Lightbend Closes $20 Million in Series C Funding Led by Intel Capital
Pioneer in Reactive Systems accelerating growth as more and more Global 2000 enterprises move to cloud-first business models built on microservices SAN FRANCISCO, CA – (Marketwired – May 26, 2016) – Lightbend (formerly Typesafe), the company behind the Reactive Platform that includes the Akka, Play and Lagom Frameworks as well as the Scala programming language, […]
IBM Offers Watson Services on Twilio Marketplace
More than one million registered developers will have access to new cognitive capabilities SAN FRANCISCO – 24 May 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is collaborating with Twilio, the cloud communications platform for developers, to introduce two new offerings, IBM Watson Message Sentiment and IBM Watson Message Insights, which will be available as Add-Ons […]
Program Set For DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016, Last Round Of Speakers Added As Ticket Sales Ramp Up
Overwhelming number of quality submissions led organizers to add an additional eight-session track PORTLAND, Oregon, May 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the final program and speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit London (DOES16), the premier industry conference for the leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps in the […]
Sumo Logic Enables DevOps With Deep Data Insights Into AWS Lambda
New Integrations With AWS Lambda Offer Developers Improved Monitoring and Correlate Key Performance Indicators for Better Visibility Into Building Serverless Applications REDWOOD CITY, CA–(Marketwired – May 25, 2016) – Sumo Logic, a leading cloud-native, machine data analytics service, today announced the availability of its Sumo Logic App for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda allowing DevOps […]
Iron.io Named an IDC Innovator in Platform as a Service (PaaS) Market
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – May 26, 2016) – Iron.io, a leading provider of enterprise-grade job processing solutions, has been named as an IDC Innovator in the IDC Innovators: Platform as a Service, 2016 (doc #US41166516, May 2016) report. Companies (under $50M) chosen as an IDC Innovator offer an innovative new technology, a groundbreaking approach to […]
Brocade Advances Automation Leadership with Open Network Automation Platform
Brocade Workflow Composer Transforms IT Operations with DevOps-Inspired, Cross-Domain Network Automation to Increase Business Agility SYDNEY, Australia — May 26, 2016 — Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced Brocade Workflow Composer, a new server-based network automation platform that enables enterprises and cloud service providers to improve their IT operations and drive greater business agility. Brocade Workflow […]
Ciena Intros Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit to Deliver Greater Agility and Give Network Operators Enhanced Control of SDN and NFV Enabled Networks
Enhancement allows network operators to add network resources and program new services, at the speed their business demands HANOVER, Md. – May 24, 2016 – Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN) today unveiled a new enhancement to its Blue Planet network and service orchestration platform that will give network operators a powerful DevOps-style approach that speeds up the […]
What is a DevOps ‘Best Practice’?
In IT, we love our frameworks. Whether agile, ITIL, lean, cobit, six sigma or others, our thirst for “best practice” guidance seems to be unquenchable. The concept of a “best practice” is an enigma. Who decides if a practice is actually the best? And best for whom? While an “adopt and adapt” mentality is advocated […]
Tales of DevOps Discovery Part 2: Definitions Matter
Definitions Matter: Step Two in a DevOps Transformation The first post in this series on DevOps Discovery discussed the importance of asking fundamental questions of stakeholders to facilitate alignment on priorities and establish a mission statement when beginning a DevOps transformation. Part 2, below, reviews definitions of common DevOps-related terms and provides examples of how […]
Q&A: Quali’s Wrabetz on Security Testing
DevOps is the perfect storm of automated testing and development that should make secure software commonplace. Yet, there are hurdles to testing for security. DevOps.com asked Joan Wrabetz, CTO of Quali, about security, DevOps and her laundry list of those testing challenges. David Geer: Isn’t secure software important to DevOps? Wrabetz: DevOps is a practice […]
New Faces Of Devops
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PTC: Using DevOps to Transform Applications
Large companies and monolithic applications are not usually associated with DevOps. But I recently discovered that some of the best DevOps operations have come from the largest organizations and most complex applications, and PTC is the latest example. If you are not familiar with PTC, the company has a wide range of offerings for enterprises […]
Echidna Takes DevOps to E-Commerce Site Creation
The Echidna e-commerce firm installs and evolves e-commerce platforms, providing ongoing development so its clients can leverage e-commerce experiences to the satisfaction of their customers. “We apply carefully selected user experience technology, marketing and analytics abilities to our clients’ strategic goals to do this,” taking what it calls an “anti-Big Bang” approach to continuous deployment, […]
Datadog Adds Hadoop and Spark Integration to Leading Cloud-Scale Monitoring Platform
Users can now monitor the four most widely-used technologies in the Hadoop ecosystem: HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, and Spark NEW YORK – May 24, 2016 – Datadog, the leading SaaS-based monitoring platform for cloud applications, today announced support for Hadoop, bringing its unified view of applications to the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop users can now benefit from […]
Five Harsh Truths About DevOps
DevOps can provide tremendous productivity improvements, but it’s not a panacea. As much as we’d want it to be the solution for all of our software development problems, here are five truths you should consider. 1. DevOps may lead to juggling job roles and coming out of your comfort zone With DevOps, the development team […]
JFrog Introduces Xray – Makes DevOps Omniscient
JFrog Xray provides organizations a new standard of Radical Transparency and Deep Impact Analysis NAPA, Calif. – May 23, 2016 – JFrog today introduced its 4th and newest product, JFrog Xray, which gives organizations unprecedented visibility into the contents of software components. The announcement – made at swampUP, JFrog’s annual user conference – represents […]
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I will also discuss how you can protect and recover the data in your Cassandra […]
Perfecto Releases Ultimate Digital Testing Toolkit to Guide Data-Driven Testing Decisions – New set of free resources
New set of free resources helps enhance mobile and web testing strategies LONDON – May 18, 2016 – Perfecto Mobile, the market leader in empowering enterprises to deliver high-quality digital experiences, today announced the availability of their Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit, a free “starter package” that guides Test, DevOps and Product Development teams to […]
DevOps is ITSM Best Practice!
What boggles the mind is that opponents of DevOps use risk as an excuse why DevOps would not work in their environments and why using the “traditional ITSM” approach is better and safer. When I start asking them about their transition practices, specifically the alignment between transition, change, test and release models, I soon find […]
Building DevOps Careers: One Man’s Journey, Part 2
In Part One of this two-part series, we introduced former SlideShare and LinkedIn software engineer Sylvain Kalache, who shared his career growth within the two companies. In this second part, we’ll look at San Francisco-based The Holberton School of Software Engineering, which Kalache co-founded to better prepare students to work in a DevOps world. School […]
DevOps is a Risky Business
I spend a considerable amount of time with clients discussing DevOps and the potential value it can bring to them, but there is one theme that always resonates: the ability of a DevOps approach to eliminate risk. While many of us understand the benefits in terms of being faster (improved productivity), cheaper (reduced cost) and […]
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Making real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today’s world. That’s why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and more have come to life. Enterprises are using these technologies to re-architect their data storage and processing […]
Perfecto Releases Ultimate Digital Testing Toolkit to Guide Data-Driven Testing Decisions
New set of free resources helps enhance mobile and web testing strategies BOSTON – May 17, 2016 – Perfecto Mobile, the market leader in empowering enterprises to deliver high-quality digital experiences, today announced the availability of theirUltimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit, a free “starter package” that guides Test, DevOps and Product Development teams to make better-informed decisions […]