool
From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as analyzing A/B testing results, understanding user retention or finding anomalies in a flow, for instance) or can serve in a supporting role for […]
BYOPC Solves Endpoint Provisioning Challenges
For many cloud-first companies, workstation imaging isn’t “a thing.” The notion that an IT organization might need several days – or even weeks – to onboard a new employee by provisioning an imaged laptop with correct security policies and only approved applications on it is absurd. The constraints of operating in an admin-centric model for […]
How MLOps Can Help Get AI Projects to Deployment
Did you know that most AI projects never get fully deployed? In fact, a recent survey by NewVantage Partners revealed that only 15% of leading enterprises have gotten any AI into production at all. Unfortunately, many models get built and trained, but never make it to business scenarios where they can provide insights and value. […]
AIOps in Service Management: Removing the Noise
AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT ops) refers to the automation of IT operations through AI and machine learning. With every organization working rapidly toward the ultimate goal of digital transformation, there is a natural place for AIOps within service management as a means to automate processes and automatically spot and react to issues in real-time. […]
How to Overcome Web Test Automation Challenges
Web test automation is transforming software development for the better. Automation empowers test teams to easily prepare test data, execute complex test cases across multiple platforms rapidly and accurately, and catch defects early on in the development cycle. Modern-day test automation solutions benefit organizations in multiple ways; when used correctly, such solutions can boost a […]
Internal Makes On-Premises Edition of No-Code Tool Available
Internal today launched an on-premises edition of its eponymous no-code development platform that promises to simplify application development backlog reduction for enterprise IT organizations. Arisa Amano, CEO of Internal, said many professional developers regularly find themselves building simple applications that, if given access to the right tools, could be built instead by end users. Internal […]
Improving Mainframe Agility With DevOps
Mainframe workloads were on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic, and transaction-processing mainframes became vital as lockdowns went into effect and every aspect of business and personal life occurred online. Mainframes are reliable, secure, highly available and affordable, and it is essential for organizations to ensure their mainframe can achieve peak agility to enhance […]
Report: Software Quality Issues Costing U.S. Companies $2.08 Trillion
A report published today by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimates poor software quality collectively cost companies in the U.S. an estimated $2.08 trillion in 2020. The report, co-sponsored by software quality and security tools provider Synopsys, attempts to calculate, at least theoretically, the cost of known software failures. The report identifies […]
Every Millisecond Counts When Code-Testing Mobile Apps
Whether a company is creating mobile applications for e-commerce, customer service or internally to boost employee productivity, the rapid development and effective deployment of mobile apps has become a business imperative. The global mobile application market was estimated at $106 billion in 2018 and is expected to hit $407 billion by 2026; an annual growth […]
Sentry Extends Application Performance Monitoring Tool
Sentry this week announced it has added support for applications that employ serverless computing frameworks as well as the Google Web Vitals service to its application monitoring tool. Company CEO Milin Desai said incorporating Google Web Vitals metrics into Sentry Performance Monitoring will become crucial as Google makes good on a pledge to rank websites […]
IBM Acquires Instana to Advance Observability Strategy
IBM this week announced it plans to acquire Instana, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform that is optimized for microservices. Robin Hernandez, vice president of hybrid cloud management and AIOps for IBM, said Instana will plug an observability gap that has emerged in IBM’s portfolio as organizations start to build and deploy […]
7 Important Truths About Chaos Engineering
As a relatively new practice, chaos engineering has plenty of myths surrounding it, from randomly shutting down production systems to requiring huge investments of time and money. There’s a lot of confusion over the purpose, the value and the practice of chaos engineering. This presents a problem for DevOps teams, especially since more than half […]
Scalyr Adds Hindsight Service to IT Analytics Portfolio
Scalyr has moved to reduce the cost of observability by enabling DevOps teams to retain log and event data in S3-compatible object storage systems than use a pay-per-TB-scanned pricing model to interrogate that data. Company CEO Christine Heckart said the Scalyr Hindsight service will make it possible for IT teams to more cost-effectively store historical […]