CA, IBM Partner to Drive DevOps on the Mainframe

June 5, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

CA Technologies and IBM announced today at the Built to Change Summit they are combining their tools and platforms to bring DevOps process to mainframe environments. The two companies are extending their existing relationship to include a partnership to jointly develop and sell new services for IBM’s Cloud Managed Services on z Systems (zCloud). Included […]

Microsoft Snaps Up GitHub for $7.5 Billion

June 4, 2018 by Charlene O'Hanlon 2 Comments

Recognizing the role GitHub plays in the larger developer and DevOps ecosystems, Microsoft is acquiring the software development platform for a cool $7.5 billion, the two companies have announced. GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform, has more than 28 million users who “learn, share and collaborate to create the future,” according to the press […]

ChefConf 2018: Chef Grows Beyond Infrastructure to Apps

May 23, 2018 by Alan Shimel 1 Comments

Here I am in Chicagoland for my third ChefConf. I caught the keynotes today with Nathan Harvey, Barry Crist, Adam Jacob, Corie Scobie and more. The big news at this year’s event is that Chef is focused on more than just infrastructure and compliance—Chef is bringing automation to apps and the entire software delivery life […]

Chef Embraces Microservices to Advance IT Automation

May 23, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Chef at the ChefConf 2018 conference today unveiled a series of DevOps offerings, including a revamped version of Chef Automate that has been rewritten using the Go programing language to improve performance and scalability. Now based on a microservices architecture, Chef Automate 2.0 a new user interface based on a REST application programming interface (API) […]

AppDynamics Taps into SAP Applications

May 22, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

Application performance management (APM) is starting to be employed more widely as more organizations embrace digital business transformation. As the number of digital business processes spanning multiple applications increases, so does the need to understand what’s occurring inside both greenfield and legacy applications. In fact, at the heart of many of those digital business processes […]

Red Hat Aims to Push IT Management to the Cloud

May 10, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

Red Hat at the Red Hat Summit 2018 conference this week showed a technology preview of an instance of Red Hat Insights, a predictive analytics IT management application capable of identifying operations issues before they become a problem, running as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The instance of Red Hat Insights will be extended to apply […]

Microservices Momentum Accelerates

May 10, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

A global survey of 353 application development professionals conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of LightStep, a provider of application performance management (APM) tools, finds a full 86 percent of respondents expect microservices to be the default architecture within five years. A total of 60 percent of respondents said they already have microservices in production […]

Oracle Adds Low-Code Tool to Autonomous Platform

May 9, 2018 by Mike Vizard 2 Comments

Oracle this week extended the scope of the cloud services it manages on behalf of customers to include a low-code application development platform based on the company’s Visual Builder development tools. Jeff Price, vice president of product Management at Oracle, said Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder (VB) Cloud makes it possible to employ a tool based […]