Atlassian Adds Asset Management to ITSM Portfolio
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Mindville, a provider of IT asset management software that the company plans to integrate with its Jira ServiceDesk platform. Edwin Wong, head of product for IT at Atlassian, said Mindville will extend the reach of its IT service management (ITSM) portfolio, which includes Opsgenie for incident management, Jira […]
GitLab Extends Scope, Reach of CI/CD Platform
The latest update to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform adds a bevy of additional capabilities spanning multiple capabilities, from being able to manage application development and deployment projects in smaller chunks to allowing remote teams to work more efficiently. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist for GitLab, said a Minimal Viable Change (MVC) capability […]
Solving the DevOps Dilemma in the COVID Era
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing businesses to double down on DevOps transformation initiatives across the enterprise, pushing companies to be more agile and implement software changes throughout their organization at a much faster rate. However, too many IT departments rely on older, complex processes to approve software changes coming from DevOps teams and simply cannot […]
Puppet Launches Relay to Simplify Automating DevOps Workflows
Puppet today made available a public beta of Relay, an event-driven platform through which DevOps teams can automatically invoke pre-configured workflows. Company CTO Deepak Giridharagopal said Relay listens for DevOps events that can then trigger an automated workflow such as automatically deleting underutilized cloud resources, enforcing cybersecurity controls or remediating known issues. Relay connects to […]
Pinpoint Dives Deeper into Software Delivery Analytics
Pinpoint has extended its platform for managing software delivery to include the ability to analyze historical events to facility team reviews as well as more accurately predict where bottlenecks are likely to emerge based on the past performance of the DevOps team. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said the company’s namesake software is employed today mainly […]
Participate in the Checkmarx 2020 Survey
Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development, and DevOps.com are conducting a survey about the implementation of DevOps and related automation and security tools. The purpose of the survey is to help organizations evaluate their DevOps maturity, find out what are the most used DevOps tools and the most […]
Rookout Extends Reach of Debugging Platform to On-Prem
Rookout, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to simplify the debugging of applications, has extended the reach of its tools into on-premises IT environments. Company CTO Liran Haimovitch said its new Data On-Prem capability extends the reach of a bytecode manipulation capability developed by Rookout to insert a snapshot capture of a specific […]
AWS Aligns With Slack to Foster Dev Team Collaboration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies have formed an alliance through which they are moving to transform the way development teams collaborate. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Slack will migrate voice and video calls to the Amazon Chime real-time communications service. In addition, AWS and Slack are integrating Amazon AppFlow integration with […]
Appian Infuses Low-Code Platform With AI
Appian this week released an update to its low-code application development and deployment platform that employs artificial intelligence (AI) to recommend best next steps, including how to address cybersecurity issues. In addition, the latest version of Appian also makes it easier to incorporate robotic process automation (RPA) modules to automate rote tasks in addition to […]
Logi Analytics Simplifies Dashboard Development
Logi Analytics launched a tool that promises to make it easier to design, build and embed interactive dashboards and data visualization within applications. Company CEO Steven Schneider said Logi Composer helps ease the task of creating data visualizations within the context of a DevOps workflow. Based on technology Logi Analytics gained via its acquisition of […]
The Top 5 Challenges to Overcome with Heroku Logging
Heroku can be a very powerful tool for monitoring the massive amount of data generated by your applications, systems, APIs and add-ons. One thing you may have discovered with Heroku logging is that making sense of data within your log files can be time-consuming. When you’re running large numbers of applications which process tons of […]
Atlassian Unfurls Bevy of DevOps Updates
Atlassian today made a dozen updates to its DevOps portfolio as part of an effort to better unify workflows spanning disparate tools. Suzie Prince, head of product for Bitbucket at Atlassian, said the latest updates are intended to enable DevOps teams to streamline workflows without requiring everyone in the organization to standardize on the same […]
Chef Extends IT Automation Reach
Chef, at its online ChefConf 2020 event today, launched Chef Compliance and Chef Desktop as well as additional enhancements to the tools it provides for application deployment automation. John Wyss, vice president of product for Chef, said Chef Desktop enables IT teams to write their own configuration and compliance requirements as human-readable code using YAML […]
BMC Software Closes Compuware Deal, Sets Course
BMC Software today announced it has formally completed its acquisition of Compuware as part of an expanded effort to modernize mainframe environments. Bill Miller, president of ZSolutions at BMC, said now that the deal has been closed the combined companies will be able to more tightly integrate Compuware’s Topaz application development and deployment platform with […]
PagerDuty Looks to Streamline IT Incident Management
PagerDuty has added more automation and analytics capabilities into its portfolio of incident management tools, at a time when organizations are looking to significantly reduce the total cost of IT. Jonathan Rende, senior vice president of product at PagerDuty, said the general release of Intelligent Triage advances the level of AIOps that can be applied […]
CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps
CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share updates with one another. SlackOps takes that preference for DevOps a step further to enable complex DevOps processes, also known as ChatOps, to […]
GitLab Releases Massive Update to CI/CD Platform
GitLab has updated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a raft of capabilities spanning everything from value stream management to cybersecurity. In addition, GitLab announced it is making generally available Gitaly Clusters, which enable DevOps teams to create a warm replica of a Git repository. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist at GitLab, said with […]
CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach
CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for SDM at CloudBees, said these integrations with Google Cloud Build and Tekton pipelines are being provided as part of a long-standing alliance between […]
5 Reasons Your Legacy IT Management Tools Are Holding You Back
Even before the onset of a global pandemic, IT professionals were coming to the conclusion that their legacy tools were no longer fit for the demands of today’s modern organizations. Their tools have likely met the needs they were originally purchased for, but chances are they’re insufficient to help organizations grow, innovate and move their […]
Datical Embraces Liquibase Identity
Datical today announced that it will now operate under the moniker Liquibase to better reflect the open source tool it provides for automating database releases. At the same time, the company is promising to make it easier to upgrade from the Liquibase Pro edition of its software to Liquibase Business, a new edition that provides […]
DRY Comes to COBOL in IBM Z Development
Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is a fundamental tenet of modern computer programming. Just about every CS student is taught that duplicating code in an application is an accident waiting to happen. The hazard is that you might alter a piece of code in one place, only to leave another identical instance of that code unchanged. […]
Atlassian Acquires Halp to Gain Help Desk Based on Slack
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp will provide organizations with a way to manage lightweight processes via an interface that is already commonly used within many organizations. The goal […]
LaunchNotes Adds Communications Tool for App Release
LaunchNotes today launched a namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing the communications surrounding the release of an application. Company co-founder Jake Brereton said LaunchNotes streamlines internal and external communications for DevOps teams, eliminating the need to employ a collaboration tool such as Slack or a project management application. Each message can be designated as either […]