CircleCI Automates Configurations Across CI/CD Platform

November 8, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

CircleCI has unveiled what it describes as the first package manager designed specifically to address configuration tasks involving software delivery automation. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the Orbs package manager condenses commands, executors and jobs into single, reusable lines of code that automate tasks on the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform […]

VMware Extends Scope of Alliance with IBM

November 7, 2018 by Mike Vizard 2 Comments

On the heels of IBM announcing its intent to acquire Red Hat, VMware announced at the VMworld Europe 2018 conference this week an extension of its longstanding cloud alliance with IBM. Red Hat competes directly with VMware; yet, there are also more than 1,600 customers running VMware on the IBM cloud. Ajay Patel, senior vice […]

IBM Acquires Red Hat to Create DevOps Behemoth

October 28, 2018 by Mike Vizard 4 Comments

In a move that has massive implications for DevOps teams across the enterprise, IBM today announced it is acquiring Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion. Red Hat will join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud group as a distinct independent unit. Red Hat will continue to be led by Jim Whitehurst and Red Hat’s current […]

CloudBees Further Extends Jenkins CI/CD Reach

October 25, 2018 by Mike Vizard 3 Comments

CloudBees announced it is expanding the scope and reach of its Jenkins open source continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform into the realms of compliance and serverless computing frameworks. Announced at the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference in Nice, France, a new plugin for Jenkins adds support for the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) defined […]

SAP Embeds Integration Services in PaaS Environment

October 24, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

SAP, at its SAP Tech-Ed Europe 2018 conference, expanded the scope of the integration services it provides within SAP Cloud Platform, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment it provides for building custom applications based on the open source Cloud Foundry project. Dan Lahl, global vice president of product marketing for SAP Cloud Platform, said SAP is now […]

Electric Cloud Extends Continuous Delivery Platform

October 23, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Electric Cloud is making available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) pricing option available for its ElectricFlow application release management and continuous delivery (CD) platform. In addition, version 8.5 of ElectricFlow adds support for a Kanban-style pipeline view, object tagging for custom reporting and improved searchability and a continuous integration (CI) dashboard to track and analyze build processes, […]

NGINX Unveils Hybrid Application Delivery Controller Platform

October 12, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

NGINX this week announced it has developed a common framework for managing application delivery that can be applied across both monolithic and microservices-based applications. Announced at the NGINX Conf 2018 conference, the NGINX Application Platform has been rearchitected to provide traditional load balancing capabilities and a web application firewall (WAF), as well as a built-in […]