Harness to Apply AI to DevOps
Harness, at its {Unscripted} 2020 conference today, announced its plans in the fourth quarter to make available as a beta a module that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize build and test cycles on the Harness Continuous Integration (CI) Enterprise platform. At the same time, Harness is adding a beta of a Continuous Features module […]
Snyk Brings AI to DevSecOps
Snyk today at its SnykCon 2020 conference announced a static application security testing (SAST) dubbed Snyk Code that incorporates an interpretable machine learning semantic code analysis engine the company gained through its acquisition of DeepCode earlier this year. The company also announced it has extended its alliance with Docker Inc. to become the exclusive provider […]
Winning DevOps in the Finance Industry
DevOps is making its impact on almost every software-powered company these days. Companies in the finance domain, however, have been perhaps the slowest to embrace DevOps because of concerns regarding governance, security, compliance and regulatory regulations. But it is safe to say that they are currently leading the digital innovation in this era of cloud-native […]
Why It’s Time for Site Reliability Engineering to Shift Left
By adopting a multilevel approach to site reliability engineering and arming your team with the right tools, you can unleash benefits that impact the entire service-delivery continuum In today’s application-driven economy, the infrastructure supporting business-critical applications has never been more important. In response, many companies are recruiting site reliability engineering (SRE) specialists to help them […]
ServiceNow Extends DevOps Integration Reach
ServiceNow today announced it has added four new integrations with DevOps platforms to its IT service management (ITSM) platform delivered via the cloud. The four integrations add native support for Microsoft Azure Pipelines, a Jenkins Plugin, GitHub Actions and GitLab pipelines. A continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) Spoke capability on the ServiceNow platform makes it possible […]
Datadog Allies with BigPanda on AIOps
BigPanda Inc. and Datadog today announced they will integrate their respective platforms to make it easier to form artificial intelligence for automating IT operations (AIOps) to consume data generated by the Datadog IT monitoring service. The two companies are pledging to invest in a go-to-market partnership to create a comprehensive platform for monitoring, analytics and […]
Do Cloud Desktops Have a Place in DevOps?
If you were asked to name the most important cloud-based tools and services for doing DevOps, chances are that cloud desktops would not make it on the list. Your mind would probably instead go to IAM frameworks, cloud-based CI/CD suites and cloud IaC tools. But for DevOps practitioners, as well as the end users they […]
JFrog Adds Free DevOps Tier in the Cloud
JFrog announced today it is making a free tier of its namesake DevOps platform available on all three major public cloud service providers. Stephen Chin, senior director for developer relations at JFrog, said a free subscription to JFrog Platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now generally […]
Bringing Agility to Mainframes in COVID-19 and Beyond
Of the many ways this pandemic has shifted resources online, financial transactions are among the most critical. With the use of cash and checks grinding to a halt, transactions generated with our devices are increasing, and most of them are being completed on a mainframe. It’s not hyperbole to state that mainframes—the systems of record […]
Cisco Expands Effort to Meld DevOps, NetOps
Cisco Systems has accelerated its efforts to converge network operations (NetOps) by adding support for Terraform tools for managing infrastructure-as-code as well as expanding its support for the Ansible IT automation framework. In addition, Cisco has improved and standardized the application programming interfaces (APIs) it makes available for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) framework for […]
Mainframe and DevOps in Traditional Enterprise, With ASG Technologies
The assumption that large, established enterprises—from insurance companies to government agencies—can’t adopt Agile processes or DevOps is based on the falsehood that legacy technology stacks won’t allow for it; that existing traditional mainframe applications or legacy applications that large enterprises are built on are incapable of adapting to these approaches. Accelerated Strategies Group recently released […]
Bringing DevOps to SAP, With Basis Technologies
DevOps has not only reached mainframe groups in enterprise but also to large applications such as SAP. Organizations are moving away from waterfall methods and mega releases that take many months to deliver. What’s needed are many more rapid release cycles and deployments that support the accelerating pace necessary to do business. In this conversation […]
Feature Flags: The Cure for DevOps Remote Work Stress
Feature flags can help reduce the stress associated with DevOps during WFH The world has drastically changed. As a result, we have had to adapt the way we shop, socialize, educate and work. Businesses have had to adapt to keep operations going, and the biggest change they’ve had to make has been the move to […]
3 Ways Atlassian Usage is Evolving in the New Normal
Over the last half-year, the use of Atlassian’s tools is evolving and expanding COVID-19 has rapidly accelerated the digital transformation of businesses by several years. However, as companies shift to digital-only workflows, DevOps teams and the increasing number of departments they interact with face numerous challenges. Effective digital communication and collaboration are often vital to […]
ZeroNorth Extends DevSecOps Orchestration Reach
ZeroNorth has extended its namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for orchestrating DevSecOps toolchains to include integrations with Scout Suite, Aqua Trivy, Gitlab and BitBucket Server and the configuration management database (CMDB) from ServiceNow. The company is also adding application portfolio reports to surface the security policies applied to each application, scan results and progress of remediation […]
Developers Are Running With Scissors. Here’s How to Do It Safely
We’ve all heard the stories. It takes too long to make changes to applications, right? Well, until COVID-19, that was true. Many enterprises have found that the global pandemic brought on by the novel coronavirus has given them the will to find the way to move faster. As one customer recently relayed: “Before COVID it […]
Sumo Logic Extends Observability Reach
Sumo Logic, at its online Illuminate conference today, announced the availability of a bevy of extensions to its observability and security information event management (SIEM) cloud services that span everything from hybrid cloud computing to cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes. The company also announced the general availability of a free Software Development Optimization (SDO) service, […]
Equinix Adds Automated Bare-Metal Server Service
Equinix, a provider of hosted IT services, added an Equinix Metal offering that allows IT teams to automate the deployment of bare-metal servers. Interest in deploying bare-metal servers is increasing due to the rise of both artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are compute-intensive and Kubernetes clusters that, in many cases, don’t require the overhead created […]
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 […]
Survey Surfaces Lots of DevSecOps Friction
A survey of 560 application security professionals and software developers in North America and Western Europe conducted by WhiteSource, a provider of tools for securing open source software, finds there’s a long way to go before most organizations can claim to have fully implemented best DevSecOps practices. Only 20% of respondents said their organization had […]
Microsoft Advances DevOps Agenda
Microsoft, at its online Ignite 2020 conference, has launched a bevy of updates that collectively further adoption of best DevOps practices on the Microsoft cloud platform, including for the first time a preview of an ability to store artifacts created using low-code Power Apps tools on GitHub. In addition, Microsoft announced a preview of an […]
Survey Surfaces High Reliance on DevOps to Build and Deploy APIs
A survey of 13,586 IT professionals who work with application programming interfaces (APIs) published today by Postman, provider of an API development platform, finds best DevOps practices are now widely employed to both produce and consume APIs. The primary method through which teams working on APIs collaborate is by sharing URLs (42%). However, publishing API […]
Continuous Testing: Complementary to Agile and DevOps
Digital transformation brought about by quality software applications and robust hardware platforms helps to create a competitive advantage for enterprises across verticals and geographies. Now it is no longer about choosing between speed or quality of software but to incorporate both when delivering to customers. With Agile and DevOps being embraced by enterprises to stay […]