DevOps Places Software Testing in the Crosshairs
To keep up with the pace of innovation, testing must play a larger role in the software development life cycle The speed of digital transformation is already staggering, and it’s only going to increase. To put this into some very concrete terms, consider that: There are 7.7 billion people in the world. 5 billion have […]
Synack: DevSecOps Being Accelerated by Cultural Shifts
The 2020 State of Compliance and Security Testing Report from cybersecurity testing platform vendor Synack claims that some of the world’s largest organizations are encountering a significant cultural shift within their development teams, and that bodes well for those seeking to build DevSecOps teams. For the report, Synack surveyed leaders from more than 300 organizations […]
Cloudera Calls for MLOps Standards Initiative
Cloudera put out a call this week for the IT industry to define a set of open standards for machine learning operations (MLOps) and machine learning model governance that could be universally applied. Santiago Giraldo, senior product marketing manager for data engineering for Cloudera, said the idea is to create the equivalent of a set […]
Survey: DevSecOps Progress Remains Elusive
Results of a survey of 103 IT professionals attending the recent DeveloperWeek Austin conference suggests that awareness of cybersecurity issues is clearly rising among developers, yet most organizations still have a long way to go toward before approaching anything resembling adoption of best DevSecOps practices. Conducted by WhiteHat Security, a unit of NTT Communications, the […]
Testing Emerges as DevOps Hurdle in Mainframe Shops
A survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development using mainframes finds 90% believe automating more test cases could be the most important factor in their success, as the pressure to accelerate innovation increases. However, the same survey finds only 7% of organizations automate the execution of test cases involving mainframe code today. […]
Can We Do Without DevOps?
Recently, DevOps has received so much hype and every respectable company sees it as its duty to have a DevOps team on and running. It is considered to be so beneficial to any company that a non-technician scrolling down posts at any tech website would think of it as a universal remedy for all the […]
The Role of DevOps in Custom Software Development
Hundreds of tech giants and big retail companies such as Etsy, Netflix, Amazon and Target have adopted an ecosystem called DevOps. It establishes a good collaboration between cross-functional teams such as development and operations which simplifies the processes. DevOps has calibrated a new standard for building custom applications. Do you know any predefined technique to […]
Predict 2020: What Will the New Year Bring?
With the holiday season upon us, our thoughts naturally turn to the next year and what it has in store for us. Will we come into more money? Will we find true happiness? Will there be better integration between DevOps and security? Will there be more Kubernetes instances? The first two may be a little […]
HPE Adds Control Plane to Greenlake Managed Service
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today it has added a cloud platform to its managed Greenlake service, through which DevOps teams will be able to manage deployments of applications alongside HPE. Scott Yow, vice president and general manager for GreenLake Hybrid Cloud Software at HPE, said HPE Greenlake Central provides a control plane that makes it […]
Accenture Cloud Simulation Platform Advances DevOps
Accenture has launched a cloud simulation service through which DevOps teams can better determine which workloads will run best on different cloud computing environments. Kishore Durg, growth and strategy lead for cloud at Accenture Technology Services, said myNAV is a cloud service created by Accenture that leverages machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial […]
DevSecOps Requires Teamwork for Success
While the manifestos surrounding the current development pipelines may differ, there is one concept that remains constant: teamwork. All the various frameworks populating the development landscape bring together teams of people to build and deliver applications. This is especially true of DevOps, which focuses on a technical culture with defined roles on a quest for […]
DevOps Chats: Automic + CA + Broadcom, a Release Automation Journey
The life of an acquired company can be an exciting one full of unexpected twists and turns, and that’s been true of Automic software. Scott Willson, a repeat podcast guest and longstanding member of the DevOps community, joins us again on DevOps Chats. He describes his acquisition journey as being akin to a “barracuda, eaten […]
DevOps: Get the Basics Right to Avoid Costly Mistakes
It is a truth of both agile and DevOps that speed is of the essence. This is a relative statement—some apps/portfolios/orgs envision speed completely differently than others—but if you are releasing more frequently than you were in the past, thanks to DevOps, that’s kind of the point. Yet, we see a whole selection of things […]
DevSecOps Adoption and the Web Security Myth
As DevOps practices have become widespread in the tech community, many people have begun proclaiming the virtues of DevSecOps. As the name implies, DevSecOps is the addition of security into DevOps. Just as DevOps promises better-quality production in less time, DevSecOps promises better security with less time required to achieve and maintain it. DevSecOps has […]
Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 1: Why Is It so Critical Today?
Apps are making the world a simpler, faster place. Mortgages can be verified in minutes. Food shows up at doorsteps with a few clicks. A safe ride is just a pin-drop away. For consumers, having a smooth, flawless and enjoyable app experience is the status quo. However, what goes on behind the scenes to make […]
DevOps Chats: Enterprise Continuous Testing With a Shift-Right Mindset
Test automation and CI/CD are evolving very rapidly to achieve great speed and impactful results by DevOps teams and Agile organizations. Our DevOps Chats guest, Tricentis Chief Product Officer Wolfgang Platz, contributes his experiences to the state of the art with his newly released book, “Enterprise Continuous Testing.” Automating software testing just for the sake […]
The Road Ahead for Security, DevOps Transformation
Qualys hosted its Qualys Security Conference 19 this week in Las Vegas. Hundreds of attendees from around the world have gathered at the Bellagio hotel to learn more about the current state of cybersecurity and what the future has in store. As you might expect, given the technology landscape today, many of the sessions and […]
How Combining DevOps and Agile Can Ease Black Friday Pressure
Every year, seasonal peaks such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday bring a higher volume and faster pace of work, as well as a considerable amount of pressure. This comes with a number of challenges, including managing traffic influx, ensuring top-notch digital experience, rebuilding catalog infrastructure and carrying out load and performance testing. Development teams […]
ServiceNow Makes the DevOps Connection
ServiceNow today announced it is extending the reach of its IT operations management platform to integrate with a variety of DevOps platforms. Richard Hawes, director of product marketing for ServiceNow, said ServiceNow DevOps will provide IT operations teams relying on an ITIL-based framework accessed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application visibility into DevOps processes and events […]
How DevOps Is Driving the Demand for Cross-Platform Tools
The demands of modern business mean companies today want choice when it comes to the technology they deploy. Gone are the days when they rigidly used a single environment–instead they want to be able to use the best of technology from vendors and be sure it will work across environments seamlessly. Whether it’s on-premises or […]
The 20 Best DevOps Podcasts
Skip the whole “starting a podcast is easy, all you need is a computer and a mic” pitch. The truth is podcasting is hard and it takes considerable work to create something special. The low barrier of entry intrigue is a double-edged sword, making it harder for good podcasts to get noticed in the incessant […]
Achieving Organizational Change Through Scaled DevOps
The rapid pace of technological change has had a major impact on customer expectation, forcing IT decision-makers to adopt agile processes to ensure the continual delivery of innovation. This has led to the mass adoption of DevOps practices, with 77% of organizations indicating they rely on DevOps to deploy software, or plan to, in the near future. […]
WhiteSource Acquires Renovate to Automate Dependency Updates
WhiteSource has acquired Renovate, a provider of an open source automated dependency update platform that the company plans to make available for free. Rhys Arkins, co-founder of Renovate who is now director of product for WhiteSource, said that as software projects become more complicated, there’s an increased need for a mechanism to identify and track […]