Demystifying the Low-Code Category
The low-code category is estimated to grow substantially in the coming years. By 2024, Gartner projects 75% of large enterprises will have adopted four low-code or no-code tools for both IT application and citizen development needs. But what exactly is low-code, and what are the scenarios in which it is needed? Low-code, like so much […]
The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy
While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams that have been employing Slack to collaborate for years is significant. Salesforce owns both Heroku and Force.com in addition to providing developers with […]
How to Foster Collaboration Between DevOps and Security
DevOps is on the rise. Back in 2018, MarketsandMarkets wrote that it expected the DevOps market to grow to $10.31 billion by 2023. That’s up from $2.90 billion in 2017, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) at 24.7% projected for the forecast period. Demand for DevOps solutions and services in response to the need […]
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% […]
Why Secrets Management is Critical to DevOps Pipeline Security
While valuable, secrets management also can be difficult for DevOps teams to employ. Here’s what you need to know Business is all about speed. Companies want to innovate and deliver functionality faster to remain competitive. This explains the increasing popularity of DevOps as a go-to model for rapid application delivery. A recent Gartner report indicated […]
InfluxDB to Revamp Storage Engine for Time-Series Database
InfluxData has launched an open source InfluxDB IOx project that it said will become the foundation for the next generation of the company’s time-series databases. At the same time, the company has made InfluxDB Open Source 2.0 generally available. This version of the company’s database comes in the form of a single binary that makes […]
Securely Streamline Code Signing for DevOps and DevSecOps
Introducing code-signing provides security within the application, but teams should take care to understand and implement the process effectively Digital certificate management, with hundreds or thousands of certificates required to support IT infrastructure, can easily lead to degradation of application integrity and unnecessary risk to the business. The cumbersome nature of siloed teams manually managing […]
KubeCon Coverage: Incentivizing the DevSecOps Culture
Just as DevOps set to de-silo development and operations teams, the DevSecOps movement is bringing security to the same table. A shift-left security mindset is permeating much discussion of late. Cyberattacks are on the rise in the era of COVID-19 and cybersecurity has become paramount to arm business-critical applications. Furthermore, new regulations have emerged to […]
DevOps Chat: Adopting Agile + DevOps in Large Orgs
In this DevOps Chat, Akshay Anand, ITSM product ambassador at AXELOS, and David Crouch, senior advisor at Beyond20, join Mitch Ashley to share best practices and learnings from introducing and adopting Agile and DevOps in large organizations. Akshay and David discuss overcoming change management challenges and obstacles to increase adoption. As usual, the streaming audio […]
strongDM Extends Access Management as Code Efforts
strongDM today announced it has added an application programming interface (API) and software development kits for Go, Java, Python, Ruby and other programming languages for involving the single sign-on (SSO) capabilities of its infrastructure access management platform, in addition to adding support for command-line interfaces (CLIs) exposed by cloud service providers. At the same time, […]
Survey Sees Pace of IT Investments Continuing
A survey based on responses from 230 IT operations and DevOps executives in the U.S. and UK with at least 500 employees and $5 million in annual IT budgets published this week indicates large enterprises are continuing to make IT investments despite the downturn in the economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the […]
Linux Foundation Adds Professional DevOps Certificate Program
The Linux Foundation this week made an addition to its professional certificate program that trains IT professionals on the fundamentals of best DevOps practices. Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux Foundation, said the goal is to increase the number of IT professionals that have been exposed […]
ITIL 4 in the Age of Agile and DevOps, With Axelos
ITIL is well-established as the process, certification and information resource library for service management across many IT organizations globally. With the recent updates to ITIL 4, influences from Agile and DevOps are helping ITIL to expand and adapt to changes in ways to create software and build operations into the delivery process. In this DevOps […]
Atlassian Launches ITSM Platform
Atlassian today extended its footprint in IT service management (ITSM) with the launch of Jira Service Management, a cloud-based platform designed to bridge the divide between DevOps and ticket-based approaches to managing IT. Edwin Wong, head of product for IT at Atlassian, said Jira Service Management builds on Opsgenie, an IT incident management platform. The […]
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 […]
Testing in Production 101
A top priority for developers is knowing that their new feature code will work in production before their user base has access to it. That’s why testing in production has been gaining popularity in the software development industry. Developers need to know that they can safely deploy their code to production and have the power […]
Algorithmia Allies With Datadog on MLOps Observability
Algorithmia today launched a performance monitoring for machine learning (ML) model that tracks algorithm inference and operations metrics generated by the enterprise edition of its namesake platform for building these models. Company CEO Diego Oppenheimer said Algorithmia Insights provides a level of observability into ML models that DevOps teams have come to expect from applications. […]
New AWS Services Optimize App Development Process
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is always busy introducing new services, enhancing existing ones and, quite often, driving trends. However, the cloud services provider has upped its game even more in recent months. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced an astonishing number of developments that enable technology interoperability, simplifying legacy feature removal, creating greater […]
Cisco CEO: Developers Need More Infrastructure Control
Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins said this week that the company’s No. 1 priority going forward is to enable IT organizations to better manage application experience via abstraction layers that make to possible for developers to programmatically manage infrastructure. Speaking at its annual Cisco Partner Summit, which occurred online, Robbins said Cisco is working toward […]
DevOps’ Role in Fixing Software Vulnerabilities
From the beginning, application development has required that software developers deal with bugs, vulnerabilities and other issues. But problems encountered under the DevOps model tend to be more manageable since the updates and fixes required are usually smaller. The reason for this is that the process of maintaining and improving DevOps-related software never stops. In […]
Applitools Integrates Testing Platform With GitHub
Applitools announced today that its test automation tools have been integrated with GitHub and GitHub Actions in addition to being available on the Microsoft Visual Studio App Center. Company COO Moshe Milman said these integrations make it possible to add testing tools that incorporate machine learning algorithms, dubbed Visual AI, to a DevOps workflow using […]
Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills
The Linux Foundation and edX, a provider of an online learning platform, jointly released an annual report today that for the first time finds organizations are looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills (65%) than developers (59%). Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux […]
DevSecOps: Changing AppSec for the Midmarket
The midmarket space has always been prime for innovation and opportunity. In the DevSecOps space, that is no different. If you look at this report or others about DevSecOps markets, two things stand out: The market is expected to explode to $14 billion by 2026 from today’s nominal $2 billion. The biggest driver of the […]