OpsRamp Extends AI Reach to Incident Management
OpsRamp today extended its IT operations platform infused with machine learning algorithms, also known as AIOps, into the realm of incident management. The Summer 2021 release of the company’s namesake platform adds alert predictions for preventing outages and incidents, alert enrichment policies for faster incident troubleshooting and enhancements for automatically ingesting metrics data collected from […]
4 Ways to Simplify Cloud Performance Monitoring
Over the past 18 months, technologists across the globe have played a crucial role in the survival of brands and organizations via digital strategies. Across all industries, their skill and dedication have enabled businesses to rapidly launch innovative new digital services to meet huge fluctuations in customer needs and allow entire workforces to operate from […]
Progress Expands Chef Automation Portfolio
In advance of its ChefCon 2021 conference, Progress today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Progress Chef automation platform that includes managed services and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its offerings as well as tighter integration with cloud services and other third-party tools. Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for the Chef business at […]
Federal IT Must Embrace Automation
In the private sector, an automation explosion is underway. One major retailer, for example, is using a new automated system to increase speed and accuracy in how freight is handled at its regional distribution centers. Another retail giant is relying on new automated processes to replenish store shelves more efficiently, reduce excess inventory and free […]
Sophos Acquires Refactr to Advance DevSecOps
Sophos this week revealed it has acquired Refactr, a provider of an automation platform that makes it simpler to add static and dynamic security scanning and application testing to a DevOps pipeline. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Joe Levy, Sophos CTO, said Sophos will extend the Refactr DevSecOps automation platform to add security […]
Improving Security with Mapping, Automation and DevOps
Strong cybersecurity is paramount for every organization. But all too often, security teams are disconnected from ongoing development processes and viewed either as an impediment to bringing products to market or as an afterthought. This leads to increased costs and possible gaps in the attack surfaces of new platforms. While many organizations are turning to […]
Redefining Continuous Security for DevSecOps
In the mobile app development world, security often takes a backseat to developing features and delivering the app. In fact, the 2021 Verizon Mobile Security Index found that 45% of organizations sacrificed mobile security in order to “get the job done.” It really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Certainly, it seems counterintuitive that mobile app […]
Shoreline Platform Automates Repetitive IT Tasks
Shoreline emerged from stealth today to make available a namesake incident automation platform that eliminates the need to manually perform the same repetitive tasks. Anurag Gupta, Shoreline CEO, said the platform is based on domain-specific language, dubbed Op, that provides a simple pipe delimited syntax to integrate real-time resources and metrics in a way that […]
Programmability is Key to Agile Transformation
Enterprise agility has rapidly become one of the most crucial variables for a business’s long-term resiliency. With the COVID-19 pandemic, never-ending disruptions to the global supply chain and nearly every industry’s typical processes flipped upside down, there has never been a more important time to prioritize agility than now. While the rewards of agility are […]
Don’t Look at This! IT’S A SECRET!
To continue the discussion about secrets after perusing this excellent report by GitGuardian—last time I went a little nuts about the number of secrets exposed in IT folks’ personal repositories. And it is a lot. I mean a lot of secrets. But you know what is scarier than, “A lot of secrets are leaked in […]
4 Ways to Manage Up for Automation
IT decision-makers understand how important a role process automation can play in a post-pandemic recovery. In a recent survey, 68% of these leaders said remote work caused key business processes in their organizations to break down. In the same survey, 97% described process automation as being vital to digital transformation and an important factor in […]
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Org-as-Code
We are all familiar with ‘everything-as-code’—a pattern that started with infrastructure-as-code and has now extended to other areas such as architecture-as-code, security-as-code and more. However, all the incarnations we have seen so far have been less than ambitious! The dawn of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology is moving us firmly toward organization-as-code. Org-as-code is […]
The New Norm for Modern Apps: Security Observability
Observability has burst onto the scene across all types of operational and security-focused activities. Its need is being driven by increased demands for businesses to be more responsive to changes and more proactive when dealing with potential problems. In particular, security observability holds the promise to help reduce the time to detect a cyberattack. And […]
Gotta Fix ‘Em All: AWS BugBust 2021
Software bugs are vexing. Code reviews and error finding aren’t a particularly fun part of a developer’s job description. Finding bugs is tedious, time-consuming and hard on your eyes. Bugs not only wreak havoc on your code, they wreak havoc on your day. But what if bashing bugs could earn you a payoff greater than […]
Survey Reveals Slight Decline in Level of SRE Toil
The amount of routine toil that site reliability engineers (SREs) perform declined slightly in the last year even though IT environments in general are becoming more complex to manage. An annual survey of 300 SREs conducted by Catchpoint, a provider of an IT monitoring platform, in collaboration with VMware and the DevOps Institute suggests that […]
WSO2 Applies AI to API Management
WSO2 today unfurled a Choreo cloud platform through which DevOps teams can create and manage application programming interfaces (APIs) more efficiently by leveraging machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Eric Newcomer, WSO2 CTO, said the integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) eliminates all the tasks associated with setting up a platform for and managing […]
How Low-Code is Anchoring the Digital-First Enterprise
When the pandemic hit, digital transformation was accelerated, and many companies turned to low-code development in the hopes of winning in the new agile world. Technology aficionados have heard the phrase, “Faster, better, cheaper — pick two.” Fortunately, low-code gives you all three and then some, adding “flexible” to the mix. It’s no surprise that […]
There’s No Innovation Without Automation
Companies of all sizes and across virtually every industry today have ready access to hyperscale compute, storage and myriad other technologies — without needing the significant budget or technical expertise of a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS. This is a boon for innovation. Cloud opened the door to cost optimizations, previously out-of-reach cloud-native tools, security […]
Automation is Needed for Reliable Cloud Platforms
From six to 1,400 microservices in less than five years? At first glance, that sounds like overwhelming complexity. Can you actually see the entire system across all of the microservices? This is the key to highly available and reliable SaaS cloud platforms. But what does this mean, and how can SaaS providers achieve it? Over […]