Seven Effective Tips to Get the Most Out of your DevOps
It seems that every firm is trying to include DevOps in their software delivery cycle these days. This is understandable. According to the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, companies using DevOps are more likely to achieve elite performance in software development and delivery. Companies such as Google and Amazon can be deploying thousands of […]
Okera Raises $15 Million to Meet Growing Customer Demand, Names Nick Halsey CEO
ClearSky leads investment, Patrick Heim and Tim Eades join the Okera board SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2020 — Okera today announced the company has raised $15 million in new funding to help provide enterprises with secure data access at scale for modern analytic platforms. The strategic investment was led by ClearSky Security. The current raise brings the […]
Filling the Skills Gap for Effective DevSecOps
With the rise of DevSecOps comes a whole new need for training and upskilling. It isn’t a secret that the cybersecurity skills gap will only continue to grow. The security skills gap combined with the rise of DevSecOps has introduced hidden challenges organizations must address. The Rise of DevSecOps While DevOps accelerates agility and scalability […]
CircleCI Surfaces More DevOps Insights
CircleCI today announced it is making it easier for DevOps teams to determine the amount of resources being consumed by its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to help make application development teams more efficient. Kunal Jain, senior product manager for CircleCI, said via the application programming interface (API) that CircleCI exposes DevOps teams can now […]
Dremio Closes $70 Million in Growth Funding to Accelerate Global Expansion
Rapid Growth Fueled by Demand for Cost Effective Technology to Power Cloud Data Lakes Santa Clara, CA – March 26, 2020 – Dremio, the data lake engine company, today announced the company has closed $70 million in Series C funding. The round was led by new investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Cisco […]
What the Best Developers Do to Be Great at Their Jobs
Good developers are in demand—great ones, even more so. With software development employment in the U.S. expected to grow by 21% by 2028, the need for engineers is only going to surge further. But this doesn’t mean that the labor landscape will become uncompetitive: Now more than ever, individuals with a passion for software are entering […]
Coronavirus Response: Atlassian Expands Free Software
Atlassian announced today it will make cloud-based versions of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Desk and Jira Core available for free as part of an effort to assist organizations whose employees are working remotely to help combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Robert Chatwani, chief marketing officer for Atlassian, said given the current unprecedented situation the […]
Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of peripheral events that go on throughout the week as well, such as the Cloud Security Alliance Summit, the CIO/CISO Interchange, BSides San Francisco […]
The Role of Soft Skills in Building Strong DevOps Leads
As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about the process and technology that make up a good DevOps practice. We have a strong focus on the development, IT operations, QA” and security roles. We debate tools and automation strategies. We wax philosophical about DevOps culture. What is either lacking entirely or simply […]
HashiCorp Updates Terraform Tool for Azure Cloud
HashiCorp today announced it has updated the instance of Terraform it created to automate the configuration of virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud to give IT teams more granular control. Version 2.0. of Terraform (TF) AzureRM Provider will allow IT teams to separately configure virtual machines by type for instance of both Windows and […]
Report Pins Cloud Security Woes on Flawed DevOps Processes
By now it’s become apparent that the bulk of security incidents involving cloud platforms revolve around some type of configuration issue. An analysis of those cloud configurations published today by the Unit 42 research arm of Palo Alto Networks suggests that the root cause of the issue is most likely the templates many developers 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CNCF Advances Jaeger Distributed Tracing Project
The open source Jaeger distributed tracing platform has officially graduated into the top tier of projects being stewarded by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Designed to be employed within any DevOps environment, Jaeger is a tool for monitoring transactions across complex distributed computing environments. It consists of a backend for trace collection and analysis […]
When Gateways Go Away with Cellular IoT
Gateways have been an essential piece of three-tier IoT architecture for years. Their traditional spot between the edge and the cloud is in flux as cellular IoT technology rolls out. When are gateways still the right approach? How will gateways go away with cellular IoT? Here’s the trade-off between traditional three-tier and cellular IoT architecture […]
Privileged Access Management at the Speed of DevOps
Privileged access management (PAM) is clearly a very important element of effective cybersecurity. PAM has been ranked number one on Gartner’s Top 10 Security Projects for two consecutive years, and it is number four on the CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls. The struggle for many organizations, however, is they have also embraced DevOps culture, […]