Five Technology Trends to Shape Future Investments
Humans invented technology to introduce innovative products in the market. Technology’s relentless cycle of innovation has now touched humanity, redefining what it means to be a human, a meaningful change that is impacting business priorities and is expected to do so in the future. The most important tech investment for C-level executives relates to digital […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Consolidation This Way Comes
The merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne announced this week will accelerate the ongoing consolidation of providers of DevOps platforms that has been slowly gaining momentum for the better part of two years. Under the terms of the agreement, the unnamed combined company will be led by Ashok Reddy, formerly with Broadcom, CA Technologies and […]
CircleCI Extends Orbs Ecosystem for CI/CD
CircleCI announced today it has added integrations in collaboration with 20 partners to the family of connectors, known as Orbs, that it makes available for its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Thomas Trahan, vice president of business development for CircleCI, said integrations are now available with Heroku, AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, Red Hat, Helm, […]
Edge Computing and ITOps: Opportunities and Challenges
Edge computing is growing quickly, but IT operations need to evolve as well to effectively monitor and manage new devices, sensors, applications and data. Growing enterprise edge ecosystems should integrate and become part of centrally managed ITOM systems. Edge computing is hard to define and is running high on the hype scale. But, research and […]
Red Hat Extends Runtimes Middleware Portfolio
Red Hat has made available the latest instance of Red Hat Runtimes, a suite of lightweight open source components and frameworks that makes it easier to discover the middleware most appropriate for building a specific type of application. James Falkner, product marketing director for Runtimes at Red Hat, said as organizations embrace cloud-native application architectures […]
Trends and Benefits of Serverless Computing
Gartner estimated that by 2020, 20% of the world’s organizations will have gone serverless. Serverless computing initiates a mind shift in the way businesses are run and improves the accuracy and impact of technology services. Leading to higher functionality, reduced AWS bills, increased delivery speed and multi-cloud support, serverless computing paves the way into the […]
JFrog ConanCenter Extends DevOps Reach to C++
JFrog this week announced it has updated ConanCenter, a repository for storing and discovering software packages that can be downloaded for free, to include support for C++ artifacts. Jagan Subramanian, vice president of community and partner engineering at JFrog, said ConanCenter provides a repository for the open source Conan package manager that JFrog includes as […]
The Difference Between Capacity and Scalability Planning
Not only does the tech industry love terms, we love to make them super nuanced. For example SecOps versus DevSecOps, continuous delivery versus continuous deployment, hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud, etc. These terms may seem similar on the surface, but when you dig in they are quite different. Here are two more: capacity planning versus scalability […]
SaltStack Extends IT Automation Framework
SaltStack today added three open source modules to its portfolio that make it easier to automate the management of IT at scale. Heist is a plugin that allows organizations to create agents that will dissolve after a specific amount of time. Umbra is a plugin that gathers data streams to make it easier for machine […]
How to Use DevOps for Compliance
Picture this: You’ve been working in an organization’s IT department for a couple of years and tasks have become quite a routine. Some documentation here and there, code reviews, end-user training, routine meetings with the developers and so on. You can do literally everything with your eyes closed. Then, all of a sudden, the company […]
Why Is QA so Important in Executing a DevOps Implementation Strategy?
In a rapidly growing global digital landscape, enterprises are facing many challenges. These include changing customer behavior and the need to be in line with the latest technology trends. To address these challenges and to stay up the competition curve, enterprises are adopting a slew of strategies. These comprise expanding the capacity of processes, quick […]
DevSecOps: 10 Best Practices to Embed Security into DevOps
For companies that employ the agile approach, DevOps seems like a natural extension. Traditionally, enterprises started with integration, development and test automation early in the product lifecycle. Gradually, the agile delivery team took care of iterative development and monitoring practices that increase code quality. Today, organizations work in unison to bridge the gap between development […]
Perfect Sense Open Sources Gyro to Automate Cloud Provisioning
Perfect Sense has launched an open source project dubbed Gyro that provides an alternative approach to automating cloud infrastructure provisioning and management. Gyro was developed as an alternative to other open source projects such as Terraform and Pulumi, said CTO Jeremy Collins. It is designed from the ground up around a programming language that allows […]
It’s Almost Here: Predict 2020 Virtual Summit
We’re a little less than two weeks away from Predict 2020 Virtual Summit, our annual online event during which we ponder the future of DevOps, serverless, cybersecurity, digital transformation and IT. This year’s event will be held Jan. 23, featuring an impressive lineup of industry luminaries offering up their visions for 2020 and beyond. Among […]
The Role of Developers in Digital Transformation
Developers are an integral part of digital transformation. They architect the modular systems that overcome legacy and build the applications and solutions that allow firms to deliver products and services in new and innovative ways. Yet, when it comes to business decisions, many organizations overlook their developer talent. Developers come from a variety of different […]
Opsani Applies AI to Rein in Cloud Costs
Opsani has added support for cloud computing environments to its namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that leverages machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize the IT environment. Company CEO Ross Schibler said Opsani AI not only proactively tunes resources such as CPU and memory, but it also can optimize middleware configuration […]
Certificates a Fly in the DevOps Ointment
The way cybersecurity teams have managed certificates is turning out to be a major impedance that could best be addressed by more organizations adopting best DevSecOps practices in 2020. A survey of 108 attendees at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 conference conducted by Venafi, a provider of tools for assigning identities to machines, finds […]
PagerDuty Focuses Incident Response Efforts on the Cloud
After helping to pioneer the adoption of incident management software in on-premises IT environments, PagerDuty is now focusing its attention on the cloud with the launch of PagerDuty for Cloud Operations. Jukka Alanen, senior vice president of business development and corporate strategy for PagerDuty, said that as cloud computing evolves to include containers and serverless […]
GitLab Open Sources Monitoring Tools
GitLab has decided to make its monitoring and observability tools available as part of its core open source platform to help reduce the total cost of DevOps. Previously, the tools were available as part of the commercial tools in GitLab’s DevOps platform. Kenny Johnston, director of product/Ops products for GitLab, said that as responsibility for […]
Datadog Adds Support for Microsoft Azure DevOps
Datadog has added support for Microsoft Azure DevOps to its namesake monitoring and analytics platform. Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Microsoft Azure DevOps, formally known as Visual Studio Team Services, is gaining traction as a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. […]
Best of 2019: The Time Has Come for an Engineering Approach to DevOps
As we close out 2019, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. Do you want to know how to do DevOps? Are you doing DevOps but not satisfied with the results you are getting? DevOps […]
Predictions 2020: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2020
Today, modernizing systems is more than simply moving technology to a new location. It requires an IT stack of a new generation of technologies and tools to work. As we head into the new year, let’s take a look at the top eight trends that will shape how we will develop and deliver software. Kubernetes […]
Predictions 2020: 7 DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 going to bring in DevOps, infrastructure and application automation? Here are seven DevOps predictions for emerging trends in the new year. Customer Experience […]