DevOps Chat: Aqua Security Talks Funding, Security in a Cloud-Native World
Aqua Security, one of the leaders in container and cloud-native security, recently announced it has raised $62 million in a “C” round of investment, led by Insight Partners. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Rani Osnat and Andy Feit of Aqua Security about how this validates the cloud-native security field that Aqua has helped […]
Google Revamps Hybrid Cloud Strategy
At the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, Google announced it will make available cloud services based on Kubernetes under the brand name Anthos on its own cloud and on-premises platforms, as well as on third-party cloud services. such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Google also announced a tool dubbed Anthos Migrate that […]
Effective Cloud Security Requires a Cloud-Native Mindset
Thousands of developers and cloud security professionals will fill the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week for the sold-out Google Cloud Next ’19 conference. Three days of breakout sessions and keynotes will immerse attendees in deep technical content and opportunities for hands-on learning. It’s all designed to help organizations embrace the cloud. A key […]
Pivotal Software Previews Automation Framework
At the North America Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 conference, Pivotal Software announced it is beta testing an automation framework that promises to keep its distribution of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment continuously updated. In addition, Pivotal revealed it will be adding support for open source technologies including Envoy load balancing and Istio service mesh software developed […]
F5 Networks Acquires NGINX to Meld NetOps with DevOps
As part of an effort to better align DevOps and network operations (NetOps), F5 Networks plans to acquire NGINX, a provider of widely employed open source loading balancing software. The two companies revealed in a call with financial analysts that the primary goal of the $760 million deal is to meld the two companies’ combined expertise […]
SoulCycle Flexes Its Muscles with DevOps and CI/CD
When SoulCycle wanted to improve application development and deployment, including improving services for customers across its 80-plus indoor cycling centers in the United States and Canada, the company turned to Mark Sost, a veteran developer and engineer who worked at several media companies, including Hearst. Over the last two-plus years, Sost, who now holds the […]
Bitnami Offers Popular Application with Managed Database Configuration in Azure Marketplace
Multi-tier Packages of WordPress and Drupal with Azure Database Services Remove Complexity of Deploying Enterprise Configurations SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 15, 2018 —Bitnami, the leading provider of application packaging, is excited to announce the availability of WordPress and Drupal pre-configured with support for Azure Database for MariaDB in the Azure Marketplace. Bitnami has collaborated […]
Instana Extends Leading Kubernetes Monitoring Solution to Better Serve Developer Community
Company’s Latest Release Provides Quickest and Easiest Developer Visibility of Kubernetes Application and System Performance Seattle at KubeCon – December 11, 2018 – Instana, the first APM solution provider to monitor kubernetes at the application layer, today announced further enhancements to the company’s automatic application monitoring solution for containerized applications. The new capabilities center around Instana’s Application Perspectives, […]
Build Global Applications in Minutes & Lower Storage Costs Up To 70% with Alfresco Digital Business Platform
Alfresco Software first vendor in content services market with support for Amazon EKS and Amazon Glacier; delivering capabilities that lower storage costs while increasing speed and scalability SAN MATEO, Calif.—November 15, 2018 — Alfresco Software, a leading enterprise open source provider of process automation, content management, and information governance software, today announced major product updates […]
LF Deep Learning Delivers First Acumos AI Release Making it Easier to Deploy and Share Artificial Intelligence Models
First Acumos AI release enables deployment of AI applications in private/public cloud environments, and enhances the platform user interface experience SHANGHAI (KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON CHINA) – November 14, 2018 – The LF Deep Learning Foundation, a project of The Linux Foundation that supports open source innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep […]
Semaphore 2.0 Brings Continuous Delivery to Teams of All Sizes
Since its inception in 2012, Semaphore has been focused on making code testing and deployment a quick and easy process. The cloud-based CI/CD platform from Rendered Text enables users to get up and running within a matter of minutes—which the company claims is at least twice as fast as other offerings. The company is releasing […]
Canonical announces release of Ubuntu 18.10 ‘Cosmic Cuttlefish’
Ubuntu 18.10: Multi-cloud, new desktop theme and enhanced desktop snap integration London, UK, 18th October 2018; Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 18.10, focused on multi-cloud deployments, AI software development, a new community desktop theme and richer snap desktop integration. “Ubuntu is now the world’s reference platform for AI engineering and analytics” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of […]
Fission Open Source Serverless Framework Offers Live-Reload, Canary Deployments, Record-Replay, More Features to Improve the Quality and Simplify Release Automation of Serverless Applications on Kubernetes
Live-reload, Record-replay, Automated Canary Deployments, Prometheus integration, and more give both Dev and Ops confidence in the production-readiness of serverless applications, as well as easy troubleshooting, and cost/performance optimization Sunnyvale, CA – October 16, 2018 – Platform9 (https://platform9.com/), the leader in SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, today announced a new release of Fission.io – the popular open source, Kubernetes-native Serverless […]
SAP Extends Effort to Modernize App Development
SAP this week expanded the scope of the SAP Cloud Platform to include support for the ABAP programming language and made available a beta version of a Kubernetes-as-a-service offering, in effort to update its app development portfolio. Announced at the SAP TechEd 2018 conference, these two offerings serve as bookends for an evolving SAP strategy […]
Pivotal Software Extends Development Platform Reach
Pivotal Software announced an expansion of its implementation of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment in addition to extending its support for Kubernetes to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. At its SpringOne Platform 2018 conference, Pivotal revealed that Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) can now extend a single instance of its distribution of the […]
Red Hat Takes Virtualization Aim at VMware
Red Hat, as part of on going drive to wean enterprise IT organizations off proprietary virtualization technologies, today launched a set of Red Hat infrastructure migration tools and services. Joe Fernandes, vice president of cloud platforms products at Red Hat, said that as organizations move to modernize their application environments by lifting and shifting them […]
Why Serverless Needs DevOps
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was updated July 2, 2018 Serverless, like Kubernetes and microservices, is a new technology. Yet, despite the amount of blog, forum and news-related posts published about serverless, it represents only a fraction of all IT deployments. Aside from the new factor, serverless shares few similarities with Kubernetes and microservices. Organizations turn […]
Developer Trend Chat: Microservices, Node.js, Kubernetes
The role of software developers has never been more important. Developers touch almost every corner of our lives, from health care and retail to education. It’s an extremely rewarding career—so much so that software development is now ranked the Best Job in the United States. The nature of software development demands that developers be fast-moving. […]
Jump-Start Your Kubernetes Journey with JenkinsX
Containers are very quickly being adopted as the stable way of deploying services. More and more organizations are adopting immutable architecture and containers provide an excellent way to achieve that. But along with the stability comes the complexity of deployment, along with managing workload, scaling and updating. That’s in addition to having to create a […]
NeuVector 2.0 Automates Kubernetes Security Incident Detection and Response
Release enables enterprises to deploy Kubernetes with confidence by automating security and adding protection from new threat vectors San Jose, CA – April 12, 2018 – NeuVector, the leader in Kubernetes security delivering the first and only multi-vector container firewall, today announced NeuVector 2.0. The enhanced security solution further protects Kubernetes environments by building on the unique NeuVector […]
DevOps Gets More Exciting in 2018
As 2017 winds down and the IT industry prepares for 2018, there are a number of DevOps trends that everyone should be keeping their eyes on. It’s not so much that something incredible and explosive is expected in the new year. Rather, 2018 will be a time when DevOps starts to mature alongside other trends […]
Morpheus Data Advances DevOps Across Hybrid Clouds
Thanks to the rise of multi-cloud computing, the challenges associated with managing DevOps are becoming exponentially greater. Most IT organizations are not likely to be 100 percent sure at any given time which application workload is running where. To address that issue, Morpheus Data has added a Cross-Platform Discovery module to its Unified Ops Orchestration […]
Kubernetes is the Universal Cloud Infrastructure
Before I started Rancher Labs, I created a company called Cloud.com where we developed Apache CloudStack. We were inspired by the early success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and wanted to make it possible for everyone to stand up AWS-like cloud infrastructure for themselves. While CloudStack was successful in powering a number of public and […]