Puppet Adds DevOps Consulting Practice
Puppet has launched a DevOps consulting service that promises to help organizations implement best practices that will ultimately make their IT organizations more efficient. Nigel Kersten, field CTO, Puppet, said the Scaling DevOps Service is especially focused on improving workflows among organizations that have already started down the DevOps path. Most IT organizations that embrace […]
Game On: Secure Coding Virtual Summit 2021
Agile organizations are looking for ways to win at security without slowing down their release cycles. That’s where DevSecOps comes in. The days of a hands-off security approach for developers are over. Organizations implementing DevSecOps to integrate security into their DevOps framework are able to release secure software faster. Developers test code for potential security […]
How to Respond to Rising Cloud Costs
As organizations ascend to the cloud, their cloud expenses are floating to the same lofty heights. But are all cloud costs necessary? The answer is a resounding no — there’s a lot of waste. In 2020, organizations wasted $17.6 billion on idle cloud resources and cloud overspending, according to ParkMyCloud. Data egress, upgrades and subscriptions […]
GitLab Releases Updates to CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week made available a 13.9 update that adds more than 60 new features and updated capabilities to its namesake open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Brian Glanz, a product marketing manager for GitLab, said chief among those capabilities is a Security Alert Dashboard that enables DevOps teams to triage high-priority alerts more […]
SolarWinds Unveils Revamped APM Platform
SolarWinds is unifying its various application performance management (APM) tools within a single suite accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Denny LeCompte, senior vice president for products at SolarWinds, said the APM Integrated Experience offering combines the company’s AppOptics, Loggly and Pingdom tools to collect metrics, traces and logs along with real user monitoring capabilities […]
Applause Automates App Testing via SaaS Platform
Applause today unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that makes it easier to automatically create test automation scripts without having to write code. At the same time, the company is adding support for an application programming interface (API) through which DevOps teams can send new features to be tested by the Applause platform. Both offerings are […]
Mabl Adds Beta of Desktop Continuous Testing Tool
Mabl today announced availability of a beta version of a desktop tool for creating tests that can be applied to browsers and application programming interfaces (APIs) using a low-code tool. Dan Belcher, co-founder of Mabl, said the goal is to make it simpler to streamline testing processes as responsibility for application quality assurance (QA) continues […]
Survey: The State of Database DevOps
Enterprises are undergoing rapid changes. Throughout the past year, companies have been pressed to learn a diversified set of technologies and methods to remain agile in a changing economy. In this digital-first world, data plays a heightened role; in tandem, so does the delivery of data and the persistence of the database layer itself. Applying […]
Ambassador Insights: Cloud-Native
Cloud-native is a methodology and a mindset that’s been gaining traction in the DevOps and application development space as more organizations look to leverage the benefits of cloud infrastructure, including scalability. As with many other topics in the DevOps space, however, cloud-native isn’t easily definable; rather, it is loosely described by the technologies it utilizes, […]
Amex, Adobe Join GitHub Intern Program
GitHub revealed today that Adobe and American Express have joined its Summer 2021 Fellowship program, a 12-week, hands-on curriculum where interns work alongside developers to contribute to open source projects hosted on the GitHub repository. Vanessa Gennarelli, senior director of education at GitHub, said the overall goal of the program is increase the pool of […]
DevSecOps May Be Key to Prevent Data Leaks
Data leakage has become something of a norm in the digital realm, despite the fact that cybersecurity budgets are growing and more engineers are assigned to these very issues. Nowhere does this seem more true than in the realm of health care, where breaches that expose sensitive patient data are, sadly, a fairly common occurrence. […]
Grafana Labs Adds On-Premises Observability Platform
Grafana Labs announced today the availability of a unified Grafana Enterprise Stack that enables IT teams to deploy a curated observability platform, based on open source tools such as Prometheus, in their own on-premises IT environment. Tom Wilkie, vice president of product for Grafana Labs, said Grafana Enterprise Stack, in addition to providing a version […]
DevSecOps Implementation: Patch Management
Patch management has been a thorn in IT’s side for decades. While it is undeniably necessary for security and stability purposes, the staggering array of patches that are available make managing them effectively nearly a full-time job – or a job better left to users. Few IT professionals want to be the “patch person,” and […]
Survey: Fixing Bugs Stealing Time from Development
A global survey of 950 developers published today finds more than a third (38%) of developers spend up to a quarter of their time fixing software bugs, with slightly more than a quarter (26%) spending up to half their time fixing bugs. Conducted by the market research firm Propeller Insights on behalf of Rollbar, a […]
LinearB Aligns with Clubhouse to Advance Project Management
LinearB, a provider of an analytics application for software delivery projects, announced today it has allied with Clubhouse, a provider of a project management application that includes built in collaboration tools. LinearB’s analytics application uses code, Git logs and releases to automatically construct and visualize detailed timelines without requiring any manual input. That data can […]
ZeroNorth Adds Analytics App to Advance DevSecOps
ZeroNorth today added an Advanced AppSec Risk Analytics module to its platform for orchestrating DevSecOps processes. John Worrall, ZeroNorth CEO, said the analytics tool pulls vulnerability data generated by a variety of security tools to provide both DevOps and cybersecurity professionals with a single source of truth for assessing security within an application environment. The […]
Open Source Advocates Want Share of Wealth
The egalitarian spirit of the open source community might be starting to fray as individual developers begin to question who is really benefiting most from their efforts. A survey of 4,440 developers who actively participated in open source projects in 2020 finds more than half (54%) of respondents said they feel that individuals should be […]
Dual-Track and Low-Code’s Excellent Adventure
Digital transformation can be a bogus journey. Here’s how low-code and dual-track transformation efforts can help. Large-scale enterprise digital transformation can take a while. Transformation initiatives like cloud migration, mainframe upgrades or refactoring monolithic systems could easily take five to seven years. Yet, this slow pace is at direct odds with today’s digital innovation standards […]
Why Your Next CIO Will Be a CPO
Here’s what the transition to CPO means for everyone in IT Over the last 20 or so years, the evolving role of the CIO, or chief information officer, has been a hot topic of conversation in most large enterprises. It’s a topic that doesn’t just affect those breathing the rarefied air of the C-suite but […]
Rewind Acquires BackHub to Protect GitHub Repositories
Rewind, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for backing up cloud services, today announced it has acquired BackHub to gain control of a platform for backing up GitHub repositories. Based in Germany, BackHub adds a data protection platform to a Rewind portfolio that includes offerings for backing up everything from QuickBooks to Shopify. Fresh […]
EraDB Launches Log Management Alternative
EraDB today launched EraSearch to provide IT teams with an alternative to open source ElasticSearch software for managing logs at scale. Todd Persen, EraDB’s CEO, said EraSearch is based on a modern database that decouples storage and compute. In this way, EraSearch can scale more efficiently than ElasticSearch, while providing IT teams with the same […]
Dynatrace Extends Reach of Observability Platform
Dynatrace this week updated its observability and software intelligence platform as part of an effort to expand its reach across modern enterprise IT environments. Announced at the online Dynatrace Perform 2021 conference, the company’s namesake platform can now capture logs from Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift as well as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform […]
New Relic Adds Visualization Tool to Observability Platform
New Relic announced today it has added a visualization tool, dubbed New Relic Explorer, to make it simpler for IT professionals to discover the root cause of issues that adversely affect application performance. Buddy Brewer, global vice president and field CTO for the Americas, New Relic, said the goal is to make it simpler for […]