North Carolina May Meeting: DevOps – From the Hype to the Bottom Line
DevOps is generally defined as software development movement that encourages automation, integration and greater collaboration between software developers and operations staff. By bridging the gap between those two sometimes warring factions, DevOps establishes a consistent, repeatable way for IT to manage its production environment, resulting in faster time to market, higher productivity levels and smoother […]
Sqreen raises $ 2.3 million in seed funding to bring app protection to all developers.
PARIS – April 29, 2016 – Paris-based startup Sqreen.io raised a $2.3 million seed round to ship app “protection-as-a-service”. It provides every developer a simple way to get the security their applications deserve. The company was founded in 2015 by two security experts who spent 10 years hacking and assessing product security at Apple. Security […]
Jenkins 2.0 Advances Continuous Delivery with Native Pipeline Support and Usability Enhancements
New major release accelerates software delivery with focus on pipeline-as-code, software pipeline stage views and usability essentials for new and existing Jenkins users SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Jenkins project, comprised of the community of practitioners using open source Jenkins, today announced the availability of Jenkins 2.0. The first major release after 10 years and 655 weekly […]
Pay Down the Skills Debt Before the Technical Debt
When we talk about DevOps, we talk about addressing technical debt. We talk about how modern delivery processes and solutions might help you cure that technical debt of monolithic systems that are built on obsolete technologies, using antiquated development methodologies. But that jumps past the first critical step toward transformation, as technical debt is not […]
7 Causes of Continuous Delirium
When we think of CD, we typically think of continuous deployment as a result of continuous delivery, which is a goal of DevOps. In this article, I coin the phrase, “Continuous Delirium,” to mean unending confusion or bewilderment in development environments. There are probably several examples that could fit the bill here, but for now […]
Evident.io Secures $15.7 Million in Series B Funding
Venrock Leads the Round; Doug Dooley Joins Board; Jeff Williams Leads Sales DUBLIN, CA–(Marketwired – April 28, 2016) – Evident.io, the leading provider of cloud infrastructure security and compliance automation, announced today that they completed a Series B funding round with Venrock valued at $15.7 million. Venrock is a premier venture capital firm with an impressive portfolio […]
Xentaurs Announces a Strategic Partnership with Mesosphere to Build Next Generation Big Data Analytics and DevOps Platforms
Strategic partnership formed to accelerate adoption of container based architectures SANTA ANA, CA (PRWEB) April 28, 2016 Xentaurs, a next generation systems integrator and solutions provider announces a strategic partnership with Mesosphere, creators of the world’s first data center operating system. The partnership combines Xentaurs’ enterprise experience designing and implementing digital architectures with Mesosphere’s leading […]
Accelerance Reaches Significant Milestones, Rapidly Expanding Its Footprint in the Global Software Development Outsourcing Market
Global software development outsourcing leader successfully matched hundreds of client teams with outsourcing partners Redwood City, CA. — April 27, 2016 — Accelerance, a leader in global software development outsourcing, today announced it has hit significant milestones in overall growth, having established partnerships with over 50 software development firms across 30 countries and connected hundreds of client teams […]
SessionM Selects the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform TM for Visibility into Rapidly–Expanding Cloud Environment
BOSTON – April 28, 2016 – Threat Stack, a leader in cloud security and compliance management, announced today that SessionM, pioneers in mobile marketing cloud technology, selected the Threat Stack Cloud Security PlatformTM (CSP) to secure and protect the company’s cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) and engagement platform. SessionM chose Threat Stack’s cloud-native, fully integrated […]
DevOps: Metrics Do Matter
One of my favorite quotes about metrics or KPIs is from Jim Fowler, CIO of GE Capital: “Don’t measure me on cost or traditional IT metrics, but on the metrics of the business.” It’s a perfect tee-up for me to talk about metrics in the context of DevOps. DevOps is the movement of enabling a […]
Does the Future of DevOps Lie in NoOps?
Why DevOps is more a bi-directional rather than a simple top-down approach DevOps is one of those buzzwords that nearly everyone wants to discuss these days. However, it often is interpreted as an extension of Development’s influence to the detriment of Operations teams. So much has changed in the past few years that it is […]
Red Hat Launches Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, Introducing Collaborative Open Source Cloud and DevOps Residency Program
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is designed to enable customers to jumpstart innovation and software development initiatives the open source way April 26, 2016 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the creation of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, a […]
Resin.io Teams Up With Samsung to Deliver Benefits of DevOps Management to the SAMSUNG ARTIK™ Platform
CEO & Co-Founder Alexandros Marinos to Demo the Resin.io Platform During the Opening Keynote Session at Samsung Developer Conference 2016 SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Apr 27, 2016) – (Samsung Developer Conference) — Resin.io, provider of a modern DevOps management platform for connected devices, today announced that it has teamed up with Samsung to make it […]
Reasons Why Developers Should Test More
When I got started as a professional software developer, I thought awesomeness in development was measured by the lines of code (LOC) per day and how quickly code got to QA for testing. Coding a few thousand lines overnight gave one instant bragging rights, regardless of how well the code worked (or didn’t) in the […]
Site24x7 Supports Nagios, Custom Plugins to Monitor Entire App Stack
Site24x7 Plugins Drive Customized, Detailed Monitoring of IT Resources Supported plugins: Nagios, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, NGINX, HAProxy, ZooKeeper, WordPress, Apache, Memcached Users can create their own plugins using Python or shell scripts Access Site24x7 Plugins at http://ow.ly/109LDi PLEASANTON, Calif — April [26], 2016 — Site24x7, the cloud infrastructure monitoring service for DevOps and IT operations, […]
Should Your Apps be Cloud-Native?
There’s plenty of life left in a great number of the applications companies have been relying on and profiting from for years. The future may belong to cloud-native apps that deliver the performance and efficiency benefits of microservices and containers, but in the here and now, organizations are looking for ways to combine the best […]
Supermicro Total Solutions for Private, Public Cloud Accelerate Open Infrastructure Growth
April 25, 17:00 UTC+3 Complete End-to-End Integration, Validation, Deployment and Services Maximize ROI through Agile, Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Total Solutions AUSTIN, Texas, April 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing showcases its total solutions for public, private and hybrid cloud at […]
Global DevOps Platform Market to Grow 19.42% – Shift Toward PaaS – Research and Markets
April 25, 2016 10:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global DevOps Platform Market 2016-2020” report to their offering. The global DevOps platform market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 19.42% during the period 2016-2020. PaaS is built where the entire IT environment is designed […]
SaaS-Powered FlightPartner Fueled by DevOps
Private jet charter company FlightPartner is reaping the benefits of DevOps to build a powerful software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering to keep its customers flying high with no delays. “FlightPartner does not own any aircraft but rather facilitates the travel needs of clients by offering air charter brokers (agents to the client) access to a global network […]
VersionOne® Spring 2016 Release Helps Organizations Successfully Scale Agility with SAFe® and DevOps
VersionOne Enables Program Boards, PI Planning, and WSJF Ranking to Align with the Scaled Agile Framework® Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 22, 2016 VersionOne, the independent leader in agile lifecycle management, today announced its Spring 2016 Release to help organizations successfully scale agility with SAFe and DevOps. New features in VersionOne Lifecycle that directly support SAFe […]
DBmaestro To Expand Globally With Appointment of Former Microsoft Executive
DBmaestro expands to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, APAC and Japan Houston Texas, April 21, 2016 – DBmaestro (http://www.dbmaestro.com/), the pioneer and leading provider of DevOps for Database solutions, announced today that it’s expanding its focus globally with the appointment of Danny Neuberger as Senior VP of Sales in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia […]
Murphy’s DevOps: The Internet Apocalypse
I’ve been immersed in cybersecurity for a good stretch, since it was known as just “infosec” and “security.” Over time, I’ve had opportunities to work with some brilliant minds and young-gun “hackers” (I’m not a name dropper, so I’ll refrain from using them as SEO-bait). I’ve watched attackers transition from being basement-dwelling teenagers to organized intruders to APTs. At […]
Infrastructure as Code is SDN for Ops
As we continue to recognize the importance of DevOps—particularly its automation and orchestration aspects—to achieve the agility necessary for continuous deployment of apps, the question of how the term “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) applies to traditionally network-bound systems and services is bound to crop up more frequently. After all, in addition to core IP-based networking characteristics […]