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October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20
Splunk Observability integrates acquisitions, boosts AIOps

Splunk opened the product update floodgates this week with a new Observability Suite that integrates recent acquisitions, enhanced AIOps and the purchase of two more companies.
October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20
Atlassian cloud shift quickens with Data Center price hikes

Atlassian's on-premises customer base has expressed alarm at the company's plans to discontinue Server licenses and make major Data Center price increases.
October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20
HashiCorp wades into continuous delivery with Waypoint

HashiCorp launched another new open source project this week, this time a continuous delivery utility called Waypoint, which IT pros hope will simplify DevOps deployments.
October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20
Red Hat bolsters Ansible-Kubernetes bond via OpenShift ACM

Red Hat previewed new ties between its Ansible Automation Platform and OpenShift Kubernetes within its Advanced Cluster Management tool, as container platform competition intensifies.
October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20
HashiCorp launches Boundary for cloud security

HashiCorp revealed its first new open source project in five years this week: a cloud security framework for access control called Boundary.
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October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20
Service mesh upstarts challenge Istio, Linkerd

Istio seemed destined for Kubernetes-like dominance in the service mesh market, but recent open source governance drama created an opening for competition from networking vendors.
October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20
Sumo Logic ships tools for AWS, Kubernetes observability

Sumo Logic has rolled out AWS and Kubernetes observability tools with automated root cause analysis. Users say they offer easy setup at an affordable price.
October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20
Oracle launches Cloud Observability and Management Platform

Oracle's new Cloud Observability and Management Platform seeks to appeal to customers with complex multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20
Rancher Kubernetes bolsters security, multi-cloud management

Rancher Kubernetes stays ahead of competitors in multi-cloud management with version 2.5, but will its innovation and SUSE's backing be enough to fend off Red Hat and VMware?
September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes strategy hits integration milestone

VMware follows competitors in shipping a fully integrated Kubernetes infrastructure package, but vSphere tie-ins and a strong AWS partnership will bolster its enterprise appeal.
September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20
VMware buys SaltStack for security, configuration management

The acquisition of SaltStack will help VMware build event-driven security automation and configuration management into vRealize Automation, as open source Salt gains VMware's backing.
September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20
Jenkins CI/CD roadmap plots a path toward GitOps

Open source Jenkins now has a public roadmap, which shows plans to address user experience issues, at a time when enterprise IT pros favor 'everything as code' to foster GitOps.
September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20
CloudBees revises software delivery management plan, pricing

CloudBees has pledged to roll out software delivery management modules by the end of the year and answered calls to adjust CloudBees CD pricing.
September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20
Kubernetes on Windows matures, but networking snags remain

Kubernetes on Windows is viable in production for some users via cloud providers' managed services, but IT pros need more networking and storage maturity for on-prem apps.
September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20
Mirantis rethinks Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes

Docker Enterprise users say plans to allow Docker Swarm to run on a Kubernetes back end could provide both ease of use for developers and granular infrastructure control for ops.
September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20
Mirantis rejuvenates Docker Enterprise cloud tools, support

Docker Enterprise Container Cloud keeps pace with recent trends in Kubernetes management, such as multicluster and multi-cloud support but faces stiff competition.
September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20
DevSecOps strategy mimics cloud shared responsibility model

Real-world DevSecOps centralizes IT security around the CI/CD pipeline but defines separate roles that each IT constituency plays in securing apps and infrastructure.
September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20
Progress Software battles legacy rep amid Chef Software buy

Progress Software, a 40-year-old tech company, will mix Chef products into its portfolio of acquisitions, as both seek to keep up with rapid changes in IT automation.
September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20
Kubernetes monitoring eases migration, security at scale

IT pros in high-scale environments have found that moving to Kubernetes-based infrastructure called for a fresh approach to monitoring for performance and security.
August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20
How the DevOps model will build the new remote workforce

What IT pros expect from remote work post-COVID-19, and ways the DevOps model for collaboration and incident response can address its human and technical problems.
August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20
Kubernetes security defaults prompt upstream dilemma

As Kubernetes matures, community maintainers weigh enterprise demand for secure upstream defaults against concerns about sprawl and customizability.
August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20
OpenTelemetry aids distributed tracing, Kubernetes monitoring

OpenTelemetry combines multiple CNCF observability projects, as well as multiple enterprise data collection mechanisms, simplifying Kubernetes monitoring.
August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20
GitOps gains momentum among Kubernetes deployment tools

The growing popularity of Kubernetes GitOps tools reflects increasing cloud-native maturity and complexity among enterprise shops such as American Express.
August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20
Slack integrations to form alternate UI for Atlassian tools

Atlassian plans to make Slack a full alternative interface for its software development and incident response tools, including single sign-on features.
August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20
Infrastructure-as-code upstart boosts Kubernetes deployment

Pulumi has expanded its integrations with Kubernetes deployment tools including OPA, Helm v3 and Kustomize, offering a central collaboration point for DevOps container management.
August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20
Terraform Cloud adds enterprise support, usage-based pricing

Terraform Cloud's new Business tier is a sign of what's to come for both Terraform Enterprise and IT ops teams overwhelmed with tools to manage, industry analysts say.
August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20
Value stream management tames DevOps chaos at Eli Lilly

The pharma firm straightened out disorganized DevOps processes, which now include data management for COVID-19 clinical trials, with a Plutora value stream management tool.
August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20
DevOps pipeline consolidation continues among CI/CD tools

Bespoke DevOps pipelines are becoming a thing of the past as specialist vendors such as Harness and Drone.io merge to compete with large platform vendors.
August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20
Microsoft unveils Open Service Mesh, vows donation to CNCF

Microsoft pledged to donate its service mesh to the CNCF in a stab at Istio, setting the stage for potential vendor collaboration around multi-cloud interoperability standards.
July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20
New Relic pricing plummets with product overhaul

New Relic dropped pricing for a newly unified set of IT monitoring tools, as it faces fresh competitive pressures and users adjust to cloud-native complexity.
July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20
Styra policy builder eases access to IT compliance as code

Styra's Rego Policy Builder guides novice users through the process of rendering OPA policies, part of the vendor's push to broaden the audience for its commercial software.
July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20
Google's OUC play muddies Istio service mesh outlook

Google surprised even major partners with the transfer of Istio's trademark to a new organization it launched last week, leaving some key governance details undefined.
July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20
Open source license issues stymie enterprise contributions

Business and ethical pressures have given rise to new types of open source licenses in the last year, presenting challenges to enterprises that want to contribute to projects.
July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20
Open source contributions face friction over company IP

Software engineers who want to contribute to open source projects must convince conservative corporate legal departments it's worth the potential risk to corporate IP.
July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20
AIOps tools expand as users warm slowly to autoremediation

AIOps tool vendors keep expanding the environments they can support with automated remediation features, but users are taking their time to move beyond root cause analysis.
July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20
Kubernetes complicates Cloud Foundry platform development

The Cloud Foundry community has begun to port its developer interface onto Kubernetes infrastructure, but there are multiple approaches to sort out amid the transition.
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 Consul 1.8 aims to smooth service mesh transition

HashiCorp Consul users are mulling how to extend service discovery into service mesh. The vendor has added gateway support to ease this transition.
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.
June 22, 2020 22 Jun'20
HashiCorp shops hope new Consul service comes at lower cost

Multi-cloud hosted services planned for HashiCorp products, including Consul, Vault and Nomad, would reduce IT ops overhead, users say, but prices must be affordable.
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
DevOps pros rethink cloud cost with continuous delivery tool

Cloud cost management is a new task for developers under DevOps, and a continuous delivery add-on presents a new way to show them infrastructure inefficiencies.
June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20
New ServiceNow workflows extend into more markets

ServiceNow continues to direct its workflows toward vertical markets with new offerings for telecommunications, financial services and healthcare markets.
June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20
Atlassian takes on DevOps pipeline tools integration

Pre-built hooks between Atlassian DevOps tools are in demand among IT teams that must manage an overwhelming number of cross-functional projects and vendor products.
June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20
Chef software broadens scope amid IT automation disruption

Chef seeks a new niche as IT automation shifts toward Kubernetes and cloud-native tools, but IT pros have many options, with some more appealing than Chef in high-scale scenarios.
May 22, 2020 22 May'20
Facebook to launch Workplace Rooms in challenge to Zoom

Workplace Rooms, a new video conferencing service for Facebook's business customers, falls short of competitors on features.
May 21, 2020 21 May'20
IT pros clamor for Kubernetes multi-cloud deployment API

Enterprise IT pros who want a standard approach to Kubernetes multi-cloud deployment say the Cluster API project shows promise, but it needs work to be production-ready.
May 21, 2020 21 May'20
Linux kernel utility could solve Kubernetes networking woes

Linux kernel utility eBPF gets new life as a more effective means to scale Kubernetes networking than native Kubernetes tools, and in some cases, service mesh.
May 20, 2020 20 May'20
Fintech firms prove IT compliance via security automation

Security automation tools proved useful for two highly regulated fintech firms, that use them to protect cloud-native infrastructure and demonstrate their security to auditors.
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.
May 08, 2020 08 May'20
Puppet Labs CTO eyes IT automation amid COVID-19

An entirely new executive leadership team is the latest of several upheavals at Puppet Labs over the last four years, but CTO Abby Kearns says there's a clearer path ahead in 2020.
May 07, 2020 07 May'20
VMware Tanzu beta project melds Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes

VMware Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes, now in public beta, intrigues PKS users by combining Kubernetes infrastructure components behind a Cloud Foundry developer interface.
April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20
Red Hat OpenShift to inject IBM Kubernetes management IP

IBM and Red Hat have begun to blend both business priorities and software code, including a forthcoming multi-cluster Kubernetes management tool for OpenShift users.
April 27, 2020 27 Apr'20
IT compliance-as-code tool makes Kubernetes security inroads

Open Policy Agent has turned heads among IT shops for Kubernetes compliance as code, and its commercial backer looks to capitalize on that momentum with new enterprise features.
April 24, 2020 24 Apr'20
HashiCorp Consul service leads off post-funding roadmap

HashiCorp CEO David McJannet discusses the company's future, including a Consul managed service headed for public beta this week, overlap with Kubernetes and building a sustainable open source business.
April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20
Infrastructure-as-code competitor challenges Terraform

Pulumi 2.0 ratchets up the heat on HashiCorp's rival Terraform IaC tool, adding policy as code, test automation and secrets management features to its mainstream language support.
April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20
COVID-19 remote work forces shift on SecOps strategy

Security risk was mostly an afterthought as businesses scrambled to support remote work in response to COVID-19, but SecOps is now at the top of IT shops' priority lists.
April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20
HashiCorp Vault secrets manager ups Enterprise edition value

HashiCorp Vault 1.4 sweetens the deal for users of the paid Enterprise version, which had been subject to questions about differentiation from the free version in the past.
April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20
Foundation exec seeks Cloud Foundry vs. Kubernetes detente

New Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Chip Childers plans to steer the community into the next phase of cooperation with Kubernetes, Knative, Istio and more.
April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20
As Atlassian cloud push ramps up, users assess migration

Atlassian's cloud products offer sought-after enterprise features and extend integrations, but some organizations will still struggle to transition from its on-premises tools.
April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20
SysAid announces launch of new workflow tool, Workflow Designer

Workflow Designer uses a drag-and-drop process to make workflows easier to create with less training and can be crucial with the rise of employees working from home.
April 02, 2020 02 Apr'20
IT service desks rush to support remote work amid pandemic

IT service desks bore the brunt of the sudden transition from centralized business locations to remote work for most white-collar employees, as COVID-19 forced social distancing.
March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20
Rancher plots enterprise Kubernetes management takeover

Flush with funding, Rancher hopes to win deals away from major IT software vendors such as VMware as enterprises seek help with Kubernetes management.
March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20
Log monitoring refinements control data growth, costs

Whether it's pricing according to access frequency or reducing the volume of logs sent by IT infrastructure, fresh IT monitoring approaches make cloud-native visibility manageable.
March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20
HashiCorp Nomad vs. Kubernetes matchup intensifies with 0.11

HashiCorp Nomad may not overtake Kubernetes but could capture broader enterprise attention with container-like orchestration features for legacy apps in VMs.
March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20
Las Vegas shores up SecOps with multi-factor authentication

AI-driven SecOps tools spared Las Vegas from a major data breach in January. The city now bets that two-factor authentication can stop future attempts.
March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20
Coronavirus forces switch to remote work for DevOps teams

The new coronavirus pandemic will force most DevOps teams to work remotely and may also interfere with work schedules. Experts share advice on how to weather the disruption.
March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20
AWS Bottlerocket container OS locks down hosts

AWS Bottlerocket puts the cloud giant's spin on the container OS, and container host security, but the company will have to overcome a generally poor reputation in the open source world.
March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20
Continuous delivery pipeline transforms hotel chain's IT ops

As Choice Hotels moved away from homegrown scripting tools for continuous delivery, it fundamentally shifted the daily duties of its IT ops teams.
March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20
Istio service mesh revamp may ease use, or sow confusion

Istio 1.5 reworks a microservices-based control plane into a monolith as the service mesh project seeks to simplify management and improve performance.
March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20
Biometrics firm fights monitoring overload with log analytics

Log analytics tools have become more popular as enterprise IT pros contend with complex, continuous microservices application deployments at scale.
February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20
Top 5 container software trends to watch in 2020

Container software, namely Kubernetes, has become a staple of modern enterprise IT infrastructure -- here's what's coming next for the technology in 2020 and beyond.
February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20
Kubernetes edge computing takes shape on container frontier

Kubernetes at the edge has emerged as an early stage trend among enterprises that want to push the boundaries of software automation.
February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20
JFrog touts DevSecOps edge in CI/CD tools

JFrog hops aboard a crowded CI/CD bandwagon, but its expertise in artifact and package management could appeal to security-conscious DevOps shops.
February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20
Mirantis marshals reinforcements for Kubernetes management

Mirantis adds engineering staff and revives Docker Swarm as it plans to do battle in container orchestration against Red Hat, Pivotal and Docker itself.
February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20
Massive DoD DevSecOps standards push may aid enterprise IT

The CNCF, defense contractors and IT vendors have joined forces with the Department of Defense to establish NIST security standards and best practices for DevSecOps.
February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20
GKE Application Manager does GitOps for Kubernetes config

GKE Application Manager, rolled out in beta this week, bakes in an open source Kubernetes configuration management tool to simplify application deployments to GKE.
February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20
Chef IT automation invigorates legacy apps amid cloud surge

Chef Software's Habitat tool carved out a niche as it matured, among enterprise IT pros tasked with modernizing legacy data center apps.
February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20
Ad firm gets Kubernetes management boost from Agile Stacks

With a small staff of engineers responsible for all of IT, a digital advertising firm needed help to smooth out the learning curve as it migrated from Mesosphere to Kubernetes.
February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20
Grafana Loki users reap log data savings, with tradeoffs

Grafana Loki won't replace advanced log analytics tools, but it may be a boon for shops that want to collect massive amounts of log data for troubleshooting applications.
February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20
Retail software firm takes broad view of Kubernetes security

Kubernetes platform security has supplanted container-level security for enterprises such as retail software vendor Aptos as they deploy microservices in production.
February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20
Dynatrace deepens AIOps ties with Kubernetes monitoring

Dynatrace has expanded the number of metrics it can feed into its Davis AIOps engine from Kubernetes infrastructure, thereby enhancing autoremediation features for container workloads.
February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20
Enterprise service management blurs business, IT operations

IT-style automated workflows are expanding to non-IT departments, even as business initiatives fuse with software projects. IT ops will support both, often with the same toolset.
January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20
Cisco folds AppDynamics AIOps into its infrastructure tools

Cisco shops might welcome new integrations between AppDynamics AIOps tools and Cisco Intersight management software, but whether they will draw in other users is uncertain.
January 21, 2020 21 Jan'20
PE firm merges XebiaLabs, CollabNet for new DevOps toolchain

XebiaLabs will join with CollabNet VersionOne to form a new DevOps platform vendor that will compete with Atlassian, GitHub, GitLab and CloudBees.
January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20
AIOps exec bets on incident response market shakeup

Resolve Systems, under a newly appointed CEO, will soon roll out a new product based on its FixStream acquisition that combines AIOps and IT automation.
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.
January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20
Kubernetes security gets an assist with bug bounty program

The Kubernetes Security Product Group will outsource bug triage to HackerOne under a new bug bounty program that will offer rewards for bug reports up to $10,000.
January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20
SecOps and IT ops merge revs IT monitoring platform rivalry

Enterprises want consolidated monitoring platforms for SecOps and IT ops data. Here's how Sumo Logic plans to compete in that market in 2020 with IP from its JASK acquisition.
January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20
Alaska Airlines plans to switch IT onto autopilot with AIOps

Alaska Airlines' e-commerce division will chart a course for hands-off IT ops and a sharper focus on strategic SRE duties through AIOps tools.
December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19
Ex-PayPal pros shun AI with SecOps IT automation firm

Machine learning and AI are all the rage in IT automation tools -- except for the one produced by a new startup founded by two former PayPal cybersecurity engineers.
December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19
New Kubernetes security tools abound as container deployments grow

As Kubernetes use expands in production, enterprises have a number of IT security tools to choose from for centralized, policy-based control over container clusters.
December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19
Verizon, Walmart embrace DevOps dojo for IT training

Some IT training experts say 'Dojo is a no-go,' but companies such as Verizon and Walmart say the DevOps dojo approach has been well worth it for them.
December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19
Ramp up carefully during AIOps implementation

Sound IT automation and data management practices -- along with a healthy dose of patience -- are prerequisites for a smooth AIOps implementation.
December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19
Put infrastructure automation at the heart of modern IT ops

IT automation, DevOps at scale and hybrid infrastructure management are three critical -- and interconnected -- IT operations initiatives for 2020.
December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19
Geek gifts 2019: Think Opex, not Capex with subscriptions

Why manage buying your own gifts for geeks, when there are so many subscription gift box services that will do that kind of undifferentiated heavy lifting for you?
December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19
Dynatrace monitoring faces market ambivalence in NoOps push

Dynatrace is gung-ho about NoOps with training services and an open source tool for CI/CD automation, but may face skepticism from a wary enterprise IT audience.
December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19
10 DevOps tools vendors to watch in 2020

A vast market for DevOps tools includes every major IT vendor and many up-and-comers. A panel of industry experts say these 10 are most likely to shift the market in 2020.
November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19
Kubernetes release gets little fanfare as IT looks toward GitOps

Kubernetes is considered stable enough to be boring. The latest beta release was barely mentioned at KubeCon, where IT pros focused on advanced uses such as GitOps and other cloud-native projects.
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.

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