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Hasura Unfurls Data Delivery Network Based on GraphQL

At its HasuraCon 2023 conference today, Hasura launched a Data Delivery Network (DDN) based on a set of GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs) that makes it simpler to integrate distributed sources of data. In addition, Hasura is adding Hasura Schema Registry to streamline API governance using graph technology, a MongoDB connector, a Native Data Collector […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 21, 2023
Application Performance Management/Monitoring

Quali Adds Governance and Cloud Cost Control Tools to Automation Platform

Quali today revealed it added governance and cloud cost management tools to its Torque platform for automating IT infrastructure management. David Williams, senior vice president for market strategy at Quali, said the added governance tools will make it possible to enforce security, compliance and consumption policies as IT environments are launched using the automation blueprints […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 20, 2023
Blogs

Unleashing the Power of AI-Engineered DevSecOps

In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that AI-engineered tools can help implement the portion of continuous security practices known as DevSecOps. DevSecOps involves integrating security practices into the DevOps workflow. AI can be used in anomaly detection to identify potential security threats and to automate security […]

Marc Hornbeek · Jun 16, 2023
AI

BMC Adds Generative AI Capabilities to Helix Management Platform

BMC today revealed it is embedding generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its BMC Helix service and operations management platforms. BMC CTO Ram Chakravarti said the company is incorporating the open source GPT-J large language models (LLMS) to build generative AI models. Those models are optimized for specific domains using data collected by BMC and […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 14, 2023
Blogs

HashiCorp Releases Slew of Updates to Improve DevSecOps

At a HashiDays event this week, HashiCorp launched updates to its Terraform implementation and a software-as-a-service offering, dubbed HCP Vault Secrets, that promise to simplify infrastructure security and ensure that secrets are not leaked. In addition, HashiCorp has added a self-hosted edition of its remote access security tool, Boundary, that can now also record SSH […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 13, 2023
Application Performance Management/Monitoring

Grafana Labs Slashes Time to Create Observability Dashboards

At its GrafanaCON 2023 event today, Grafana Labs updated its core platform for visualizing data which makes it simpler to set up dashboards in minutes. The updates are part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of a tool that is now widely used by DevOps teams. Ryan McKinley, a distinguished engineer for Grafana Labs, […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 13, 2023
Blogs

Atlassian Advances DevSecOps via Jira Integrations

Atlassian announced today it has allied with Snyk, Mend, Lacework, Stackhawk and JFrog to make it simpler to aggregate vulnerability data within the Jira project management software that many organizations rely on to manage application development and deployment efforts. Andrew Pankevicius, a senior product manager for Atlassian, said the collaborations will make it easier to […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 6, 2023
Application Performance Management/Monitoring

PagerDuty Signals Commitment to Adding Generative AI Capabilities

PagerDuty has signaled its intention to add generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its cloud platform for managing IT operations via integrations with large language model (LLM) providers that it will disclose at a future date. These capabilities will make it possible to invoke natural language via PagerDuty Operations Cloud to automatically generate status updates, […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 6, 2023
AI

Friend or Foe? ChatGPT’s Impact on Open Source Software

OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm, amassing 100 million users in the first two months after its public launch. The continued interest in the tool has created a buzz among developers, especially those in the open source community. But this begs the question: How will ChatGPT impact open source software? Amid the excitement and […]

Javier Perez · Jun 2, 2023
Blogs

VMware Streamlines IT Management via Cloud Foundation Update

VMware this week updated its Cloud Foundation platform and rolled up recent updates to the company’s virtualization portfolio all at once. Version 5.0 of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) encompasses the latest versions of VMware vSphere 8.0u1 for workload management, VMware vSAN 8.0u1 for scale-out storage, VMware NSX 4.1 for networking and VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 2, 2023
Blogs

CDF Marries Emporous Repository to Ortelius Management Platform

The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) has added the open source Emporous repository for software artifacts to an Ortelius platform for managing the software artifacts that make up a microservice. Ortelius was originally created by DeployHub and subsequently contributed to the CDF, which also oversees the development of the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) […]

Mike Vizard · May 26, 2023
Blogs

Dell Looks to Expand Pool of Available DevOps Expertise

Dell Technologies has quietly launched a training and education initiative to significantly expand the number of IT professionals that have DevOps skills. Brad Maltz, senior director for DevOps and developer relations ecosystems for Dell, said the next era of IT will require IT professionals that understand how to automate the management of application development and […]

Mike Vizard · May 25, 2023
Blogs

Microsoft Adds Slew of Developer Tools to Azure

At its Build 2023 conference this week, Microsoft announced general availability of an Azure Deployment Environment service that provides developers with a portal through which they can employ infrastructure-as-a-code (IaC) templates based on Terraform or Azure Resource Management files. In addition, Microsoft has enhanced Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation environment for developers that run Azure, […]

Mike Vizard · May 24, 2023
Application Performance Management/Monitoring

Red Hat Enhances Insights to Simplify RHEL Management

This week at its Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat introduced an expanded set of capabilities to Red Hat Insights that simplify management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Managing Linux across the hybrid cloud is complex, and it’s made even more so because of current macroeconomic conditions and the challenge of finding and retaining […]

Sharon Florentine · May 24, 2023
AI

Red Hat Adds Generative AI and Event-Driven Capabilities to Ansible

Red Hat today unveiled a technical preview of Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service specifically trained on domain-specific data collected via the Ansible automation platform. At the same time, Red Hat is also making available an event-driven capability within version 2.4 of the Ansible platform that enables runbooks […]

Mike Vizard · May 23, 2023
Blogs

How Test-Driven Methodologies Reduce CI/CD Lead Time

Modern development environments, in which rapid continuous delivery is facilitated by automated continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines, require thorough and automated testing in development prior to integration. This article explains how test-driven development (TDD) and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) methodologies reduce CI/CD lead times. Lack of test automation in development impacts CI/CD lead time for […]

Marc Hornbeek · May 19, 2023