Challenges of Big Infrastructure Monitoring
The growing complexity of today’s IT reality is indisputable: Software is becoming more complex, and the infrastructure it runs on is equally so. This complexity comes, in part, from adding layers upon layers to the infrastructure we manage—from bare metal servers to VMs to containers to function-based computing—and from how quickly we cycle in new […]
Atomist Takes on Application Drift Management
Atomist today announced it is extending the capabilities of its software delivery automation platform to include drift management tools that make it easier to identify changes to code. Now in beta, that capability is based on an open source project dubbed Org Visualizer, which makes it possible to clone an entire project hosted in a […]
Aspects of Machine Learning on the Edge
Machine learning (ML) is hard. Making it work within the confined environment of an embedded device can easily become a quagmire unless we consider, and frequently revisit, the design and deployment aspects crucially affected by ML requirements. A bit of upfront planning makes the difference between project success and failure. For this article, our focus […]
Got a DevOps Tool? Take Part in Our Annual DevOps Tools Survey
The DevOps tools market is growing at a fast clip, with market values ranging from $8 billion to $12 billion worldwide by 2022, depending on which analyst you trust most. That growth is due in large part to the number of vendors entering the DevOps space, offering a bevy of tools designed specifically for addressing […]
Computer Vision is Building the Future
Developing an accurate, regulated and purpose-driven facial recognition software is the challenge of computer vision engineering. It is also the future of how people do their everyday tasks: from unlocking a phone to signing into a bank app or logging the time they get to the office. Facial recognition amazes more and more with its […]
Progressive Web Apps are Taking Over the Mobile Web
Consumers now spend most of their time on their mobiles, that’s no secret. And with 4G networks now the norm in both developed and developing markets, people have every reason to expect their mobile experiences will be as good as PC-based ones. But they aren’t for the most part. Mobile web is 49% of all […]
OverOps Integrates AI Code Analyzer With CI/CD Platforms
At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, OverOps announced it has integrated its namesake tools for analyzing Java and Microsoft .NET code at runtime with a variety of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms, including Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity, Atlassian Bamboo and Pivotal Concourse. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering for OverOps, noted that […]
GitHub Actions Advances Automation Strategy
GitHub Actions, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) through which DevOps tools can automate workflows, is now available in beta. Previewed last year at the GitHub Universe event, GitHub Actions is intended to provide not only a way to automate responses to events occurring within a GitHub Repository but also share those workflows across […]
CollabNet VersionOne Advances End-to-End DevOps Strategy
At its Agile 2019 conference, CollabNet VersionOne announced it plans to extend the capabilities of its software delivery and management platforms later this month as part of an effort to provide organizations with more visibility into how changing software development project schedules impact the business. Company CEO Flint Brenton said updates to the VersionOne value […]
Twilio Adds DevOps Tool to Invoke Communications Services
At its annual SIGNAL conference, Twilio today launched an initiative intended to make it easier to embed a variety of communication services within an application in the context of a DevOps process. Quinton Wall, senior director of developer marketing at Twilio, said the open source Twilio Command Line Interface (CLI) tool, now available in beta, […]
Game On: Gamification for the Win
Staying competitive in today’s fast-moving digital economy is easier said than done. Operating in a digital environment requires a significant shift in company culture and an agile software environment that accelerates time to value. Creating a DevOps environment helps companies keep pace, but it requires a workforce that is empowered, excited and motivated. Gamification offers a […]
Automated Certificate Management No Longer a Luxury
On December 6, 2018, approximately 32 million customers of the UK telecom provider O2 woke up to a frustrating reality: The most widely used mobile network in the country was experiencing a day-long outage of its 4G mobile network. For some, not being able to check the weather forecast, traffic report or football scores was […]
Micro Focus Lays DevOps Foundation for RPA
Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Micro Focus Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which sets the stage for employing DevOps processes to construct highly automated business processes. Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital business transformation initiatives, interest in RPA has increased significantly. However, rather than merely using RPA to build […]
How Serverless Is Impacting the IT Landscape
Although most users will never realize it, with every digital data entry and exchange servers are consuming substantial quantities of energy to file, store and sustain that data’s availability. While the average consumer or office worker doesn’t consider the economic or environmental impact they have, IT and C-Suite teams are awakening to the problem and […]
Low-Code Has Taken Development by Storm. Why Not the Web?
For more than a decade, development tools increasingly have made their way into the hands of less-technical people. On the web in particular, we’ve eliminated the webmaster as the middleman with content management systems and moved progressively toward a model where non-technical users could assemble their own sites with little to no coding experience of […]
Chef Brings DevOps to Windows Platform Migrations
Chef and Microsoft revealed today that they are working together to apply DevOps processes to accelerate the migration of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 to more current versions. Announced at the Microsoft Inspire conference, the goal is to enable organizations to leverage Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS), which includes an EAS Migration Accelerator […]
AWS Advances DevOps Agenda at Summit Event
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added services to its cloud platform designed to automate the creation of virtual private clouds (VPCs) and made available additional tools to build applications and integrate external data. Speaking at the AWS Summit event, CTO Werner Vogels said these latest services are part of an ongoing effort to automate DevOps […]
Workflow Automation Poised to Accelerate DevOps
Automation is taking the market by storm. Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2020, more than 40% of data science tasks will be automated, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Businesses are turning to automation to reduce costs, increase productivity and gain a competitive advantage. Add DevOps to the mix and it […]
The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery
Facebook’s useful but neglected DevOps tool Osquery has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to The Linux Foundation. Anyone who has been tasked with monitoring the security of server instances in a data center or cloud knows how laborious and time-consuming it can be. Osquery, a project started by Facebook, aims to lessen this […]
HashiCorp Tools Bridge DevOps, Legacy IT Environments
At its HashiConf EU 2019 conference this week, HashiCorp extended the reach of its Terraform Enterprise tools for automating the management of IT infrastructure beyond the realm of DevOps into legacy IT environments. Via integration with the Service Catalog from ServiceNow, IT administrators working with a traditional ITIL-based framework now can invoke Terraform Enterprise to […]
source{d} Delivers Enterprise Edition of SDLC Platform
source{d} has made available an enterprise edition of its software development lifecycle (SDLC) platform that includes visualization and analytics tools along with additional management capabilities. A free community edition of the core source{d} platform, which is stripped of most of the enterprise-class tools, also is now available in beta. Company CEO Eiso Kant said the […]
VMware Adds Cloud Automation for DevOps
Those who follow my blog will recall that I covered (and did some work for) CloudCoreo, a cloud security and compliance start-up. What the company was working on was intriguing to me because it pulled many things into the realm of DevOps through automation at a time when cloud security was a big issue. It’s […]
Clubhouse Aims to Simplify Software Project Management
Clubhouse Software today announced it is adding a Clubhouse Iterations module to its project management application to make it easier to plan sprints involving product and software engineering teams. Mitch Wainer, chief marketing officer for Clubhouse Software, said Iterations will be included as part of its project management application service, which aims to bridge the […]