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New Relic Tracing Software Pinpoints Source of IT Issues
Mike Vizard | | distributed IT environments, Distributed Tracing, it, machine learning, microservices, New Relic, Open Tracing, tracing softwareAt a FutureStack 2017 conference this week, New Relic previewed an implementation of distributed tracing software that has the potential to close the war rooms where IT operations assign blame for application ...
VMware Unveils IT Automation Tools Suite
Mike Vizard | | it automation, public cloud, vmware, VMworld Europe 2017, vRealize Automation, vRealize Business for Cloud, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, vRealize Suite 2017VMware over the last two years has been making steady advances in automating the management of IT. At the VMworld Europe 2017 conference VMware unveiled a vRealize Suite 2017 offering that combines ...
CloudBees Applies Analytics to DevOps
Mike Vizard | | CD, ci, cloudbees, CloudBees DevOptics, CloudBees Jenkins Advisor, CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise, continuous deployment, continuous integration, devops, Jenkins WorldAt the heart of many DevOps initiatives is an automation server based on open-source Jenkins software developed by CloudBees. At the recent Jenkins World 2017 conference, CloudBees showed that Jenkins is now ...
Quest Software Extends DevOps Reach to MySQL Databases
Mike Vizard | | database, database administrator, database management, devops, mySQL, open source, Quest Software, Toad Edge, toolsetThanks mainly to the rise of DevOps, the number of open-source database deployments in the enterprise has risen sharply in the last two years. The driving force behind those deployments has been ...
NodeSource, AppDynamics Ally for Node.js DevOps
Mike Vizard | | appdynamics, automation, code, developers, devops, java, JavaScript, node.js, nodesource, programming languageThe prevalence of Node.js as the most widely deployed instance of JavaScript is putting a lot of pressure on DevOps teams to find ways to automate the management of Node.js applications. To ...
VMware Cloud on AWS Will Bring DevOps Issues to a Head
Mike Vizard | | ansible, AWS, blue medora, CA Technologies, Chef, cloud services, cloudbees, developers, Dynatrace, jfrog, on-premises vs. cloud, Puppet, saltstack, vmware, VMworldNow that instances of VMware are starting to become available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a DevOps ecosystem is starting to emerge around the management of applications workloads moving into and out ...
VMware Aims to Advance Application Security
Mike Vizard | | application security, developers, devsecops, incident response, vmware, VMware App Defense, VMworldMost of the tasks associated with maintaining IT security assume that IT security professionals should discover and neutralize all potential threats to an application. At the VMworld 2017 conference this week, VMware ...
VMware Ties Desktop Virtualization to DevOps Productivity
Mike Vizard | | Apple Mac, application development, containers, desktop virtualization, Mac OS, microsoft, operating system, software development, vmware, VMware Fusion Pro, windowsIt’s no secret that when it comes to building applications, many developers prefer to use the Apple Macintosh. However, that preference can create multiple DevOps challenges. VMware is moving to reduce the ...
Puppet Makes Development Kit Available to Advance DevOps
Mike Vizard | | code, developers, devops, infrastructure as code, it automation, IT operations, Puppet, Puppet Development KitOrganizations that embrace DevOps often find themselves moving from having a paucity of IT automation tools to an embarrassment of riches in short order. As a result, many of the teams involved ...
Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017: The Ghost of Congress Past
It seems like yesterday when when Representative Ed Royce proposed legislation titled the "Cyber Supply Chain Management and Transparency Act." Almost three years have passed since Congressman Royce introduced his bill in ...
CollabNet Merges with VersionOne for ALM Supremacy
Mike Vizard | | alm, ALM platform, application lifecycle management, CollabNet, company acquisition, m&A, mergers and acquisitions, VersionOneThanks to the rise of DevOps, there has been a lot of focus on various forms of application lifecycle management (ALM) spanning multiple application development methodologies. But as IT organizations become more ...
Sonatype Report Spotlights Software Supply Chain Issues
Mike Vizard | | application development, containers, report, security vulnerabilities, software development, sonatype, supply chain, surveyMost application developers today don’t write much raw code. Rather, applications developed today are created mostly by combing various modules and widgets to create a custom application. But currently there is little ...
