Empowering DevOps With Cloud Desktops
Today’s organizations need to enable their IT teams to rapidly deploy, manage and maintain their applications and services. This is a primary driver behind the growth in adoption of DevOps. By uniting the IT operations and software development teams, organizations are helping to provide continuous delivery and accelerating the systems development life cycle. At the […]
Cisco Leans on HashiCorp to Manage Infrastructure as Code
HashiCorp and Cisco today announced a Cisco Intersight Service for Terraform offering based on HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Business software. Cisco Intersight is an IT operations management platform that enables IT teams to manage IT infrastructure across a hybrid cloud computing environment. Open source Terraform tools have emerged as the dominant tool for provisioning infrastructure as […]
Visualization Shines a Light on IT Metrics
Modern IT departments operate in a pressure cooker. Their highly distributed infrastructures are spread across legacy data centers and hybrid and multiple public clouds. Now, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the edge are part of the mix. Massive amounts of data are flowing through these multifaceted environments, and it falls on IT to make […]
JumpCloud Brings Zero-Touch Provisioning to the Mac
JumpCloud today announced it is adding a zero-touch enrollment for Macs capability to its cloud directory platform that will also be extended over time to applications. Greg Keller, JumpCloud CTO, said this new capability extends Apple Business Manager, formerly known as Apple Device Enrollment Program (DEP), all the way down to specific users by leveraging […]
VMware Enhances Management Portfolio
VMware today rolled out a series of updates to its automation and monitoring portfolio as part of an ongoing effort to simplify management of highly distributed IT environments. Updates to the VMware vRealize Cloud automation portfolio include VMware vRealize Automation 8.4’s tighter integration with the open source Salt automation framework the company gained by acquiring […]
How to Eliminate Incident Inefficiencies
In today’s complex, dynamic IT environments, the proliferation of disparate IT Ops, NOC, DevOps and SRE teams and tools is a given – and usually considered a necessity. This leads to the inevitable truth that when an incident happens, often the biggest challenge is collaborating between these teams to understand what happened and resolve the […]
Despite the Pandemic, DevOps Salaries Rose in 2020
Puppet today published the results of an annual global DevOps survey that found, despite the downturn in the global economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, most DevOps professionals saw their salaries rise in 2020. However, for the first time since Puppet started collecting this data, DevOps professionals working in the life sciences, health care […]
How to Build Actionable Logging Systems
Logging is often considered an automatic process that doesn’t require much thought. We see logs, in general, from any system and take for granted that those logs have the information that’s needed. However, thinking through a logging strategy and architecture is extremely important for troubleshooting and performance efficiency. Regardless of how you log, the most […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AIOps Builds Organizational Efficiency, Survey Finds
Enterprises entered 2020 with big plans. Post-pandemic, AIOps could help them achieve those goals, according to a new research survey from Digitate and CorporateLeader. Enterprises entered 2020 with the best-laid plans; many had efforts lined up to expand their use of cloud services and continue their steady efforts to digitally transform their businesses. Then the […]
Lightstep Delivers Next Generation Observability Platform
Lightstep this week announced general availability of a Change Intelligence observability platform based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events each day. Ben Sigelman, Lightstep’s CEO, said as IT environments become more complex, thanks to the rise of microservices and cloud-native computing platforms, existing monitoring and observability tools will not […]
Atlassian Launches ITSM Platform
Atlassian today extended its footprint in IT service management (ITSM) with the launch of Jira Service Management, a cloud-based platform designed to bridge the divide between DevOps and ticket-based approaches to managing IT. Edwin Wong, head of product for IT at Atlassian, said Jira Service Management builds on Opsgenie, an IT incident management platform. The […]
Catchpoint Adds Endpoint Device Monitoring Services
Catchpoint today extended the reach of its monitoring services to include an offering that monitors the devices of end users. Nik Koutsoukos, chief marketing officer for Catchpoint, said the Employee Experience Monitoring service makes it possible to deploy the same agent software the company employs to track application experience on points-of-presence (PoPs) around the globe […]
ServiceNow Partners With IBM on AIOps
ServiceNow and IBM this week announced that the Watson artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform from IBM will be integrated with the IT service management (ITSM) platform from ServiceNow. Pablo Stern, senior vice president for IT workflow products for ServiceNow, said once that capability becomes available later this year on the Now platform, IT […]
Red Hat Expands Scope, Reach of Ansible Automation Framework
Red Hat, its online AnsibleFest 2020 conference today, announced an on-premises edition of Ansible Automation Platform dubbed Private Automation Hub and previewed technology to connect the Ansible Automation Platform managed as a cloud service by Red Hat and the on-premises edition. In addition, Red Hat is making available more pre-integrated workflows to its certified Ansible […]
Morpheus Data Extends Hybrid Cloud Reach
Morpheus Data has updated its hybrid cloud computing platform to add support for a bare metal-as-a-service option as well as tighter integrations with VMware vCloud Director (vCD) and NSX-T, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Microsoft Azure and Veeam data protection tools. In addition, version 5.0 of the Morpheus IT management platform adds support […]
Puppet Deepens Windows Integration
Puppet today announced it has extended support for Windows environments across its portfolio of IT automation tools by adding a Group Policy Migration capability that enables multiple Windows configurations to be tracked simultaneously and offering to assist organizations seeking to deploy the open source Chocolately package manager. In addition, Puppet has extended its support for […]
Survey Shows Most IT Teams Adapting in New COVID-19 Normal
A survey of 122 IT professionals published today by SolarWinds in advance of IT Pro Day next week, finds that while IT teams are enjoying greater respect within their organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a third (31%) admit there’s a need to rethink internal processes to better accommodate rapid change. Overall, […]
How Continuous Transformation Can Deliver More Value
Continuous transformation in IT operations is more than just an industry buzzphrase. In fact, continuous transformation is a critical survival tool for any cloud and IT solution landscapes today. To achieve continuous transformation, innovation must continue well beyond a migration to the cloud. This continuous innovation during day-to-day IT operations is the most critical aspect […]
Envoy Proxy Server Project Comes of Age
The momentum behind the open source Envoy proxy software project is increasing as the number of platforms it can be deployed on continues to expand. Developed under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Envoy has most recently been extended to include support for Arm64 CI processors and Postgres databases. Envoy provides a […]
VMware Expands Reach of IT Management Portfolio
VMware today announced a bevy of updates to its portfolio of IT management tools that is now at the heart of its overall approach to both DevOps and AIOps. VMware vRealize Operations 8.2 and VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, the on-premises and software-as-a-service (SaaS) editions of the same IT automation platform, provide deeper support for Kubernetes […]