DevOps Dozen 2018: Nominations Deadline Approaching
The last day to submit your nominations for the DevOps Dozen 2018 awards is Oct 10. Click here to vote. This year’s awards will include 12 categories, with a winner chosen from each. The top four to six nominees in each category will become finalists, who will be selected based upon the number of nominations they […]
SAP Extends Effort to Modernize App Development
SAP this week expanded the scope of the SAP Cloud Platform to include support for the ABAP programming language and made available a beta version of a Kubernetes-as-a-service offering, in effort to update its app development portfolio. Announced at the SAP TechEd 2018 conference, these two offerings serve as bookends for an evolving SAP strategy […]
Microsoft Puts Upgrade Plan in DevOps Motion
Microsoft this week at its Ignite 2018 conference made it clear DevOps teams will have their hands full upgrading both databases and operating systems this Fall. Erin Chapple, corporate vice president for Windows Server, announced Windows Server 2019 will become generally available next month. As is the case with Windows Server 2016, there are three […]
Kong Inc. Defines Services-Centric Approach to Integration
Kong Inc. has released a feature-complete version of its namesake services broker for legacy and microservices-based applications that promises to eliminate the need for legacy application programming interface (API) management platforms. Company CTO Marco Palladino said traditional API management platforms, for all intents and purposes, are now dead. Formerly known as Mashape, the core technology […]
5 Tips for Creating Blockchain IOS and Android Apps
Blockchain development and blockchain technology are playing a major role in the creation of various iOS and Android apps. Blockchain technology has seized the attention of many and when it is utilized properly, mobile app developers are able to achieve results that few thought possible. There are no shortage of benefits provided by blockchain development. […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Visibility
OpsRamp has advanced its case for AIOps via a Fall update to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that adds a Topology Explorer alongside an enhanced set of Service Maps. In addition, OpsRamp added a cloud database monitoring capabilities for relational databases deployed on public clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform […]
Atomist Advances Developer Productivity
Atomist is extending the reach of an automated approach to managing software delivery out to the local machines developers work on every day. Company founder and CEO Rod Johnson said with its Software Delivery Machine (SDM) project, Atomist seeks to eliminate much of the complexity developers currently must navigate as they build code, including making […]
Atlassian Acquires OpsGenie to Automate Incident Management
Atlassian this week announced its plans to acquire OpsGenie as part of an effort to apply DevOps principles to incident management. The announcement was made at the Altassian Summit Europe 2018 conference. Atlassian plans to integrate OpsGenie, which provides incident alerting and communications software, with its Jira service desk software to enable organizations to automate […]
DevOps Dozen 2018 – Nominations Are Now Open
The DevOps Dozen awards are back and now open for nominations. This fourth annual DevOps Dozen honors the best of the best—the leaders and innovators in the DevOps community. This year’s awards will include 12 categories, with a winner chosen from each. The top four to six nominees in each category will become finalists, who will […]
VMware Looks to ‘Ruthlessly’ Automate IT
VMware, at VMworld 2018 this week, advanced an ambitious campaign to automate IT management by announcing a deal to acquire CloudHealth Technologies and then previewing a Project Magna initiative that employs machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to create what VMware describes as self-driven data centers. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told […]
Mirantis Modeling Tool Extends SDI Scope and Reach
Mirantis has added a modeling tool to its portfolio that enables users to allocate IT infrastructure that has been distributed across multiple data centers to a common set of workloads. Company CEO Adrian Ionel said the latest edition of the Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP) for building provide clouds on OpenStack or Kubernetes platforms now includes […]
SnapLogic Extends DevOps Reach via GitHub
SnapLogic has extended the reach of its SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud into the realm of DevOps by making it possible to store integrations creating using Snap connectors in GitHub. The company also announced integration with the DC/OS platform from Mesosphere along with a new service catalog and several updates to the Iris artificial intelligence (AI) […]
OverOps Brings Machine Learning to DevOps
OverOps has launched a namesake platform employing machine learning algorithms to capture data from an IT environment that identify potential issues before a DevOps team decides to promote an application into production. Company CTO Tal Weiss said the OverOps Platform is unique in that, rather than relying on log data, it combines static and dynamic […]
When AI Met DevOps: Machine Teaching
One of my favorite quotes about artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t from a data scientist or tech industry analyst. It’s from a doctor. When asked if AI would eventually replace radiologists, Dr. Curtis Langoltz of Stanford University pithily replied “No, but radiologists who use AI will replace those who do not use it.” This great insight […]
6 Ways AI and ML Will Change DevOps for the Better
There’s been a lot of media attention in recent years about how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are going to change the world—how they’re going to create new and interesting applications in fields as diverse as education, law, health care and transportation. This may happen. But if I had to bet on a […]
Choose Your Toolstack — and Manage It — Wisely
Every DevOps toolstack has a control point, be it a bus, an app, a management app or whatever. Something always is in control and driving the other pieces of the architecture to do their part. It is a basic tenet of automation that jobs are mostly kicked off by something in the software hierarchy. In […]
DevOpsGroup Academy Launch: Interview with Head James Harvey
DevOpsGroup Academy launched in July with a mission to eradicate the UK’s tech skill shortage and invest in the high-performing IT professionals of the future. I recently had a chance to speak with DevOpsGroup Academy Head James Harvey about the mission and vision for DevOpsGroup Academy and what he sees for the future of technology […]
HPE Brings Storage Deeper into DevOps Realm
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today moved to bring storage further into the realm of DevOps by integrating its 3PAR storage systems with VMware vRealize Orchestration software, open source Kubernetes container orchestration software and the Red Hat OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment built on top of Kubernetes. HPE 3PAR storage systems already support Docker containers and the DC/OS […]
CloudBees Expands Visibility into DevOps Processes
CloudBees has moved to bring some order to the potential DevOps chaos via an update to CloudBees DevOptics, a monitoring tool for tracking stages of the software delivery process in real time. The update to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application adds capabilities that identify everything from potential bottlenecks to periods of inactivity that might be better […]
The State of the Kotlin Programming Language in 2018
Pusher, the communications and collaboration API provider, recently released the findings of its “State of Kotlin 2018” research report. Over the past 24 months, adoption and use of the Kotlin programming language among developers has seen tremendous growth. Pusher has seen this growth firsthand, with more developers using Kotlin while building applications with the company’s […]
CA Technologies Looks to Shift Automation Left
CA Technologies, at its recent CA Automation Summit, advanced its case for leveraging automation to create a software development factory via an update to the CA Automic One automation platform that adds automation-as-code functionality. Gwyn Clay, vice president of product management for the Automation Business Unit at CA Technologies, said the latest release of CA […]
Compuware Extends DevOps Push for Mainframes
Compuware has advanced its campaign to erase the DevOps divide between mainframes and distributed systems via an update to Topaz for Enterprise Data that makes it easier to generate data from mainframe applications for testing purposes without compromising the security of some of the most sensitive data in the enterprise. Company CEO Chris O’Malley said […]
Leveraging Automation for Your Business
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capability to change the way we work, the way we manage, and the way we conduct research. As automation processes improve, businesses increasingly are looking for ways to leverage the new technology to help with their own goals. There are certain risks posed by the advancement of artificial intelligence, and […]