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• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Linkerd vs. Istio battle heats up as service mesh gains steam

  Service mesh has gone from a relatively unknown entity to a mainstream topic in 2019, but it's too early to declare a TKO in the Linkerd vs. Istio prizefight.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Kubernetes Helm Tiller is dead, and IT pros rejoice

  The latest version of the Kubernetes Helm package manager promises better security and stability in version 3, which removes the Tiller server component from Helm's architecture.

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Kubernetes security opens a new frontier: Multi-tenancy

  Enterprises have grown used to managing Kubernetes in production for some of their workloads, but broadening those deployments can bring multi-tenant security challenges.

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  D2iQ latest to seek Kubernetes management niche

  D2iQ's CTO says it will use its enterprise experience with Apache Mesos container orchestration and big data apps such as Kafka to compete in a crowded market for Kubernetes management.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Docker Enterprise spun off to Mirantis, company restructures

  In an unexpected move, Docker sells off its Docker Enterprise business -- including customer support -- to Mirantis and refocuses on Docker Hub and Docker Desktop.

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Aqua Security buys CloudSploit, expands into cloud security

  Amid consolidation and chaos in the cloud security market, Aqua snaps up CloudSploit and sets the stage for increased competition with traditional IT security vendors.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Microservices security calls for zero-trust, data classification

  Sanity in a zero-trust world for microservices security calls for IT teams to prioritize the assets they must protect, and that starts with data classification.

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  JASK buy may boost security analytics in Sumo Logic SIEM

  Sumo Logic has acquired JASK, an automated SOC that will be most useful for security analytics and alert reduction features within Sumo Logic's SIEM.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  New Relic catches up in serverless monitoring with IOpipe

  IOpipe's IP and expertise will help New Relic catch up with the latest serverless monitoring trends, such as AWS Lambda Layers support and event-driven frameworks.

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  DevOps security shifts left, but miles to go to pass hackers

  DevSecOps has gone mainstream as companies bake security automation into app development, but experts say the toughest cybersecurity challenges remain unsolved.

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Enterprise IT weighs pros and cons of multi-cloud management

  IT ops pros are getting used to multi-cloud management, especially for disaster recovery, but moving from cloud to cloud via container portability is still rare.

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Elastic SIEM spring release will complete Endgame tie-in

  Endgame agents can now send endpoint security data to the Elastic SIEM, but UI and data schema integration -- and the ability to take action on endpoints -- will come next year.

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Security automation charges IT ops to build the 'paved road'

  As IT ops pros evolve into SREs, they play a key role in security automation and create secure paths to production deployment for application developers.

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Red Hat OpenShift Tekton pipelines reflect strategic platform focus

  OpenShift and its competitors now offer enterprises soup-to-nuts DevOps platforms, rather than simple Kubernetes management tools, that are based on different points of strategic lock-in.

• 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.

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  Kubernetes on Windows nodes hits GA in Rancher, Amazon EKS

  Windows host support in Kubernetes reached a milestone with general availability from container management vendors, which makes containers more accessible for legacy apps.

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Google sparks open source unrest over Knative, Istio

  Google is keeping its Knative and Istio projects close to the vest, which could limit their reach long term, early adopters say.

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz

  Docker has tried to differentiate itself as a Kubernetes competitor, but amid reports of financial headwinds, it should return to its roots in the developer desktop, analysts say.

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  Chef outage fuels technology ethics debate

  Software companies have been embroiled in high-profile ethical controversies in the past two years, driving industry debate about just how extensively politics should influence tech.

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Turbonomic adds features to Application Resource Management

  The new features include continuous service optimization in Kubernetes and accurate container planning to ensure that applications have sufficient resources to perform.

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Ansible Tower revamp adds analytics, security automation

  Ansible Tower and Ansible Engine are now one product, Ansible Automation Platform, which also includes automation analytics, security automation integrations and certified content.

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  BizDevOps, DevOps feedback loops guide IT transformation

  BizDevOps has been the priority for Dynatrace customer American Fidelity the last four years, guiding the company's IT priorities amid ever-increasing technical complexity.

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  DevSecOps veterans share security strategy, lessons learned

  DevSecOps practitioners imparted dos and don'ts for newbies and urged them to think strategically as well as tactically about improving IT security.

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  New application security risks lead IT teams to DevSecOps

  Once a bleeding-edge concept, DevSecOps has gone mainstream following high-profile security breaches that proved simply installing automated security tools doesn't go far enough.

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  Google Cloud tackles Spark on Kubernetes

  Google Cloud Dataproc is the first major cloud provider to integrate Apache Spark with Kubernetes as a managed service, but work remains to better link the two projects upstream.

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  HashiCorp Consul plays to multi-platform strength with Azure

  HashiCorp's Consul service mesh will be offered as a hosted service on Microsoft Azure, where it can link container clusters along with VMs in multiple regions.

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  New HashiCorp Terraform pricing aims for midsize firms, teams

  HashiCorp Terraform Cloud's new pricing tier reflects a shift in how software vendors market to large enterprises.

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  ServiceNow adds mobile app to 'New York' Now Platform

  ServiceNow released the latest version of its Now Platform that features a mobile application giving remote users access to the core capabilities of the platform.

• September 06, 2019 06 Sep'19

  Feature flags emerge as enterprise DevOps must-have

  CloudBees and Atlassian have feature flags on their near-term product roadmaps, as enterprise DevOps shops seek to lower the risk of continuous code deployment to production.

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Atlassian cloud woos enterprises with SLA, security boost

  Large enterprise users of Atlassian's on-premises software say the vendor's cloud tools have piqued their interest with updates to security and support.

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  Knative serverless Kubernetes bypasses FaaS to revive PaaS

  Knative's emerging claim to fame is that it can turn Kubernetes into a next-gen platform as a service with both a Heroku-like developer experience and deep infrastructure control.

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  IT training programs stall amid search for best practices

  Without a standard set of best practices to refer to for IT training programs, or any industry consensus on the best general approach to training, large enterprises have begun to trail smaller, more nimble counterparts in the efficiency of their ...

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  SolarWinds Discovery offers low-cost way to manage IT assets

  SolarWinds expands its IT service management offerings with a software service that lets IT teams locate, map and manage their software and hardware assets.

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Istio service mesh hits OpenShift GA, but upgrades are slow

  Istio service mesh, Kiali and Jaeger are generally available for Red Hat OpenShift 4, but it will be some time before users are ready for the latest version of the platform.

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Splunk pricing worries some users amid SignalFx monitoring buy

  Splunk wants to collect more data via SignalFx, but some users wonder how much it will cost to keep up with the proliferation of logs and metrics in the age of cloud monitoring.

• August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19

  IT pros contend with the future of continuous delivery

  Continuous delivery tools are poised to add comprehensive breadth and analytical depth, but whether most enterprises can assimilate them is another matter.

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Jenkins X gears up for SaaS version, GitOps standards

  With key maturity milestones behind them, the maintainers of Jenkins X prepare a SaaS version, and plan to collaborate with Google's Tekton and Netflix's Spinnaker.

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  CloudBees CEO reveals plans for CI/CD tools, Google project

  CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey puts his roadmap cards on the table for the next generation of the company's CI/CD tools and an upcoming project to co-develop CI/CD for Anthos with Google.

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  IT training flaws compound DevOps skills shortage

  Before investing in an online course to learn new IT skills, heed this warning from brain scientists: there is a big difference between knowing what to do and knowing how to do it.

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  Mesosphere's Kubernetes pivot sets stage for IT vendor attrition

  Mesosphere becomes D2iQ, and affirms that Kubernetes is eating the world. Is IT entering a golden age of interoperability, or on the verge of mass consolidation?

• 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.

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  GitOps path puts CI/CD ahead of infrastructure automation

  Which comes first -- automated app deployment pipelines, or automated infrastructures on which to deploy? At GitOps shop Procore, the answer is emphatically the former.

• July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19

  BizDevOps tools await enterprise maturity

  PagerDuty, Splunk and other vendors have added BizDevOps features to their IT management tools, but if they build it, will enterprises come?

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Kubernetes authentication project wrestles with migration problems

  GKE users like the Workload Identity feature for Kubernetes authentication with GCP services, but similar improvements to core cluster security present a potential market-wide migration headache.

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Compliance-as-code tool hits DevSecOps sweet spot for MSP

  There are almost as many tools to assist with DevSecOps as there are definitions for the term – how one managed service provider that serves federal agencies chose a compliance-as-code vendor.

• July 23, 2019 23 Jul'19

  ManageEngine Analytics Plus upgrades with AI assistant Zia

  With Zia, IT teams can ask questions via voice or text to quickly access data and insight. Available with ManageEngine Analytics Plus, the AI intends to increase productivity.

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  Kubernetes policy project takes enterprise IT by storm

  A Kubernetes-friendly compliance as code project hosted by the CNCF has caught on among large enterprises in the first half of 2019, largely through word of mouth.

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Container security improves overall enterprise IT posture

  Enterprise IT pros worried about security when containers were first introduced, but as containers are put into production, they can actually present ways to tighten security practices.

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  AWS OpsCenter and Moogsoft AIOps integrate for IT productivity

  By integrating AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and Moogsoft AIOps platforms, the vendors hope to reduce alert noise, automate remediation and solve incidents faster.

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Snow Software launches new tech management suite

  The new intelligence suite has six main tools that help manage the challenges due to growing IT operations, from spending and productivity to monitoring risk.

• July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

  Kubernetes security tool gives IT a leg up on DevSecOps

  An emerging real estate firm tasked with DevSecOps sought an assist from startup Alcide, which bakes Kubernetes security best practices into its software.

• July 01, 2019 01 Jul'19

  Elastic SIEM woos enterprises with cost savings

  Elastic SIEM gains interest from former Splunk users, with the promise of cost savings and the prospect of centralized security analytics and IT monitoring data repositories.

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  LogicMonitor wades into AIOps with anomaly detection

  Another country heard from in AIOps: LogicMonitor rolls out anomaly detection and alert dependency correlation, but can it rise above the noise?

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  SysAid launches Automate Joe for ITSM platform automation

  Integrating Automate Joe with the SysAid ITSM platform will boost automation, minimize repetitive tasks for service agents and improve productivity, according to the vendor.

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  AI help desk software frees IT ops to take on SRE skills

  A financial services company will retrain its help desk staff to be app developers and SREs, while AI handles the grunt work for the company's call center employees.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  IT pros brace for wave of M&A in microservices security

  Microservices and DevOps have made IT security a shared responsibility among enterprise stakeholders, and experts expect this shift to prompt mass consolidation among vendors.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Alaska Airlines charts course for DevOps security

  As Alaska Airlines plots a flight path to a hybrid cloud infrastructure, it will navigate with an automated DevOps security tool that spans multiple IT environments.

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  AIOps tools beef up insights, but long-term scope unclear

  AIOps tools present a way to cope with IT infrastructure sprawl and complexity, but how far they can go with hands-off automation features is still a topic for debate.

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  AIOps early adopters tackle data quality issues

  AIOps is new in many ways, but early adopters must also heed a time-honored IT maxim: garbage in, garbage out.

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  UPS delivers Agile plan for legacy application modernization

  As UPS moved its package-tracking system from mainframe to open systems, it drew on the old adage about how to eat an elephant: one small bite at a time.

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  Palo Alto Networks buys Twistlock, PureSec for container security

  Palo Alto Networks snaps up Twistlock and PureSec to broaden its cloud security portfolio and give enterprise IT shops more options for container and serverless security.

• May 22, 2019 22 May'19

  DevSecOps evolution changes the game for IT ops

  A DevSecOps shift and a move to public cloud have precipitated a sea change in what's expected of IT ops pros at a mobile video on-demand company.

• May 21, 2019 21 May'19

  Enterprises anticipate IT ops benefits from GitOps

  Infrastructure as code, configuration as code, security as code -- enterprise SREs set their sights on everything as code in pursuit of GitOps efficiency.

• May 21, 2019 21 May'19

  GKE, Azure roll out Windows Kubernetes support

  Cloud service providers rolled out Windows Kubernetes support this week, which may take some of the burden of Linux container management requirements out of the hands of Microsoft-only shops.

• May 17, 2019 17 May'19

  Former Chef Software CTO talks IT automation, open source

  Chef Software's founder, Adam Jacob, built widely used IT automation software for the enterprise. Now that he's no longer CTO, he's taking a break and pondering what comes next.

• May 17, 2019 17 May'19

  Mainframe DevOps gets fresh integration option in LzLabs

  Most mainframe DevOps tools make open source app delivery pipelines speak mainframe's language, but LzLabs brings mainframe apps to a Linux-based platform without recompilation.

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Application dependency mapping expands in New Relic One

  DevOps monitoring vendors rev their engines as enterprises take on more sophisticated IT monitoring practices to reach the next major phase of app modernization.

• May 10, 2019 10 May'19

  OpenShift shops chart a course for advanced IT automation

  IT teams tackled containerization, developer self-service platforms and infrastructure provisioning automation in 2018. So, what's next?

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Ansible roadmap offers open source automation with assurances

  Ansible users can expect some key updates around the tool's certified content program, along with more options to assess the performance of their automated infrastructure.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  OpenShift architecture bakes in CoreOS Operator automation

  OpenShift 4.1 promises easier container management for IT ops pros, but getting there from OpenShift 3 could be tricky for enterprises with large deployments.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  Snow Software SAM expands Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe support

  Snow Software's SAM platform has expanded to include new compliance and manageability capabilities for Microsoft Windows, Oracle and Adobe Creative Cloud.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  OpenShift-Azure ties deepen as IT sets sights on multi-cloud

  Enterprises will consider an OpenShift managed service on Azure as part of a multi-cloud strategy, but Kubernetes won't necessarily make workloads cloud-agnostic.

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Docker Enterprise pricing shake-up leaves unanswered questions

  IT pros begin to evaluate the long-term budget implications of a significant change to the Docker Enterprise pricing scheme.

• 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.

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Rancher's Kubernetes updates boost security, UI performance

  Enterprise IT pros expect changes to Rancher's Kubernetes management tools to bolster security configuration and UI performance.

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  CloudBees' acquisition of Electric Cloud broadens focus

  CloudBees folds in Electric Cloud and pledges to broaden its focus beyond Jenkins, while customers wait and see how that might impact long-term roadmap plans.

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  Opsgenie integrations expand under Atlassian

  Opsgenie's induction into the Atlassian fold reflects a trend of incident management tools' absorption into broader DevOps platforms, but not every user prefers a one-stop shop.

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Cloud Foundry PaaS undergoes seismic shifts as IT evolves

  Cloud Foundry undergoes drastic changes as infrastructure automation technology develops, to the point where some industry experts see more erosion than evolution.

• April 08, 2019 08 Apr'19

  Users forge ahead with Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes integration

  Complementary roles for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes are clear to IT pros, and the community plans to knit the two more closely together with the Eirini project.

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Chef licensing changes prompt debate among IT pros

  IT pros who use Chef automation software have mixed reactions to the company's plan to revamp its software licensing strategy.

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Google SREs test the limits of infrastructure automation

  Google SRE veterans spoke publicly about infrastructure automation work, its future and its limitations.

• March 26, 2019 26 Mar'19

  Site reliability engineer shift creates IT ops dilemma

  Aspiring SREs find it hard to move away from tactical tasks to focus on strategic projects. Veteran SREs say the path to less toil begins with prioritization and automation.

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Kubernetes for Windows hits GA, with limitations

  Kubernetes support for Windows nodes was declared stable in Kubernetes 1.14, but extensive fine print remains.

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  SRE software refines DevOps incident response for enterprise

  SRE workflows often emerge organically within enterprise IT teams, but software tools add measurability and automation for incident response and review in one DevOps shop.

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Kubernetes management for 'Minecraft' has enterprise IT traits

  What do 'Minecraft' servers and enterprise databases have in common? In the realm of Kubernetes management, more than you might think.

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  IT security monitoring at golf club lets IT ops play through

  ClubCorp took stock of its IT security strategy last year, which led to freedom from grunt work and renewed focus for the IT ops team.

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  DevSecOps shift begins, but remains a work in progress

  DevOps security has shifted left, but IT pros disagree on just how far into application design and away from infrastructure security practices will go.

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  DevOps security tools 'shift left' into CI/CD pipelines

  DevOps security remains a work in progress, but many enterprise IT shops already plug collaboration points for IT security and operations pros directly into the app development pipeline.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  F5-Nginx deal reflects mainstream trend toward microservices

  F5 snaps up Nginx for cloud-native app support, and analysts predict a microservices gold rush as modern application architectures catch on in enterprise IT shops.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Release automation tools link legacy, modern app management

  Release automation tools will evolve in 2019 to embrace advanced application development and infrastructure automation techniques.

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  Container security tools turn heads with expansion to hosts

  Vendors that sell container security tools now face off against traditional security tool providers, as both vie for the attention of IT pros who look to fortify their cloud-native infrastructure.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Sensu architecture smoothes monitoring data workflow for NCR

  Sensu Go's architecture and monitoring as code prompted NCR to switch away from Zabbix and pass on SolarWinds, as it sought to collect data from 80,000 restaurant customers.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Istio security drives Auto Trader UK move to GKE

  The U.K.'s largest online automotive marketplace put Istio security features in place before it adopted containers and GKE, rather than the other way around.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  VMware PKS adds Heptio IP, boosts container street cred

  VMware adds bare-metal Kubernetes and an elite support squad from Heptio, but it's unlikely to get widespread interest with bespoke container orchestration on premises.

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Mainframe DevOps forces platform reckoning for enterprises

  DevOps has reached the mainframe world, where a few enterprise 'unicorns' have blazed a trail with new tools for the rest of the IT industry.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Container security tools pitch service mesh integrations

  Container defense in depth is a hot topic, and some IT pros approach it with a combination of third-party container security tools and service mesh security features.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Linkerd vs. Istio fray dominates service mesh battle

  Linkerd's maintainers admit it has a narrower range of features than buzz machine Istio. But after failed attempts to set up Istio, some early adopters believe less is more.

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Container security vulnerability prompts call to patch runC

  The discovery of a container utility flaw means IT pros must patch most container runtimes, as well as practice defense in depth and beware of strangers with sketchy container images.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Rancher's Kubernetes multi-cluster app support fuels IT debate

  To federate or not to federate cloud-native apps? As Kubernetes becomes ubiquitous, that is the question that more IT shops must answer.

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  AIOps wars heat up with New Relic-SignifAI deal

  An already heated struggle between DevOps monitoring vendors becomes an all-out rumble, as New Relic acquires SignifAI and ups the AIOps ante for rivals.