
SolarWinds Adds Service Management Platform to Portfolio
SolarWinds has added a service management capability to its portfolio as part of an effort to make it simpler for IT teams to align support services with specific functions. At the same time, SolarWinds has updated its SQL Sentry observability tool for databases and DataOps workflows to add query-level wait statistics along with a revamped […]

Tray.io Automation Framework Leverages AI to Build Integrations
Tray.io’s Universal Automation Cloud service leverages an existing Merlin AI engine to identify the most efficient way to automate a workflow.

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Fidelity Investments, Caterpillar and more!

There’s No Value in Observability Bloat. Let’s Focus on the Essentials
Most companies only need the essential ingredients to satisfy their observability strategy, which means costs will be much more modest.

Oracle Previews Latest Java 21 Innovations
Oracle made generally available a Java 21 edition and provided early access to more than 15 proposed enhancements to the JDK.

Buildkite Acquires Packagecloud to Streamline DevOps Workflows
Buildkite acquired Packagecloud to tightly integrate package management tools with its CI/CD platform.

DevOps is Making Gains on Mainframe Platforms
A survey from BMC found organizations continue to invest in mainframe applications alongside distributed computing environments.

There’s no One-Size-Fits-All Data Mobility Strategy
As technologies and business priorities change, so should your data mobility strategy, regardless of business size.

Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation.

CloudBees Unfurls Dual CI/CD Strategy at DevOps World Event
CloudBees took the wraps off the first major update to the open source Jenkins CI/CD platform made in the past several years.

Operational Intelligence: AI-Powered SRE Measurements and Observability
AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the SRE measurements and observability pillar of practice.

Broadcom Survey Surfaces Drive to Consolidate Automation Platforms
A Broadcom survey found more than three-quarters of respondents are moving to consolidate cloud automation tools and platforms.

From DevOps to the Future: The Evolutionary Leap to Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is extending the principles that made DevOps so successful to meet the challenges and opportunities of the new tech era.

Cisco Aligns With Nutanix on Hybrid Cloud Computing
Cisco and Nutanix announced a strategic partnership through which the two companies will collaborate to advance hybrid cloud computing.

Google Adds App Modernization Tools to Generative AI Platform
Google this week added automated refactoring capabilities to the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools it makes available to write code on Google Cloud.

CDF Report: Steady Growth in Number of Jenkins Jobs Run
The Jenkins Project reported that pipeline usage grew 79%, with total workloads running in the CI/CD platform growing 45%.

Apica Acquires LOGIQ.AI to Unify Observability
Apica has just raised an additional $10 million in funding and has agreed to acquire LOGIQ.AI.

VMware Previews Spring AI to Accelerate Java Development
VMware’s Spring AI project makes it simpler to build Java apps that invoke multiple AI components with minimal changes to code.

How Platform Engineering Can Drive Digital Sobriety
If we’re being honest, the “green issue” currently isn’t the priority it needs to be for a lot of companies. At best, they are ticking the box marked ‘sustainability’ and paying lip service to a trendy topic. At worst, they are engaging in nothing more than greenwashing. Considering carbon emissions from cloud computing have now […]

Strategic Roadmap for SREs: Software Deployments With AI
AI’s role in enhancing SRE practices, specifically software deployments, is revolutionizing the efficiency of deployment processes.

IBM to Provide Hybrid Cloud Service Based on VMware Cloud
At the VMware Explore 2023 conference this week, IBM announced that it will soon provide a fully managed service based on a streamlined edition of VMware Cloud.

IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month.

VMware Preps Generative AI Assistants to Automate IT Workflows
VMware previewed what will become a suite of intelligent assistants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of a wide range of IT tasks.
