Data Theorem Adds Runtime Protection Enabled by Observability
Data Theorem, Inc. this week added an Active Protection offering to its portfolio of application security services that makes it possible for DevOps teams to embed observability and runtime defenses in their applications via a software development kit (SDK). The Data Theorem cloud services are based on Trustkit, an open source framework the company created […]
Dynatrace Adds Security Gates to Advance DevSecOps Adoption
Dynatrace today added a security gates capability to its observability platform to make it easier to automatically embrace DevSecOps best practices within an application delivery pipeline. Steve Tack, senior vice president for product management at Dynatrace, said the security gates function much the same as the quality gates that Dynatrace previously added to that platform […]
Allstacks Adds Free Dashboard to Track Software Dev Benchmarks
Value stream intelligence platform provider Allstacks today added a free live dashboard populated with anonymized data that DevOps teams can use to benchmark their own progress. Hersh Tapadia, Allstacks co-founder and CEO, said the company is making this data available to make it easier for DevOps teams to uncover bottlenecks in their software development processes. […]
Grafana Labs Expands into Incident Management Realm
During its online ObservabilityCON 2021 conference, Grafana Labs this week previewed an incident management platform in addition to making available an on-premises edition of its distributed tracing tool. Tom Wilkie, vice president of product for Grafana Labs, said the Grafana OnCall incident management platform is a natural extension of the observability tools the company already […]
Digital CxOs Have a Home, as Digital CxO Joins the Techstrong Group Family
Hello, and welcome to the launch of Digital CxO, the premier destination site and community dedicated to fostering collaboration among business and IT leaders driving digital transformation initiatives. As part of Techstrong Group, which also includes DevOps.com, Container Journal, DevOps Institute, Security Boulevard, Techstrong TV and the newly formed TechStrong Research Group, Digital CxO creates […]
Microsoft Expands Azure DevOps Portfolio
Microsoft has made available a bevy of updates to its DevOps portfolio that, collectively, are intended to increase its share of a wave of applications that will be rolled out across the extended enterprise. Additions to the Microsoft DevOps portfolio were announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference and include DevOps Workflow Generator, a free […]
NextArch Foundation Launched to Focus on Microservices
The Linux Foundation this week launched the NextArch Foundation to define frameworks and specifications that promote interoperability between microservices that span multiple cloud computing environments. More than 40 organizations, including Tencent, Arm, Kong and Ampere, have committed to contributing to 10 technology projects in 2022 in addition to frameworks for three vertical industries. Mark Shan, […]
Apollo GraphQL to Provide More Control Over APIs
Apollo GraphQL today previewed an update to its Federation platform for tracking and managing application programming interfaces (APIs) based on the GraphQL query language to give organizations more control over how APIs are reviewed and ultimately approved. Matt DeBergalis, founder and CTO, Apollo, said the alpha edition of the Federation 2 platform provides a unified […]
Oracle Adds AI Services to Cloud Portfolio
Oracle today unfurled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI services, a collection of services that make it easier for developers to use application programming interfaces (APIs) to invoke a wide range of services based on algorithms trained by Oracle on their behalf. Elad Ziklik, vice president of product management for AI services and data science at […]
Newly Independent VMware to Focus on Multi-Cloud
As an independent company once again, VMware will focus its efforts on providing management planes that span multiple cloud computing environments after officially spinning out of Dell Technologies. Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president for the cloud-native apps business unit at VMware, said the company now has a unique opportunity to work closely with providers of […]
Sustainability No Longer Just a Buzzword for Cloud IT
A recent CloudBolt survey on IT sustainability finds that sustainability is no longer just a buzzword — the market is demanding real change, and it appears that environmental concerns finally are influencing large IT investments. For example, 67% say that a cloud provider’s sustainability initiatives are important in deciding whether to do business with them. […]
Dynatrace Survey Sees Continuous Delivery Challenges Ahead
A global survey of 1,300 application development and DevOps leaders conducted by the research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Dynatrace finds, on average, organizations expect to increase the frequency of their software releases by 58% over the next two years. Andreas Grabner, director of strategic partnerships at Dynatrace, an observability platform provider, said that […]
Postman Survey Shows Focus on Building and Deploying APIs
A survey of more than 28,000 developers and application programming interface (API) professionals published today by Postman found nearly half of respondents (49%) are now spending the majority of their time developing APIs. More than a quarter (28%) now spend 20 or more hours per week working with APIs. Kin Lane, chief evangelist for Postman, […]
Intel Woos DevOps Teams with API and Processor Advances
During the online Intel Innovation 2021 event, Intel announced today a unified Developer Zone for accessing application programming interfaces (APIs) that it makes available via a oneAPI toolkit to IT teams that want to more easily invoke a wide range of processor types and classes. At the same time, the company also revealed it is […]
GitHub Expands Developer Productivity Tools Portfolio
During the online GitHub Universe 2021 conference, GitHub today unveiled a bevy of updates intended to boost developer productivity by making it easier for developers to write code faster and collaborate more easily. The GitHub Copilot tool that GitHub developed in collaboration with OpenAI, a research and development lab, to help developers write better code […]
BMC Looks to Advance ServiceOps Approach to Managing IT
During an online BMC Exchange event, BMC announced it expanded its portfolio of IT management offerings as part of an ongoing effort to unify traditional IT service management and DevOps processes under an integrated ServiceOps framework. The latest additions to the BMC portfolio includes an update to its Control-M workload automation platform that adds observability […]
Sysdig Adds Cloud Access Controls to DevSecOps Platform
Sysdig announced today that it is adding a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) capability to its Secure DevOps platform as part of an effort to better enforce least-privilege access within the context of a larger zero-trust approach to cybersecurity. Nick Fisher, vice president of product marketing for Sysdig, said this addition to the company’s core […]
Codenotary Uses Immutable Database to Verify Software Artifacts
Codenotary today unfurled a free notarization and verification service for open source artifacts and containers to enable IT organizations to track the provenance of the components that make up their applications. Dennis Zimmer, Codenotary CTO, said the Community Attestation Service is based on an immutable open source immudb database that cryptographically attaches an identity to […]
CircleCI Adds Test Insights Module to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today announced it has added a Test Insights capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to make it easier to identify tests that are either taking too long to run or simply exhibiting some form of anomalous behavior. Dawit Gebregziabher, product manager for data insights at CircleCI, said Test Insights is designed to […]
InfluxData Simplifies AppDev for Time-Series Databases
During an online InfluxDays North America 2021 Virtual Experience conference, InfluxData today expanded the capabilities of its application development tools using its Flux query language on top of its time-series database. The company has enhanced its InfluxDB Notebooks tool to enable developers to quickly set up an alert, build a task or write a Flux […]
Eclipse Foundation Launches Open Source Edge Computing Initiative
The Eclipse Foundation in collaboration with the OpenAtom Foundation today launched the Oniro project and working group to create an independent implementation of OpenHarmony, an open source operating system. Created by the OpenAtom Foundation, the OpenHarmony operating system is based on a HarmonyOS originally created by Huawei. It is designed to support multiple kernels but […]
Mona Allies with New Relic to Converge MLOps and DevOps
New Relic and Mona, a provider of a platform for monitoring the models used to provide artificial intelligence (AI), announced today they have formed an alliance to help bridge the divide between DevOps teams and data scientists. Most data science teams today build models based on machine learning algorithms using operations platforms that enable them […]
New Relic Acquires CodeStream to Close Observability Gap
New Relic today revealed it has acquired CodeStream as part of an effort to make observability data more accessible to developers. Buddy Brewer, group vice president (GVP) and GM at New Relic said New Relic CodeStream makes application telemetry data collected via the New Relic One platform directly available within an integrated development environment (IDE), […]