SolarWinds Adds Ability to Profile Live Code to APM Platform

March 20, 2019 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

SolarWinds is advancing its campaign to become a leading provider of DevOps tools by adding the ability to profile live code to SolarWinds AppOptics application performance monitoring (APM) platform. Keith Kuchler, vice president of engineering for SolarWinds, said live code profiling provides a breakdown of the most frequently called functions and methods in a transaction, […]

VMware Advances Hybrid Cloud Ambitions

March 19, 2019 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

VMware today advanced its hybrid cloud strategy by making a series of updates to existing offerings, including the CloudHealth by VMware software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for managing and optimizing cloud applications, which VMware acquired last summer. In addition, VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in data centers operated by Amazon Web Services in Canada, Paris […]

Atlassian Adds Business Planning App by Acquiring AgileCraft

March 19, 2019 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Atlassian announced it is acquiring AgileCraft to give business leaders visibility into strategic projects in a way that is closely mapped to IT projects being driven by DevOps processes. The value of the deal, expected to close next month, is estimated to be $166 million. Many DevOps teams already make extensive use of the Jira […]

Chef Achieves Multiple Compliance Mandates

March 13, 2019 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Chef today announced it will make it easier for organizations that adopt its IT automation framework to stay compliant with mandates such as the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Secure Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIG) and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) certification. John Snow, senior software development engineer and federal content lead for solutions engineering […]

F5 Networks Acquires NGINX to Meld NetOps with DevOps

March 12, 2019 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

As part of an effort to better align DevOps and network operations (NetOps), F5 Networks plans to acquire NGINX, a provider of widely employed open source loading balancing software. The two companies revealed in a call with financial analysts that the primary goal of the $760 million deal is to meld the two companies’ combined expertise […]

The Linux Foundation Launches Continuous Delivery Foundation

March 12, 2019 by Mike Vizard 5 Comments

The Linux Foundation announced it will provide the home base for a vendor-neutral Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of CDF, which was launched at the Open Source Leadership Summit […]

DevSecOps: Fortanix Adds Open Source Rust SDK to Build Encrypted Apps

March 6, 2019 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

There’s a lot of focus these days on DevSecOps as part of an effort to fix what’s generally acknowledged as a broken cybersecurity paradigm. But instead of trying to ensure every potential vulnerability is addressed before an application is deployed, another idea is gaining momentum among the DevOps community: Build applications that are secure in […]

Survey Finds Mixed Progress on DevSecOps

March 4, 2019 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

A survey of 5,558 IT professionals published today by Sonatype in collaboration with CloudBees, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, Signal Sciences, 9th Bit and Twistlock finds 27 percent of organizations have mature DevOps practices in place, while another 48 percent are still working on improving them. Despite the DevOps works that remains to be accomplished, […]