ServiceNow Acquires Lightstep to Gain Observability Platform
ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. The Change Intelligence observability platform from Lightstep is based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events […]
Survey Illuminates Long Dark Road to Hybrid Cloud
While hybrid cloud computing will play a critical role in enabling digital business transformation it turns out most IT organizations lack the skills and technologies required to achieve it. A survey of 108 IT executives conducted by the research firm Pulse on behalf of CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, finds 94% […]
DevOps Practices Gap Assessment
Using DevOps to continuously deliver software has proven value for organizations that are on a path towards digital transformation and continuous improvement. To get the maximum value from DevOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s […]
Data Needs and Challenges with CData
The data businesses and applications need are everywhere and access through a multitude of technical interfaces, including APIs, database queries, data layers like ODBC, cloud services and SaaS applications (to name a few). In this episode of TechStrong TV, Jerod Johnson, technical evangelist at CData, joins Mitch Ashley to discuss the challenges of meeting the […]
ServiceNow Shifts to Single Unified Agent
ServiceNow today unveiled an Agent Client Collector (ACC) that makes it possible for IT teams to capture data from software, hardware and cloud infrastructure. Jeff Hausman, vice president and general manager for IT operations management at ServiceNow, said this unified agent will enable IT teams to reduce the number of agents they would otherwise have […]
Fast Object Storage Key to Backup and DR Strategy
The massive shift to remote work necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic kickstarted many companies’ digital transformation. While this transition had already begun for most organizations, the pandemic sped up the timeline. These events also had an impact on how storage and backup is done. Let’s look at why the right storage solution is key to […]
Applause Delivers Testing Integration Tool
Applause today made a bi-directional integration capability that simplifies requesting application code tests of, dubbed Applause In-Sprint Testing, generally available. Kristin Simonini, vice president of product for Applause, said application owners will be able to, for example, use a Jira project management application to create a ticket that requests a specific piece of code be […]
DevOps Trends to Watch in 2021
Engineers at fast-paced startups often wear both Dev and DevOps hats. Early in my career, as a developer at a sentiment-analysis startup, I was tasked with writing scripts to spin up servers, configure them, install necessary software and deploy the code we wrote. My custom shell scripts, Python scripts and cron jobs did all the […]
Redis Labs Extends Reach of In-Memory Database
At its online RedisConf 2021 event, Redis Labs today detailed how the company’s in-memory database will be employed to drive real-time applications that are at the core of most digital business transformation initiatives. Yiftach Shoolman, Redis Labs CTO and co-founder, said there are four initiatives at the core of the Redis Labs effort to replace […]
DevSecOps Practices Gap Assessment
DevSecOps practices are essential to deliver software safely and securely withinDevOps value streams. To get the maximum security protection from DevSecOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s practices for DevSecOps and determine a strategy for […]
Unified Enterprise DevOps Platforms Eliminate Bottlenecks
Nearly all enterprise digital transformation projects include moving software to DevOps processes and platforms. The effort, cost and time it takes to be successful with these transformations depend on a lot of factors, but one thing stands out: as indicated in my white paper Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform Why? How? And What?, “An enterprise with many […]
DevOps Skills Increasing Among Salesforce Developers
A survey of 521 attendees at a recent online Future of Salesforce DevOps Summit event hosted by Gearset, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce developers, found just under half (47%) of respondents now release software at least multiple times a week, with another 29% releasing software weekly or biweekly. More […]
BMC Tightens Integration Across DevOps Tools for Mainframes
BMC has extended its BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and BMC Compuware portfolios as part of an ongoing effort to make mainframes just another platform for DevOps teams to build and deploy applications on. John McKenny, senior vice president and general manager for Intelligent Z optimization and transformation at BMC, said the DevOps technologies that […]
Languages and DevOps: Can’t be Contained
The evolution of platform is an interesting study. From physical to virtual to cloud to containers, the progression has been steady, and each successive platform has benefits for both Dev and Ops that make them appealing. In the case of containers, portability is the word. As easy to fold into your DevOps toolchain as cloud, […]
Linux Foundation Takes Control Of AsyncAPI Specification
The Linux Foundation announced today that it now plays host to an AsyncAPI Initiative that has developed a specification and a suite of open source tools for asynchronous application programming interfaces (APIs) and event-driven architectures. Founding sponsors of the AsyncAPI Initiative include Ably Realtime, Apideck, Bump, IQVIA Technologies, Slack, Solace and TIBCO. Most recently, Postman, […]
CircleCI Previews Support for Arm Platforms
CircleCI today previewed the ability to deploy applications on platforms based on Arm processors in a forthcoming release of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Tom Trahan, vice president of business development for CircleCI, said that Arm processors are rapidly being embraced by DevOps teams seeking to take advantage of the price/performance advantages they […]
Tricentis Aquires Neotys to Gain Load Testing Tools
Tricentis announced today it has acquired Neotys as part of an effort to expand the scope of its tools portfolio into the realm of load testing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Neotys provides application testing teams with automatic test design and maintenance, user behavior simulation and root cause analysis capabilities using a set […]
Best Practices for Digital Experience Management
The COVID-19 pandemic put digital services in the spotlight. The winners in 2020 and beyond will be those organizations which provide awesome user experiences for online products, services and apps. There is scant room for error, as digital leaders before the pandemic have upped their game even more. For example, streaming service provider Netflix’s 2020 […]
Visualization Shines a Light on IT Metrics
Modern IT departments operate in a pressure cooker. Their highly distributed infrastructures are spread across legacy data centers and hybrid and multiple public clouds. Now, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the edge are part of the mix. Massive amounts of data are flowing through these multifaceted environments, and it falls on IT to make […]
Grafana Labs Aligns with Elastic on Observability
Elastic and Grafana Labs have allied to create a plugin through which DevOps teams that are employing Elasticsearch within a DevOps workflow will be able to invoke a monitoring platform, based on Prometheus, that is managed by Grafana Labs. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said both companies are dedicating engineering resources to building and maintaining […]
Copado Acquires New Context to Drive DevSecOps Adoption
Copado, a provider of a DevOps platform for building applications deployed on the Salesforce cloud platform, announced today it has acquired New Context as part of an effort to expand the scope of its portfolio into the realm of DevSecOps best practices. Andrew Leigh, chief marketing officer for Copado, said the acquisition brings Copado tools […]
JumpCloud Brings Zero-Touch Provisioning to the Mac
JumpCloud today announced it is adding a zero-touch enrollment for Macs capability to its cloud directory platform that will also be extended over time to applications. Greg Keller, JumpCloud CTO, said this new capability extends Apple Business Manager, formerly known as Apple Device Enrollment Program (DEP), all the way down to specific users by leveraging […]
Measuring the Value of DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS)
The late great W. Edwards Deming, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant said, “In God we trust. All others must bring data.” The point is, if you want people to trust your information, then you need to present measured data. This is true for countless circumstances. As a DevOps consultant, I am often asked by […]