strongDM Extends Access Management as Code Efforts
strongDM today announced it has added an application programming interface (API) and software development kits for Go, Java, Python, Ruby and other programming languages for involving the single sign-on (SSO) capabilities of its infrastructure access management platform, in addition to adding support for command-line interfaces (CLIs) exposed by cloud service providers. At the same time, […]
SAFE Identity Achieves Major Standards Milestone in Cross-Industry Effort to Complete Interoperable Trust Framework for Digital Identities for Healthcare
RESTON, V.a. – Nov. 10, 2020 – SAFE Identity and its healthcare industry-led Policy Management Authority (PMA) have achieved a major milestone in their effort to enable a standards-based, interoperable Trust Framework for digital identities across all stakeholders in the highly distributed healthcare industry. Today, the healthcare industry consortium and certification body announced it has published the new SAFE Identity […]
Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills
The Linux Foundation and edX, a provider of an online learning platform, jointly released an annual report today that for the first time finds organizations are looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills (65%) than developers (59%). Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux […]
Database footprints and Database as a Service continue to grow, but many companies facing unexpected cloud bills, according to Percona
According to 2020 survey respondents, more than 20% of companies faced cloud costs above their budgets, 45% of companies are running DBaaS Percona expands product and service catalog for open source databases and DBaaS, including support for PostgreSQL version 13, beta announcements for PostgreSQL managed services and the Percona Enterprise Platform. Raleigh, NC – October […]
Winning DevOps in the Finance Industry
DevOps is making its impact on almost every software-powered company these days. Companies in the finance domain, however, have been perhaps the slowest to embrace DevOps because of concerns regarding governance, security, compliance and regulatory regulations. But it is safe to say that they are currently leading the digital innovation in this era of cloud-native […]
3 Ways Atlassian Usage is Evolving in the New Normal
Over the last half-year, the use of Atlassian’s tools is evolving and expanding COVID-19 has rapidly accelerated the digital transformation of businesses by several years. However, as companies shift to digital-only workflows, DevOps teams and the increasing number of departments they interact with face numerous challenges. Effective digital communication and collaboration are often vital to […]
Survey Surfaces High Reliance on DevOps to Build and Deploy APIs
A survey of 13,586 IT professionals who work with application programming interfaces (APIs) published today by Postman, provider of an API development platform, finds best DevOps practices are now widely employed to both produce and consume APIs. The primary method through which teams working on APIs collaborate is by sharing URLs (42%). However, publishing API […]
Shifting Left With DevSecOps: ESG Report Exposes Difficulties
A recent report asks the tough questions about DevSecOps adoption, and the results are surprising In a world of increasing development velocity, companies are placing more responsibility on developers to enact quick deployments. Naturally, security is “shifting left” as well. Theoretically, DevSecOps sounds great, but it opens up many questions. Who exactly is responsible for […]
Z is for Zowe – the Open Path to Mainframe DevOps
The energy and excitement in the IBM Z mainframe community during the two years since the announcement of Zowe have not been seen in a generation. By enabling mainframers to work like technologists who work on the cloud, mobile and distributed platforms, Zowe unlocks the power of DevOps for mainframers, ensuring the vitality of the […]
GoodData Launches GoodData Community and University to Unlock 100% Adoption of Data Analytics Across Organization
New Resources for Users to Learn from GoodData, Each Other, about the Leading Business Intelligence Platform SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GoodData®, a leading analytics and business intelligence company, announced today that it launched GoodData Community and GoodData University to enable rapid and continuous sharing of information on the GoodData platform and to pioneer a faster, […]
What Is Resilience Engineering?
Admitting things will go wrong isn’t easy for anyone or any team. But modern engineering practices have moved beyond this fear, giving birth to a new practice in DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) known as resilience engineering. Resilience engineering today isn’t thought of as a function. However, just as DevOps was a description of […]
Survey: Cloud Security, DevOps Emerging as Enterprise Priorities
A survey published today by 2nd Watch, a provider of IT services, finds that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud security and DevOps have emerged as the top two priorities for large enterprise IT organizations. The survey queried more than 100 IT directors working at companies with at least $500 million in annual […]
TechStrong TV: ‘The Startup Community Way,’ With Brad Feld
Brad Feld, co-founder of Foundry Group and Tech Stars, recently joined us on TechStrong TV to talk about his new book, co-authored by Ian Hathaway, “The Startup Community Way.” Brad is one of my oldest friends and has a lot of great insight into the tech community and the shift in the balance of power […]
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 […]
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 […]
Report: Debugging Efforts Cost Companies $61B Annually
Undo, a provider of a software failure replay platform, this week published a report in collaboration with a Cambridge Judge Business School MBA project that estimates 620 million developer hours a year are wasted on debugging software failures, at a cost of roughly $61 billion. The report also notes software engineers spend on average of […]
Report Finds Most Cloud Security Issues Left Unaddressed
Accurics, a provider of a platform for assessing the security of cloud computing environments, has published a report that finds that even once discovered, only 4% of issues reported in cloud production environments are addressed. Based on research conducted using its platform and other public sources of data, the report also finds 90% of organizations […]
Survey Sees Increased Agile Adoption During COVID-19
A report published by Digital.ai, the parent company of CollabNet VersionOne, finds 43% of organizations have increased their reliance on agile application development methodologies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 15% saying it has increased significantly in the last 90 days. The report also notes 33% of respondents say they have increased or […]
CircleCI Extends Core CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today in partnership with Plandek launched an analytics plugin dubbed Buildtrakr for its namesake continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Buildtrakr integrates with CircleCI and Git to synthesize commit and build performance data, with critical metrics being surfaced via a dashboard. In addition, CircleCI has revamped its user interface and reconfigured a new […]
Netlify Makes Build Plugins Available for Jamstack Platform
Netlify, at a Jamstack Conf Virtual event, announced the general availability of open source Netlify Build Plugins that provide IT teams with a set of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows for building websites and web applications using JavaScript, application programming interfaces (APIs) and static HTML files without employing web servers, otherwise known as a Jamstack. […]
Getting Past Legacy Software Pains in Requirements Management
If you feel like you have outgrown your requirements management (RM) software, you are far from alone. From complex systems, such as IBM Doors, to document-based tracking through Microsoft Office, legacy RM tools are having a hard time catching up to the innovation occurring in highly-regulated industries. As we see the line between hardware and […]
ScyllaDB Announces 4.0 Release of Its Open Source NoSQL Database
New release adds DynamoDB-compatible API along with advanced features for consistency, streaming and management PALO ALTO, Calif., May 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ScyllaDB today announced Scylla Open Source 4.0, the latest major release of its high-performance NoSQL database for real-time big data workloads. This release marks a significant milestone, as the company has moved beyond feature parity […]
GoodData Updates Accelerator Toolkit to Enhance Data Analytics in Applications
New Capabilities Added to the Accelerator Toolkit, UI Library to Enable Customized and Faster Data Analytics GoodData®, a leader in end-to-end analytics solutions, announced today several new capabilities have been added to their Accelerator Toolkit, which is used by leading enterprise companies to add data analytics into the natural flow of applications versus older, bolt-on Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. […]