AWS Looks to Accelerate Windows Migrations to the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ratcheting up pressure on Microsoft by devoting more resources to enable IT organizations to migrate Windows workloads to the cloud. Fred Wurden, general manager for enterprise engineering at AWS, said a Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows, now generally available, provides IT teams with prescriptive guidance, consulting support, tools, training […]
Cisco Acquires ThousandEyes to Advance Network Visibility
Cisco Systems this week announced its intent to acquire ThousandEyes, provider of an internet monitoring platform that Cisco plans to leverage to embed ThousandEyes agent software into a range of devices including network routers and switches, security tools and application performance management (APM) software from AppDynamics. As part of that effort, ThousandEyes will become the […]
GitLab Releases Massive Update to CI/CD Platform
GitLab has updated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a raft of capabilities spanning everything from value stream management to cybersecurity. In addition, GitLab announced it is making generally available Gitaly Clusters, which enable DevOps teams to create a warm replica of a Git repository. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist at GitLab, said with […]
CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach
CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for SDM at CloudBees, said these integrations with Google Cloud Build and Tekton pipelines are being provided as part of a long-standing alliance between […]
Grafana Labs Update Aims to Simplify Observability
Grafana Labs today released an update to the open source Grafana project that adds a viewer that simplifies tracking the path of a single request through a distributed system. Version 7.0 also adds a plug-in for Amazon CloudWatch Logs along with support for Apache Arrow, a unified data and plugin framework that promises to make […]
Fortanix Adds Platform to Manage Confidential Computing on Azure
Fortanix today announced that a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing instances of confidential computing on the Microsoft Azure cloud is now generally available. Confidential computing is an emerging approach to encrypting data while it is running in memory. Today encryption is only applied to data at rest. Confidential computing makes it possible to set up […]
OpenStack Delivers Ussuri Update
The OpenStack community today officially released Ussuri, an update to the cloud management framework that tightens integration between components including the ability to automatically provision bare-metal servers using the Ironic IT automation framework built for that purpose. In addition, the community has added IPv6 support to the Kuryr project for integrating OpenStack with container networking […]
Divide Narrows Between Open Source Community, Standards Bodies
The path through which open source projects become industry standard is about to become a lot smoother. The Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an arm of The Linux Foundation, this week announced it has been approved to become an official submitter to the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ISO and IEC […]
Eclipse Foundation Moving to Brussels
The Eclipse Foundation announced today it will begin to transition its headquarters from Ottawa to Brussels as part of an effort to advance international expansion. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said with so many open source organizations based in North America, there is a clear need for an open source organization to […]
Report: More Appreciate the Value of Observability
Observability may be a core tenet of any best DevOps practice, but the number of organizations that actually engage in it is still not nearly as high as it should. A survey of 400 software engineers published this week by Honeycomb, a provider of an observability platform, finds nearly half said they are not currently […]
IBM Looks to Drive Edge Computing
IBM today at its Think Digital conference launched an edge computing initiative anchored around an IBM Edge Application Manager, through which a single administrator can manage up to 10,000 nodes. Hillery Hunter, vice president and CTO for IBM Cloud, said IBM Edge Application Manager is based on the Open Horizon open source software originally developed […]
Deploying OpenStack: Pick a Distribution With These 7 Qualities
OpenStack, which turns 10 years old in July, remains the leading open source infrastructure component in private clouds. But, there is a plethora of OpenStack distributions out there, and selecting the right one is vital to the success of every organization’s OpenStack project. How do you know which is best? It’s an important question because, […]
Open Source Vulnerabilities Were Up 50% in 2019 — How Will It Impact Software Development in 2020?
Open source vulnerabilities have been on the rise in recent years, but 2019 was truly one for the record books with a spike of nearly 50% over the previous year. According to the recently released State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities report by the WhiteSource research team, the number of vulnerabilities jumped from 4,100 in […]
LF Edge Moves Open Networking Push Forward
A vendor-neutral initiative dubbed the State of the Edge was acquired this week by LF Edge, an arm of The Linux Foundation focused on defining an open source stack of software for edge computing applications. The State of the Edge project will be merged with the existing Open Glossary of Edge Computing initiative that LF […]
CD Foundation Serves Up Tekton Pipelines Beta
The team overseeing the development of the open source Tekton Pipelines under the auspices of the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation announced today the project is now in beta. Christie Wilson, Tekton Project Lead and a software engineer at Google, said Tekton Pipelines are not necessarily a tool most DevOps teams will interact with directly. Rather […]
Google Names CloudBees App Dev Partner of the Year
Google this week named CloudBees its 2019 Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Application Development at a time when the rate at which application workloads are heading into the cloud is expected to accelerate. Beyond the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CloudBees also makes available a software-as-a-service […]
The Linux Foundation Throws Weight Behind Secure Microkernel
The Linux Foundation announced today it will host the seL4 Foundation, the nonprofit organization established by Data61, an arm of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia that has been developing the seL4 microkernel operating system. Gernot Heiser, who will serve as chair of the new foundation, said the seL4 is unique in […]
GitLab Shifts 18 Features Into Core Open Source Platform
GitLab this week announced it has moved 18 features that previously organizations had to pay for into the core open source version of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Scott Williamson, executive vice president of product management for GitLab, said as a general rule the company makes available DevOps tools for teams across the […]
The Linux Foundation to Award 500 Training Scholarships
The Linux Foundation this week announced it will make up to 500 training scholarships available this year. Clyde Seepersad, general manager for training at the Linux Foundation, said the number of Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarships being made available is being increased because of both the demand for individuals with particular expertise such as Kubernetes […]
Logz.io Launches COVID-19 Dashboard
Logz.io this week launched a Community COVID-19 Dashboard Project that seeks to provide software developers and data scientists a reliable source of data to assess the global impact of the pandemic. Dotan Horovits, product evangelist for Logz.io, said the goal is to help organizations make sense of often conflicting data by making it accessible using […]
Eclipse Foundation Delivers on Theia Promise
The Eclipse Foundation has made available Theia 1.0, an open source alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Studio (VS) Code tool for editing code. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said Theia will provide IT teams with a no-cost option to editing code that can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud alongside the Eclipse […]
Storj Labs Unfurls Decentralized Storage Service
Storj Labs has made generally available a distributed storage platform based on the excess capacity available on devices ranging from servers to individual desktops. Company CEO Ben Golub said the goal is to provide IT organizations with an alternative to storing data inexpensively using storage resources that have been vetted by Storj Labs. At the […]
EP 3: Open Source and DevOps
In the third episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Alan Shimel is joined by Kevin Dunne of Tricentis, Tracy Miranda of CDF and Alon Girmonsky of UP9 to answer the question: Can we have DevOps without open source?