Synopsys Sets Course After Agreeing to Acquire WhiteHat Security
Synopsys, Inc. plans to add dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform in the wake of agreeing to acquire WhiteHat Security from NTT Security Corp. for approximately $330 million in cash. Jason Schmitt, general manager of the Software Integrity Group at Synopsys, said the DAST tools developed by WhiteHat will complement […]
Pulumi Extends Infrastructure-as-Code Reach
At its online PulumiUP conference, Pulumi announced it will make its Pulumi CrossCode translation technology available to third parties and DevOps teams. The technology was developed to integrate a wide range of programming languages with its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform. The company also announced it has added support for YAML—widely used to configure Kubernetes environments—as well […]
vFunction Tool Uses AI to Help Convert Monolithic Java Apps
vFunction today added the ability to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically assess the level of effort required to convert a monolithic Java application into a set of microservices. Bob Quillin, chief ecosystem officer for vFunction, said the goal is to make it simpler for IT teams to more effectively employ the company’s vFunction Application […]
CloudBolt Adds Modular Automation Framework to Tame Hybrid Clouds
CloudBolt Software this week added a framework consisting of eight modules that collectively make it simpler to automate, optimize and govern hybrid cloud computing environments. Jeff Kukowski, CloudBolt CEO, said the goal is to provide IT teams with a more modular approach to managing multiple clouds that they can employ as they gain additional expertise. […]
BMC Integrates DevOps Mainframe Portfolio With Git
BMC has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the development of mainframe applications by integrating the BMC Compuware ISPW continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with Git repositories. In addition, the company tightened integration between BMC Compuware ISPW and BMC AMI Ops platform and integrated BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench for building applications with […]
Riverbed Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Riverbed today launched a beta of a unified observability platform it will make available under the Alluvio by Riverbed brand name. Jim Hansen, senior vice president for product management at Riverbed, said the Alluvio by Riverbed observability platform combines several existing network and application performance management platforms into a single offering that is now infused […]
Defining the Next Cycle of Technology
We’re in the middle of what we at ScyllaDB dubbed The Next Tech Cycle. Not “The World of Tomorrow” nor “The Shape of Things to Come” nor “The Wave of the Future”—because it’s already here today. We’re right in the middle of it. It’s a wave that’s carrying us forward, but it began with trends […]
MDR for DevSecOps: How Managed Security Can Help You Shift Left
What is managed detection and response (MDR)? Managed detection and response (MDR) is an outsourced service that helps organizations detect threats on endpoints, respond to them and carry out proactive threat hunting. MDR services typically include an endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform, which is deployed on company endpoints, and human security experts. MDR providers […]
Tackling the Complexities of Multi-Cloud With a New IT Model
The pandemic put incredible pressure on organizations to modernize and accelerate digital transformation efforts, with many businesses rushing to embrace cloud strategies in response. According to this year’s Enterprise Cloud Index from Nutanix, multi-cloud—an IT operating model that combines multiple clouds, public or private—is the most commonly deployed IT environment and the only IT model […]
The Future of Cloud Strategy: Multi-Cloud
As Gartner’s Milind Govekar recently said, “There is no business strategy without a cloud strategy.” But in 2021, some of the world’s biggest brands suffered disruptions in their services due to outages from their cloud service providers, including Google, Slack, Venmo, Disney+, Facebook/Meta, Tinder, iRobot, The Washington Post and Sony. While the outages do not negate the […]
Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’
In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation.
What’s the Difference Between SLI, SLA and SLO?
If you’re just getting into site reliability engineering (SRE) or platform engineering, you’ve probably come across a bunch of new terminologies, like SLI, SLA and SLO. These benchmarks are commonly referenced in the day-to-day life of an SRE but may seem foreign to outsiders. So, what are the differences between these abbreviations? Well, one of […]
Quali Adds Control Plane to Platform to Manage IaC
Quali has added a control plane to its Torque platform to give DevOps teams the ability to consistently provision and orchestrate infrastructure across a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. Amir Rosenberg, vice president of product for Quali, said the control plane allows DevOps team to centrally manage the provisioning of infrastructure via reusable blueprints accessed via […]
15 DevSecOps Best Practices
DevOps is all about speed, agility and collaboration. But when it comes to security, DevOps teams often face unique challenges. From securing the application development process to protecting production environments, DevOps and DevSecOps teams need to be aware of a variety of potential security risks. To help you stay ahead of the curve, we’ve compiled […]
Russian Dev Exodus | Puppet IPO FAIL | Intel 18A Ahead of Sched.
In this week’s The Long View: More than 100,000 tech workers leave Russia, Perforce buys Puppet, and Intel moves faster than planned.
The Argo Project: Making GitOps Practical
If you’re a DevOps engineer, chances are you have at least heard the name “Argo,” seen the friendly squid logo, and wondered: What the heck is this tool everyone is talking about? In a nutshell, Argo is a popular open source tool that is making GitOps practical for anyone who uses Kubernetes. But it’s much […]
Survey Shows Shift to SRE Principles to Automate IT Management
A global survey of 1,500 IT decision-makers conducted by F5 found that, on average, organizations are managing more than 200 applications deployed across an extended enterprise as well as more than 20 different security and delivery technologies. Lori MacVittie, principal technical evangelist in the Office of the CTO for F5, said that level of complexity […]
Survey Shows Increased Focus on Modernizing IT, Retiring Apps
A survey of 140 enterprise architects and IT leaders published today suggested that, while moving applications to the cloud remains a priority, more attention is being paid to reducing technical debt by retiring applications. Conducted by LeanIX, a provider of a platform for managing enterprise architecture and managing value stream management (VSM), the survey found […]
Overcoming IT Complexity With Full-Stack Observability
Organizations embarking on digital transformation journeys tend to develop complex infrastructures. They update their legacy applications while adding multi-cloud, virtual and cloud-native capabilities. Eventually, IT pros find themselves managing diverse, complex and distributed networks including cloud, system, application and database infrastructures. To rein in the resulting complexity, organizations tend to amass monitoring and managing tools. […]
IBM z16 Delivers AI and Quantum-Safe Levels of Security
Business transformation and disruption is all about data. But it’s not just about collecting huge amounts of data, it’s what you do with that data and how it can enable you to create powerful insights. While many people focus on the cloud unicorns, the reality is that industry incumbents have a huge advantage. These businesses […]
Understanding SaaS Security for DevOps
As Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and DevOps adoption grew, new teams were formed to address emerging security challenges. Traditional solutions weren’t built to detect the new vulnerabilities in the cloud and created excessive noise for an already stressed pool of resources. The combination of emerging zero-day vulnerabilities and an avalanche of false-positives ends up increasing security […]
Positioning ML Devs and Teams for Success
Intelligent applications are (by their very nature) complex. While conventional software basically consists of one thing (code), intelligent software involves code, models and data. As previously discussed, three distinct fields—DevOps, MLOps and DataOps—have evolved to govern each of these interconnected disciplines. Moving through the ML life cycle quickly and efficiently requires collaboration between teams in […]
Lapsus$ Shames Okta/Sitel | Bitcoin Nukes Climate | EU DMA E2EE FAIL
In this week’s The Long View: Okta and Sitel under fire over Lapsus$ hack, Greenpeace and others call for bitcoin change, and Europe still hates encryption.