SolarWinds Acquires VividCortex for Database Monitoring
SolarWinds announced this week it is extending its portfolio of DevOps tools with the acquisition of VividCortex, a provider of tools for monitoring a wide range of databases that is delivered as a set of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Company president and CEO Kevin Thompson said the acquisition of VividCortex adds a database monitoring platform capable […]
WhiteSource Acquires Renovate to Automate Dependency Updates
WhiteSource has acquired Renovate, a provider of an open source automated dependency update platform that the company plans to make available for free. Rhys Arkins, co-founder of Renovate who is now director of product for WhiteSource, said that as software projects become more complicated, there’s an increased need for a mechanism to identify and track […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Arms Race Heats Up
A massive amount of capital is pouring into DevOps companies as organizations finally begin to realize the extent to which they depend on software. While Marc Andreesen may have penned his famous “Software Is Eating the World” opinion piece way back in 2011, it’s only now that many organizations are starting to realize they are […]
DevOps Chat: Splunk Moves Into Microservices With Omnition Buy
Swiftly after announcing its acquisition of SignalFx, Splunk is vaulting into microservices tracing by announcing its intention to acquire Omnition. Tech companies are rapidly making acquisitions to strengthen their position in the DevOps and contemporary cloud-native software stack. Rick Fitz, SVP and GM of Splunk’s IT Markets Group, joins DevOps Chat to share with us […]
Splunk Adds Omnition to DevOps Portfolio
Splunk followed up on its pending acquisition of SignalFx, a provider of an application performance management (APM), by also acquiring Omnition, a startup building a distributed tracing tool accessed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Rick Fitz, senior vice president and general manager for the IT Markets Group at Splunk, said Omnition consists of a small […]
Splunk to Acquire SignalFx to Gain APM Platform
Splunk today announced it will acquire SignalFx as part of an effort to extend its reach beyond IT operational analytics and into the realm of application performance management (APM). Valued at approximately $1.05 billion, the deal to acquire an APM platform delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering will expand and accelerate Splunk’s overall transition to […]
IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition
Following the official closing of IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat today, leaders from both companies reiterated Red Hat will continue to operate independently of IBM but will leverage IBM resources to advance the hybrid cloud computing ambitions of the newly combined entity. Arvind Krishna, senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software at […]
CloudBees’ Acquisition of Rollout: The CEOs’ View
As Mike Vizard reported yesterday, CloudBees, as part of its mission to build “the world’s first end-to-end automated software delivery system,” announced another acquisition: Rollout, a developer of a feature flag application that allows for simplified testing of new modules within an application. Not to repeat the gist of Vizard’s article; you can read it […]
CloudBees Acquires Rollout for Feature Flagging
CloudBees today announced it would extend the reach of the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform by acquiring Rollout, a provider of feature flag tool that gets employed to simplify testing of new modules within an application. Company CEO Sacha Labourey said the acquisition of Rollout would result in a feature flag capability that is […]
CloudBees Increases Size of DevOps War Chest
CloudBees has increased the pool of dollars it is aggregated to drive further consolidation across the DevOps sector by $10 million, thanks to an investment from HSBC. The investment comes on the heels of $62 million in funding that CloudBees raised last year, which brings the total amount invested in the company since 2010 to […]
Sauce Labs Acquires Screener Visual Testing Tool
At the SauceCon 2019 conference, Sauce Labs today revealed it has acquired Screener to add a visual testing tool to its portfolio of automated testing tools. Lubos Parobek, vice president of product for Sauce Labs, said the addition of Screener will make it possible for DevOps teams to not only test functions and performance using […]
DevOps Market Consolidation Gets Real: CloudBees Acquires Electric Cloud
You may have already seen the news today: CloudBees has acquired Electric Cloud in a move that marks a true market consolidation in the DevOps space. I had a chance to speak with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey to discuss the acquisition. We discuss the motivation for the deal, what the combined entity may look like […]
CloudBees Acquires Electric Cloud to Advance Continuous Delivery
CloudBees announced it has acquired Electric Cloud as part of an effort to extend the reach of its DevOps portfolio further into the realm of continuous delivery and application release automation (ARA). Announced at the CloudBees Days event in San Francisco, the deal follows CloudBees’ acquisition of Codeship, a provider of a cloud-based continuous integration/continuous […]
DevOps Chat: F5’s NGINX Acquisition, with F5’s Lori MacVittie
F5 Networks has acquired NGINX, the leading open source web server player. The move clearly puts F5 in the DevOps space, as well as the open source market. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Lori MacVittie of F5 along with Sidney Rabsatt of NGINX. Some great insights into why this acquisition makes sense for […]
F5 Networks Acquires NGINX to Meld NetOps with DevOps
As part of an effort to better align DevOps and network operations (NetOps), F5 Networks plans to acquire NGINX, a provider of widely employed open source loading balancing software. The two companies revealed in a call with financial analysts that the primary goal of the $760 million deal is to meld the two companies’ combined expertise […]
DevOps Chat: JFrog Acquires Shippable
The big news in DevOps today was the acquisition of Shippable by JFrog. This adds a CI/CD solution to the JFrog Enterprise+ platform and further expands JFrog’s end-to-end DevOps offering beyond Artifactory and more. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Shippable CEO Avi Cavale, JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim and JFrog VP of Marketing […]
Datadog Acquires App Dev Testing Platform Madumbo
Datadog announced it is extending its reach beyond IT monitoring to include application testing by acquiring Madumbo. Madumdo CEO Gabriel-James Safar said it’s become increasingly apparent that application testing needs to be more informed by the metrics gathered by IT monitoring tools. The combined Datadog/Madumbo will bring intelligence to automated testing processes using both application […]
How IBM’s $34B Bid for Red Hat Will Spur DevOps Adoption
IBM’s proposed acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion will have an immediate impact in raising awareness for a programmatic approach to managing hybrid clouds based on best DevOps practices. A recent survey published by International Data Corp. (IDC) finds most organizations (64 percent) have already embraced multiple clouds to varying degrees. Only 7 percent […]
IBM Acquires Red Hat to Create DevOps Behemoth
In a move that has massive implications for DevOps teams across the enterprise, IBM today announced it is acquiring Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion. Red Hat will join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud group as a distinct independent unit. Red Hat will continue to be led by Jim Whitehurst and Red Hat’s current […]
DevOps Chat: Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile
Consolidation is in the air, as two well-known players in the DevOps space—Perforce and Perfecto Mobile—are joining forces. Perforce has announced its intent to acquire Perfecto Mobile for its mobile and web automation testing technology, which, when combined with Perforce’s existing portfolio, will better enable organizations to achieve continuous testing at scale. It’s a great […]
Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile to Drive DevOps Consolidation
Perforce this week announced it plans to acquire Perfecto Mobile, a provider of automated application development tools, in a move that signals a potential wave of consolidation across the DevOps sector. Perfecto Mobile is the fifth acquisition Perforce has made in the last two years, and company CEO Mark Ties said there will be more […]
Software AG Acquires Built.io to Advance Integration Strategy
Software AG has acquired Built.io as part of an effort to provide a multitier approach to application integration designed for different classes of developers. Subhash Ramachadran, senior vice president for product management at Software AG, said Built.io adds a low-code approach to integration in the form of a platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) environment developed using Node.js to […]
DevOps Chat: JFrog Expands Platform with Trainologic Acquisition
It’s always great to see companies in the DevOps space grow and expand their breadth of services. JFrog is the latest to fit that description. The company last week announced its acquisition of Trainologic, a Dev and DevOps technology consulting company, to expand its reach by helping new customers start their DevOps journey and supporting […]