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API Management for IT Tools

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Puppet unveils event-driven IT automation plans

  Puppet's IT automation system Relay, now in beta, offers an event-driven take on IT workflows, but the vendor must clearly establish the product's value over competing DevOps systems.

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HashiCorp Terraform beta brings long-awaited features

  Terraform 0.13, recently released to public beta, includes support for complex infrastructure deployments that users have eagerly awaited.

• May 15, 2020 15 May'20

  Essential firms forge on with AIOps for incident response

  AIOps systems for incident response have helped a bank and a provider of care services in the home streamline operations amid a pandemic emergency and an ongoing IT skills shortage.

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  SaltStack infrastructure-as-code tools seek cloud-native niche

  SaltStack, like other infrastructure-as-code tools, must reinvent itself as cloud-native IT automation approaches such as containers, serverless and Kubernetes Operators grow.

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  Ticketmaster unifies DevOps monitoring with Confluent Kafka

  Ticketmaster troubleshoots and secures distributed applications using Kafka stream processing as a central hub for data collection.

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  SaaS management tool eases merger transition for IT

  When European car-sharing startup Drivy becomes Getaround this fall, a SaaS management tool will integrate the two companies' IT systems, an increasingly common need for businesses.

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Experian credits incident management tool for IT efficiency

  When Experian deployed xMatters, the IT landscape was very different. But the incident management tool's adaptability kept it useful through shifts in tech trends.

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  Time-series monitoring tools give high-resolution view of IT

  DevOps monitoring tools based on time-series databases create a steeper learning curve than traditional monitoring software, but arm IT pros with richer data for troubleshooting.

• October 13, 2017 13 Oct'17

  Puppet roadmap tightens DevOps integrations amid wider use

  Puppet Enterprise users plan to apply the tool's capabilities into new environments, and the vendor encourages that trend with additional tie-ins.

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Kubernetes adoption sends Rancher users back to eval mode

  What happens when your container management tool switches to a new technology behind the scenes? Ops teams say Rancher's Kubernetes move adds features -- and trepidation.

• October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17

  IT incident response ditches root cause analysis process

  IT pros can improve monitoring and pare down alerts to get only actionable information, but then what? IT incident response is its own black art, and it's changing fast.

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Windows DevOps tools rehab legacy enterprise applications

  When Windows DevOps shops want to modernize legacy applications, third-party services and VM-based automation techniques can take them on the first steps.

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Windows DevOps shops quickly gain on Linux counterparts

  Early adopters of DevOps embrace open source software, but enterprise Microsoft shops have made strides in 2017, as have Microsoft's DevOps products.

• June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17

  DevOps shops weather growing pains with infrastructure-as-code tools

  Sys admins look to infrastructure-as-code tools, such as CloudFormation and Terraform, to keep up with rapidly changing infrastructure, but those tools are also evolving.

• June 07, 2017 07 Jun'17

  Cosmetics firm gets operations makeover with IT monitoring tools

  A Brazilian cosmetics company has assembled a wide palette of IT monitoring tools to enhance the reliability of its operations.

• May 15, 2017 15 May'17

  Puppet IT automation wades into enterprise containers

  Enterprises trust Puppet configuration management, but the company must win over a new audience of DevOps teams with capabilities that matter to them.

• March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17

  Jenkins devs prep Blue Ocean, a sea change in DevOps deployment tools

  What do Jenkins, Ansible Tower and New Relic have in common, besides being parts of a DevOps toolchain? A new appeal to an audience beyond IT.

• February 03, 2017 03 Feb'17

  IT ops will reap the benefits of API economy, too

  An understanding of APIs is table stakes for IT operations pros in the modern job market, as businesses increasingly operate and connect through these interfaces.

• December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16

  USDA lassos its business with Rancher container management

  Rancher container management rode into town for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2016, and the government department hasn't looked back since.

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  Agile ITSM opens the production IT door for DevOps

  Shared tools and shared knowledge bring DevOps deeper into production, where it belongs, says Jayne Groll of the DevOps Institute.

• October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16

  DevOps pipeline tools woo enterprises with resiliency, integrations

  Enterprises are ready to ante up in the DevOps game, as shown by new features being rolled out in DevOps pipeline tools.

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Integrate IT monitoring tools for potent systems management

  A complex IT deployment with demanding metrics might require many IT monitoring tools, but that doesn't mean you can't view it all as one.

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  Log analysis tool keeps Washington Post news apps on time

  Sumo Logic's log analysis tool initially couldn't keep up with the flow of data from the newspaper's mobile delivery apps, but a novel integration with AWS Lambda changed that.

• June 08, 2016 08 Jun'16

  DevOps pipelines call for APIs, open source and integration skills

  Full-stack DevOps automation can be done more easily today than ever before, but not every organization should do it.