5 Development Trends Reshaping Testing
There’s no shortage of new development trends, but virtual reality, containers, big data, hyperconnected apps and IoT are affecting testing the most today. If you like change and challenge, it’s a fun time to work in software. Some technology developments, such as cloud computing, have been gaining speed slowly over many years. That steady progression […]
Booz Allen Helps the GSA Put Your DevOps to Shame
Production Docker, automated workflows, open source projects and microservices are just some of the ways that Booz Allen is helping the General Services Administration (GSA) modernize its IT operations. And frankly, after talking to Nirmal Mehta, the lead architect on its recent project, I became a little embarrassed for you DevOps-born startups. In my circle […]
RightScale Releases New DevOps and Docker Trends in Follow-Up to State of the Cloud Report
SANTA BARBARA, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/11/16 — RightScale® Inc., a demonstrated leader in enterprise universal cloud management,today announced the results of the RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Survey: DevOps Trends. The fifth annual RightScale State of the Cloud Survey was announced in February. This follow-up report provides new data and analysis in a […]
Rancher Labs Secures Series B Funding of $20M for Container Management Platform
Led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, with participation from existing investors, funding will help Rancher Labs maintain momentum, and meet sales and marketing goals Cupertino, Calif. – May 10, 2016 – Rancher Labs, a provider of container management software, today announced $20M in Series B funding led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, with participation from […]
Container Usage and Adoption, Here is Your Chance to Tell Us What You Think
We are teaming up once again with ClusterHQ for an update on Container usage and adoption. Our new survey is available and shouldn’t take more than 5-7 minutes of your time. We are looking to see if the container adoption and usage has changed since our last survey last summer. Please take a moment to […]
Sysdig raises $15 million in Series B funding to expand container monitoring for enterprises
The containernative monitoring company surpasses 100 enterprise customers San Francisco, CA DATE Sysdig, the containernative monitoring company today announced a $15 million Series B funding round by existing investors Accel and Bain Capital Ventures. Sysdig will use the funds to accelerate growth, to continue building out its core technology for container and microservice […]
Mesosphere Democratizes the Container-Based Datacenter with DC/OS Open Source Project; Backed by Accenture, Cisco, Equinix, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft and Many Others
More than 60 leading technology companies collaborate to deliver first 100% open source datacenter-scale operating system for running containers and distributed apps in production. SAN FRANCISCO — (Marketwired, April 19, 2016) — A broad alliance of leading companies today joined forces with Mesosphere to unveil the beta release of DC/OS, the first open and comprehensive […]
State of DevOps Survey – The Ultimate Feedback Loop
If there’s any consistent criticism of the larger DevOps movement, it’s that the talking heads and industry gadflies are driving the conversation, not the people in the trenches. All the thought leadership panels and “how-to” content (including the written and AV materials on this very site) make for great watercooler discussion, but lack the input […]
Puppet, Like DevOps, Continues to Mature
Over the course of the last several years we have seen the DevOps movement continue to mature and evolve. It has moved beyond the early adopter, visionary stage into the mainstream of the market. Therefore, it should be no surprise that some of the leading solutions in the DevOps space should likewise mature and evolve […]
Streamlining Cloud Tools, Platforms Management
DevOps and microservices have transformed the way organizations develop, deploy and manage applications—as well as the underlying infrastructure required to support it, be it cloud on on-premise. On the one hand, DevOps and microservices enable much greater speed and agility. On the other hand, that speed and agility come with a heaping side of complexity. […]
Trusting Continuous Delivery
DevOps, continuous delivery and the pipeline for faster software development are fundamentally different from traditional software development. It’s such a different approach and a different culture that it can take some time before Dev and Ops teams embrace and trust it—a necessary step for DevOps to make progress in any organization. By mixing containers and […]
Flash Mob Inflection: Rugged DevOps Revolution
Truthfully, I was never a huge fan of the HBO series “The Sopranos.” It’s not that it wasn’t entertaining; I just didn’t agree with the “best ever” label that so many espoused during the show’s halcyon days. This had something to do with living in Hoboken, N.J., at the time and feeling the show was […]
Will Microservices Make the ‘Ops’ in ‘DevOps’ Obsolete?
DevOps is a portmanteau of “developers” and “operations.” The concept of DevOps is about shifting IT culture in a way that enables developers and operations to work together more seamlessly. As more and more elements of DevOps become automated and leverage microservices such as container platforms, though, the operations side of that equation plays a […]
Survey on Modern IT – We Need Your Opinion!
Change is the only constant in the world of IT. Developers, ITOps and the DevOps community are undergoing significant changes in needs, processes and services. This survey will provide better understanding of how the latest trends are impacting innovation, security and your team. This survey is sponsored by Apcera, a highly secure, policy-driven platform that […]
Creating Dev Environments With Docker Compose
The Slack notification popped up on my phone at 2pm Friday afternoon. “Argh. This is never good” I thought to myself. The message said “do you know anything about Vagrant?”. It was from a client of mine and I knew their environment well enough to know that this question was going to go down a […]
DevOps, ITOps and PaaS: What do you think?
We are very happy to announce that we have launched a new survey that will explore how the community feels about DevOps, ITOps and PaaS. The survey is another in the continuing surveys we are conducting to help all of us understand more about how DevOps is really influencing how development, Ops and IT are […]
4 big challenges of microservices
The rise of microservices as a means of developing and delivering software value faster is clearly on the rise. Containers have skyrocketed from a fringe technology to a mainstream imperative and organizations are scrambling to jump on the microservices bandwagon. Before you rush out to embrace microservices, though, there are a few things you should […]
Microsoft and Docker provide progress report on Docker for Windows Server
In the fall of 2014 Microsoft and Docker unveiled a new partnership—a commitment to work together to bring native support for Docker containers to the next major release of Windows Server. Earlier this week the two talked about the progress made so far and gave some clues to what customers should expect once the next […]
DevOpsQA NJ Meetup – Containers with Joyent
DevOpsQA NJ just held our July Meetup on Containers with Casey Bisson from Joyent and Jeremy Rampon from Syncsort as speakers. The meetup was held at a new ROKITT location, a state-of-the-art office space with breathtaking views of NYC. This session marked 1 year since our Meetup was formed in July of 2014 and it […]
Microservices define the next era of IT
There is a lot of focus on DevOps and container technologies these days. Both are very strong trends in IT on their own, but each is also proof of a larger shift in IT culture to a microservices architecture. A new report from IDC titled “The Emergence of Microservices as a New Architectural Approach to […]