Ukraine Asks for DNS Censorship | Ukraine Snapchat Staff Danger | #BoycottKaspersky?
In this week’s The Long View: Censoring the Russian internet, Snap fears for hundreds of Ukrainian employees, and Eugene Kaspersky acts like a ****.
Multi-Cloud Computing is a Major IT Headache
A CloudBolt Software survey of 500 senior IT, DevOps, security and finance leaders found 79% are struggling under the weight of managing multiple cloud computing environments. The survey from CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, found specifically that more than three-quarters of respondents (78%) said they have too many cloud tools throughout […]
Tricentis Expands Scope of Cloud-Based Testing Tools
Tricentis this week extended a suite of cloud-based testing tools that promise to make it simpler to both develop cloud-native and mobile applications and migrate existing applications to the cloud. New capabilities added to the portfolio include integrations for cloud-based planning tools and a wider range of testing capabilities for mobile applications. DevOps teams can […]
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office.
Netlify Leverages GraphQL to Simplify Access to Backend Services
Netlify this week added a Netlify Graph tool to its portfolio that makes backend services available to developers via a single click. The tool aims to simplify DevOps teams’ access to those services when building their applications. Netlify Graph is based on the GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (APIs) and enables developers to […]
Snyk Acquires Fugue to Secure Cloud Infrastructure
Snyk today announced it has acquired Fugue as part of an effort to embed security within an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) provisioning tool. The Fugue platform combines a unified policy engine with an implementation of the open source Open Policy Agent (OPA) software, dubbed Regula, to ensure security and compliance policies are consistently enforced. OPA provides IT […]
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
Cloudify Integrates DevOps Automation Platform With Terraform
Cloudify this week announced a free user interface (UI) module that extends its infrastructure provisioning platform and enables DevOps professionals to integrate unlimited Terraform modules. Nati Shalom, Cloudify CTO, said Terraform UI provides a familiar construct for DevOps teams using the open source DevOps automation platform to provision infrastructure-as-code (IaC). The module enables DevOps professionals […]
CircleCI Adds CI/CD Service for macOS Development
CircleCI today added a dedicated continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) edition of its namesake platform for developers building applications on the macOS platform. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, said this offering is aimed at developers that either want dedicated resources to speed up their build processes or have to address compliance and security requirements that prevent them […]
Will Splunk be Gobbled up by Cisco?
Word on the street is that Cisco and Splunk are in discussions about a possible acquisition. Splunk, the technology monitoring, search and analytics company could be acquired by Cisco—originally a networking company but now a complex hardware and software conglomerate. Splunk has generated quite a reputation as a ‘dealer’ over the years. The company, much […]
IBM Shifts Mainframe App Testing to the Cloud
IBM this week revealed it has added the ability to set up testing environments on the IBM Cloud for z/OS mainframe applications. In addition, on March 15, IBM will make available an IBM Z and cloud modernization stack to make it simpler to modernize mainframe applications by adding application programming interfaces (APIs) using a cloud-native […]
Kong Enterprise 2.7 Simplifies API Management
Kong Inc. this week advanced its service connectivity platform strategy with an update to Kong Enterprise that makes it simpler to collectively manage groups of application programming interfaces (APIs). Michael Heap, director of developer experience for Kong, Inc., said that capability will make it simpler to, for example, assign rate limits to different tiers of […]
Unreliable Server Scare | Information Batteries | ARM IPO PDQ
In this week’s The Long View: We worry about chips failing randomly, we ponder a new way of thinking about workload shifting, and we grok Arm’s IPO.
Codenotary Launches Cloud Service to Generate SBOMs
Codenotary has launched a Codenotary Cloud platform that can automatically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) and make it easier to discover what components have been included in an application. Moshe Bar, Codenotary CEO, said that capability can also play a key role in identifying which components in an application might contain, for example, […]
App Store Antitrust Bill | GDPR vs. Google Fonts | Wordle Worth $1M+
In this week’s The Long View: The Open App Markets Act polls well among devs, Germany fines a website for using Google Fonts, and the NY Times buys Wordle for an unfeasible sum.
Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use
A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they expected to produce or consume them in 2022. SBOMs have become a bigger area of focus in the wake of a series of […]
Google FLoC is Dead | Meta AI Supercomputer Lives | ARM Deal is Dead
In this week’s The Long View: Google’s FLoC proposal is dead, Meta/Facebook is buying RSC—a huge AI supercomputer, and Arm “will IPO” instead of selling to Nvidia.
CircleCI Adds Free Unlimited Access Tier to CI/CD Service
CircleCI has added a free unlimited access tier to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, said in contrast to other ‘freemium’ offerings, CircleCI’s free tier provides developers and DevOps teams with frictionless access to all the premium capabilities of the platform. Those capabilities include up to 6,000 build minutes per month, […]
Infrastructure Access Management a Growing DevOps Priority
Organizations plan to address access management over the next 12 months, as the need to secure and streamline infrastructure-wide access controls serves as a prerequisite to other initiatives, like zero-trust. This was one of the key findings of a survey of 600 DevOps professionals conducted by Pollfish and sponsored by strongDM. The report also found […]
Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud
A global survey of 1,600 enterprise IT decision-makers found more than half are working for organizations that plan to eliminate the use of data centers over the next two years. The survey was conducted by Aryaka, a provider of a secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and found a quarter of the respondents have closed […]
Zoom-Layoff CEO is Back | Bill Bans Targeted Ads | More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: The return of the CEO who fired 900 staff on a Zoom call, Capitol Hill has a bill to kill ads, and a last-minute hiccup in the FAA/FCC 5G truce.
Drumroll, Please! The Winners of the 2021 DevOps Dozen² Awards Are …
We are very proud to announce the winners of the DevOps Dozen² Awards for 2021. For the past seven years, the DevOps Dozen² Awards have recognized the stars of the DevOps community. Over the years, we have expanded the scope of the awards to honor a dozen DevOps tools and services as well as a […]
Harness CD Platform Now Available via Source-Available License
Harness today announced a free community edition of its continuous delivery (CD) platform is now available under a source-available license rather than a more traditional open source license. Scott Sanchez, chief marketing officer for Harness, said the goal is to make CD as accessible to developers and DevOps teams as their current CI platform. Harness […]