Reserved.ai Applies Machine Learning to Rein in Cloud Costs
Reserved.ai has added a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool to more accurately predict cloud computing workloads and rein in cloud spending. The company says its Purchase Planner tool uses machine learning to optimize cloud computing workloads by automatically purchasing cloud reserve instances based on the forecasts it generates. Purchase Planner leverages the machine learning algorithms […]
AWS Looks to Meld MLOps and DevOps
The rate at which machine learning operations (MLOps) and DevOps best practices are converging is poised for rapid acceleration in 2021. At the recent online AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is adding a bevy of capabilities to Amazon SageMaker, a managed MLOps service, that includes a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) service […]
Best of 2020: SaaS : The Dirty Secret No Tech Company Talks About
As we close out 2020, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our series of the Best of 2020. Software as a service (SaaS) in its purest form is amazing—like compound interest, it grows upon itself and just keeps growing. Given the current […]
AWS Taps Grafana Labs to Launch Managed Observability Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS), in collaboration with Grafana Labs, has added a preview of managed service based on the Grafana observability platform to its portfolio of tools for managing cloud applications and infrastructure. The Grafana platform is based on an implementation of the open source Prometheus monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the […]
Cloud Growth and Other 2020 Trends
Growth continued this year as even the COVID pandemic could not slow down the cloud The rise of COVID-19 defined 2020 for nearly every industry. Cloud computing is no exception, though growth in the sector continued this year. Gartner estimates that $257.9 billion will be spent on public cloud services in 2020, up 6.3% from […]
Morpheus Data Adds Midmarket Edition of Hybrid Cloud Platform
Morpheus Data announced today it is adding a more turnkey edition of its hybrid cloud platform aimed at midmarket IT organizations. Priced starting at $16,000, Morpheus Essentials can be deployed on VMware, Nutanix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with support for Kubernetes planned. At the same time, Morpheus Data […]
AWS Well-Architected Framework Elevates Agility
What started as a white paper from AWS, the Well-Architected Framework has evolved into a large ecosystem of partners and more In the past year, agility has become one of the most prized IT attributes as organizations race to deploy more workloads in the cloud. There is a paradox, however: The faster organizations deploy applications, […]
Split Allies With AWS to Advance Feature Flagging Adoption
Split today announced it has integrated its namesake platform for managing feature flagging with the Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as part of an effort to streamline the process of adding new capabilities to applications. Company CTO Pato Echagüe said one of the most challenging aspects of feature flagging is providing a way for […]
Data Security in the Cloud with Imperva
Database security startup jSonar, founded by Ron Bennatan, was recently acquired by Imperva, a leading cybersecurity company focused on data and application protection. In this episode of TechStrong TV, Ron Bennatan, general manager of data security at Imperva, joins us to discuss the plethora of data security challenges across cloud environments. They also talk about […]
Copado Adds Value Stream Management to Salesforce DevOps Platform
Copado, a provider of a DevOps platform for building applications that extend software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications from Salesforce, this week announced it has added value stream management capabilities. Andrew Leigh, chief marketing officer for Copado, said providing a platform that accelerates the development and deployment of application code is no longer sufficient. The winter 2021 release […]
Atlassian Embeds Metrics for Measuring DevOps in Jira
Atlassian today announced it has added four features to Jira Software Cloud that allow developers to visualize and measure progress across DevOps workflows. Suzie Prince, head of product for DevOps at Atlassian, said rather than organizations having to acquire and deploy separate tools to track DevOps metrics, Atlassian is moving to incorporate those capabilities in […]
AWS Expands Breadth, Depth of DevOps Services Portfolio
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a bevy of cloud services, including a preview of Amazon DevOps Guru, that collectively promise to make it much easier to deploy and manage cloud applications. Announced during the online AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed service that employs machine learning algorithms to automatically detecting […]
Mattermost Offers DevOps Command Center in the Cloud
Mattermost today launched Mattermost Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing DevOps workflows using pre-built playbooks that comes integrated with a wide variety of third-party developer tools. Chandar Venkataraman, executive vice president and chief product officer for Mattermost, said Mattermost Cloud enables IT teams to take advantage of a single-tenant DevOps platform that they don’t […]
ZeroNorth Adds Security Defect Density Dashboard
ZeroNorth today announced it has added a Defect Density Dashboard to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing and orchestrating application security scans. Company CEO John Worrall said Defect Density Dashboard borrows a concept employed to measure software quality and applies it specifically to application security. The dashboard surfaces the number of application security defects per […]
Achieve Cloud Resilience Through Systematic (and Chaotic) Testing
Constantly testing the cloud in systematic and chaotic ways will help companies avoid cloud failures in a time when downtime means disconnect Professionals fortunate enough to shelter in place and work from home can thank cloud for their ability to shift over so seamlessly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine a lockdown without the cloud. Availability […]
New AWS Services Optimize App Development Process
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is always busy introducing new services, enhancing existing ones and, quite often, driving trends. However, the cloud services provider has upped its game even more in recent months. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced an astonishing number of developments that enable technology interoperability, simplifying legacy feature removal, creating greater […]
Red Hat Automates More Operating System Tasks
Red Hat today announced an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that automates a wide range of manual tasks. Scott McBrien, a principal product manager for Red Hat, said RHEL 8.3, available in a few weeks, expands the Red Hat System Roles capability that provides a prescriptive and automated means of managing operating system […]
Application Modernization Video with IBM’s Rosalind Radcliffe
Application modernization is the process of updating existing legacy applications and modernizing their infrastructure, architecture and features, by using modern technology stacks. Monolithic applications are difficult to update and expensive to scale. In response to today’s business requirements of growth and innovation, enterprises must deliver new applications in an agile fashion while minimizing risk. Many […]
From ‘Cloud Zombies’ to Multi-Cloud Experts
A significant risk associated with cloud migration is overspending. For years, zombie-like obedience to AWS has resulted in price lock and escalating fees at many organizations – this is a tale for fighting the cloud zombies. Cloud costs around data egress or application bandwidth are often not transparent and thus highly unpredictable. Complicating this problem […]
DevOps’ Data Storage Problem
The technology sector has always been about problem-solving. When the value of big data was finally embraced, thanks to new analysis capabilities developed in the late nineties and early aughts, the industry adapted its mindset toward storage by investing in on-premises data centers to help store the data that would drive better business decisions. When […]
Winning DevOps in the Finance Industry
DevOps is making its impact on almost every software-powered company these days. Companies in the finance domain, however, have been perhaps the slowest to embrace DevOps because of concerns regarding governance, security, compliance and regulatory regulations. But it is safe to say that they are currently leading the digital innovation in this era of cloud-native […]
Reducing Cloud Infrastructure Complexity
The impact of the cloud and its role in mainstream IT is undeniable. According to IDC, global cloud IT infrastructure spending is projected to reach US$92 billion (SG$126 billion) in 2023. Notably, cloud spending is exceeding the spending on non-cloud IT infrastructure, underscoring the influence of the cloud in modern IT deployments. Fast Forward to […]
ServiceNow Extends DevOps Integration Reach
ServiceNow today announced it has added four new integrations with DevOps platforms to its IT service management (ITSM) platform delivered via the cloud. The four integrations add native support for Microsoft Azure Pipelines, a Jenkins Plugin, GitHub Actions and GitLab pipelines. A continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) Spoke capability on the ServiceNow platform makes it possible […]