VMware Advances Hybrid Cloud Ambitions
VMware today advanced its hybrid cloud strategy by making a series of updates to existing offerings, including the CloudHealth by VMware software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for managing and optimizing cloud applications, which VMware acquired last summer. In addition, VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in data centers operated by Amazon Web Services in Canada, Paris […]
5 Steps for Successful Continuous Testing Implementation
Continuous integration (CI) calls for code to be always working. Continuous delivery (CD) and continuous deployment mean that we must be able to roll out a working configuration to production at any time. As DevOps becomes the norm, bugs in production are now a developer’s personal problem. Developers (and their managers) want to know immediately […]
Chef Achieves Multiple Compliance Mandates
Chef today announced it will make it easier for organizations that adopt its IT automation framework to stay compliant with mandates such as the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Secure Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIG) and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) certification. John Snow, senior software development engineer and federal content lead for solutions engineering […]
LightStep Unfurls Dynamic Tracing Service
LightStep announced a stand-alone dynamic tracing tools capability that visualizes patterns in code based on 100 percent of the data available. Company CEO, Ben Sigelman, said LightStep Tracing differs from other approaches to tracing because it does not rely on a small sample of data that usually doesn’t wind up providing much actionable insight. Instead, […]
In Service Management, AI Is Still Aspirational
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a matured concept, the excitement of which is bearing results for a number of sectors and it holds a good deal of promise for a bright future. AI is the act of making possible for machines to learn from “experience” while adjusting to new input and stimuli so they can […]
‘DevOoops’ Moves: SCM Conflicts
DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call a “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops in action. Following is a discussion submitted by solution architect […]
Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Reach
Akamai today moved to further extend the number of capabilities it exposes via its content delivery network (CDN) that are designed to appeal to DevOps teams. Those enhancements include HTTP/2 performance optimizations and the ability to automatically load font libraries, as well as providing access to “middle-mile” logs that will enable DevOps teams to more […]
Atlassian Adds Pre-Configured Pipelines to Bitbucket CI/CD
One of the primary reasons DevOps processes have not been widely adopted across the enterprise is that building pipelines across all the tools required is a painstaking effort. As a result, most pipelines today are constructed using manual pipelines. However, Atlassian has announced it is now making available pre-configured Bitbucket Pipelines that DevOps teams can […]
VMware Brings NSX Network Virtualization into DevOps Realm
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 conference, VMware moved to bring network virtualization into the realm of DevOps by adding support for a declarative programming model and JSON data formats to version 2.4 of NSX-T. In addition, VMware is making it possible to use the open source Ansible automation framework to deploy NSX-T. Finally, […]
What AI Could Mean for Developers
Artificial intelligence has been dominating the tech news headlines for a few years now, as the innovations in the sector keep rolling out at increased rates. The technology is, for lack of a better term, awesome, and when used correctly, it can have tremendous effects. We have already begun to see artificial intelligence in the […]
Enhance DevOps Experience with AWS Smart Tools
DevOps has become the champion of business operations by fostering collaboration between disparate teams, providing a common work framework and paving way for continuous delivery that greatly boosted software development. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a leading provider of DevOps tools and services and has been instrumental in taking this experience to a higher […]
Kemp Adds Predictive Analytics to ADC to Advance DevOps
Kemp this week enhanced the automation and predictive analytics capabilities it makes available within its application developer controller (ADC) as part of an effort to ease deployment of applications across multi-cloud computing environments. Company CEO Ray Downes said the goal is to make it easier for DevOps teams to avoid overprovisioning IT infrastructure, at a […]
New Relic Accelerates AIOps with SignifAI Acquisition
New Relic, following its acquisition of SignifAI, is in the process of accelerating its investments in machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of an effort to make it easier to separate the signal from the noise created by all the alerts in an IT environment. Aaron Johnson, senior vice […]
Open Mainframe Project: Zowe Ready for Prime Time
There is a lot of interest in updating mainframe technology/interfaces across traditional enterprises. As development environments and toolsets have evolved outside the mainframe, there is a struggle to keep up—partially because backward compatibility requirements make wild changes difficult and partly because the very architecture of mainframes is different. There have been several fragmented efforts over […]
Electric Cloud Aims to Make DevOps More Accessible
Electric Cloud today unfurled the Winter 2019 edition of the ElectricFlow platform for managing DevOps, which makes it easier for different classes of users to tailor the platform to meet their specific needs. Sam Fell, vice president of marketing for Electric Cloud, said the latest release of ElectricFlow allows end users to choose from different […]
Actifio Looks to Meld DataOps with DevOps
Actifio and IBM have formed an alliance under which IBM will make available data management software developed by Actifio under its own name as part of an effort to close the gap between DevOps and DataOps. At the same time, Actifio will make available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for the first time, dubbed Actifio Go, […]
‘DevOps Engineer’ Title Lands in Top 5 of Dice Salary Survey
The position of DevOps Engineer is gaining some serious respect, and with that comes cash. In Dice’s recently released “2019 Tech Salary Report,” DevOps Engineer now ranks in the Top 5 of all tech salaries, with an average of $111,683. The survey is based on the responses of 10,780 technology professionals conducted between Oct. 22 […]
OverOps Employs Machine Learning to Measure Application Reliability
OverOps is adding a series of dashboards to its analytics platform that employ machine learning algorithms to identify which software application anomalies in a pre-production environment are likely to have the most impact on a production environment. Company CTO Tal Weiss said one of the biggest challenges DevOps teams face is prioritizing which issues to […]
Salt Security Unveils Platform to Secure APIs
Salt Security, fresh off raising an additional $10 million in funding, announced a platform that promises to advance the state of DevSecOps by making it possible to detect when application programming interfaces (APIs) are being probed by cybercriminals looking for weaknesses to exploit. Salt Security CEO Roey Eliyahu said the Salt Security API Protection Platform employs […]
DevOps Challenges and Version Control: What the Survey Results Tell Us
Putting DevOps into practice is an ongoing experiment for many organizations. Developers often struggle with continuous integration (CI) or continuous delivery (CD) performance, testing delays and other bottlenecks. While not the answer to everything, version control—that long-established foundation of software development toolchains—has become a central part of DevOps, particularly DevOps at scale. This is underlined […]
AIOps: How to Solve Performance Issues in Complex Data Pipelines
AIOps takes center stage to topple barriers as modern data application growth accelerates There seems to be a chasm between DevOps and big data teams in the enterprise, and the bridge over that chasm is long and treacherous. In fact, data analysts who are charged with managing and making sense of the growing volumes of […]
How AIOps Makes DevOps Less Noisy
For DevOps engineers, “noise” is the enemy of productivity. In this context, the noise we’re talking about is unnecessary or low-priority alerts and notifications that distract engineers from identifying serious issues—and ultimately can cause alert fatigue syndrome, in which alerting systems are ignored altogether. Without the application of a well-constructed noise reduction plan, alert noise […]
How AIOps Helps You Get More Out of DevOps
DevOps may seem like an overused term. It involves taking an application’s source code and running it in an environment. It can cover the processes, the technology or even the people that maintain the technology that is running those very processes. At its heart, though, DevOps is about helping developers to be self-sufficient when it […]