Governance, Quality Critical in the New Digital Norm
The shift to digital is certainly not new. But the speed of digital adoption has been accelerated as organizations react to the COVID-19 pandemic and implement remote working and contactless or self-service channels for customers. What’s more, the evidence shows that trend is here to stay. Analyst Gartner’s CIO Agenda 2021 report shows that 76% […]
Broadcom Extends AIOps Platform Reach
Broadcom today extended the reach of its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform to provide full-stack observability via integrations with 15 third-party data sources including Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, PagerDuty, Splunk, ServiceNow, SolarWinds and Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager. In addition, Version 2.0 of AIOps from Broadcom now captures data at the chip level to […]
OpsRamp Makes AIOps Platform Simpler to Configure
OpsRamp today took the wraps off an update to its namesake artificial intelligence platform for IT operations (AIOps) that makes it easier for IT organizations to declaratively configure the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Ciaran Byrne, vice president of product management for OpsRamp, said the goal is to enable IT teams to embrace AIOps without having to […]
Want To Deliver Better Software Faster? Use Automation
Despite the evident evolution of the software industry, many enterprises continue deploying testing practices that require intensive time and effort, while also facing increased pressure to do more and work faster. I like to call this phenomenon “scattered islands,” as it describes the disconnect in maturity and capability across the testing landscape. The key differentiator […]
GitLab Makes Building Secure Mobile Apps Easier
GitLab has made 60 enhancements to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to address a range of things from DevSecOps processes to collaboration, at a time when most DevOps teams continue to work remotely. With help from external contributor support for the Mobile Security Framework (MobSF), version 13.5 of GitLab adds an all-in-one tool […]
Nobl9 Ties Business Goals to Observability Data
Nobl9 today announced it has made available via an open public beta program a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for correlating business goals against data collected by observability tools. Unlike observability platforms that only aggregate metrics, the Nobl9 Service Level Objective (SLO) Platform applies that data to specific reliability targets defined by the business, company CEO Marcin […]
Red Hat Automates More Operating System Tasks
Red Hat today announced an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that automates a wide range of manual tasks. Scott McBrien, a principal product manager for Red Hat, said RHEL 8.3, available in a few weeks, expands the Red Hat System Roles capability that provides a prescriptive and automated means of managing operating system […]
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 […]
Code Security: SAST, Shift-Left, DevSecOps and Beyond
Automation is the key to pushing code security beyond DevSecOps In virtually every industry, developers are dealing with ensuring the safety of their code. Regardless of whether it’s enterprise or applications for automotive, aviation or industrial controls, small systems or large systems, every organization struggles with security. In response, the industry continues to evolve to […]
Opsera Simplifies Building of DevOps Pipelines
Fresh off raising $4.3 million in funding, Opsera today launched a namesake platform that enables IT teams to orchestrate both the tools employed by developers as well as the pipelines that make up a DevOps process. Company co-founder Chandra Ranganathan said the Opsera platform automates setup of DevOps pipelines using a declarative approach that doesn’t […]
Gitpod Allies with GitLab to Automate Setting Up Dev Environments
Gitpod announced today that its open source tool for automating the setup of development environments is now integrated to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. The Gitpod platform treats a version control system as the canonical source of truth from which it then automates everything a developer needs to start coding, including the integrated […]
MLOps: More Than Automation
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about MLOps from the DevOps and software engineering perspective. The message often comes across as, “Hurry, DevOps community, let’s set some standards before MLOps reinvents the wheel,” or “The purpose of MLOps is to allow anyone who knows how to code to get ML into production.” Let […]
Shift Left … With In-Sprint UI Test Automation (?!?)
UI testing is really the most intuitive testing approach imaginable: Just find someone who can represent the target user and let them poke around in the interface they use for their daily work—the UI. It’s natural. It’s intuitive. And it’s still the predominant method used for testing most software releases today. This human-driven testing can […]
Granulate Applies AI to Linux Server Optimization
Granulate today announced that a platform that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize Linux server environments running on-premises or in the cloud is now generally available. The Granulate platform employs agents, dubbed gAgents, that install machine learning algorithms to continuously optimize deployments across a server environment, said company CEO Asaf Ezra. The company also launched […]
Synopsys Report Shows DevSecOps Progress
A report based on analysis of the software security initiatives of 130 organizations conducted by Synopsys, a provider of static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis tools, suggests progress in terms of DevSecOps adoption is being made but there is still a long journey ahead. According to the survey results, 121 organizations now […]
PagerDuty Applies AIOps to IT Incident Management
PagerDuty, at its online Summit20 conference today, unveiled a bevy of updates that apply machine learning algorithms across a wide range of workflows across the PagerDuty incident response platform. In addition, PagerDuty today announced it will acquire Rundeck, a provider of an IT automation platform that auto-remediates incidents by enabling playbooks to automatically execute whenever […]
xMatters Streamlines Incident Management
xMatters today announced it has expanded the capabilities of its incident management platform to better address the requirements of more complex IT environments. New capabilities include an Incident Console to better visualize and triage incidents, automate responses, improve collaboration and access to richer analytics to optimize response times. Incident metrics are now also automatically collected […]
3 Steps for Organizational Agility in the COVID-19 Era
While COVID-19 forced a fundamental shift in the way we work nearly overnight, many companies have been able to continue operations with minimal disruption, effectively transitioning to a remote workforce with speed and agility. These organizations that were further along in their digital transformation journeys before the start of the pandemic faced minimal disruption in […]
Survey Surfaces Impact of COVID-19 on DevOps Teams
A survey of 500 IT and engineering professionals across software and finance industries published today by Harness, a provider of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, suggests there is significant room to improve application development processes now that most DevOps teams are working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey finds only 43% of […]
Automation: The Human-Free Zone Approach to Software
Humans hate repetitive manual tasks. We suck at them—we make mistakes, lose concentration, get bored. Throughout history, humans have instinctually developed automation to keep us away from the hazard-prone, tedious work of these tasks. In software, we use configuration management, deployment tools and lean/agile processes born out of factories and the automation principles established there […]
Puppet Brings Orchestration to IT Automation
Puppet today unveiled its summer release of Puppet Enterprise that promises to make it easier for DevOps teams to construct automated workflows within a Puppet console. DevOps teams can now mix and match thousands of declarative state-based modules available on Puppet Forge repository to compose and orchestrate workflows. At the same time, Puppet has added […]
Has the Pandemic Made DevOps Tougher or Easier?
How has COVID-19 impacted the way DevOps professionals approach their work? The current, unpredictable economic climate as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a glaring need for organizations to be able to do more with less. They have fewer resources and even less margin of error now to maintain customer relationships, keep […]