Algorithmia Looks to Meld MLOps and DevOps
Algorithmia, in the latest update to the enterprise edition of its namesake machine learning operations (MLOps) platform, is enabling software development lifecycle practices to be applied to the building of algorithms by making it possible to debug them using desktop tools that are widely employed. The enterprise edition of Algorithmia will enable users to write […]
Sumo Logic Expands Observability Platform Scope, Reach
Sumo Logic announced today it has extended the reach of its monitoring platform to provide deeper insights across application and infrastructure logs, metrics, traces and metadata in real-time. The latest additions to the company’s suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings include Sumo Logic AWS Observability Solution, which focuses exclusively on AWS services, and additions to the […]
Serverless: Helping the Enterprise Scale DevOps
Serverless is the paradigm shift that allows engineers to innovate and move faster DevOps has been around for more than 10 years and it’s still misunderstood by many companies. You can’t buy “a DevOps,” but DevOps is critical to your business. In some ways, serverless is similar: a name that markets well but creates confusion […]
CDF Officially Graduates Jenkins CI/CD Platform
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced today that the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) has officially graduated. Jenkins was donated last year to the CDF, an arm of The Linux Foundation, along with Jenkins X, a CI/CD platform for Kubernetes; Spinnaker, a CD platform; and Tekton, a framework for building pipelines that will […]
Upcoming Event: GitLab Commit Virtual 2020
For the first time ever, GitLab’s annual user conference will take place in a virtual environment on Aug. 26, bringing together DevOps luminaries from around the globe for a free, interactive learning experience. GitLab Commit Virtual is a 24-hour virtual event that provides attendees with the opportunity to join DevOps discussions, demos and presentations, and […]
Atlassian Adds Asset Management to ITSM Portfolio
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Mindville, a provider of IT asset management software that the company plans to integrate with its Jira ServiceDesk platform. Edwin Wong, head of product for IT at Atlassian, said Mindville will extend the reach of its IT service management (ITSM) portfolio, which includes Opsgenie for incident management, Jira […]
GitLab Extends Scope, Reach of CI/CD Platform
The latest update to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform adds a bevy of additional capabilities spanning multiple capabilities, from being able to manage application development and deployment projects in smaller chunks to allowing remote teams to work more efficiently. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist for GitLab, said a Minimal Viable Change (MVC) capability […]
DevOps Was Supposed to Kill Developer Jobs. Here’s Why it Didn’t
The rise of DevOps is more an evolution than a revolution, and developer jobs aren’t going anywhere Development died a long time ago and was replaced by DevOps. Or, at least that was the way it was supposed to happen. In reality, developers are doing just fine. There are currently almost 150,000 development jobs right […]
Solving the DevOps Dilemma in the COVID Era
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing businesses to double down on DevOps transformation initiatives across the enterprise, pushing companies to be more agile and implement software changes throughout their organization at a much faster rate. However, too many IT departments rely on older, complex processes to approve software changes coming from DevOps teams and simply cannot […]
Sentry Adds Application Performance Monitoring to Platform
Sentry has extended the reach of its agentless monitoring platform to now track performance issues in addition to surfacing errors in code. Company CEO Milin Desai said IT organizations can now consolidate the number of monitoring platforms they employ to reduce their overall costs. Previously, the Sentry platform only identified errors in applications. The Sentry […]
Micro Focus Extends AI Testing Tools Reach
Micro Focus has extended the capabilities of a family of Unified Functional Testing (UFT) testing tools infused with artificial intelligence (AI) to include support for both web-based and mobile applications. In addition, UFT testing tools will now allow a single script to automatically run on multiple platforms and browsers, eliminating the need to create multiple […]
Bringing NetOps Up to Speed With DevOps
Automation can be an unwieldy topic for network operations and DevOps teams who have enough challenges working together cohesively. Networks have been traditionally viewed as the long pole in the tent for emerging DevOps practices. But for DevOps practitioners and business leaders alike, there’s good news: NetOps are more prepared than ever to embrace automation […]
How IaC Bridges the Divide Between DevOps, Security
IaC provides a connection between security and DevOps teams in a subtle, non-intrusive manner Companies often choose DevOps as means to provide value and responsiveness through rapid, high-quality service delivery. Instead of traditional siloed development and operations teams, DevOps embraces multidisciplinary teams that share efficient practices and tools. Essential DevOps practices include agile planning, continuous […]
Keysight Technologies Jumps into App Testing by Acquiring Eggplant
Keysight Technologies, a provider of tools to test and measure embedded systems and mobile computing devices, has acquired Eggplant, a provider of a platform that automates application testing, for $330 million. Dr. John Bates, CEO of Eggplant, said the acquisition enables Keysight to expand the scope of its testing portfolio beyond hardware. Keysight traces its […]
4 Mobile DevOps Must-Haves
Mobile DevOps requires a robust and streamlined strategy for success The mobile revolution of the last 20 years has radically changed our everyday lives. That’s not just the way we communicate, but also the way we find information, purchase goods and services, entertain ourselves and more. This has gone in tandem with great technological advances […]
HCL Software Expands DevOps Portfolio
HCL Software has launched a DevOps practice and portfolio along with three updates to HCL tools. Version 2.0 of HCL Accelerate 2.0 adds support for policy management and out-of-the-box reports to the value stream management platform, while version 7.1 of HCL Launch automates the application of corporate governance rules to the continuous delivery platform. HCL […]
Open Mainframe Project Pushes Zowe Platform Into LTS
The Open Mainframe Project (OMP) announced this week that a long-term support (LTS) edition of Zowe, the open source integration platform for mainframes running z/OS, is now generally available. Announced at the virtual Open Source Summit, this edition of the framework for integrating administration, management and development tools based on web technologies will not be […]
SDM and the DevOps Delusion of Connected Organizations
How Software Delivery Management Clears Up the Confusion of Embracing and Implementing DevOps Since the term was coined back in 2009, it wouldn’t be a stretch to describe DevOps as an impactful if not tectonic shift in software development and delivery in the past two decades. The move to implement DevOps has encouraged, among other […]
Survey Finds SRE Role Remains Largely Aspirational
Monitoring tools provider Catchpoint, in collaboration with the DevOps Institute, has published a survey that finds there is a significant gap between the tasks and duties that define the role of what a site reliability engineer (SRE) should be versus what is actually occurring within IT organizations that have hired SREs. Based on a survey […]
Puppet Launches Relay to Simplify Automating DevOps Workflows
Puppet today made available a public beta of Relay, an event-driven platform through which DevOps teams can automatically invoke pre-configured workflows. Company CTO Deepak Giridharagopal said Relay listens for DevOps events that can then trigger an automated workflow such as automatically deleting underutilized cloud resources, enforcing cybersecurity controls or remediating known issues. Relay connects to […]
SaltStack Looks to Automate DevSecOps Processes
SaltStack announced today it has integrated its automation framework with a variety of third-party security platforms to further the adoption of best DevSecOps processes. Mehul Revankar, director of product management for SaltStack, said version 6.3 of SaltStack Enterprise provides integration with offerings from Splunk, Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and Kenna Security. Data generated from vulnerability scans […]
3 Reasons Why Traceability Should Be a DevOps Priority
Traceability in DevOps is about ensuring clarity, accountability and the best possible end product for customers There’s a lot to think about when it comes to mobile DevOps. For a start, there’s the need for effective cooperation between members of different teams, perhaps even via team collaboration software for remote workers. With so many people […]
JFrog Extends Reach and Scope of CI/CD Platform
At its online JFrog swampUP Conference today, JFrog announced it has extended the reach of its ability to distribute software to include options based on peer-to-peer and content delivery network (CDN) mechanisms. In addition, JFrog expanded the reach of the JFrog Pipelines continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling DevOps teams to build their own library […]