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 […]
Progress Reorganizes Chef Portfolio
Progress today announced updates to the portfolio of DevOps offerings it gained with the acquisition of Chef earlier this month. A Chef Infrastructure Management offering now combines Chef Infra and Chef Automate into a single offering, while Chef App Delivery combines Chef Habitat, Chef Infra and Chef Automate into a single offering that creates an […]
Splunk Adds Plumbr and Rigor to Observability Portfolio
Splunk this week at its online.conf20 conference revealed it has acquired Plumbr, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform, and signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rigor, a provider of synthetic monitoring and application optimization tools. Both platforms are destined to be integrated with the Splunk Observability Suite, a suite of IT management […]
VMware Looks to Meld IT and Security Operations
VMware has acquired SaltStack as part of an effort to unify IT and security operations management. The announcement was made during the online VMworld 2020 conference this week. SaltStack has developed an open source IT automation platform to automate IT operations. In recent months it has been extended to also address security and compliance management. […]
Snyk Acquires DeepCode to Apply AI to DevSecOps
Snyk today announced it has agreed to acquire DeepCode as part of an effort to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to DevSecOps. DeepCode has developed an interpretable machine learning semantic code analysis tool that scans code anywhere from 10 to 50 times faster than existing approaches. DeepCode currently supports Java, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript and C/C++ programming […]
Catchpoint Acquires Webpagetest.org Service
Catchpoint this week announced it has acquired Webpagetest.org as part of an effort to expand use of the open source web performance testing service. Led by Patrick Meenan, the Webpagetest service is already relied on by more than 1 million users per month to instantly run tests of websites and applications from various locations, which […]
NVIDIA to Create AI Powerhouse by Acquiring Arm for $40B
NVIDIA has announced its intention to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion as part of an effort to create a juggernaut that will build processors optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) applications that span edge computing deployment to the cloud. Under the terms of the proposed deal, Arm will operate as a subsidiary of NVIDIA […]
Progress Acquires Chef to Expand DevOps Portfolio
Progress today announced it has acquired Chef for $220 million in cash as part of an effort to advance adoption of best DevOps and DevSecOps practices in the midmarket. Once the deal is completed next month, Chef will operate as an independent business unit led by Sundar Subramanian, who currently is a senior vice president […]
Fastly Sets DevSecOps Strategy After Signal Sciences Buy
In the wake of acquiring Signal Sciences for $770 million, Fastly is gearing up to expand the range of security services it offers as part of an effort to advance adoption of best DevSecOps practices. Artur Bergman, chief architect for Fastly, said a forthcoming wave of edge computing applications will require web applications firewalls (WAF) […]
Harness Acquires Drone CI Project
Harness announced it has acquired Drone.io, creator of the open source Drone continuous integration (CI) project. Company CEO Jyoti Bansal said Harness, which provides a continuous delivery (CD) platform delivered as a service, will offer Drone to organizations that want a CI platform alongside a CD service from a single vendor. However, Harness will also […]
Atlassian Adds Asset Management to ITSM Portfolio
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Mindville, a provider of IT asset management software that the company plans to integrate with its Jira ServiceDesk platform. Edwin Wong, head of product for IT at Atlassian, said Mindville will extend the reach of its IT service management (ITSM) portfolio, which includes Opsgenie for incident management, Jira […]
Keysight Technologies Jumps into App Testing by Acquiring Eggplant
Keysight Technologies, a provider of tools to test and measure embedded systems and mobile computing devices, has acquired Eggplant, a provider of a platform that automates application testing, for $330 million. Dr. John Bates, CEO of Eggplant, said the acquisition enables Keysight to expand the scope of its testing portfolio beyond hardware. Keysight traces its […]
VMware’s Blue Medora Buy Advances AIOps
VMware has announced it will acquire Blue Medora, a provider of a service for integrating data collected by IT monitoring tools, to expand its efforts to advance the adoption of artificial intelligence to automate IT operations (AIOps). Roy Ritthaler, vice president of cloud management for VMware, said Blue Medora provides VMware with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Apple Adds Fuel to ITSM Fire
Apple’s acquisition this week of Fleetsmith, a provider of IT service management (ITSM) tools for Apple devices, is reigniting a fierce debate over how best to manage endpoints in heterogeneous IT environments. Fleetsmith, along with rivals including Jamf Software and IBM, provides ITSM tools that only manage Apple devices. The company argues that the IT […]
NetApp Acquires Spot to Rein in Cloud Costs
NetApp this week announced it has acquired Spot, a provider of a service that enables IT teams to continuously optimize costs for cloud workloads. Anthony Lye, senior vice president and general manager for public cloud services at NetApp, said the Spot service is based on an application programming interface (API) that IT teams add to […]
CloudBolt Acquires SovLabs to Advance Hybrid Cloud Strategy
CloudBolt Software this week announced it has acquired SovLabs, a provider of a framework that extends the reach of automation frameworks from VMware. Company CEO Jeff Kukowski said that as a provider of a cloud management platform, the SovLabs framework will extend CloudBolt’s reach deeper into VMware environments that have already invested in automation tools […]
Cisco Acquires ThousandEyes to Advance Network Visibility
Cisco Systems this week announced its intent to acquire ThousandEyes, provider of an internet monitoring platform that Cisco plans to leverage to embed ThousandEyes agent software into a range of devices including network routers and switches, security tools and application performance management (APM) software from AppDynamics. As part of that effort, ThousandEyes will become the […]
Atlassian Acquires Halp to Gain Help Desk Based on Slack
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp will provide organizations with a way to manage lightweight processes via an interface that is already commonly used within many organizations. The goal […]
NVIDIA Aims to Drive Disaggregation Following Cumulus Networks Buy
Adoption of open source networking may be about to get a boost following the forthcoming acquisition of Cumulus Network by NVIDIA. The acquisition of the provider of a network operating system (NOS) based on Linux follows an earlier move by NVIDIA to acquire Mellanox, a provider of networking and storage systems. Kevin Deierling, senior vice […]
Digital.ai: The Companies Formerly Known As XebiaLabs and CollabNet Plus
Another shoe has dropped in the continuing story of TPG Capital‘s foray into DevOps. The company formed by the merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne is now Digital.ai. Additionally, the company has acquired Arxan, a leader in application protection. I had a chance to catch up with Digital.ai’s CEO Ashok Reddy and Arxan COO Mark […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Mainframe Fallout from BMC’s Compuware Buy
The acquisition of Compuware this week by rival BMC Software signals that the rate at which mainframe environments are being modernized might not be occurring fast enough to support a vibrant third-party tools provider ecosystem. Both BMC and Compuware were sold to private equity firms in 2018 and 2014, respectively. Thoma Bravo, which acquired Compuware, […]
The Battle for End-to-End DevOps Champion Is On
This past week’s CollabNet/Xebia Labs merger brings another challenger to the “end-to-end” DevOps market. There is a huge prize waiting for the winner. But which of the challengers has the right stuff to win this battle? Will any of the current pack even be around at the end of the day? Who will be the […]
LogicMonitor Acquires Unomaly to Advance AIOps
LogicMonitor this week revealed it has acquired Unomaly, a provider of tools infused with machine learning algorithms that make it easier to analyze large volumes of log data. Tej Redkar, chief product officer for LogicMonitor, said the acquisition of Unomaly will advance a previously announced AIOps initiative through which LogicMonitor will embed advanced analytics and […]